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Basically the same as Python’s zipapps which have some niche use cases. Before zipapp came out I built superzippy to do it. Needed to distribute some python tooling to users in a u…

Thank you! It’s the Solarized color scheme which is definitely a bit low-contrast. I probably don’t notice it only because I’ve been using the color scheme across apps for so long.…

I do wish monospace designs were at least a _little_ trendier. My blog uses one, but honestly I feel like I should change it up since I'm looking for roles right now and I worry it…

> I have been manually copying my resume source into ChatGPT for feedback That’s what I started out doing as well. At some point I got tired of it, and after writing the script I r…

Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Only to the Bay Area) Technologies: Most recently TypeScript, Python, React, PostgreSQL, GCP. Resume: https://resume.jo…

A small little toy: https://particles.johncs.com

There's a great Computerphile video from 2015 that introduced me to the idea of AI safety awhile ago. It seems like some good context to this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Yes. I run a small website and a friend of mine has agreed to take it over if I die. I've shared the passwords of the services that the website is hosted on with them via a package…

This article asserts SOLID and MVC is good with basically no justification. It also doesn’t show how non-hooks code would be better.

Ah of course you meant in a word processor... $ never mind -bash: never: command not found Thought I was about to learn about a new utility for a moment.

For those of you who like the idea of GNUCash but are looking for an easier tool to use (for us developer folks), check out https://plaintextaccounting.com .

Seems to be going after the same problems that https://shmeppy.com does. The specific choices are different though (like drawing is much different).

You got a good laugh out of me with the meow in your description.

Ended up sniping myself . Made a fairly complete version of what I was imagining: https://github.com/itsjohncs/construct-json#readme

In the common case where you trust your input entirely you can just interpret your string as JavaScript. Then you don't even need to use quotes for the key names. $ alias fooson="n…

Oh hey, it’s one of Fable’s mini games! Very cool to see

I've been contributing to the IRC ecosystem again. Working on bringing some IRCv3 [1] features to The Lounge [2] right now. Tryna do some neat things with the virtual tabletop I've…

> This pattern of access is simple and intuitive but causes huge problems in even small projects. Retrieving whole rows is hugely wasteful when only part of the row is required to …

I set failglob: `shopt -s failglob`. Makes the whole command fail if there's no matches. That combined with `set -e` which aborts the script in the event of any command failing mak…