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by rglover 2y ago
If you want a simple but powerful full-stack JS framework (literally, client and server are separated as they should be—no trickery) that is being built carefully and slowly, check out Joystick [1][2]. To put it in simple terms: if Next.js
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by rglover 2y ago
This is exactly why I'm building Joystick [1]. I got tired of the constant indecision and churn in JS frameworks, so I've built (and am actively building) a full-stack solution that features a simple component API that doesn'
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by rglover 2y ago
Create your own SaaS or consult/freelance. Or if it's too stressful or not lucrative enough, start another type of small business. The "big business with lots of employees" thing is a relatively new phenomenon. Most peop
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Out of curiosity, was he doing work on the side to fund his inventions/research? I see a lot of entrepreneurs get stuck in the "I have to go all in on this thing I'm not certain will work" vs. "I can do freelance&#x
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by rglover 2y ago
Certainly, but it's far more rewarding than being grist for the mill. You can spend your entire life doing less-hard work, only to wake up at 80 and have nothing to show for it but a bank account that you can't take with you. Buil
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by rglover 2y ago
The ideal is to encourage developers to start their own small businesses and support each other by being customers. That, and when you find success/profitability, don't sell to a big tech nightmare or PE—just run the business. The
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No, I only noodled with the free/trial searches before, but this reminded me to pay and make it my default.
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Just switched my default to Kagi based on this comment and you're right. It honestly feels like old-school Google before all of the algo changes.
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It's interesting that the proposed solution to this problem is more often than not "add another layer." The solution as far as I see it is to just go back to the zero algorithm version of social media. You follow people, you
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This is a true gem of a thought that every designer should consider at the outset of a project: "Some things are an experience, other things should just be quietly useful."
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by rglover 2y ago
Incredibly relevant tweet [1] about implementing the ideas in this paper [2] on "periodic cooking of eggs." [1] https://x.com/oldestasian/status/1897450264451293664 . [2] https://www.nature.com
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by rglover 2y ago
Not an ML researcher, but implementing these systems has shown this opinion to be correct. The non-determinism of LLMs is a feature, not a bug that can be fixed. As a result, you'll never be able to get 100% consistent outputs or behav
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by rglover 2y ago
The footprint of the JS SDK is much better as they split all of it into service-specific packages, but the SDK APIs are a bit confusing (everything is a class that has to be instantiated—even config).
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I used to have the same opinion until I built my own CDN. Scaling something like that is no joke, let alone ensuring you handle consistency and caching properly. A basic implementation is simple, but at S3 scale, that's a whole differe
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by rglover 2y ago
Highly recommend Ryan Singer's (original Basecamp designer) work. His blog [1] is filled with great stuff. In particular this [2] post has given me over a decade of value re: designing UI and UX flows. [1] https://ryansinger
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by rglover 2y ago
Curious, are there any exceptions to your coding test (I applied back in 2021 or so, not sure if this is still a requirement)? The test didn't like my solutions/speed (which meant I couldn't move forward), however, I'd s
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by rglover 2y ago
Relative to that scale, L2 is how I've come to understand it. It's kind of soft-sold as L3 but that will require quite a bit of work on the vendor side (e.g., implementing an AWS Lambda style setup for authoring functions the LLM
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by rglover 2y ago
My bet is on transparent, contextual ads. Assuming the product from all of this is having a robot in your house, when you're doing something like cooking, it will say things like "have you considered trying an oat milk base? Oatly
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by rglover 2y ago
"Being left behind" is a floating point. If you think there's something you'd like to learn (or would be valuable to learn), just start digging in. Picking new things up usually takes far less time than you'd think,
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You're cherry picking what I've worked on. I've also built a full-stack JavaScript framework that's a far better solution than the current competition and can (if utilized) solve a lot of the issues with software we see
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You're not on a tangent at all, you're 100% correct. It's shameful (in the most absolute sense of the term) that an entire class of people who contribute nothing to the world get to dictate—at the barrel of a gun or threat of
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by rglover 2y ago
Agents are just regular LLM chat bots that are prompted to parse user input into instructions about what functions to call in your back-end, with what data, etc. Basically it's a way to take random user input and turn it into pseudo-lo
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It encourages developers to not worry about understanding the code they write. At least now, there's someone around (typically) who can figure things out. But as more developers rely on AI and their skills atrophy, if entire products a
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If you want to avoid containers/complexity, you could just have a shell script (or choose your pet language) that starts the apps via a single command on your machine (e.g. $> start-my-app). That would handle the actual startup on y
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by rglover 2y ago
This is quite possibly one of the most disturbing things I've seen in awhile. Sure, for fun and one-off private apps this is fine, but the second that some buzzed-on-the-sides haircut guy thinks this is the way , the chaos will rival
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No, I'm well aware of those and appreciate them. There's just very few examples of anything resembling that being created today (the social and professional incentives to do so have been phased out of the culture). Nearly everythi
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It's mind blowing that engineering that took place almost 50 years ago is still floating through space, giving us valuable data. It's depressing to realize that the style of engineering that accomplished such a feat is all but dea
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by rglover 2y ago
Check out ImprovMX [1]. Main feature is forwarding but they have an SMTP option for $9/mo (6K emails). [1] https://improvmx.com/
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Quality is a synonym for care. And if the leadership doesn't care, the teams building the software won't care (at least, not as much). Putting a logistics guy like Tim in charge was great for ensuring Apple kept shipping existing
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by rglover 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | U.S. + Europe Location: Tennessee, United States I help startups and small teams (independent or embedded in a company) to ship great looking, stable features + software, fast. I'm a "unicorn" type tha

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