xavdid

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   by xavdid 4y ago

   Looks great! I really like the use of color.
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   Congrats on the longevity! My only suggestion for your site is that your homepage has a lot of different fonts at once. One for the header/nav, one for the main body/CTA, another for the podcast column headers and a serif font for
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   I like your layout, it's very clean! I also read Jekyll and Hyde in the past few years, but I felt like it didn't grip me because its "big twist" is so well known today; I can imagine it was different at the time. Also,
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   Wow, your circular navigation with the jumbled letters is very cool! It's a little picky about where you have to click (directly on the rune, apparently, even if it highlights when you're lose), but I enjoyed navigating around wit
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   Hey Taylor! Good looking site- The minimal theming feels very clean. 2 suggestions jumped out: 1. The font size on homepage is small, especially for the two columns of dates. I can't really read them from across my desk (even on a big
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   I like your page layout/theme a lot. It's very readable and the tags/emoji make elements pop out nicely.
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   I really like your sidenodes! They play nicely on mobile too, which is impressive. I always notice how much empty space there is on the desktop view for mine, but I don't want to clutter the page too much for non-huge monitors.
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   Neat! Thanks for that context.
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   by xavdid 4y ago

   That reading speed (in words / day) is mostly a byproduct of wanting to track start/end dates and a word count, so I get speed "for free". I don't actually look at it much, but it's an interesting proxy for &qu
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    I'm proud of a lot of things about my site, but maybe the domain most of all: https://xavd.id It's written with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify (which handles the build step without configuration). I picked Gatsby because
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    I've used goatcounter on my site for more than a year and have been very happy with it. I don't need anything complex- I want to know if any pages are getting big traffic and it's nice to know which external links are getting
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    That's fair- I was summarizing latest stable: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1.26.13/user-guide.html#js...
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    > e.g. Can you capture a return value from requests.post Yes, I just didn't in my toy example. That's the response object, which will typically include all the response info, plus reponse.request, which has request info. > a
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    Ergonomics, mostly. To make a basic POST request w/ a JSON body in urllib3, you write: import json import urllib3 http = urllib3.PoolManager() data = {'key': 'value'} encoded_data = json.dumps
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    It's up to the publisher whether content bought from the Apple store has DRM, not the store itself. Many books have it, but publishers like TOR and any books from Brandon Sanderson don't. There's sometimes a line at the botto
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    You're very welcome! I hope you (and any other readers out there) have found them useful.
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    Thank you for reading! I never thought to accept contributions on here, but these look great. Thank you for sending it over!
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    Ha, so it does. A small world. :)
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    AoC is one of my favorite events of the year! I find the puzzles generally approachable, but interesting enough to spend time on. I also like that there's a definitively right answer, which motivates me in an interesting way. I've
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    I like the idea of this, but in practice, I'm not looking at responses for an API unless I'm actively developing on it. If I'm doing a maintain-occasionally project, then I'll never see the deprecation response. I'm
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    It's worth mentioning that a ST4 license is $99 USD (and ST3 used to be $80). Still a relative drop in the bucket for how powerful ST is and how much value its users derive from it, but there _is_ a bit of sticker shock when comparing
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    This is great! As someone who used to play sax a lot but doesn't have hardware experience, it's 100% the sort of thing I would buy if it were commercially available. Makes sense that it's not (ecommerce is a whole thing), but
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    There's definitely a balance to strike. On the one hand, you don't want to be constantly re-inventing the wheel. If someone has made a great package for doing a specific thing you need (printing data in tables, making ergonomic ht
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    Oooh, this could be neat! It hits at least a few of the features I touch on in my perfect task app wishlist: https://xavd.id/blog/post/my-perfect-task-app/ Some feedback: - on the web, the slow animations
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    Yes, but they now show their catalogue by default on every new client you log into. So you (or whoever has access to your server) have to know to hide their rows in favor of local media collections. They don't differentiate them in any
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    MongoDB Queryable Encryption(mongodb.com)

    4 points by xavdid 4y ago|0 comments
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    I feel for the author. The space is so wide that an app needs to be either: - totally customizable, which means a less cohesive UI, or - extremely opinionated and you have to find the one that shares your opinions. --- I wrote about my (sim
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    I've noticed as I've gotten older that I lean more on remembering pointers to information rather than the specific information. I know something exists and can find it quickly, but may not know it off the top of my head. For examp
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    Typescript's type system (not the language, the _type system_ specifically) is the same! Folks have done cool things, like implement TicTacToe types [0] and a pure-types JSON parser [1] [0]: https://blog.joshuakgoldberg.com&
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    by xavdid 4y ago

    Python has two great ways to write immutable "ValueObjects": - Dataclasses w/ the `frozen=true` kwarg - namedtuple They add some headroom to programs, but I find they help _immensely_ for readability and fewer bugs. Bonus, ea