mircerlancerous

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by mircerlancerous 2mo ago
Love this. +1 to the explaining part
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by mircerlancerous 2mo ago
You would be foolish to completely avoid AI, but you are also right to be careful. AI is best used for boring stuff that's non-critical, and for stopping you from having to reinvent the wheel. For example for a game, you could use AI t
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by mircerlancerous 3mo ago
I've used GOGS for years (Go Git Service). https://gogs.io/getting-started/introduction
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by mircerlancerous 3mo ago
Frankly I think serving dynamic HTML at all is a problem in an SPA. Use a service worker to cache structure, control, and styling, then use an API to fetch dynamic data in a more efficient manner.
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by mircerlancerous 3mo ago
Attention to details that matter and knowing what to pass on, is what's important. If they did poorly on the important stuff but then point out the typo, clearly they were putting their efforts in the wrong places
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by mircerlancerous 3mo ago
Sadly I've seen this kind of interviewing from lots of places; maybe it's a technique they teach in college or something. Interview questions like this are useless as they are not an accurate approximation of a real work scenario.
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by mircerlancerous 3mo ago
Very cool. Probably pointless but it's so neat I feel compelled to try to find a use for it :)
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by mircerlancerous 4mo ago
Any framework that requires me to learn custom syntax, is a problem in my opinion. I agree with the author that the browser is already the framework, and a powerful one at that. I don't really struggle with views and dom thanks to my o
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by mircerlancerous 5mo ago
Interesting; good to know.
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by mircerlancerous 5mo ago
I've been running this web server for over a year with no stability issues like that. The app itself shutting off was the biggest issue, but the alarm plugin reboots it whenever that happens. Perhaps you had a bad batch of phones but i
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by mircerlancerous 5mo ago
Glad you like it! The phone serves everything. In this case Cloudflare will be helping with some caching, but it's not required. Edit: actually looking at the logs, it looks like Cloudflare caching is off or isn't working; everyth
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by mircerlancerous 5mo ago
Author here. What boiling water doesn't take care of all that ;)
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by mircerlancerous 5mo ago
Author here. I'll admit that I have made limited use of AI for helping in areas that I'm less familiar with (like FTP protocols), but I haven't paid a dime; all free plan. I'll use AI to help make the project possible, b
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by mircerlancerous 5mo ago
Author here. Qik is the name I've given to the project. It's pretty clear on all the pages that it will always be free, and that there's no reference anywhere to any crypto services. Give specifics if you think otherwise; the
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by mircerlancerous 5mo ago
Author here. All good points from this point and its replies, which to me says best to me that not all products and experiences are equal, so proceed based on your comfort level. Note that the app is capable of monitoring both battery charg
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Smashed Toilet Phone Web Server(offthebricks.com)
54 points by mircerlancerous 5mo ago|24 comments
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by mircerlancerous 6mo ago
Hold the submitter to a higher standard by introducing penalties for errors, and/or incentives for clean PRs. In my opinion a PR should be flawless once submitted, as the dev should have tested thoroughly. QA should only catch errors i
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by mircerlancerous 7mo ago
If you want to buikd and distribute something B2B or just to friends or colleagues outside of the app stores, it's a nightmare on iOS. Sideloading isn't as simple anymore for Android, but it's way easier. It's for that r
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by mircerlancerous 7mo ago
Personally if I see a PR that's not readable, I send it back immediately without much of a read-through. AI or not, the code should be readable or it's not maintainable by people or AI
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by mircerlancerous 7mo ago
Yes, very familiar. I think it might be ok though, as it's similar to a web search where you maybe need to refine it a few times. Just assume that the first answer may not be fully correct or complete, until the AI has more context. It
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by mircerlancerous 8mo ago
You may want to offer a page credits option instead, as "50 pdfs" for the free tier is a little vague. Is that 50 1-page pdfs, or 50 100 page pdfs? We generate our pdfs one page at a time, and then stitch them together into one at
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by mircerlancerous 9mo ago
Totally agree that creating something to reproduce the issue is a big turn off when it comes to reporting bugs; what else can one do though? In your case though, I guess it was a pretty simple thing
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by mircerlancerous 9mo ago
Well-written and valuable for insight whether you have similar personal experience or not. As someone who does hardware and software as well, I relate to the challenges of making something you can hold; it's very easy to underestimate
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by mircerlancerous 9mo ago
I store my data in the service worker cache, so I guess I'm immune to this issue
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by mircerlancerous 10mo ago
Service workers solve the cache issue; web apps can run permanently offline after initial load. You may be a bit out of date on the state of the web.
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by mircerlancerous 10mo ago
Service workers allow you to control cache in web apps; you may be a bit out of date. There are hardware APIs for some stuff that only works in native (cors, raw tcp), but 99% of apps don't need those.
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by mircerlancerous 10mo ago
I do but I feel it's long overdue for replacement. I've been working on a new protocol that includes timestamp filtering, real-time notifications, and optional things like 'likes' and 'comments'. I use it every
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by mircerlancerous 11mo ago
A self-hosting ecosystem with apps and services to do everything from file sharing, to email, and dynamic DNS. It's Javascript based and runs in node, but I've also got it running under Android and in a regular web browser (the we
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by mircerlancerous 11mo ago
I'm not sure I can accept the findings of this article. It seems to me that all the concerns and issues can be summed up to bad design. A mini framework should be designed to be easy to adapt and extend, and any layer on top should be
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by mircerlancerous 11mo ago
You don't need React or HTMX; just put onclick= on your element and make your call with vanilla javascript. Use these frameworks if you want, as they're both neat, but frankly I think people forget that there are other options

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