jackkinsella

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Faceboard: A Case Study in Community-Led Information Exchange (Satire)(mcsweeneys.net)
4 points by jackkinsella 1mo ago|1 comments
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Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons(semicolonandsons.com)
4 points by jackkinsella 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jackkinsella 6mo ago
I love Gemini for general knowledge and think it far outperforms Claude for research, but personally I cannot use Gemini for programming due to: 1. it taking so long 2. it not giving any information about its thought process / what it&
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by jackkinsella 6mo ago
Probably a memory leak But other ideas: - all pages of FE site loaded at once instead as as needed - FE indexed search engine - bug rendering too many invisible HTML elements (eg 1M select boxes)
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by jackkinsella 6mo ago
A more charitable explanation would be that they were under product pressure for more features and were never given the slack time to even explore this angle. Happens a lot.
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by jackkinsella 9mo ago
Musicabc has some really nice JS and Obsidian plugins that essentially allow you to create little scrapbooks of musical ideas in markdown that are also playable as sound and viewable as sheet music. https://abc.hieuthi.com/
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by jackkinsella 9mo ago
Thanks for your comment. I've been lucky enough not to be hit by these scenarios yet. One thing that might help is that we encourage short-lived PRs (ideally 1 day, max 1 week) so divergences from master tend to be smaller. N is not hu
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by jackkinsella 9mo ago
Cool software! Does this support the formats needed for German bookkeeping? Accounting fees are astronomical here so there is pent-up demand for a decent solution I reckon.
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A development tool I cannot live without: bin/merge_master_into_all_git_branches(semicolonandsons.com)
1 points by jackkinsella 9mo ago|2 comments
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How to Build an LLM-Powered Database Query Bot for Your Web App in 1 Day(semicolonandsons.com)
1 points by jackkinsella 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jackkinsella 1y ago
The form permission issue is fixed now - apologies
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by jackkinsella 1y ago
The form permission issue is fixed now - apologies!
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by jackkinsella 1y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | MorphMarket | FULLY REMOTE (all countries) | Designer FE Engineer | 20 - 40hrs/week ongoing contract I'm the CTO of MorphMarket.com. We are an online marketplace that connects breeders and keepers of lizards,
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by jackkinsella 1y ago
MorphMarket | FULLY REMOTE (all countries) | Designer FE Engineer | 20 - 40hrs/week I'm the CTO of MorphMarket.com. We are an online marketplace that connects breeders and keepers of lizards, geckos, snakes, frogs, spiders and oth
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by jackkinsella 3y ago
In Germany, it used to the case that renters would be forced to pay the broker fee. At this point, it was typically three month's rent. But the government created a law Bestellerprinzip (Orderer principle) that made it a requirement t
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Ask HN: How would you go about selling a website in 2022?(Legal Education Space)
2 points by jackkinsella 4y ago|1 comments
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4 things I wish more designers knew(slavenbacic.dev)
1 points by jackkinsella 4y ago|0 comments
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The No-Framework Framework: JavaScript Without React [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jackkinsella 6y ago|0 comments
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Contract between European Commission and AstraZeneca [pdf](ec.europa.eu)
1 points by jackkinsella 6y ago|0 comments
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by jackkinsella 6y ago
The value of SRS goes way beyond memorization. When applied seriously to a field like programming, it enables you to think about the program-design space in a more abstract manner and quickly call to mind and evaluate possibilities. Look up
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by jackkinsella 6y ago
Maybe you're new here, but your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this. If you disagree, be civil and give reasons rather than throw insults.
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SEO Strategies for Web Apps [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jackkinsella 6y ago|0 comments
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by jackkinsella 6y ago
Also learning the uke. I wonder what hacks you've figured out? My first insight was: - it's easiest to remember chords when you think of them as fundamental ur-shapes with the "bar" shifted up (sometimes requiring additi
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by jackkinsella 6y ago
After falling in love with the Destroy All Software style of genuinely advanced, all-encompassing programming screencasts, I started a YouTube channel with my own twist on the theme: Screencasts situated inside a decade-old, profitable, pro
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by jackkinsella 7y ago
As with any good habit, it's important to reduce resistance. If you want to eat healthy, have juicy apples at hand in the fridge. I made a conscious decision to start installing all my dependencies into a folder within my project sourc
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by jackkinsella 7y ago
This is something I struggled with for longer than I should have. For me, the turning point was just diving in and practicing playing along with real songs every day until the patterns became clearer. No matter who uncomfortable and hopeles
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by jackkinsella 7y ago
It's a more common origin story than you might think, and not just in tech publishing. I have a friend who wrote a comedy article as a paid guest post. The thing went wildly viral and the publishers came a-knocking to bookify his piece
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by jackkinsella 7y ago
Learn how to break information addiction. Just because you _can_ Google it, doesn't mean you should. Embracing ignorance is liberating.
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by jackkinsella 7y ago
I found your idea of recording the screen during work very clever and I plan to replicate. Some things that have worked for me: — learning to type programming symbols accurately and with confidence. I realized when pair-programming that I l
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by jackkinsella 7y ago
A four-day workweek (in exchange for a lower salary) is very appealing to many programmers.

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