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JesseSkinner

@JesseSkinner@toot.cafe

With 25 years of experience in web development combined with a love for teaching, I'm passionate about assisting dev teams overwhelmed by outdated legacy systems, poor performance, and scalability issues.

I live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, with my German wife and our 8-year-old son. I enjoy traveling and playing nintendo. My special interests right now are chess, neurodivergence, and decluttering.

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Anyone else feel the irrational need to brush your teeth before a zoom call?

JesseSkinner, to random
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USB-C everywhere is such a beautiful future.

JesseSkinner, to javascript
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I'm pretty sure the first #JavaScript code I ever wrote was an "image rollover" for my highschool's website in 1998, and probably looked something like this:

<A HREF=TEAMS.HTM><IMG SRC=TEAMS.GIF BORDER=0 ONMOUSEOVER="this.src='TEAMS2.GIF'" ONMOUSEOUT="this.src='TEAMS.GIF'"></A>

JesseSkinner, to random
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"Sorry, the password 'rdxUuWboephX7MyjCZdHHkJk' is too insecure. You need to add a special character to it or it'll be too easy to guess."

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I failed the Speedtest before it started

JesseSkinner,
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@jake4480 Agreed, I was thinking of redesigning my site to be CSS-naked too :)

JesseSkinner, to vscode
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Protip for VS Code users: if VS Code is acting slow, it's probably your extensions' fault. Disable as many as you can. You can also look in the Output tab for "Extension Host" to see what's going on. Can be crazy how many extensions are doing things every time you type a character!

#vscode #dev

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What's the modern version of a newspaper route or lemonade stand? How are kids making money these days, or are they?

JesseSkinner, to random
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It's fun learning geography with this memory game.

JesseSkinner, to random
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Just realised we just had a whole year go by and people aren't screaming about how fucked up 2023 was. First time in a long time!

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Hey everybody, we forgot to celebrate crossing 1.7 billion seconds since the unix epoch on November 14th! (or was that just me)

JesseSkinner, to linux
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I've used #Linux on my computer exclusively for 8+ years now. I haven't had any issues at all.

And I just borrow my wife's laptop in the rare circumstance when I have to do something impossible in Linux like print something.

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OMG I just realised that Jupyter (of Jupyter Notebooks) is spelled that way to incorporate the "py" of Python. :blobdrool:

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Not sure but I'm willing to guess that some percent of people who answered this survey said "Java" when they meant "JavaScript". 😜

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/languages/

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I have a call today with a CFO to explain why I'm insisting on a fixed fee for this project and won't be providing an hourly rate nor tracking my hours. Wish me luck.

JesseSkinner,
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Call went great! Phew!

JesseSkinner,
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@vga256 haha I kind of offered that in jest, but said it'd be dishonest, and he agreed that won't be necessary. We're going with my proposal.

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At OpenAI DevDay, a ton of new stuff:

  • gpt-4-turbo (128,000 tokens, faster, cheaper)
  • Ability to pass a seed and get repeatable outputs (maybe we can finally write some automated tests!)
  • Can actually produce valid JSON now - plus call multiple functions in one response
  • Text to speech API (6 voices)
  • Whisper v3 (open model release)
  • Fine tuning for gpt-3.5-turbo 16k (and preview access for GPT-4)
JesseSkinner,
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@simon "We’ll begin rolling out new features to OpenAI customers starting at 1pm PT today." so try again in 2.5 hours I guess?

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Always feels good to do that thing you've procrastinated for years. And doesn't it always take a tiny fraction of the time & effort you thought it would?

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I'm shocked and annoyed that there doesn't seem to be a good gmail replacement (web interface) for self-hosted email. I found a few options, but none with good search or a nice interface. And I don't really like the slowness of Thunderbird. Or am I missing something?

JesseSkinner,
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@n3wjack yeah exactly. Roundcube was the "best" option I could find, but doesn't really cut it.

JesseSkinner, to javascript
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I may need some help in the first few months of 2024 on a client project for an environmental non-profit. if you're a #javascript & #react freelance developer with some availability coming up (or know someone who is), please feel free to send me a private message or email.

The project is built with react, nextjs, tailwind, mapbox-gl & observable plot.

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I have fucked around and found out how many hours is too many hours to go without sleep: it is 36.

JesseSkinner,
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@evacide yep, the auditory hallucinations start to get pretty loud around that time!

JesseSkinner, to php
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Migrating from CodeIgniter #PHP to #SvelteKit is so easy and pleasant.

By building the site 15 years ago, and modernizing it today, I skipped over the awkward middle stage of making an API & fetching data to render it in the browser.

SvelteKit's form actions let you build a fast site that even works without #JavaScript, which means I'm going from server-side rendering with links & forms, to server-side rendering with links & forms. Except now I have the power of #Svelte to make it way nicer!

JesseSkinner,
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@ramsey I guess, but it's more like a translation.
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