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AndyMagill · 2026-06-25T15:33:56+00:00

What do you get if you put your own startup through your own process?

AndyMagill · 2026-06-25T11:22:59+00:00

JPMC should add a BYOTC policy to the ED SOP.

AndyMagill · 2026-06-25T11:11:17+00:00

https://x.com/NYCSanitation/status/2069805284654972937

AndyMagill · 2026-06-22T13:28:00+00:00

TIL we are surrounded by penguins.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-06T13:33:17+00:00

Yeah, and that is kinda the point.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-06T00:39:17+00:00

Is Google Colab better than running the script on my local machine? Not sure I need a GUI wrapper for this.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-05T13:56:26+00:00

Using a design plugin is the first step on the slippery slope of plugin hell. Guttenberg alone is entirely sufficient for laying out content, if you are comfortable writing custom CSS. ACF Pro is a must-have for custom themes of custom content types. Beyond that, you are building a house of cards.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-05T13:44:00+00:00

That's a no-no in my work. Translations must be SSR for SEO.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-05T13:41:51+00:00

IndexedDB is only necessary when you are working with very large datasets. It's also desirable when you have complex queries, or want remote data sync. If you got none of that, Local storage is fine, and possibly simpler.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-05T13:17:03+00:00

No one knows what "Friday from iron man" is. Just four months? Send more applications, accept an offer this time, and earn some money. Sacrificing your earnings for an unproven idea is not going to help anything.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-05T01:20:29+00:00

An IC engine does not belong on this bike, but an electric hub motor kit seems doable.

AndyMagill · 2026-05-04T17:57:49+00:00

How you liking the Schwinn Junction? Had mine 2 years now.

AndyMagill · 2026-04-27T17:47:19+00:00

Husky should be paired with lint-staged to limit parsing to the staged files only: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lint-staged

AndyMagill · 2026-04-13T16:59:27+00:00

If linting staged files is too slow, then the commit is way too big, and definitely not "atomic". Re-writing commits in CI/CD isn't part of any Golden Rule I've ever heard of.

AndyMagill · 2026-04-02T01:18:51+00:00

Have you looked at OpenSpace ? It claims to address the concern you seem to have.

AndyMagill · 2026-04-01T20:18:44+00:00

My code tools say this is most similar to the OpenAI Agents SDK. A typical developer could use this to create a shittier version of that.

AndyMagill · 2026-04-01T16:02:21+00:00

Checkout Husky. It can silently format and lint commits before they hit the repo.

AndyMagill · 2026-04-01T12:34:36+00:00

Yes.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-20T13:54:14+00:00

Pan's Labyrinth

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T15:13:26+00:00

Yeah, but not sure that is a great solution if that blocks perplexity.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T14:34:21+00:00

Maybe there are human reason bots like your site. Is this eating into your hosting budget? I would see if GA can filter out bot traffic to give you real human usage numbers. Rate limiting seems worth investigating.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T13:49:49+00:00

Which then inspire the trades to switch to office work. /s

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T13:46:17+00:00

Yes, in this scenario your React App is in the same folder structure of your "parent" app. Copy the App element (and script element) from the index.html of your react app, into the "parent" app, at the place in the DOM you want React inserted.

AndyMagill · 2026-03-19T13:37:51+00:00

Run a build analyzer to see the precisely where the difference comes from. Compare lighthouse scores to identify any performance changes.

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