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by wkirby 2y ago
The reason I am a software engineer — why it keeps me coming back every week — is the satisfying click when something I didn’t understand becomes obvious. I’ve talked to a lot of engineers over the last 15 years of doing this, and for most
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by wkirby 2y ago
So don’t. I can’t fathom what you’d need an IKEA app for. If you need an app for something brief but specific, delete it after you’re done. On the other hand, apps frequently work better with less clutter than the mobile website. It’s wild
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by wkirby 2y ago
I’d like to drop some cool tech thing, but mostly just working on balancing running our company and being a new dad.
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by wkirby 2y ago
If you’re using a framework, I wouldn’t (personally) layer another reset on top of it. For me, especially when managing non-typographic layout, ensuring that all browser-default margins and padding are gone, as well as a consistent font siz
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by wkirby 2y ago
Nice write up, very targeted at websites with a focus on typography. A more aggressive reset still seems appropriate if you’re building more in web app territory.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Love it. There’s a surprising amount of hackability in espresso machines — reminds me a lot of bicycles as an approachably fun tinkering project.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Same boat. My storage is getting full (had a baby this year), so I’ll likely go refurb 13 mini with the biggest drive.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Give me a new mini. I’m begging you.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Good for you, maybe not for everyone. We have (mostly) successfully decoupled development platform from deployment target, do what makes you happy.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Sure, you ought to know how Linux works if you deploy software to Linux. But you ought to use the OS that makes you a happy, productive developer.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Do yourself a favor and watch the entire back catalog. Not sure there’s anyone more creative than tom7 working right now.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Honestly, this is the most shocking part: > We did not want to contact FlyCASS first as it appeared to be operated only by one person and we did not want to alarm them It’s incredible (and entirely too credible) that this kind of “high s
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by wkirby 2y ago
We’re working on our contract management system for dev and design agencies. Been in beta for a couple months, working as always on that elusive product-market fit. Besides that our team is always working on cool stuff for our clients. Lots
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by wkirby 2y ago
Seconded. The sheer volume of useful work Ankane puts out for the community is unreal.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Genuine question: is this not exactly what the Tauri project aims to do?
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by wkirby 2y ago
If the agency devs are so mismanaged that the project is a disaster, why on earth would you then hire in house devs instead of reverting to the external platform? Agencies serve as a good middle ground between buy it (not working for OP at
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by wkirby 2y ago
Unless this software is your core business, I would look at a third alternative: contracting the work out to experienced developers to replace the platform. If it works well, you can bring development in house slowly after the platform is m
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by wkirby 2y ago
Honestly same, but only because Python has types relatively sorted. While I actually enjoy the language, Ruby is… struggling… and after supporting multiple Rails apps in the wild for close to a decade, what me and my team miss the most is t
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by wkirby 2y ago
Cool project, love the quick access! It would be nice to have some multi-paragraph chunks. It might also be nice to have a toggle to randomize the text on each copy, so subsequent copies get different words.
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by wkirby 3y ago
Hey cool, I appreciate it!
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by wkirby 3y ago
By all means! I enjoyed your article here, and I will keep an eye on Oso on the future. Authorization has become a hobby horse of mine, and I always appreciate people who are thinking about the complexity required to meet real-world needs.
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by wkirby 3y ago
Same conclusion we came to, and the basis of our in-house permission gem for RoR. The most efficient declaration of permissions is to express them as a WHERE statement, and then the implementation of can_whatever() is just inclusion in the
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by wkirby 3y ago
Thanks. Didn’t see it. My bad.
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Humans are not perfectly vigilant(pluralistic.net)
1 points by wkirby 3y ago|2 comments
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by wkirby 3y ago
The best quote I’ve heard from our clients is “don’t trust AI with anything you wouldn’t trust a high schooler to do.” That line of reasoning has held true across basically every project we’ve touched that tried to incorporate LLMs into a c
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by wkirby 3y ago
Our agency has been asked to explore AI projects for a half dozen clients over the past 18 months. None of them have actually rolled out to real users. We keep finding the same things: the “AI” backed tool is worse than the people it’s supp
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by wkirby 3y ago
My 2 cents, nothing works quite as well as the Fellow Carter wide mug. It’s ceramic lined, super pleasant to drink out of, and with the lid just resting on top (not even screwed on) the coffee stays drinkably warm for 2+ hours. No need for
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A Star Wars MegaGame for the Insane [video](youtube.com)
3 points by wkirby 3y ago|0 comments
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by wkirby 3y ago
Most of having a job is people skills. Whether we’re writing jQuery by hand or prompting ChatGPT 9.5 to output our work, your most important job skills will still be collaboration, communication, and in some cases just being a good hang.
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by wkirby 3y ago
It’s fun to do? The little games I make are never going to make me a dime, but I enjoy the tinkering.

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