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vlucas

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Co-founder of Techlahoma (https://www.techlahoma.org/), co-organizer of ThunderPlains Developer Conference (http://www.thunderplainsconf.com/).

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I Don't Even Know What to Build Anymore

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3 points·by vlucas·2 maanden geleden·0 comments

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vlucas
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
Definitions vary for sure. I just mentioned them because they did well at the box office, which is what will keep "cinema" alive.
vlucas
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
> Even cinema is dying and nobody seems to care that much.

Cinema is dying from mostly self-inflicted wounds though. They keep making movies (or re-making movies) with bad writing, bad stories, and unrealistic character development arcs that not many people want to watch.

Good movies have been rewarded in theatres. Top Gun: Maverick, Obsession, Project Hail Mary, etc. all had great box office sales when other movies around them flopped.
vlucas
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
Huge props to just sticking with the HTTP spec on this one with `Cache-Control` headers with `stale-while-revalidate` support. It's amazing how many other providers mess that up.

On top of that the cache tags are a slick way to do invalidation. This looks like a great product.
vlucas
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
I just say "no, I am opting out" and that's the end of it. They literally don't care.
vlucas
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
They have photos, but not a voluntary full face scan.
vlucas
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
The phrase "people will not just [...]" comes to mind here.

The amount of people that let the TSA take a scan of their face when going through airport security - even when the signage clearly says you can opt out - proves that this effort, while noble, will fail.

I (and the family members I am with) always opt-out, but every time I look around, I am the only one doing it. If I had to guess, I'd put a compliance figure somewhere around 98%+.

Here is a good article on it: https://medium.com/womenintechnology/you-can-and-should-opt-...
vlucas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The dealer issues are true, but we have been very happy with our 2021 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy after owning it for 5+ years and 82k miles. Budget luxury with pretty good handling and performance. It's a great value package if you need a 3rd row vehicle (I have 4 kids).
vlucas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Sam didn't "win" the case in the sense that most people will think of when reading this headline.

In the 20th paragraph of the linked article, finally getting to the actual reason:

> On Monday, the jury took only two hours to reach its verdict. Musk’s complaint, the panel found, had indeed exceeded the statute of limitations

Musk is appealing. This fight is far from over.
vlucas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Cursor did this IDE -> Agents transition very well.

Cursor still supports both the IDE and the Agents window, open at the same time, in the same project. I frequently use both and switch back and forth between them. They also link to each other from the top bar and right-click context menus so you can switch to one or the other seamlessly. Best of both worlds. Switch back to Cursor.
vlucas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Speaking of this show... I can't find all seasons of this on DVD/Bluray anywhere.

Seasons 1 and 2 can be found if you have the money, but seasons 3 and 4 are nowhere to be found.

I loved this show and would like to own physical copies of it, but they just don't seem to exist anywhere.
vlucas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
So is Notion Cloudflare now?
vlucas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Educated guess on why this is happening:

All the people who get free water cups, then fill them with soda. Happens increasingly often now.

We are moving towards a low-trust society faster each day.
vlucas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Portless is a great tool for this! I use it for all my apps now. Zero config + built in HTTPS locally.

https://portless.sh/

Example from the website:

- "dev": "next dev" # http://localhost:3000

+ "dev": "portless myapp next dev" # https://myapp.localhost
vlucas
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Agreed on the MCP sentiment, and particularly remote MCPs. They keep themselves up to date with predefined tools, schemas, descriptions of how to use them, etc. where skills tend to be a mess over time, as described in the article.

Plug: If you want to try chatting with your financial data via an MCP, give FINTECH_MCP a try: https://www.fintechmcp.app - it's got a preview mode too so you can see how it works without linking any real data.
vlucas
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I recently noticed an uptick in cold emails and spam after publishing my new website. After a few weeks, I asked Claude/Cursor to obfuscate the email for spam protection in the mailto: link, and thy both used JavaScript with data attributes.

Something like:

``` <a href="#" class="js-mailto ${className}" data-email-user="${local}" data-email-host="${host}" data-email-subject="${sub}" > ${children} </a> ```

And then some light vanilla JS to stitch it together. Works in the browser, and spam has dropped off a cliff since.
vlucas
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
This is actually how ancient civilizations safely stored the spent nuclear fuel from their nuclear reactors.
vlucas
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
I obviously meant traditional React components, not RSC. RSC can eliminate some client code, but they can be very awkward to use in practice, and lines between server and client get blurry really fast. The mental model is difficult for many to fully grok. I say this as someone who has lead engineering teams with folks of varying skill levels. RSCs are not worth the extra complexity and mental overhead they bring.
vlucas
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
The basic premise of Next is good, but it definitely has more overhead that in should, has odd "middleware", and is very hard to optimize. I view this mostly as a React problem though since any page requires full hydration and ships everything to the client. RSCs are... not my favorite for sure.

I too have been very frustrated by this, and I made an "Astro for dynamic sites" TypeScript framework called Hyperspan ( https://www.hyperspan.dev ) that aims to fill the gap in the JS ecosystem for a modern fully dynamic option that, similar to Astro, makes dynamic islands easy. I have enjoyed using it in all my own projects. Check it out if you want.
vlucas
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Yes. Tax season for small businesses and New Year's resolutions for personal finances are the times I get the largest influx of new signups and subscriptions.
vlucas
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Not really sure how to answer this, because there are varying degrees of "self hosted" vs. "cloud hosted".

This is a Next.js app hosted on Render.com, which is a managed VPS offering similar to Heroku. BudgetSheet is also of course completely reliant on Google Cloud though with Google Apps Script and the Workspace Marketplace where it is listed.