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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in web development combined with a love for teaching, I'm passionate about assisting dev teams overwhelmed by outdated legacy systems, poor performance, and scalability issues.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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JesseSkinner, to random
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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 random
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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.

simon, to random
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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?

JesseSkinner, to random
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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.

evacide, to random
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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 love how everything has a 1:1 mapping.

So my CodeIgniter views become Svelte templates. I go through each one and replace eg <? foreach ($list as $item): ?> to { list as item} etc. which is surprisingly straightforward.

Then, the CI models & libraries I copy to $lib/server, keep all the function structure and SQL the same, and just migrate PHP syntax to JavaScript.

Each route function in the CI controllers ends up mapping to a +page.server.js load function in each route.

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

JesseSkinner,
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@matthiou hm, interesting idea. I haven't looked for one. I'm just doing it by hand.

mariatta, to random
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My kids' school wants me to fill in some Student Emergency Release form.

They emailed me the form in a Word doc file, with like tables and checkboxes here and there.
When I open the file and fill it in, some table borders got shifted and things look weird 😵

I guess they didn't expect people to actually open the word file, but expect us to print it out, fill it in with actual pen, and then scan it back to them. 😵‍💫
And I guess they actually print it out one more time on their end 😰

JesseSkinner,
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@mariatta I feel bad for all the less-technical parents who are just opening this on their phones with no clue how to proceed.

VinceAggrippino, to webdev
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Why do people still put a slash before the closing bracket of an element that doesn't have a closing tag?

I see it constantly in code examples and not just in old tutorials. Recently, I've been seeing it in documentation for Web Components' custom elements.

As far as I know, this was only ever used in XHTML and was never required in any HTML spec.

The current spec says "it does not mark the start tag as self-closing but instead is unnecessary and has no effect of any kind."

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/syntax.html#start-tags

JesseSkinner,
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@VinceAggrippino yep, it was necessary to turn HTML into valid XML, and became a bit of a habit or "best practice" that people forgot the reasons for. It's also necessary in JSX which might be helping to keep it going.

JesseSkinner, to random
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The free local newspaper is no longer circulating.

https://www.barrietoday.com/local-news/metroland-announces-cutbacks-ends-barrie-advance-print-edition-7553539

How will we line our bins?
What will we put under the mulch??
Is this the end of papier-mâché???

JesseSkinner,
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@jake4480 🤣

malwaretech, to random

The LinkedIn meta of creating fake Tweets from yourself, photoshopping in a verified badge, then quoting yourself by posting screenshots makes me want to kms.

I genuinely did not think it was possible to be more cringe than chronically online Twitter users until I learned about LinkeInfluencers.

JesseSkinner,
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@malwaretech @noam and the weird bolded font and poor grammar, and the selfcongratulatory context.. ugh!

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@CynAq

I struggle with reconciling multiple conflicting ways of ranking priorities. I want to optimize for having an enjoyable and fun life. But I also want to optimize for accumulating wealth and achieving financial independence to increase my security and freedom. But I also want to optimize for my family and community, doing what's best for the people around me. But I also want to optimize for my curiosities and pursuing the most interesting challenges. :blob_dizzy_face:

@actuallyautistic

JesseSkinner,
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@CynAq

Hm.. well I guess I probably default to doing things that other people are waiting on. Obligation is a terrible feeling for me, so I probably ironically prioritize these sorts of obligations so as to close the loop and shake that feeling and get back to the sense that I have the autonomy I actually desire.

@actuallyautistic

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@CynAq

I struggle with reconciling multiple conflicting ways of ranking priorities. I want to optimize for have an enjoyable and fun life. But I also want to optimize for accumulating wealth and achieving financial Independence to increase my security and freedom. But I also want to optimize for my family and community, doing what's best for the people around me. But I also want to optimize for my curiosities and pursuing the most interesting challenges. :blob_dizzy_face:

@actuallyautistic

Edent, to Futurology
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🆕 blog! “What if civilisation doesn't collapse?”

A few years ago, I got rid of all my paper books and switched exclusively to eBooks. Whenever I tell bibliophiles1 this, they usually shriek in horror. What about the smell of books2?!!? What about showing off your bookcases to impress people3!?!? What about your signed first editions4!??!?! But the other day I had someone…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/what-if-civilisation-doesnt-collapse/
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JesseSkinner,
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@Edent thanks!

JesseSkinner,
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@Edent which ereader(s) do you use?

JesseSkinner, to random
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I wish I still had this shirt.

JesseSkinner,
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@vga256 exactly right!

JesseSkinner, to random
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I just got my Bluesky invite code. Now I can go claim my username and catch up on all the nazi stuff I've been missing.

JesseSkinner,
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@sarajw oh ok, good. I thought it'd be like X or whatever.

JesseSkinner, to svelte
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Working on my PHP side project, feeling an intense pull to migrate it to SvelteKit. But I know this is the biggest trap every coder with a side project can relate to - working on architectural changes instead of features. On the other hand, I love #SvelteKit and can make this thing way better with Svelte & SvelteKit than I ever will be able to with PHP. #Svelte + #PHP might be the way, except I lose the server-side rendering. Send help pls. :blob_dizzy_face:

JesseSkinner,
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@markhughes I love that advice!

JesseSkinner,
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@markhughes @happyborg followed both! I enjoy non-tech content from like-minded folks too :)

JesseSkinner, to random
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Seems you can't search on Twitter anymore if you're not logged in. Ugh. Sometimes I've wanted to see what people are saying on there about a very specific topic, but I'd much rather stay logged out...

JesseSkinner, to random
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I want an external floppy disk drive, and a box of 1.44 terabyte disks. Does this exist, and if not, why not???

JesseSkinner, to random
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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)

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