ncoughlin.com
Full Stack Software Engineer
I write (mediocre) code articles @ ncoughlin.com
Founder @ cascadiacode.io
Current side project: electron/vite/typescript , node directed graph automations app
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There is so much interesting tech lore that I will never use, but love reading about.
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What do you think is the best technical primer on AT proto?
It’s still just black magic to me and everything I read is super vague.
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Is it like a Dropbox alternative? Is there a website for it?
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A store that sells a Dyson shop vac AND Sapporo racks. You’re living in the future man.
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You can instruct it to write in the tone of known author. Here is what it gave me for Hunter S Thompson.
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I feel like the play is to create a “studio” and you have a domain and email for that studio. That would encompass all your side projects. So it’s not a personal email, but you don’t need new ones all the time.
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I would do like 2.99 per pet. And then some people could buy multiple. Super fun idea by the way.
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Bumping this because I’m also curious. I need to replace some charts using a deprecated library at work.
Chart.js looks well maintained.
I personally like making custom charts for the flexibility but that is a niche skill that my coworkers might not be able to maintain.
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There is definitely a space for these little micro tools.
I hit up css grid builders, gradient builders, regex builders etc pretty frequently.
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It depends on the product, but in this case the #buildinpublic crowd could all advertise for you.
So that’s kind of a win for you. Why put a time limit on your own free advertising.
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Additionally, you could have a free plan that adds #chage on all the posts. And the paid version removes that.
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App Store says it’s 4+ years old? You just released it?
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At least they let you click. Some companies make you call.
Dark design patterns.
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We are so many wrappers deep at this point I can’t even evaluate if this is true or not.
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Literally never even heard of Symbols. 😂
Learn something new every day.
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If you mess around with the API you can tweak some of the settings like “temperature” and get interesting results.
At the highest setting its literal gibberish.
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That’s a great write up. Very complete.
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Honestly React is amazing once you wrap your head around the concept. But you do need to have pretty good JS knowledge, and decent CSS and HTML.
But there are so many React libraries that you can create quite fast once you are into it.
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Did they somehow copy the product also?
Or they just had a scam site that copied your front end?
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That’s a nice way to present visual changes.
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Very cool. It looks 3 dimensional the way you’ve applied the colors.
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Is this rendered in 3 dimensional space? If so can the camera move?
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Yo! I was going to ask you if it was possible to do a video and I just thought… naw, no way.
Amazing.
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That is the meat and potatoes of recreating #aws #lambda locally.
Which means I can now do the FUN part: recreate #aws #stepfunctions locally.
Lots of fun problems to solve there.
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I am the king of tiny commits. Like 3x more commits than other devs on my team.
I just love having really granular commits to revert 🤷♂️
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I see you man. Keep at it. There is lots of progress that takes place that can’t be shown easily.
Also, how do you get the captions on your videos?
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So far so clean 👍
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What communities do you post in?
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There’s a lot of good people on this feed.
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I get it, but also there are so many good uses for scrapers. I feel like any online anything that people would want to scrape should just expose an API.
Why fight when we can be friends.
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Very cool.
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Right now my grill is broken because it has a computer so it can connect to WiFi.
My life isn’t feeling simplified.
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I was thinking we would need to put captchas on everything but that works too.
How do they know it’s a crawler though?
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What is the distinguishing feature of this kanban app?
Vibes.
You should add cool effects while dragging cards.
codepen.io/mtsgeneroso/...
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Whelp, your goin on the wizards list:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I actually went down this rabbit hole a bit last week. Wondering why we don’t just render everything directly with webgl. But then you need to solve text rendering, and accessibility and … oh look you’ve recreated the DOM model again.
Sometimes you just say, great idea, tell me how it goes.
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I just looked up egui for the first time because of this post expecting to hate it, and oh my god it’s so cool.
The web demo they have that runs on pure webgl is so amazing.
Do I need to learn rust now?
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It looks like you know a lot about node… so electron seems like an obvious choice to me.
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Oh, yep, I see that now. Sorry. I like your website.
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Trying to see the effect but I think. Maybe doesn’t work on mobile (iOS)?
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I love stuff like this.
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