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by dceddia 7y ago
Cool! Thanks! I'm most worried about the finishing part, honestly. What did you end up doing for it? I keep debating between whether to leave the wood visible (with Tru Oil or wipe-on polyurethane), or paint it (lacquer, super labor in
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by dceddia 7y ago
There’s a book called The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar [0] that I found to be helpful. It’s not at all about playing specific songs or chords but entirely devoted to the mechanics of how to practice, how to hold the guitar, how
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by dceddia 7y ago
Pick one up! There’s no time like the present :) It’s a long-term learning thing anyway, definitely one of those “best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago” things.
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Building a guitar! It's my first attempt at building an instrument. It's going well so far, mostly using threads from TDPRI as guidance and a body template from there as well. I opted to buy a neck from Warmoth since building a ne
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Awesome! I was thinking along these lines the other day, and picturing a “virtual conference” game where you could walk around and join ad-hoc circles of conversation. Maybe you’d see profile photo avatars for the people near you, and the f
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by dceddia 7y ago
If I had to guess, it’s an attempt to optimize install conversions. Every multi-step process you ask a user to perform is effectively a (marketing/sales) funnel. Some percentage of people drop off at every step. Maybe Zoom they thought
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by dceddia 7y ago
One of the places I worked, I remember talking with the admin. She was responsible for ordering food to keep the kitchen stocked. It was a few coffee machines, and a rack full of snacks. No beer, no drinks. IIRC she said it cost something o
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by dceddia 7y ago
This is maybe a meta-suggestion, more focused on chunking down problems and the process of working and shipping, but Amy Hoy’s Just Fucking Ship is full of useful advice on how to actually get things out the door. (I’ve taken their 30x500 c
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by dceddia 7y ago
Using them on separate pages is fine, but using React and jQuery on the same page is usually not a good idea since React needs to “own” its slice of the DOM and changing things in there with jQuery could cause weird bugs. But anyway, it’s i
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This would make a great plugin for something like Confluence. Most places I’ve worked, the wiki was where information went to die. It’d be nice if the unused/outdated stuff could fade away automatically-ish.
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I wonder how much of it is due to more people being home/bored and seeing the coyotes?
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I'll always fondly remember Visual Basic as the language that let me make real Windows applications with the language I already knew and understood. I was just a kid, maybe 10 or 12, when I learned to program with QBASIC and later VB5.
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Heh, this sentence seems particularly relevant to this whole discussion... > This method works fine for the year 2000 (because it is a leap year), and will not become a problem until 2100, when older legacy programs will likely have long
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For others wondering about the story behind Patient 31, here’s an article with a timeline: https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
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I realize that CSS itself isn’t really the point here, that it’s just one annoying thing in the pile of annoying things. But I wanted to mention... As a front end dev and someone who teaches front end stuff (React mainly), CSS really doesn’
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If you have a few minutes, check out a screencast or two from their docs [0]. I was very much in agreement that utility-first looked pretty awful until I saw it in practice. After watching a few of those I started thinking about how much fa
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by dceddia 7y ago
In practice, Tailwind is used with a build step and one of the steps is to run the final CSS through PurgeCSS to drastically reduce the size. Search in the comments here for PurgeCSS - someone had a similar worry and I think they got it dow
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Yep, Tailwind offers the ability to create "components" that are pretty much rolled-up sets of classes like that.
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I loved that if you held Shift while clicking Stop it would fade out the music.
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Nope! The choice of backend is entirely independent from the choice of front end. React pairs nicely with Django, Rails, Elixir, PHP... anything that can serve static files, basically :) The only time it could start to matter is if you want
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I don’t know if it’s alright to mention my own work, but the book I wrote to teach React is project-based. It’s got a bunch of very small projects and exercises rather than a single massive one, and the later projects review concepts from t
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by dceddia 7y ago
This is a very valuable point. I think [0] that a better approach, one that’s more likely to lead to a profitable business, is to flip the strategy around. Instead of “Do customer interviews, sniff out a problem, and build a solution”, it c
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by dceddia 7y ago
I just got an iPad Pro and I agree this gesture is awkward. Plus, some apps seem to not support it at all, so it’ll silently fail when one of those apps is on either side.
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A 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity(technologyreview.com)
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I agree. jq makes the easy stuff easy, but the syntax gets weird pretty quickly. You might like fx [0]. Run on its own, it’s a command line JSON browser (you can even click on items to expand/collapse them), and you can also write litt
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by dceddia 7y ago
> what I was searching for I think you’re saying that Google sends the search terms to the site you visit? It doesn’t do that, at least not for a bunch of years now. As a site owner you can get aggregate ideas of what queries lead people
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Just a few hours ago I saw this post on Product Hunt: "Freelancember is a collection of 31 gifts for freelancers, one for each day. Templates, checklists, guides how to get better clients, raise your rates, etc." Might be helpful!
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I was just today watching some of the videos Adam Wathan put together for Tailwind [0] and this one on "Optimizing for Production"[1] is especially relevant to your comment. You can introduce a build step (in his example, PurgeCSS
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Switching to a Kinesis keyboard has helped my hand/wrist pain quite a bit. It seemed to be steadily getting worse, and disappeared after using the keyboard for a couple weeks. Another thing that helped is the book Conquering Carpal Tun
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Mooney Aircraft Has Closed(aopa.org)
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