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5 months

@davidnix_ Live coding is such a bad idea. Nobody, and I mean nobody, thinks straight when someone else is watching them work. I type 100wpm and if you walk up behind me, it's like all my fingers switched places with each other.

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Unpopular opinion: There hasn't been a single no/low-code platform that has stood the test of time.

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@FitFounder Based on overwhelming evidence, cutting out excess sugar and processed foods is underrated.

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@FFmpeg @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams And yet, when you call their support it takes them over a day to figure out what timezone you're in. Frequently.

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@Rainmaker1973 So, my face is 18 inches away from someone's ass but I have more leg room?

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@noahflk @FounderKyle This. I used to work from 9am until 7 or 8pm because I was only able to get any work done after 5pm when everybody left the office. From 9-5 it was constant interruptions and meetings.

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@hyeumair I've heard smokers say smoking. I would say, based on the overwhelming evidence, it's ultra-processed foods.

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@Whotfismick I would hang over the edge and shout "I'm the king of the world!". I would start out doing this with my wife but she would quickly get annoyed, leaving me to enjoy it alone. So alone...

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@dataenggdude Sell. The kid, not the car. You can buff that out.

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5 months

@VulcanWM I saw this on HackerNews once. It resonated with me and I think you might find it helpful: If motivation were a battery you wouldn't try to recharge it and use it at the same time. It might get you a little more uptime but the stress leads to early failure.

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@Rainmaker1973 On Linux it's simpler: sudo su -

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@Rainmaker1973 "You just have to avoid looking down. Then it's manageable." I find it pretty manageable not getting within 2,000 miles of that place.

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3 months

@nixcraft I've literally never heard someone say that. Seems like only an Assembler programmer would say.

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3 months

@80s_channel He makes his drinks with a little lemon twist. It's great. You will love it!

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5 months

@SamNewby_ I've done that. All my new web projects are plain old HTML, CSS (I do use Tailwind, though), JS, and PHP on the backend. It's just a joy.

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6 months

@Rainmaker1973 How does it go from being a rectangle, to a square, back to a rectangle?

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6 months

@lucas__crespo I would buy the shit out of that device. The smaller the better.

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5 months

People need to stop saying "Excel". Come on.

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@Shpigford I either disable the caps lock or re-map it to something else. It's an antiquated key.

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6 months

@ashadahmed_ It's not the language that depresses me, it's the code people write with it that make my eyes water.

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4 months

@Rainmaker1973 This is why I visit X: hedgehog porn. And not the Ron Jeremy kind.

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3 months

@il0venostalgia Let's not forget the metal slides that burned our leg... ah, there it is.

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6 months

@thibaultleouay We had to do those things before we had the cloud and it's really not that hard.

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4 months

@paulg @TRHLofficial Also the ingredients were real ingredients (flour, butter, sugar) and not artificial chemicals to increase shelf life and mouth feel.

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6 months

@thibaultleouay What pain? You have an immense amount of freedom and control over your own system for $5/month.

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6 months

@MaverickAlbert5 When joining a company, ask to spend 2-3 weeks fixing bugs. It will quickly expose you to the entire codebase and solve customer problems at the same time.

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@wtravishubbard Entertainment

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7 months

@Rainmaker1973 Dude. What is with your posts today? People bathing in cow piss and now this?

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4 months

@Rainmaker1973 I like how the large, self-appointed "team leader" hoists himself on top, adding extra weight to the team's haul, and bumping noses with the guys saying, "Good job. Good Job" instead of helping out.

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6 months

@Rainmaker1973 "Nah, Jerry, check it... It's this cool rollercoaster that gives you a massage. There's a little pinch at the end but it's fine. 10/10 would do it again."

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4 months

I know someone who was recently in a pre-interview when the recruiter mentioned there would be a live-coding exercise. The candidate stopped the pre-interview immediately and explained that, if the interviewing team were willing to collaborate on solving a coding problem together

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@pitdesi There isn’t a more deserving bank to screw themselves over.

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@nixcraft

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6 months

This thread is gold

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6 months

I challenged myself to cold plunge every morning for 100 straight days. - Three different continents - Several frozen rivers and lakes - Dozens of hotel bathtubs - One icy shower at 40,000 feet 10 lessons learned from 100 days in the cold: (a video thread)

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@ratoshi21 The abstraction of low/no-code platforms isn't the problem, in my opinion. It's the lack of flexibility that code provides. Inevitably, in my experience, the project requirements demand something of you that can only be solved with code.

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7 months

@brandwithdan Sam Elliott. "Only ten people in the world can pull off a mustache like that and he's nine of them!"

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6 months

I'm using sqlite for my analytics app--the first time I've used it for a web project. It is delightful. I really should have been building web applications like this before. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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@IAmPascio Currently building to help people practice mindfulness at work. Looking for people to help me test , an app for anxious fliers.

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5 months

@aaronspark Blog platform with no-code plugins, single-purpose website builder, e-commerce platform. None of them purport to be a low/no-code platform.

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@_justlilian What does that make astronauts? 😄

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@wonkavatormusic

5 months

@w3whq @davidnix_ By "circumstances" I assume you mean pressure, which is a notion I reject. I've worked in high-pressure situations and not once did someone stand over me judging my code. Interviews are already high-pressure. Why crank it up to eleven in a meaningless way?

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5 months

@monkeydosea @Shopify Aren't they an e-commerce company, not a low/no-code tool?

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6 months

@IntNostalgia God I wish software development was as was as that again.

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2 months

Oh, wow. I hit 400 followers and didn't even realize it. Woohoo? 🎉

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Darrell Brogdon

@wonkavatormusic

7 months

I'm building an app called FlyZen for nervous fliers and I'm looking for people to test it and provide feedback. If you or someone you know has a fear of flying, sign up for the early access program at: #FearOfFlying

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2 months

@catalinmpit Nope. I've always had that problem. Thinking about joining Boxanon for it.

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5 months

@ATRightMovies Weird Science. A classic in large part because of Bill Paxton.

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4 months

@Rainmaker1973 This is Australia, an entire continent (and surrounding ocean) of nature that is trying to kill me. The whole thing is probably the snake.

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@wonkavatormusic

1 year

@csallen Maybe use the thought that if you get your nutrition in order and develop a regular body-movement habit then you’ll get to continue enjoying those things and much more for a long time. “Eat whatever” is already causing you problems, guaranteed.

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5 months

@hernandoabella It's a fool-proof method for finding out how good your backup strategy is.

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@wonkavatormusic

6 months

Big thanks to @matteo_spada for his superb support of @TryAstroApp ! It's worth every penny because of him!

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7 months

@levelsio If we get AGI by September then I expect, when I ask ChatGPT to only give me JSON as a response, it not say back, "Ok, here is the JSON you requested..." 🤦

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3 months

@levelsio Yeah; see, we never know if any of your pictures are real anymore. 🤣

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5 months

@MuseumCommodore Biddy biddy biddy … wait, I’m thinking of Buck Rogers aren’t I?

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4 months

@thdxr All your code on one line. Single-letter or nonsensical variable names whenever possible. Don't test. Don't comment. Don't remove dead code. Pay more attention to how many monitors you have than how good you are at your job.

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@Rainmaker1973 Aren't jaguars also excellent eaters of people?

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4 months

@Rainmaker1973 They are united.

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5 months

@SiteStudioAPP I'll concede that point.

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7 months

@kai_developer @acquiredotcom Makes me think they're trying to weed out people who are listing with little/no intention of actually selling. Like people who go on dating sites just for the attention.

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5 months

Ugh. I always do this. I get half-way through a new project and then start thinking, "Nobody is going to want this." I'm disobeying the negative thoughts, though, and pushing on. Even if I'm the only one using it, it's still worth trying. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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@wonkavatormusic

4 months

@nixcraft On a server, often dedicated to hosting CVS, either co-located or in the server-room at the office.

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2 months

@DedalusDev I suspect one reason why homeschooling can be so effective is that the parents are, by definition, heavily involved in the child's education. If people would stop expecting public schools to be free babysitters and get more involved then we'd likely see a dramatic improvement.

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@wonkavatormusic

6 months

@joshmanders I'm seeing a lot of wheel reinvention going on in tech lately.

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@wonkavatormusic

5 months

I have an idea. It would be Open Source and would help developers build high-quality web applications in a new and interesting way. What do you think? Should I build it? #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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Darrell Brogdon

@wonkavatormusic

4 months

Mystery project update: Made progress on Lemon Squeezy webhooks. On a day like this I think it's important to say, Goonies never die! #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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Darrell Brogdon

@wonkavatormusic

6 months

I hit a speed bump in rolling my own analytics system which is, browsers like to filter the JS that reports back to the analytics server. Understandably. There are some nefarious actors out there. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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@wonkavatormusic

3 months

@tibo_maker I don't really understand the hate that story points are getting around here. I've worked on some very successful projects where we did story points.

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Darrell Brogdon

@wonkavatormusic

3 months

MakerJournal update: Today, I leveled up my project settings page by adding a sleek display of GitHub repositories. Sign up for early access at #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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Darrell Brogdon

@wonkavatormusic

1 year

I’m reading about FrankenPHP. This could be big for #PHP !

FrankenPHP: the modern PHP app server

FrankenPHP is a new app server for PHP apps (built on top of Caddy) and a library to embed the PHP interpreter in Go web servers.

frankenphp.dev

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3 months

@RyanEls4 Is it "banana" or "baNaNa"?

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@toys_retro

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6 months

@davidnix_ Take out ShipFast and if I have six products generating $95K ARR I’m still dancing the Snoopy dance. 😄

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@wonkavatormusic

5 months

@screenfluent I'm older. I had that cassette deck with a Commodore VIC-20. Which had a hardware bug what could cause it not to be able to interface with the cassette deck, sadly.

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@Rainmaker1973 This is irresponsible. Hasn't she seen Caddeyshack?

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5 months

@DevendraDate1 I pronounce it, “Gweeee!” because I can. People don’t like to work with me.

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6 months

I'm trying out Claude to compare it to ChatGPT. What has your experience been with it? #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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4 months

@stats_feed You built a Time Machine... out of a DeLorean?

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3 months

@ValerieAnne1970 51 and also on no meds. I had a provider tell me she rarely sees someone my age as healthy as I am. Pretty amazing what proper nutrition and regularly moving your body can do.

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5 months

I've been bummed for a few days because I'm not sure if any of my ideas are going to get traction. Then I realized, I haven't put them out there. How can I know? So, I'm going to build them, stick a price on them, and see what happens. #buildinpublic #indiehackers #solopreneur

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@hellyer_ja26490 @tsoding There are two great books that can help you with this: “Code” by Charles Petzhold and “The Elements of Computing Systems”.

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5 months

@paulg I'm missing the context. What did he do?

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4 months

@Rainmaker1973 Is it me or do selective breeders of just about any animal have near universally poor taste?

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6 months

I added some more of my sites to my analytics system. It's fun to watch the traffic when you have a nice, simple, uncluttered view. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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6 months

I got rejected by the mods of a sub-Reddit after asking if I can post a request for testers of FlyZen. Some might have asked for forgiveness instead of permission but, I'd rather be honest up-front. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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3 months

@levelsio Real Estate in the US is notorious for this. Overuse of HDR and lenses that make everything look significantly larger than it is. I honestly don't know why home buyers don't look the sellers agent right in the eyes and say, "You're a liar who just cost your client a sale."

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6 months

Hey, #buildinpublic community. Can I get some visits to ? I need to get some traffic to it to test analytics. 🙏

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@wonkavatormusic

3 months

@Rainmaker1973 Or I can just use my key.

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@wonkavatormusic

7 months

Well this is nice. I created a Facebook account and somehow inadvertently made it so that it's not available to anyone and now Facebook has suspended it. Hey @facebook maybe make it so people can't do that?

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I wrote my own (ultra simple) web analytics system so I can compare to what I'm getting from CloudFlare. It's been a fun little project to work on. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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5 months

One thing I've been able to prove with my simple analytics platform: Cloudflare's web analytics are not accurate. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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@slickd0g @davidnix_ I'll straight-up tell them I do. Judging developers for using AI to help them code today is like judging them for using StackOverflow ten years ago.

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@wonkavatormusic

2 months

@levelsio I've said it before and I'll say it again: people can tell when someone is being lazy in their use of AI.

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@wonkavatormusic

3 months

@RyanEls4 This is one area I don't understand proponents of strongly-typed languages. Dynamic compilers and interpreters do a pretty great job of casting to the appropriate type under the hood and offer the ability to explicitly cast if and when you need it.

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6 months

@MatthewRideout @thibaultleouay Exactly. And it's a hell of a lot harder to do in serverless in my experience.

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@wonkavatormusic

7 months

What's worse is @Facebook doesn't give you a way to rectify that mistake once the account is suspended.

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4 months

@davidnix_ Seems like it's partly a matter of trust. She went through nursing school so they inherently trust her whereas many in tech are self-taught. Still, in almost 30 years I've never interviewed (not putting them through that gauntlet) someone that upon hiring them we found they

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@wonkavatormusic

11 months

The latest MRR for Mindfulness Bell Menu Bar. #buildinpublic