rorylaitila

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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Very cool. I found some vintage ads at an antique shop a decade ago... and now I have over 100k in inventory. I had to limit the collecting to only major publications. There is so much vintage paper to be found. But I'd like to find so
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yeah I think this is what I've tried to articulate to people that you've summed up well with "You've compressed all your thinking work, back-to-back, and you're just doing hard thing after hard thing" - Most of
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I've worked independently, then had employee programmers, now back to independent. It's a mixed bag. It's all on my shoulders now, it's lonely, and progress is slower. On the other hand when I had a team, I had to organi
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I feel I've tried them all. Echarts is the best overall charting library. Fast, complete, easy to start, advanced options, looks great by default, good examples, server and client rendering, SVG and canvas. My only complaint is the cha
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Don't think about the task at hand at all, like don't think about what you need to get done or how you're going to accomplish it, in advance. This creates anxiety. Just think about how good the end goal will feel to have done
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I mostly agree. I have quipped once that I write "spaghetti and meatballs" code. The meatballs are the core domain objects, explicitly typed. The spaghetti is the business rules, untyped. With experience you get a good intuition w
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
So I've been full-time independent for 12 years now. In general, I don't think AI is a major driver of employee vs contractor decision but we'll see. The market has been trending towards specialists for a long time. AI may he
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
12 years into my graveyard of side projects and making a modest income, nothing has ever "taken off", but I have survived. I yearn to be "pulled" by the market inextricably, but that is unlikely. The reality is almost ev
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Gotcha, I think I looked at hx-swap-oob before for inspiration, but didn't see it working for this case, I'll look again.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Maybe, I'm not an HTMX user, but looking at hx-swap-oob I think that solves another issue. My need was when other links can exist in any place, and they need to match the URL after its clicked. I didn't want to have the performanc
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I didn't see if you were doing this, but there is an additional use case that I had when using hot swapping like HTMX: updating other links on the page to reflect the URL state, when those links are outside of the swapped content. Whil
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Indeed :) The aspect I like most is seeing through the advertisers lenses what they thought the public would care about the most.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Thanks I might try that! My impression of donation pages is the conversion rate is extremely low but it will be easy to add nonetheless. I might get better results with offering something in return, like Patreon (not sure what kind of pat
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Thank you! Yeah the cigarette ads are some of the most consistent. Once I get more in I am hoping to see some trends and themes in the messaging over time.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
GraalVM/GraalJS is one I am most impressed with. It 'just works' and I've been able to integrate it into my java web applications easily. I mostly use JS in java to run handlebars.js and test JS code library that we use
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I'm digitally cataloging all US vintage print advertisements I can get my hands on ( https://adretro.com ). The backend is built on MySQL and Lucee and the full page ads published with Notion and Super.so. I'm using Open
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
CSS, URLs, links, forms, POST-Redirect-GET, page reloads. Efficient and user friendly on the modern web. HTML & browsers have smoothed out a lot of rough edges.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yeah I agree there. The challenge is the order of the test drive. The ideal validation goes like this in my mind: 1) Will anyone buy it at all? 2) Will they buy it greater than its costs to produce at reasonable margin? 3) Are there enough
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Let's call this shotgun capitalism. It's all the rage over at indie X. It used to be that one had a unique interest, profession or capability. This uniqueness causes them to see a gap in the market that could be filled by a new bu
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yeah if there is an ISBN listed, that will be fastest. But for older books that don't have an ISBN, if there is a title on the cover or spine, OpenAI is really good at extracting that, regardless of the font or image quality. It's
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I'm in an adjacent area, cataloging my huge collection of periodicals for my vintage ad collection (adretro.com). The biggest thing that helped me that I didn't see you mention but maybe I missed it: taking book cover photos to po
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yeah I agree with this. My mind is type-oriented, but they are not a panacea. The biggest issue arises when the existing type is too wide/narrow or askew of the requirements. It can be difficult to morph the program into the new necess
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
While this is the style I do in all of my (web) applications, it took a while to build my framework/tooling that overcomes the boilerplate to parse all incoming data into value objects. In a typical application of mine, there is usuall
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yep that's one reason. I make heavy use of that.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Yeah, it's escaping me at the moment all of the reasons, but calling .submit() on a form element doesn't exactly have all of the behaviors as calling .click() on a button element in a form, particularly multiple buttons in a form.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I like the emphasis on forms and pages. That's the approach I take in my apps. Forms and Links drive all interaction. Any JavaScript enhancements merely click an existing form (even if it's hidden). You can always inspect the HTML
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
It's an impressive accomplishment. I've always struggled to get through the valley of despair in a new project. I've decided that I can only build and sell things that I regularly use. Otherwise the signal is just too weak, a
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I never really got the almost code, but still not code appeal of figma. Like the author, I get the design into real code asap. I'll even use a sketch CSS library just so the client can interact and give real feedback. Clicking through

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