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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I adore RSS! Use it literally every single day. I have many feeds on Feedly.com, and add to it every week or two. Tip: use a service to stream quality content to your RSS feed reader. For Hacker News, http://hnapp.com/ do
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
(Hi, Nik!) So what you're saying is that "Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker" wasn't the overall goal. You want to stay in Coolify world, where most things are a container image. It just so happens that a co
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
What a wonderful site! People post all sorts of strange creative ideas. Best idea ever: Tails for all > One of my profoundest regrets about being human is that I am not equipped with a splendid and useful tail, like many other members of
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
Similar bug: In PHP, our configuration wasn't working correctly. 100% of the code was fine... but one line had a space at the beginning. For some reason PHP treated the line as a comment and ignored it! Errors are no problem. Silent er
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I've seen this referred to as Chain of Thought. I've used it with great success a few times. https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-chatgpt-xu-hao.html
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
One super-easy use case is product size comparison. Example: "hand holding lilygo t3 pro" shows me how big a circuit board and screen is. Product images are everywhere, but it's hard to get a strong idea of how big it really
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I've had good luck with (service) Workflowy -- https://workflowy.com/ Type to create items at different levels. Drag and drop to rearrange. Click triangle to fold.
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
Why would someone use this tool when `pre-commit` exists? 14k stars on GitHub: > multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks I'm all for having options, I'm just curious at what GetHooky brings to the table.
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
I adore the `Threaded Interpretive Languages` book! It very clearly describes the internals of a real language, and variations on how to get it all done. https://archive.org/details/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretive...
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
Back in my yout', I learned tons of commands with curiosity and `man -k`. So much fun! "What does this do? What does that do? What else does this command reference?" Recommended to frighten the younguns, with their tiktoks an
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
In writing a journal, you have to think - review your day, then think how to summarize it, then write it down. Repeat this a few times and it becomes a habit that can be called upon any time. Write-only journals build valuable mental skills
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
Michael was tireless in helping the community. He was relentless in connecting people together and making sure people had a great time. He sought out and encouraged speakers and teachers, like me. I'm happy to keep his memory in my hea
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by john-tells-all 1y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
the author also wrote: A Light Introduction to Nullables https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/nullables/a-light-int...
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
If you actually do this, just get Ubuntu to download the exact source package you want. In this case: apt-get source jq Then go into the package and recompile to your heart's content. You can even repackage it for distribution
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
As a web developer, everything is in the editor. A super-fast way to preview my web page changes is: lynx --dump localhost:8000/mypage.html Put that in a loop. My server or frontend updates appear immediately and I don'
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
haha although I use a bunch of Git commands and am comfy with the internals, I use a similar workflow most of the time. "commit all files and add a comment" = `cam`, "also push" = `camp` > cam "fixed bug" al
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
Interesting. Different types of failures require different strategies to get the most value from them. Example: "good" failures help steer the team to future successes.
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
Strong agree. The best workflow I've seen uses CICD as a very thin wrapper around in-tree scripts or make files. If a Dev can run some/all of the "cicd" stuff locally, they can see, control, and understand it. It helps
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
Strong agree: Upstream Color is poetry Stanley Kubrick did something similar in `2001: A Space Odyssey`. In a scene where staff were being transported in a taxi... on the moon ... 100% of the dialog is meaningless. They're discussi
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
I call AIs "aggressive interns". They're fantastic, very fast, and eager... but often go off the rails or get confused. And as you noted, never learn. Just the dialog with an AI I find instructive. Sometimes it suggests thing
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
looks interesting, thanks!
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
I adore Make. I've written one (or more) for every single task or project I've touched in the last 20 years. No smarts. It's just a collection of snippets with a few variables. "make run", "make test", &qu
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
I agree visualizing neural networks is challenging. The flexibility and consequences of network connections is also confusing. If you decide to go down that route again, the best work I've seen by far is the recent one by Stephen Wolfr
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
I adore P5js -- the community OpenProcessing[1] has thousands of wonderful artworks that are easily viewed, cloned, and modified. I'm mostly a Python guy but making small changes to P5js programs has helped me learn Javascript. [1]
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
AI has a "bathtub curve" of value. At the low level, it's a super-autocomplete, able to write 1-3 lines of code that works good enough. At the high level, it's great for explaining high-level concepts that are relevant t
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
That's really insightful! Thanks.
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
Los Angeles area: - OWASP security meetup: this is great! Hosted at a WeWork or a local company. Great stuff. I'm not sure their funding model, but it's working. https://www.meetup.com/owasp-los-angeles/ - So
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
Why not use LocalStack? It has SQS and a lot of AWS services for testing/development. Well documented, open source. https://docs.localstack.cloud/overview/
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by john-tells-all 2y ago
Design is Testability video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBOn1e113Ak

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