WesleyJohnson

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by WesleyJohnson 11mo ago
Our Alexa had a random person "drop in" yesterday. We could hear a child talking on the other end, but no idea who it was. It may just be a coincidence, but it's never happened before so it's easy to imagine it might be
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by WesleyJohnson 1y ago
Are the sales taxes generally higher in those states, which offset the lack of income tax?
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by WesleyJohnson 1y ago
Carmageddon, in part, paved the way for my Software Development career. Manipulating the text files to change a vehicles weight, speed, etc, just opened up a whole world for me. Awesome to see it here.
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by WesleyJohnson 1y ago
I don't have links to share, because things aren't ready for primetime. - A SAAS to help HomeSchool Coop and Collectives build an online presence where they set up member registration, show course offerings, and let parents enroll
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by WesleyJohnson 1y ago
I feel like I've hit a sweet spot for my use case, but am so behind the times. I've been a developer for 20 years and I'm not interested in vibe coding or letting an agent run wild on my full code base. Instead, I'll ask
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by WesleyJohnson 1y ago
I love Cursor and the autocomplete is so helpful, until it's not. I don't know why I didn't think to rebind the hotkey for that. Thank you.
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by WesleyJohnson 1y ago
Very cool and quite fun. I love that you used Clojurescript. I played with it years ago and have been meaning to get back to it. One piece of feedback; I'd love an option to toggle background color of everything nth note. Makes it easi
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by WesleyJohnson 1y ago
My FIL ran his own prosthetics and orthotics business for a couple decades and then had to shutter his doors due to all the insurance provider red tape. If all the Ts weren't crossed, or Is not dotted - denied. And the appeals/res
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
It's in the Project 2025 playbook. They're trying to overwhelm everyone so you can't possible keep track of all they're doing. Store security could handle one shoplifter at a time; but when you have a riot and mass looti
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
Ideal or not, it's propaganda. We're lead to believe only other countries use propaganda to control their citizens, shield them from truths, and paint foreign countries as "lesser than" or, worse "the enemy". A
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
> Your Hacker News referrer screams "I argue in the comments unironically," your 12 CPU cores confirm you need all that power to procrastinate on Catalina like it's 2019, and Richmond's only quirk here is hosting a Ma
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
Someone should author an ELI5 (or slightly older) guide to how LLMs, RL, Agents, CoT, etc, all work and what all these acronyms mean. And then, add to it, daily or weekly, as new development arise. I don't want to keep reading dozens o
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
This is how I use Cursor Composer Agents. Detailed outline up front and see what it comes up with. I then use it to iterate on that idea. Sometimes it breaks things, so I'll have to reject/revert the change and then ask it again,
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
I don't have a list of factors or research in front of me, so let me just state that upfront. It's widely understood that Meta, X, and plenty of other companies are collecting, and selling massive amounts of data. Meta builds prof
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
Because neither government wants a well-educated, knowledgeable population. Carlin was trying to teach us that for decades and it still rings true.
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
The popular vote for president would like a word. And, yes, I know Trump won that too, but the point still stands that it doesn't matter.
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware of this, but certainly anticipated we'd continue to see improvement in this area. And I completely agree on teachers being wrong, usually without realizing it, but not always. :)
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
LLMs hallucinate and often provide incorrect answers. They're a fabulous tool if you're not necessarily looking a specific, correct, answer. But I'm not sure I would want my kids to use them as a tutor, without someone to vet
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
I agree. For something so "simple", with a name like turbo, I expected a 30 to 60 second video that quickly demos the value-add. I quite like the premise, but you're trying to pitch to users who want low-friction solutions, a
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
I have mixed experiences with the "chat" portion of Cursor AI. The "composer" has been much, much better, albeit on greenfield projects. I haven't explored it too much with existing monoliths, but I suspect it might
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
How is this helpful? Not everyone can keep up with the rapidly shifting world of AI; it's worse than JavaScript. People have day jobs that don't revolve around AI and don't have the bandwidth to devote endless hours trying to
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
Any plans or capabilities for something local? Not a locally hosted Devin, mind you, but a way to interact with on-prem source control repos?
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
60!? I struggle with ~10. Teach me, Yoda. On a more serious note, 100% agree. I'm asked to delegate more, but I don't want my skills to atrophy and, I'm happy when I'm coding. If I had to JUST manage, I wouldn't sur
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
I feel more at home as a Senior Dev, or maybe a Tech Lead/Mentor, but here I am in management for the last 7 years. The article definitely resonates with me, as do many of the comments. I miss coding, deeply. I try to pick up the occas
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
I know this is a few days old, but I appreciate the excellent response and explanation of the differences. I still love React, but that's likely bred out of familiarity. I'll have to look at some of these other libs/framework
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
I've been a dev for 20 years. I recently watched a YT video of a non-developer putting together an iOS app, from scratch, using Cursor Composer. I can't vouch for the legitimacy of his claim at not being a dev, but some of the lan
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
I, for one, would intuit that exact process flow. If my UI is a function of my state, I expect state changes to re-render my UI. How else would you handle it, except for imperatively? This is genuine question; I've not used Vue or Svel
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
That's so great. So many software engineers (myself included) tend to overcomplicate things.
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
Agree 100%. Since dad helped, I was expecting to see sprites sheets, or some JS classes for some OOP, etc. Was pleasantly surprised to see how "simple" the approach was for such fun output with a decent amount of variety.
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by WesleyJohnson 2y ago
Indeed!

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