desmondl

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by desmondl 14d ago
This is awesome. I've watched frontend webdev swing back and forth over the last decade of my career: from server frameworks like ASP.NET MVC with hacky progressive enhancement, to huge SPAs that reimplement things the browser should a
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by desmondl 1mo ago
The animation in the article shows GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast solving a question at 3 secs vs Fable's 27 secs. The "11 hour vs 78 hours" animation implied that they were solved in sequence and not in parallel
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by desmondl 2mo ago
Yeah, I also notice that a lot in vibe coded apps. Tbf it's what a mid level dev would write as copy if they were given no product requirements. Kinda hard to shift from engineer brain to product brain in the middle of implementation.
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by desmondl 3mo ago
I would have loved to try locally, but the installer asks me to create an account and I don't want to do that yet.
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by desmondl 3mo ago
The main site mentions being able to "mount" a branch, vs. cloning a new repo or using git worktrees. And messageless commits for intermediate work. Besides that tho I don't see a compelling reason to ditch git, but looks int
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by desmondl 3mo ago
Same thing happened to me. Except I created a new Facebook account using my work email. I had to use my personal Facebook account. Meta has become so awful.
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by desmondl 4mo ago
I work on a small team. I talk to coding agents a lot. I also talk to my human team members a lot. So I have decent experience with interacting with both LLMs and humans. My two ¢: I also get fatigue when reading too much AI generated words
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by desmondl 8mo ago
This new product might be better, but Shimmer was publicly criticized exploitative when it launched. I saw those criticisms at the time, gave the product a fair chance anyway, and unfortunately found them to be accurate. I used Shimmer in 2
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by desmondl 3y ago
Yeah true, I'm starting to remember the headaches with yaml when I was using kubernetes or cloudformation....
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by desmondl 3y ago
Yep, I think the compelling reason of humans writing code is key here. SQLite would make it less accessible for people to write external tooling to integrate with an obsidian vault. There are lots of existing and open that support diffing&#
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by desmondl 3y ago
I haven’t had any issues with yaml in markdown frontmatter or openapi specs. What kind of issues do you see with list and maps that make you against yaml? I agree that for computers and consistency json is preferred. I already use a linter
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by desmondl 3y ago
I completely agree. Even if they completely tank I can open my obsidian directory in a text editor or command line and still use it. I would still have access to features that are common in other apps like full text search or plain file syn
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by desmondl 3y ago
Any reference for obsidian's specs? The closest thing I could find is this: https://docs.excalidraw.com/docs/codebase/json-schema but it seems to be really minimal and doesn't go into detail on what prop
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by desmondl 3y ago
Sometimes you have nodes that overlap each other, so you want to control whether or not a node is in front of or behind another node. Though yes, they could have explicitly defined a z-index or defined a convention on how the ordering shoul
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by desmondl 3y ago
I think you're talking about the trade offs between supporting features like "DOM manipulation, state management, animation, etc." and "shipping updates" out of the box, versus only storing the data as simple files
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by desmondl 3y ago
An object in JSON is meant to be unordered [1], so arrays are better if you want order to be preserved. [1] https://www.json.org/json-en.html
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by desmondl 3y ago
I agree with a lot of comments that it's minimal, but in my opinion that is a good thing. I'm a big fan of Obsidian, and of the things I like about it is the data source is all markdown files. Markdown is meant to be very lightwei
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by desmondl 3y ago
Looking at this with an open mind, I'm curious what benefits running SQLite in WebAssembly with a proxied web worker API layer gives compared to using localStorage or something similar. * Using SQL has clear benefits for writing an app
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by desmondl 4y ago
I somewhat agree, because as an end user all I had to do is disable the bundled apps (teams, etc) and switch the default browser to firefox. I agree with the criticism though, it really leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see all the extra pr
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by desmondl 5y ago
Did your entire Google account get deactivated? My Google account is linked to Gmail, GCP/Firebase, Youtube, Drive, and a ton of SSO apps. Used it for the past decade, but I know now not to put all my eggs in one basket so I have backu
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by desmondl 5y ago
Agreed, I have a small 3 node cluster at home and I use all of those things you listed. I had to dive very deep in the details and learn a ton of new things to get it right, and I had all the time I wanted because it was just for fun and
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by desmondl 5y ago
Agreed, I used lastpass in 2016 and tried to switch to keepass. I'm more than technical enough to use keypass and sync a vault across all my devices, but I needed this to be as easy as possible. I know myself enough to understand if so
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by desmondl 5y ago
I got pretty proficient at using vim in vscode, and personally for me the investment was worth it. It's great for working in HTML with chords like `va"p` (replace selection around quote with clipboard) and `dip` (cut out the conte
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by desmondl 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I'm going to play devil's advocate and think through everything that needs to be considered for a simple, "back in the day" solution that involves apache, php, and a mysql
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by desmondl 7y ago
Brain dump: Looks very cool. From what I can tell... pros: * No tooling to set up, don't have to think about project structure or computation (VMs or cloud functions) * Don't have to think about databases, connection strings, etc
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by desmondl 8y ago
Are there any plans to make this support Typescript in the future? :)