rorylaitila

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by rorylaitila 5mo ago
I tried GIMP out again after a decade, and I have to say I'm presently surprised with v3. I avoided it for a long time because I remember it being a super confusing interface. Every UX idiom seemed backward to me then. But today I need
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by rorylaitila 5mo ago
I've been cataloging my collection of American vintage ads ( https://adretro.com ). The collection has expanded considerably in the last year. I'm working on a front end search portal for users to use, to deeply search a
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by rorylaitila 7mo ago
Even on the latest models, LLMs are not deterministic between "don't do this thing" and "do this thing". They are both related to "this thing" and depending on other content in the context and seed, may ra
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
It's a concern but definitely depends on the context and my self perceived blast radius of what I'm researching. I do find myself often re-searching results to see what something more authoritative says about it, and I also contin
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
Nice work! I met Jorin a couple years ago at a tech meetup and this was just an idea at the time. So cool to see the consistent progress and updates and to see this come across HN.
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
Yes I noticed this as well. I was last writing up a landing page for our new studio. Emotion filled. Telling a story. I sent it through grok to improve it. It removed all of the character despite whatever prompt I gave. I'm not a great
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
I can totally relate. I enjoy the craft of developing and making the product 'just right.' I do use AI as a fancy auto-complete, but I don't want to lose situational awareness and go full-vibe. I think that is the sweet spot
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
I've skipped the whole 'modern' web stack. I've stayed SSR first, hrefs/forms/url as only routing primitives, progressive enhancement, vanillajs-islands only where absolutely necessary. Its great. Apps never ra
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
I dabbled in my own open source projects over the years. I learned that I really just like serving my customers directly. I don't enjoy managing PRs or responding to feedback from strangers. I think "who you enjoy to serve" i
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
Luckily we work for ourselves in our studio, and I have no one to answer to except my business partner and customers, and tech is my domain. But I have concluded "we already build fast enough." Really how much faster do we need to
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
I make great use of value objects in my applications but there are things I needed to do to make it ergonomic/performant. A "small" application of mine has over 100 value objects implemented as classes. Large apps easily get
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
There are many layers to this. But there is one style of programming that concerns me. Where you neither understand the layer above you (why the product exists and what the goal of the system is) nor the layer below (how to actually impleme
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
A couple different projects. I've been cataloging and publishing my vintage ad collection at https://adretro.com . It's starting to get a lot of organic traffic after about a year online, which is cool. I'm also wo
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
I don't know if this is the right solution, but I appreciate the direction. It's clear that AI slop is trading on people's good names and network reputation. Poisoning the well. The dead internet is here. In multiple domains
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
I've developed at the speed of "vibecoding" long before LLMs by having highly thought-compressed tools, frameworks and snippets. Most of my applications use Model Driven Development where the data model automatically builds t
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by rorylaitila 8mo ago
I simplify it this way. I don't delete fields or tables in migrations once an app is in production. Only manually clean them up after they are impossible to be used by any production version. I treat the database schema as-if it were &
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by rorylaitila 9mo ago
Don't use other companies brand names in your product titles. Regardless of what other people get away with. Regardless of what is in the Amazon fine print. Don't use trademark logos in your product images. Make your own brand nam
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by rorylaitila 9mo ago
Databases store facts. Creating a record = new fact. "Deleting" a record = new fact. But destroying rows from tables = disappeared fact. That is not great for most cases. In rare cases the volume of records may be a technical hurd
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by rorylaitila 9mo ago
Yes, but not in relationship to products being copied. Copying the technical aspects of an idea has been possible for a long time anyway. Knowing how to acquire, support and cultivate a growing user base is the challenge. The availability o
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by rorylaitila 9mo ago
Nice! Definitely addresses a workflow I deal with daily. Any plans for a Windows version?
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by rorylaitila 9mo ago
It's one of my favorite little tricks. I use it when I'm building applications that have a lot of nested "contexts" and its not just styling/layout. Makes it easier to search for and jump to these contexts and menta
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Continuing the brands example, by default I store all of the brands returned as is (in SQL). On occasion, I will manually come across different variations of a brand that I decide is better combined into a primary brand. All of the secondar
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yeah, the output is json structured, but I mean the entity value that is returned. A simple case is classifying the Brand of the ad. It might return any of "Ford", "Ford Motor Company", "Ford Trucks", "The
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
When I started cataloging my vintage ad collection ( https://adretro.com ), I originally started with a defined set of entities (like brands, or product categories). I used OpenAI vision to extract out the categories the ad belong
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
If I remember correctly, up through 2008 even, we would punch the card into the terminal for authorization, use the imprinter to have the customer sign and track the number, and then had to phone call the processor to capture the cards at t
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Haha, yeah I was going to reply with the same. I used to work 12+ hours/day for a few months at a time. Now I struggle for anything more than a few hours a day for a few weeks at a time. AI has helped me recover some ground but it&#x27
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yeah, I agree. AI helps me bust through quickly on a tedious task, where before that might have used up a lot of my motivation. The ground covered in any particular session is a lot further.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I've accepted that all the progress for me happens in tight bursts. I simply cannot do 'thought work' when I'm disinterested. I sometimes envy people who are interested in one particular project for years or decades at a
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
MidJourney not being the first organic spot is a bad experience. But it's normal practice that you can place ads on users searching for other company names. This seems counter intuitive at first, but I think its reasonable. You don&#x2
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Thanks! Maybe I'll add some detail. Some of them are in the eye of the beholder, and maybe I take a little liberty :) It's not that they are targeting the gay community directly, but they may have subtle homoerotic wink and a nod.

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