danstewart_

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by danstewart_ 2y ago
I’ve been using Yaak for a few weeks now and it’s great. I bounce around API clients a lot because the UX just never feels right, they always get in the way or start to feel clunky sooner or later. With Yaak it feels natural, it’s clean and
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by danstewart_ 2y ago
I don’t think this comment does justice to fly.io. They have incredible defaults that can make it as simple as just running ‘git push’ but there isn’t really any magic happening, it’s all documented and configurable.
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by danstewart_ 3y ago
I tend to go the opposite way and have the default behaviour not actually make any changes and require passing `--commit` to actually do something. I feel it’s safer for scripts that have irreversible (or difficult to reverse) actions.
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by danstewart_ 3y ago
I’ve only just started using it but https://solito.dev/ seems to do exactly that.
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by danstewart_ 3y ago
I’m new to React Native but I think the main benefit is that it can make a native app instead of just a web view. You can have transitions between screens and use native menus, for example. Take a look at the 3 videos here: https:/&#x
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by danstewart_ 3y ago
You can use obsidian to just edit files on disk and handle syncing yourself (eg. With Nextcloud, syncthing, Dropbox)
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by danstewart_ 3y ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by danstewart_ 3y ago
I've got no use for it now but damn this used to be such a pain point in an old job. Looks great!
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by danstewart_ 3y ago
Do you use firefox? I think by default it uses UTC to prevent fingerprinting. The site is showing the correct timezone for me on safari.
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by danstewart_ 4y ago
A few people telling you that you’re wrong when you’re correct, a lot of Scots (myself included) do not like to identify as British. Yes, Scotland is within the island of Britain but many of us (though not all) identify as Scottish, not Bri
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by danstewart_ 4y ago
Check out https://rustpad.io/
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by danstewart_ 4y ago
This looks good. I use a bash function to load the MDN page for the status: function man-http() { code="$1" if [[ -z $code ]]; then echo "Usage: man-http <status code>" exit 0 fi fi
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by danstewart_ 4y ago
We use AWS lambda for running slower background tasks triggered from a user action on a website (eg. generating a report, clearing and rebuilding a cache, etc...). We deploy our full monolithic app to lambda (as a docker image) and then jus