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by nicksergeant 2y ago
I've wanted this for years. I've tried so many "ergonomic" mechanical keyboards, but the huge key travel (even if very soft switches), tends to always give me finger/wrist issues over a few weeks.
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
I could be mistaken but I think parent is referring to computer literacy as the interest in tinkering with and/or programming computers, not just using them to write school papers. I too am quite fearful of the fact that I know zero ki
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
I've had kind of great experiences even doing complex tasks with lots of steps, as long as I tell it to take things slowly and verify each step. I had a working and complete version of Apple MapKit JS rendering a map for an address (al
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Have you personally tried? I have a business doing exactly that and have three restaurants paying between $300-400/month for a restaurant website -- and we don't even integrate directly with their POS / menu providers (Heartl
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Wagtail is amazing! It did everything we needed and more. My primary frustration was in building reusable server-side rendered components and "interactive islands" (as popularized by Astro). The Django/Jinja templating langua
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Sure! When I started 5 years ago, I had a single Django + Wagtail app that hosted all websites on a single monorepo/deployable. For the few sites that needed interactivity I just used vanilla JS. We actually do have a few sites that we
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Thanks! Mostly Facebook honestly. Small business owners hang out there a ton because of all the community pages where folks ask for recommendations for certain types of businesses in the area.
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
I started designing and building websites for locally-owned small businesses in my town, and have grown it to 45+ clients with a current MRR around $11k. I still work full-time and have built an awesome team over the years! https:/&#x
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Yep, still going strong here in Rochester, NY as well with WBER: https://wber.org
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
There's twice as much surface area. Bullies can now do their thing 24/7 from behind the screen _and_ still physically torment.
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
https://github.com/sjl/t
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Same here. Hard no on YouTube and TikTok. Sadly everything happens on SnapChat in their friend groups and SnapChat has a terrible TikTok style feed that I wish to god I could disable somehow. It adds nothing to the experience for actually s
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Yup. This is what I see missing from all the non-parents or parents of kids under 10 on HN. Once middle school hits their whole friend/support system is probably on SnapChat and if you're not on there, you're instantly exclud
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
I hope we can soon teach our robot overlords about web accessibility, because this is pretty rough: https://i.nick.sg/03510726333f4a2b85daf5dd156d6289.png
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The $600B Digital Ad Business Is Hanging on a Few Words from Google(wsj.com)
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
What’s nice about a smart watch is that it’s basically a dumb phone that’s hard to lose. Great for kids.
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by nicksergeant 2y ago
Yeah the Playdate screen is lovely, but pretty rough without a backlight.
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
That seems odd. Where in the U.S.? A banana at my grocery store in western New York State costs less than 50 cents (49 cents per pound). Granola bars admittedly can be ridiculously overpriced for what they are but even just one CLIF Bar is
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
Maybe you could build an accessible website that surfaces information from a variety of sources in a way that's easily accessible by screen reader? That would be a fun project!
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
Absolutely true! It's a burden on our clients for sure, and something I'll be sure to make them aware of before signing on (presuming this section doesn't get unturned in the near future...)
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
Yes, "For purposes of this section" meaning "Section 174", which is about: > (a)In general > In the case of a taxpayer’s specified research or experimental expenditures for any taxable year— So if you are not doing
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
No, what you linked to there specifically says that "In the case of a taxpayer’s specified research or experimental expenditures for any taxable year", _then_ any software development is classified as R&D for the purpose of re
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
> For example, click on anything on the canvas and you'll observe the URL change. I think this might be the problem. The URL doesn't change as you move around, so folks just copy the URL at the point in time of whatever they&#x
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
That does indeed work! Fascinating. Now I'm endlessly curious as to why I've never gotten a correctly located link from many designers in several orgs. It is, however, sufficiently buried that I think most designers just copy the
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
Infinite canvases like Figma give me infinite anxiety. There's no way to easily and sensibly hyperlink to specific areas/contexts within the canvas, and it's really difficult to find things unless you know exactly where to lo
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
Heads up that your website is throwing SSL errors.
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
We drink a lot of decaf and I email roasters before ordering to see what method they use (even though it's stated that methylene chloride is "totally safe"). It seems most commercially available beans are processed via this c
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by nicksergeant 3y ago
This isn't really true, there are a few different methods to decaffeinating coffee beans: "Like regular coffee, decaf coffee begins as green, unroasted beans. The hard beans are warmed and soaked in liquid to dissolve and remove t
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by nicksergeant 5y ago
Ehh... equity comp at a public company is just cash on your vesting schedule (if you chose to sell each vest).
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by nicksergeant 6y ago
I've been using two LG 5k monitors for years and they are excellent. They got a bad reputation when they were released for build quality issues, but I haven't had a single issue.

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