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by err4nt 16d ago
I saw a great re-use of IKEA parts to build something new and spectacular when I visited an office where they desks made from table legs from IKEA, plus old wooden doors with a lot of character they found at a a home building materials salv
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by err4nt 26d ago
This doesn't resonate with me at all. I tell Claude in new projects: Create a todo.md file, check for open todo items there. If we work on them, check them off and leave a note with our decision and enough context for you and me to rem
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by err4nt 26d ago
As a web developer who has just begun building native apps: running outside of the various sandboxes browser based apps are quarantined in. Deeper file system access, better access to hardware and sensors, notifications where helpful, deepe
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by err4nt 1mo ago
Anecdotally, I've had an iPhone for 15 years, and that whole time I've dreamed of apps - some silly, some useful, that I would tell people "Imagine if there was an app that did x…". In those 15 years I learned to program
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by err4nt 4mo ago
Personally, I've cracked very few programming books and I've been building websites since ~2004 back when magazines and books were the best sources for information. Some people learn skills from books well, and some people end up
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by err4nt 5mo ago
I've always been told by my parents that people can still hear and understand even if they appear unconscious or non-responsive, and so I have a personal policy of speaking respectfully toward them just the same as if they were alert a
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by err4nt 6mo ago
Seen everything on Youtube, I've ditched Youtube for Spotify/listening to music now (and I don't use AI for much besides food recipe questions)
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by err4nt 6mo ago
The moment the amount of savings surpassed the annual salary of a good programmer you know you made the wrong investment.
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by err4nt 7mo ago
They'll shout this message right until the day they change course. Then who will hold them to account?
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by err4nt 8mo ago
When it says "arrays, which may be thought of as functions whose domains are isomorphic to contiguous subsets of the integers", is it saying that this: const list = ['a', 'b', 'c'] is syntact
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by err4nt 8mo ago
Goodbye to our thought-provoking jester. There will never be another quite like him.
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by err4nt 9mo ago
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all from Toronto!
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by err4nt 9mo ago
I copy/pasted it into my editor to see it larger. I still used my brain. This 'test' is not a true test but a trick, and the trick doesn't have to do with programming ability.
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by err4nt 9mo ago
So cool! Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of one of those very old cameras with the bellows or accordion. I wish I could look through it myself to see what you see with it!
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by err4nt 11mo ago
This leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I see that the man was Israeli in the original story and I don't want to presume a religious perspective, but I can share some thoughts from my own based on his story and yours. I've read the N
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by err4nt 1y ago
Back about 20 years ago there was a lightweight Gecko-based web browser called 'Camino' that was a delight compared to Firefox or other 'full' browsers. It was fast, simplified, and still rendered pages well. I didn&#x27
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by err4nt 1y ago
The PATH network is great, especially in Toronto's freezing cold and windy winters! The beautiful 'underpass' pictured in this article, with the white marble, is on my commute to work, and it really is breathtaking when you t
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by err4nt 1y ago
“A webpage that counts down to a movie release.” Not an app. Not a startup. Just a janky react/tailwind page. Maybe part of the problem is trying to bite off more than you can chew, spinning up React and Tailwind for what
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by err4nt 1y ago
I think the key is that dotfiles are a different genre of (code) writing than production code, with different investment, different motivations, different pain points and histories, and a sensitivity to the author that's not required w
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by err4nt 1y ago
Counterpoint: External CSS stylesheets can be cached, saving future requests, but inlined CSS must be re-downloaded each time and you lose all the benefit of caching the styles independently from the document. Depending on the size of the C
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by err4nt 1y ago
Anybody remember Microsoft's Tay AI from 9 years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot) If history repeats itself, maybe with software we can automate that whole process…
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by err4nt 1y ago
How does it know the difference?
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by err4nt 1y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'll try some of these out!
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by err4nt 1y ago
You can find their criteria for what they mean by ban on the FAQ page: https://pen.org/book-bans-frequently-asked-questions/ It's probably too long to quote here, but it's a very unique definition that seems
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by err4nt 1y ago
Instead of asking me, a senior developer, how to solve a problem so I could quickly and easily explain the best approach, instead they go to ChatGPT, ask it, and then come to me to ask me to audit and prove whether ChatGPT's response w
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by err4nt 1y ago
A few years ago I ran through all the realistic emergency scenarios I could think of, living in a large city and driving in a car, and except for "being attacked with a gun" the emergency tool that seemed to be useful in basically
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by err4nt 2y ago
Does he still have a plan "to provide high-speed internet to 15,000 homes and businesses in rural, remote, northern communities by June 2025" or did that get sacrificed for the principle too?
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by err4nt 2y ago
Personally I don't think it's about the money, I think it's about what they actually want to do. I think they like their plan and are happy with it.
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by err4nt 2y ago
The point of Chrome-only CSS (vendor-prefixed features) would be to allow Chrome or any other vendor to expose styling functionality to CSS authors in valid CSS syntax in ways that won't impede future standardization efforts (like writ
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by err4nt 2y ago
Presumably so you can test it on-page

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