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davesnider, 7 months ago to random

I feel like the worry about "copy/paste" Junior devs building off of Chat GPT is momumentally offset by Junior Devs learning basic Computer Science by interacting with Chat GPT.

Speaking for myself, a designer who is perpetually a Junior Dev, I've learned so much in the last year because I had someone to ask questions of.

This is a muuuuch better world than me copy/pasting something from Stack Overflow, because I can ask more basic questions about what the snippets do along the way.

davesnider, 10 months ago to random

The idea that the MLB makes it nearly impossible for someone without cable to watch the All-Star game continues to astound me every year.

I buy a block of Orioles tickets. I have MLB.tv (which I need to use a VPN to watch the games). Sure, i can always find away around, but I'm pretty technical.

Once you get the game on, it's NASCAR level with ads. To the point where you really wonder why they don't want MORE people watching these ads.

Slowly, sports will wither because of these dumb policies

davesnider, 4 months ago to random

Old World is one of those games that very subtly upends a lot of "known" systems in a genre. It's take on settlements, workers, combat, religion, diplomacy and event chains are a leap forward from Civilization.

The work order system is brilliant. Yes, you have all these workers, soldiers and things you can do, but you only have so many orders, so you need to figure out what you can get to right now.

I'm having a lot of fun with it and can immediately see how I'd play different next game.

davesnider, 8 months ago to random

Where are people hosting their domains these days? I need to move off of GCP now that they were purchased by Squarespace. Was considering just moving to AWS or Cloudflare?

davesnider, 5 months ago to random

Meant to do a write up like this for years. Here's a list with commentary on 25 of my favorite films of all time.
https://www.davesnider.com/posts/movies

davesnider, 10 months ago to random

I still call myself a designer. I haven't opened Figma for anything other than SVG work for over a year.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/design-for-the-web-without-figma-4bc3a218

davesnider, 7 months ago to random

I captured 17,000 screenshots as a designer since 2010. I've published more than half of them publicly on my website.

Introducing the museum! 😅 Built with @xata, Google Vision APIs and an Astro/Svelte front-end.

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/museum

davesnider, 8 months ago to random

New blog post.

I'm a Linux.

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/im-a-linux

davesnider, 2 months ago to random

My eight year son has unsurprisingly gotten really into Halo since I introduced it to him.

Does anyone know if the novels are any good? He burned through the entire Percy Jackson series in two months so I need to find something to keep him reading. Otherwise I was thinking of getting him into Redwall.

davesnider, 3 months ago to random

Lost a buddy today. You were a good dog Ava.

davesnider, 21 days ago to random

Who says you can't play RPGs by yourself! Room one of my Ker Nethalas dungeon delve. Gonna draw a monster for each room.

davesnider, 8 months ago to random

I experienced Barberheimer with my wife today. Awesome movie day with Korean BBQ somewhere in the middle. My only regret is I wish I could sit a week with only Oppenheimer in my noggin.

davesnider, 8 months ago to random

Added a dumb little thing to my website. I think I just wanted to take the piss out of the minimalist black and white style.

Hover animation of my name reveals "CSS is Awesome".

davesnider, 7 months ago to random

I mentioned I'm building an interface to view my 13 (!) years of daily screenshots. I'm manually scanning them and also running everything through Google Vision so that I can search the text inside the images.

There's some good memories in here. I saw this receipt from January 2011 for SF Sketchfest shows that I went to with Ryan Davis.

Also attached, a ticket list of things I was working on from December? Can't wait to start building stuff from this content.

A list work tickets I was jamming on. Mostly old Whiskey Media stuff.

davesnider, 7 months ago to random

This weekend I hope to finish my "13 years of screenshots" application. It's already pretty cool. I have all the images running through Google Vision to auto-gen tags, color properties and read text. All of the data gets stored in @xata to make things searchable / filterable.

I used this project as an impetus to learn Svelte, which has been a pleasure along my Astro system. That setup means everything is a little more MPA based, but that's fine for a smallish site.

davesnider, 28 days ago to random

Up early to smoke some pork.

Big green egg with smoke coming out.

davesnider, 8 months ago to random

Over lunch I wrote a quick bullet list of some unwritten rules of GitHub PRs that I've learned over the years. Did I miss any?

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/unwritten-rules-around-github

davesnider, 4 months ago to random

Follow up movie. The Andromeda Strain. Haven't seen this one since I was a teenager.

davesnider, 5 months ago to random

I'm a big fan of using a balanced hand with TypeScript in a project. Just because you add some occasional non nullables or anys to a codebase where the shapes / responses get tricky doesn't mean TypeScript isn't helpful, and doesn't mean you're negating the benefits of TS. Most of the time it's really helpful, but sometimes it's a pain in the ass and I'm confident in the code use.

Unless you're writing deep library code, there's likely better things you could be doing that solving that puzzle.

davesnider, 4 months ago to random

We live outside of city gas, so I have a fancy heat pump / propane heating system. It essentially kicks into propane mode when certain outside conditions are hit. For some reason I can never set it right, which results in my house being freezing if it's cold outside, but not cold enough to kick in. Basically it's great when it's in the 20s, but not when it's in the 40s.

It makes me wish things like this had physical knobs rather than displays.

davesnider, 2 months ago to random

When will we see the first successful nostalgia act on the web? We're around 30-years of Internet culture at this point. The early years had a small audience, but each year that passes there will be more people that remember "the good Internet".

At some point an old brand / personality will be able to do a "come back tour" the same as Guns and Roses and capitalize on people's fond memories.

davesnider, 2 months ago to random

I just bought a crokinole board after learning about it this morning. It's basically Canadian shuffleboard?

davesnider, 1 month ago to random

Somehow I'm enjoying Remnant II despite always bouncing off of other Soulslike games. I think the immediacy of hitscan guns does it for me. I'm always too impatient in the slow, heavy combat of Dark Souls.

I also like that most of its game mechanics aren't obscured by lore. I'm OK with clicking "make my game public" rather than needing some weirdly named item only a wiki would explain.

davesnider, 1 month ago to random

MLB is so funny. I pay a decent chunk of change for a Flex plan for Orioles tickets (live). I pay for MLB TV. They blackout the games because I'm local and they want me paying for cable. I pay for a VPN to get around it. But MLB still has one game a day exclusive on Apple TV. I don't need that, so I'll just watch a pirate stream.

The money I'm paying to get around this bullshit id happily pay directly to them, bypassing all this middle man shit.

Makes zero sense. Miss the days of antennas.

davesnider, 5 months ago to random

I was able to score opening day tickets for the Orioles in March. The same week I'm taking the family to Assateague for a camping trip during Spring Break. Three years in, we're cliche Marylanders!

My favorite part of camping in Maryland vs. California is the ability to have fire pits. The least favorite part? Mosquitos are a thing.

https://www.nps.gov/asis/planyourvisit/marylandcamping.htm