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Hi HN, I've been playing around with Cloudflare's Browser Run and Workers AI to create this funny "website vs website"-website. Google's Gemma 4b model is actually quite good at vi…

The author articulates perfectly what I think too. I’d recommend for everyone to read Writing to Learn by William Zinsser. It’s an incredible book showing that you can learn anythi…

The best way to get your point across is by starting with ad-hominem attacks to assert your superior intelligence.

I fed the same prompt to Deepseek: By 2025, the integration of AI has become so seamless that its practically invisible, operating as the central nervous system for everything from…

This is really well written. Great read.

I didn’t know this was a Django application. Love that. Totally understand the author’s point of view, too.

I enjoy looking at my blogs analytics. It does make my day better knowing that people find my writing useful and read my posts. Do I need it? Probably not. But I don’t “need” a blo…

* led status: on, off, non-responsive * button status: idle, pressing, pressed I'm with you by the way, but you can often think of a way to use enums instead (not saying you should…

It very much is a brainer

There might be some other factors in that situation that prevent one from having a restful night.

Anyone else think it's interesting all these CLIs are written in TypeScript? I'd expect Google to use Go.

It's similar for writing code. Suddenly people are articulating their problems to the LLM and breaking it down in smaller sub-problems to solve....

How does this compare with Apples or Orange?

I've been using the Django ORM for years and it feels like an amazing piece of software. But recently I started using sqlc. Which turns my queries into Go (simplification). I think…

When I see a repository with many files "updated 4 years ago" I'm usually inclined to think it's abandoned.

Not sure if this is a controversial opinion but if the wife decides to divorce the husband based on what ChatGPT says, perhaps the husband is better off.

Most projects should follow diataxis and we’d be in a lot less pain

Bingo! Having tons of `CustomEvents` with arbitrary handlers gets unwieldy. One way we "solved" this is by only allowing custom events in a `events.ts` file and document them prett…

PortfolioSlice. It’s a website where you can share your investment portfolio and its asset allocations. Then other people can just follow that with an easy to use cash divider. htt…

I've been doing React for about 10 years. Just started playing with Svelte 5 a few days ago. It's so simple to work with. Built a simple stock allocation app and what surprised me …

If you have to explain why something is not ambiguous it is by definition ambiguous.

I did the same. Really enjoyed Coolify but at some point there was too much magic. I’m now using Dokku and can’t imagine using something else.

Kotlin also has amazing concurrency support. Plus you get the additional benefit of the entire Java ecosystem. I wish it got more love.

I don't think Alpine.js and HTMX qualify as "Modern JavaScript". There is an approach that is rarely talked about: render templates in Django and hydrate using your favorite JavaSc…