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> Whatever framework you choose will be obsolete in 5 years.
I am predominantly not a frontend dev, but when I do do frontend work, (and I don't avoid it by any means,) I have been using React for the past... 10 years now? And while some sentiment has been moving towards Svelte, by the time Svelte overtakes React, it will have been in production for just as long probably. And Angular might eventually run out of steam, but it's been around even longer than React, if you want to count the Angular1 and Angular2+ days together. So honestly I think this is out-of-date logic. While frontend dev moves fast, it really isn't that bad. Pick boring choices and you get boring results.
Svelte will never overtake react. It won’t even overtake Vue.
bdlowery commented on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/non-
In my uBO (not uBOL) setup, I have about 1.7M rules active.
Person who resembles 0.000001% of the internet userbase complains on hacker news.
More news at 7.
bdlowery commented on Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations spliit.app/blog/spliit-by... · Posted by u/scastiel
Running a database accessed that many times on a $4 Digital Ocean droplet? I'd be very curious to see that ;)
The web hosting costs basically nothing. Most of the cost comes from the database.
https://f5bot.com/ was free for like 8 years and it processed hundreds of thousands of db records a day, and it barely cost anything.
bdlowery commented on 'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything' english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/belter
I'm guilty here. For years I've been meaning to learn modern webdev, but every time I've sat down to read the docs, tutorials, books, and what have you - I just give up after a couple of hours. Getting seemingly easy stuff done is just a drag.
The other day I decide to try ChatGPT 4o with canvas. For a solid year, I've planned to create some easy membership registration and booking system for this small club I'm part of - just simple stuff to book rooms in a building.
Well, to my absolute amazement - I had a working product up and running after 4 hours of working with ChatGPT. One block at a time, one function at a time. After a day I had built on a bunch of functionality.
So while I'm not completely clueless on back-end programming, my front-end skills are solidly beginner. But it felt like a breeze working with ChatGPT. I think I manually modified at tops 10 lines during all this, everything else was just copy/paste and upload source files to ChatGPT.
Any errors I'd get, I'd either copy/paste, or provide a screenshot.
I actually tried doing something similar when GPT3.5 came out almost two years ago, but it was just too cumbersome then. What I experienced the other day felt lightyears beyond that.
So, did I learn anything ? No - not really. But did it solve a problem for me? yes.
EDIT: But I will add, it did provide solid explanations to any questions I had. Dunno how well it would have worked if my 70 year old mom had tried the same thing, but a gamechanger for people like me.
You skipped all the hard parts, all the struggling, and now you have a working product without a mental model and can't level up to doing harder things on your own. Struggling IS learning. You didn't try different paths, piece different info together, and then eventually create a mental model. You just used ChatGPT to skip to the end result.
It's like enrolling for a Calc 2, cheating on all the homework to get an A, and saying "did i learn anything? No, but it solved all of these annoying homework problems for me!" Now when you have to take the 1st exam you're screwed because you didn't learn anything.
bdlowery commented on macOS Sequoia is available today apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
PresButan is mandatory for me on macOS so I can make the Delete/Backspace key delete files.
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We kept seeing folks doing quotes in notes, spreadsheets, or texting numbers back and forth, then rebuilding everything again when something changes. ReQuoted is meant to make that part easier: build a quote from your phone, reuse materials/labor, send something clean, track, and revise without starting from scratch.
It’s intentionally lightweight — not an ERP, not trying to run the whole business.
My co-founder and I recently quit our jobs to focus on this full-time. Still early, but we’re already working with real shops and contractors and adjusting fast based on how they actually work.
Happy to hear feedback.