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I tried GIMP out again after a decade, and I have to say I'm presently surprised with v3. I avoided it for a long time because I remember it being a super confusing interface. Ever…

I've been cataloging my collection of American vintage ads ( https://adretro.com ). The collection has expanded considerably in the last year. I'm working on a front end search por…

Even on the latest models, LLMs are not deterministic between "don't do this thing" and "do this thing". They are both related to "this thing" and depending on other content in the…

It's a concern but definitely depends on the context and my self perceived blast radius of what I'm researching. I do find myself often re-searching results to see what something m…

Nice work! I met Jorin a couple years ago at a tech meetup and this was just an idea at the time. So cool to see the consistent progress and updates and to see this come across HN.…

Yes I noticed this as well. I was last writing up a landing page for our new studio. Emotion filled. Telling a story. I sent it through grok to improve it. It removed all of the ch…

I can totally relate. I enjoy the craft of developing and making the product 'just right.' I do use AI as a fancy auto-complete, but I don't want to lose situational awareness and …

I've skipped the whole 'modern' web stack. I've stayed SSR first, hrefs/forms/url as only routing primitives, progressive enhancement, vanillajs-islands only where absolutely neces…

I dabbled in my own open source projects over the years. I learned that I really just like serving my customers directly. I don't enjoy managing PRs or responding to feedback from …

Luckily we work for ourselves in our studio, and I have no one to answer to except my business partner and customers, and tech is my domain. But I have concluded "we already build …

I make great use of value objects in my applications but there are things I needed to do to make it ergonomic/performant. A "small" application of mine has over 100 value objects i…

There are many layers to this. But there is one style of programming that concerns me. Where you neither understand the layer above you (why the product exists and what the goal of…

A couple different projects. I've been cataloging and publishing my vintage ad collection at https://adretro.com . It's starting to get a lot of organic traffic after about a year …

I don't know if this is the right solution, but I appreciate the direction. It's clear that AI slop is trading on people's good names and network reputation. Poisoning the well. Th…

I've developed at the speed of "vibecoding" long before LLMs by having highly thought-compressed tools, frameworks and snippets. Most of my applications use Model Driven Developmen…

I simplify it this way. I don't delete fields or tables in migrations once an app is in production. Only manually clean them up after they are impossible to be used by any producti…

Don't use other companies brand names in your product titles. Regardless of what other people get away with. Regardless of what is in the Amazon fine print. Don't use trademark log…

Databases store facts. Creating a record = new fact. "Deleting" a record = new fact. But destroying rows from tables = disappeared fact. That is not great for most cases. In rare c…

Yes, but not in relationship to products being copied. Copying the technical aspects of an idea has been possible for a long time anyway. Knowing how to acquire, support and cultiv…

Nice! Definitely addresses a workflow I deal with daily. Any plans for a Windows version?

It's one of my favorite little tricks. I use it when I'm building applications that have a lot of nested "contexts" and its not just styling/layout. Makes it easier to search for a…

Continuing the brands example, by default I store all of the brands returned as is (in SQL). On occasion, I will manually come across different variations of a brand that I decide …

Yeah, the output is json structured, but I mean the entity value that is returned. A simple case is classifying the Brand of the ad. It might return any of "Ford", "Ford Motor Comp…

When I started cataloging my vintage ad collection ( https://adretro.com ), I originally started with a defined set of entities (like brands, or product categories). I used OpenAI …

If I remember correctly, up through 2008 even, we would punch the card into the terminal for authorization, use the imprinter to have the customer sign and track the number, and th…