nirava

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by nirava 2y ago
It is really simple to make sure your blurred css placeholder is cosmetic, and a progressive enhancement. I would know, I wrote one a month ago for my personal site. My goal was to have something that'd transmit all the essential bits
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by nirava 2y ago
Pocketbase is amazing! Going through Manifest's docs, I kept thinking, "but I'd rather use PocketBase" pocketbase has helped me get a few boutique websites and systems out so far with incredible speed and a joy that I ra
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by nirava 2y ago
> Hemingway didn’t need some bullshit Hemingway Writer to craft his style. Michelangelo wasn’t posting meta takes on Hacker News about the tools he used to carve David. Dante didn’t waste time blogging about the ink he used to write Inf
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by nirava 2y ago
It's incredible how frickin long I've waited for this. I've had WiFi off for years to avoid updating.
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by nirava 2y ago
I'd written off AI autocomplete as pointless after trying GitHub Copilot's a year ago. But Cursor's tab-autocomplete is actually really useful. It feels like it very much knows what I'm up to.
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by nirava 2y ago
As an extreme outsider (and mostly emotionally uninvested) to this whole scene, and having read a few of the most popular articles, I've always taken Paul Graham to be an intelligent and articulate person. This article is has made me r
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by nirava 2y ago
- simple boards can be made by first transferring your PCB design to a copper-plated board using toner transfer or UV exposure, then etching the rest of the copper away using an etchant solution (if you're willing; takes some elbow gre
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by nirava 2y ago
sigh skip as in skipping to write about it in the blog
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by nirava 2y ago
That I can bring GraphViz into a browser but not Mermaid out of the browser forces GraphViz for some usecases. Unless browser-native was the intent (idk, it could be... maybe thats why it was named Mermaid), I do think it should be a high p
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by nirava 2y ago
But also keep in mind that lipo batteries in phones self-discharge tens of times faster than CR2032s.
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by nirava 3y ago
Valid points. But I don't want my code to be used by big corporations and monopolies to train closed source LLMs that they're going to sell. Shouldn't I get to have a say in that? For example, GPL controls what kind of projec