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by jilles 2y ago
If you replace the title with Django it still works. I’m doing the same as the author, but with Django.
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by jilles 2y ago
If you haven’t read William Zinsser “Writing to learn” you’re doing yourself a disservice
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Expanding Your Knowledge with a "Stuff I Didn't Know I Don't Know" List(jilles.me)
3 points by jilles 2y ago|0 comments
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by jilles 2y ago
Lost me at 99% is developer experience. There is so much more philosophy involved in what makes good software.
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by jilles 2y ago
Not really. Setting a few sqlite options and enabling litestream for backups is much easier than setting up Postgres with reliable backups. Should you do this for all apps? No. Do you have read heavy applications? Consider SQLite
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by jilles 2y ago
Yes! I write more. Instead of writing about things I know well, I write about things I want to know better. It reveals gaps in my knowledge I was not aware of. For example, I can start write "We are using X instead of Y because...&quot
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by jilles 2y ago
Lovely post. I do something similar where I write blog posts for myself as I solve a problem. Something like a how-to guide before I actually know how to do it. Then I cite sources as I find them. When I finally solve the issue or create &q
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by jilles 2y ago
“Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know—and what we don’t know—about whatever we’re trying to learn.” ― William Knowlton
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by jilles 2y ago
Can someone tell me what the usefulness of this is compared to RabbitMQ or Kafka?
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by jilles 2y ago
This is incredible! I can remove this app idea of my "app ideas"-list.
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by jilles 2y ago
If you think this is interesting, you'll love the book: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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by jilles 3y ago
Probably written by GPT4
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Ask HN: How do you organize software documentation at work?
59 points by jilles 3y ago|89 comments
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Ask HN: What do you use for personal goal setting?
1 points by jilles 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What tech stack do you use for your blog?
5 points by jilles 3y ago|7 comments
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by jilles 5y ago
Various boilerplate projects use "is-even" as a joke. It's meant to be removed from your package.json when you start your project.
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by jilles 5y ago
I did look for a similar thread but couldn't find it... That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
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Ask HN: Books that improved your career?
52 points by jilles 5y ago|16 comments
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by jilles 5y ago
Read the book Inspired by Marty Cagan. If that doesn't get you excited about Product Management I don't know what will. Having 11 years of experience in tech will help tremendously but you'll need to have some awesome soft sk
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Ask HN: What is your favorite exotic data structure?
1 points by jilles 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?
12 points by jilles 6y ago|28 comments
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by jilles 6y ago
I wonder how much of this is because of all the confinement, not being able to see your loved ones etc.
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Ask HN: From IntelliJ (Jetbrains) to VSCode, has anyone done it?
8 points by jilles 6y ago|9 comments
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by jilles 6y ago
I am actually very curious what adult website uses Django? My understanding was that most of them are written in PHP and re-used across various domain names.
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by jilles 6y ago
They are not, but these articles are for < 2008 Macs. On "newer" Macbooks it done by hardware.
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by jilles 6y ago
I love this.
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by jilles 6y ago
I never looked at it this way but damn. You have a great point.
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by jilles 6y ago
Fun fact: I added this to Excalidraw for this exact reason! It was super annoying.
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by jilles 6y ago
Totally! I was annoyed by the default 'jump back to selection' so I created a PR to lock that (with the little lock on the right). It took about 10 minutes after PR approval to merge to production. Really nice.
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by jilles 6y ago
That's incredibly helpful. Thank you Guillermo.

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