soulchild77

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by soulchild77 1mo ago
My son (13) does some pretty advanced stuff with Scratch which often leaves me speechless: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1374719935 He started using it when he was 9 and hasn't complained about it being too lim
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by soulchild77 1mo ago
This is comparing apples and powertools. ;-) Despite now having all these tools, a carpenter still needs a lot of skill to create something. If you hand me all the modern tools in existence, I'll probably still cut off both my thumbs a
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by soulchild77 6mo ago
I asked Claude whether these elaborate words like "walk down the design tree" actually mean anything to the LLM and make a difference. The answer confirmed my gut feeling: You can just tell me to "be critical" and get mo
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by soulchild77 7mo ago
Awesome! Too bad Next.js will never profit from these incredible community efforts, because Vercel suffers from NIH.
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by soulchild77 9mo ago
I felt the same and I asked Claude about it. The answer made me chuckle: > There’s definitely a tendency to dress up fairly straightforward concepts in academic-sounding language. “Agentic” is basically “it runs in a loop and decides wha
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by soulchild77 10mo ago
That Oasis tune in the 2nd trailer already ruined everything for me.
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Payload Is Joining Figma(payloadcms.com)
2 points by soulchild77 1y ago|0 comments
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by soulchild77 2y ago
This very recent PR updates the docs to basically remove all common (and previously recommended) middleware use-cases, rendering them almost completely useless: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/77438
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by soulchild77 2y ago
After 25 years of professional development experience my favorite task lists are still and will always be paper and pencil. ;-)
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Foursquare is shutting down(foursquare.com)
13 points by soulchild77 2y ago|4 comments
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by soulchild77 2y ago
Although it became harder in recent years to find recommendations for newer businesses, Foursquare has always been way more reliable for me than Google Maps reviews (where almost everything has at least 4 stars). Hopefully, they're jus
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by soulchild77 2y ago
This. I think types really make the difference here. You can get very far with just plain old JS objects as long as you've got strong types in place.
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by soulchild77 2y ago
Never, when it felt right. I'm in my mid fourties now, still doing web development and I stayed 13 years at a startup and am now celebrating 10 years at my current employer. In between I joined a somewhat well-known (prestigious) compa
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by soulchild77 2y ago
Fat as in fat models, thin controllers ;-)
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by soulchild77 2y ago
What exactly makes Go more suitable for building LDAP clients than any other language, including JS? I've been running ldapjs in production for 4 years now (it's basically a web-based LDAP frontend) and it's been rock-solid.
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by soulchild77 2y ago
In cases where the client needs to stay separate, we have had a good experience with Orval[1] to generate a fully-typed @tanstack/query client from our OpenAPI spec. [1] https://orval.dev/
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by soulchild77 2y ago
That's actually something I find a bit awkward, too. Especially, there was no way to re-use the global Hono error handler for all OpenAPI routes. I created an issue[1] with my suggested workaround and was told that that's the way
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by soulchild77 2y ago
I created a pet project (REST API) with Hono and I'm seriously considering using it for future projects instead of what has been my go-to stack for years (Express, lately with Zodios). Hono's middlewares, especially zod-openapi[1]
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by soulchild77 3y ago
This has been my experience as well. I introduced my son to Scratch when he was 8 and now, 2 years later, he's creating quite advanced games in it I wouldn't have thought possible. But whenever I show him "real" programm
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by soulchild77 3y ago
IMHO, blaming the unexperienced Javascript developers is unfair, because in my experience mostly the senior Java developers were the ones jumping on the hypercomplexity infrastructure bandwagon and embracing microservices as the logical nex
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by soulchild77 4y ago
react-query indeed doesn't automatically take care of this. We manually invalidate its caches (based on the query key, so you only ever invalidate what has changed) after a mutation happens. It's not as bad as it sounds because mo
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by soulchild77 4y ago
We're happy users of react-query[1]. Its stale-while-revalidate approach makes Redux and Co. unneccessary for most use-cases. If you have an OpenAPI spec of your REST API you can auto-generate a react-query based frontend client with O
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by soulchild77 6y ago
Did it ever cross your mind that there are more things than money which make a person stay at a company for a longer period? For me personally, if the money is enough for me to make a comfortable life with my family, other things at work be
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by soulchild77 6y ago
I wrote a Sketch plugin[1] to search and insert SVG logos. [1] https://github.com/soulchild/sketch-logo-fetcher
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by soulchild77 7y ago
Hehe, sometimes Hacker News is unbelievable. ;-) So, I take it you‘re from the Cologne area as well, given the Burning Chrome‘s proximity to the city (if memory serves) and long-distance calls were outrageously expensive.
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by soulchild77 7y ago
Funny, a guy called Scythe, operating a board called Burning Chrome was a member of my group (Paranoia). We mainly developed PCBoard PPEs. Good times indeed! ;-)
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by soulchild77 8y ago
Admittedly, I only concentrated on the bad stuff in my post. Both communities were focused on everyday problems, one dealt with parenting and the other was about cooking (recipes). I wouldn't have stayed for over 10 years with the form
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by soulchild77 8y ago
You missed my point. This is not about the quality of software development. It's about users bitching about everything publically (by posting to the platform's forum) because we changed something on a platform they basically use f
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by soulchild77 8y ago
I hear you! Our system is multitenant-capable as well, but we're lucky in that all three tenants are basically run by the same customer. And yes, having to implement features that are rarely if at all used (and sometimes removed before
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by soulchild77 8y ago
> Try to work in a BTB product, not a BTC. BTB means way fewer customers, and fewer customers means fewer eyes looking for bugs This! I worked for two huge (~60 and ~600 million page impressions per month) online communities for a total

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