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I was just wondering if I should do something like this. I use a couple query string values and I validate them and issue a 40x if the value is invalid. So, I was wondering if I sh…

Dungeon Crawler Carl, book 2

The cornerstone of coding is the function. Study functions.

Refactoring Comment Castles [0]. It uses Express, but I previously wasn't using any of my own middleware functions. Now, I'm starting to write some middleware, and it's a nice way …

apple auth is a clusterfuck

Neuromancer - 2nd time I read it. Such a good book. To Your Scattered Bodies Go - 2nd time I read it. Cool book. It's about a world with a big river where humans are reborn after t…

I built an RSS reader in 2005. I never figured out how to 100% reliably detect already downloaded articles.

RIP Arduino

SEEKING WORK | Portugal | Remote Remote freelance software developer for 22 years. Mostly web apps. Prefer async written communication. Part-time only. No LLM use. Email and portfo…

By good, I mean a developer that can successfully build an app from scratch that doesn't have any bugs. I have a theory that there just aren't that many good developers due to the …

10 minutes ago [0]. I needed to git diff two files that weren't in a repo. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16683121/git-diff-betwee...

Technology as a whole is on an exponential growth curve. The further we get along that, the more likely it is that we'll see an artificial intelligence singularity. LLMs/chatgpt ma…

Couldn't agree more. I love text only pages/sites that have some style.

Thinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.

SEEKING WORK | Portugal I have 20 years of experience as a remote freelance developer. Technologies: Anything with documentation. Learning is my top skill. Email: In my HN bio. Mus…

Fast and light weight. That's why I love vim/cli over IDEs. Btw, cool site design.

My Reddit clone called Comment Castles [0]. Earlier today I implemented "bbcodes" for bold, italic, underline, em (grey background color) and strikethrough. They way it works for b…

I'm thinking of making a desktop app that makes available the Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, etc API functionality. I guess the user would have to plug in their API key. Does it make sens…

Yes, I thought the padding/margin below the header was reduced.

Do you buy bottled water from the store? Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use? Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Something else?

Could a computer simulation also contain another universe, with virtual black holes that have universes?

I develop a HN/Reddit clone [0] that has high density settings. The home page is fairly high density by default. But if you go into the settings [1], then you can really crank up t…