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tomhallett

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About tomhallett

Ruby and Javascript Developer.

Software Engineer at Incredible Health.

github.com/tommyh

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47833921

    Agreed - For the last 20 years or so, designers at basecamp.com do all of their frontend design directly in rails/html/css and then have the developers "re-implement it". The upsid…

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    Comment #47425738

    so true! 1) commit messages often capture the "why" something changed - versus the code/tests which focus on the what/how for right now. 2) when you have a regression being able to…

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    Comment #46414504

    Agreed. Having a "HTML + CSS" engineer on the team was largely due to the number of hacks needed to make css work -- purposely adding invalid html that would only be parsed by spec…

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    Comment #46080950

    feedback: i'm trying to understand the highlevel flow/usage but still a bit confused. ideas: 1) maybe add a .yml example to the readme under the /test_nyno screenshot so i know how…

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    Comment #45726024

    If I'm correct that the data center shown is on Belfort and Glenn Dr, then you don't even have to "research" zoning, just look across the street. In 2021/2022 before it was built: …

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    Comment #45725596

    Also live near the data centers. While I'm obviously not 100% sure, I think that blue one is on Glenn Dr - for a bit of context, that is less than 3 miles (drive) from the Dulles I…

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    Comment #45724814

    But there is an upside to this - you get the benefits of being a city with big business (tax revenue, donations to the local schools, investments in infrastructure), but don't have…

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    Comment #44824785

    Total beginner question: if the “structured software application” gives llm prompt “plan out what I need todo for my upcoming vacation to nyc”, will an llm with a weather tool know…

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    Comment #44695585

    Depends on the definition of SPA, but in the days of jquery, I hardly consider any of that single page app. For example, the server rendered page had most of the html initial rende…

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    Comment #43446187

    When they get to what their implementation is, I’m not even sure what it is. Like how is the following different from a library, like acts-as_state_machine ( https://github.com/aas…

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    Comment #43415651

    The word choice of “several” feels a bit mis-leading. Reminds me of the Big Bang Theory quote: That is not a lot of weeks. In fact, that's the bare minimum to get to the plural "we…

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    Comment #43380068

    Is there a git gui/extension/etc which makes exploring the git blame similar to what the author did easier? Here is what I find myself doing often: - blame on file - scroll to line…

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    Comment #43109195

    So the vercel ai js-sdk is not tied to the vercel platform and is “just” a js library which points to various llms? Is there any promise/plan/etc to keep it that way?

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    Comment #42878261

    Your example of “New X” is spot on, because there was a timezone with that name, “US/Pacific-New”, which was different than “US/Pacific”. Bit of history: it was added to some timez…

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    Comment #42805840

    Let's say I'm using shadcn's Dialog [1] on my web target, which has many subcomponents (Dialog, DialogTrigger, DialogHeader, etc). How many of those am i representing with a 1-to-1…

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    Comment #42805249

    I enjoy your 4 types on the architecture. But I’m still a bit confused on what the project actually “is”. I see you have an architecture and I’m using ts to define the interface be…

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    Comment #42798753

    Gotcha. The fun part is when OpenAI asks for more regulation on AI, congress will be receptive

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    Comment #42640833

    This doesn’t even make sense… why is you rebuilding it for them even part of the discussion? You built a demo of something they didn’t like, so you took it down. That should be the…

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    Comment #42107820

    Context for people who might not get the joke/parody: SST adding containers to their stack might be viewed as a "betryal" in a similar way to how some basketball fans felt when LeB…

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    Comment #42007038

    Has anyone made a coding assistant which can do this based off audio which I’m saying out loud while I’m typing (interview/pairing style), so instead of typing the comment I can ju…

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    Comment #41875298

    If you mean “action=/foo” for a “form” tag, there is an “Action” attribute: https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents/blob/main/html/attrib...

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    Comment #41731509

    While I don’t disagree with any of your points, it seems like they are using a “platform/UGC/crowd” model to change the economics of the business model. In the same way that TV net…

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    Comment #41649909

    The statement I struggle with is "Web Components are mature now", not because of bugs per-se, but more of interoperability with the larger eco-system. One example: if I want to use…

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    Comment #41531148

    Tom Petty said we were such a great crowd that we should all get on sail boat and go to Tahiti. Felt pretty personal to me. /s

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    Comment #41522318

    If a KAN has multiple layers, would tweaking the equations of a KAN be more similar to tweaking the weights in a MLP/NN, or more similar to tweaking a decision tree? EDIT: I gave t…