hackemmy

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   by hackemmy 7mo ago

   The thing that gets me is how many side projects and indie products only exist on Twitter or a GitHub readme. Like you built something cool but I have to scroll through your tweet history to understand what it does? Even a single page with
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   by hackemmy 7mo ago

   This is so true. I have been burned by this more times than I can count. You see two functions that look similar, you extract a shared utility, and then six months later one of them needs a slightly different behavior and now you are fighti
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   by hackemmy 7mo ago

   I write TypeScript daily and honestly it is not about being scared of Java. The ecosystem just makes more sense if you are already building for the web. You write your frontend in JS/TS, your backend in the same language, your build to
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   by hackemmy 7mo ago

   I get the frustration but I think this take only holds if you assume AI generated code is inherently worse. If someone uses Claude to scaffold the boilerplate and then actually goes through it properly, the end result is the same code you w
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   by hackemmy 7mo ago

   This is really cool. I build Chrome extensions too and the hardest part with anything audio related is getting the detection right across different types of content. Lectures vs podcasts vs casual vlogs all have very different speech patter