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umaar

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About umaar

Front end web developer.

Mailing list: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/

Video course on Chrome DevTools: https://moderndevtools.com/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/umaar; my proof: https://keybase.io/umaar/sigs/V4cWz1hm8-M9l5D8L0k47IsOZSJQBDsVThwzMTlqGZk ]

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    Was able to build a personal MCP server that connects to the Jules API, letting me dispatch tasks to Jules, from Copilot Chat in VS Code. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

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    Drawing an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle. Claude 3.7 edition: https://x.com/umaar/status/1894114767079403747

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    I imagine it's not, but can also see automated systems flagging the number as being the recipient of messages for over a hundred different financial institutions.

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    Comment #42078675

    Was the number used to sign up for, and receive communications from credit card companies? Is the ban related to signing up for +100 cards? https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-credit-…

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    I made a video showcasing some advanced techniques to use fonts on the web, without compromising performance. Covers interesting font metrics like ascenders and descenders. Fascina…

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    Really like the simplicity of your website. I think when you first announced it, you mentioned you might open source Magic Loops, might you do that?

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    This is a tutorial I wrote for Firebase. It shows how to build three different AI-related web apps: A chatbot, a review summariser, and a video summariser.

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    https://umaar.com/blog/ There's also hundreds of developer tips here https://umaar.com/dev-tips/

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    You can do this with Workspaces and it works well. Made a video on this here: https://moderndevtools.com/lessons/12

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    Using DevTools, you can extract all styles, even if they're scattered across loads of tailwind utility classes. Made a video on how to do this here: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/261-…

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    Comment #35757512

    If anyone wants to self-host these YouTube summary tools, made a video on exactly how to do that here https://youtu.be/dqtliRSLmQo

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    Hey HN, have seen a lot of AI demos recently using libraries/frameworks for what is effectively an API call - so thought to showcase how this could be done with vanilla JavaScript.…

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    Comment #35589183

    This blog post shows S3 Glacier Deep Archive costs $2.05 USD for 2 TB but on the AWS pricing page it's showing as 2,000 GB * $0.0018 per GB = $3.60 ? Edit: this is for London prici…

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    This is a great project and it was fun playing around with it. When Meta started discussing this in 2021, the HN sentiment [1] was quite...cautious, making connections to how Meta …

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    I have stuck with cheap VPS servers for as long as I can remember. It takes 5 minutes to deploy a full stack node.js app, along with a database - and I've yet to exhaust the resour…

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    Agreed, giving the user a choice would be best here. Something tells me most users would not change it from whatever the default is, but yeah still good to expose this as a setting…

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    I see my server has restarted a few times! I imagine it's folks here since I haven't shared Chat Bling elsewhere yet. Sorry to anyone who started generating images, but haven't rec…