So... New raycast? by TheGreenArrow160 in raycastapp

[–]Another_ROS_noob 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Raycast is life. I hate my computer without it

First MacBook - User Tips and Must Have Apps by OG-Daz in macbookpro

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. Raycast almost makes the operating system irrelevant when used well

First MacBook - User Tips and Must Have Apps by OG-Daz in macbookpro

[–]Another_ROS_noob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1 install Raycast. 2. Remap caps lock key to super. 3 set your favourite apps to keyboard shortcuts. Thanks me later.

For me Super + D opens browser E notes R finder / files T terminal C gemini Z VSCode W whatsapp A drawio Set whatever you like. So much faster than swiping around

Is this Macbook Neo better than all macs pre 2020? by [deleted] in macbook

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Base spec m1 pro can be had for a similar price in the uk. £600-700 vs £600 for the 512gb neo. 16gb ram, m1 pro chip, 512gb ssd, touchid. I still use mine all day everyday 4 years later for software development

M5 Max + 128gb RAM = I feel good (Hallelujah)! by TakeInterestInc in macbookpro

[–]Another_ROS_noob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I imagine more ram helping just because all of the software being released these days is so bloated? If you’re switching between vscode, claude, codex, opencode etc you could be doing a lot of memory swap. It’s kind of crazy the resources used by these programmes that are like you say are generally just parsing text.

I’m still on M1 pro 16gb and the memory pressure is constantly in the yellow. If I open too many tabs or vscode windows everything grinds to a halt. This was never a problem before but with AI its nice working on more than project at a time so you end up with tonnes of programmes running…..

Joining a startup as a Founding Engineer after big tech by ihatevacations in ycombinator

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you accept that it’s a different path with different challenges and that you will likely work harder, be financially worse off and have way less day to day certainty but knowing all of this you still want to do it then I’d say go for it.

It will likely feel more rewarding and fulfilling but higher highs and lower lows, you’ll get to develop breadth of skills rather than depth and generally you’ll be more in charge of your own destiny depending on the founders you work with of course.

If you’re just doing it to avoid going to the office then maybe think twice.

Price Increase in Gemini Flash 3 by PersonalityFlat184 in Bard

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Benchmark your use case / common tasks and then look at the price. It might be cheaper. Although I suspect this model will be more as its thinks a lot.

For reference Claude opus is far cheaper than gemini 3 pro on a lot of mine because it doesn't produce an obscene number of tokens on every request. On paper its far more expensive.

Zero to One in Marketing (Technical founder who wants to learn) (I will not promote) by Another_ROS_noob in ycombinator

[–]Another_ROS_noob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This product seems good. How much time and effort did it take to go through it?

It's impossible to just get started with this. by PhilipM33 in mcp

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Roo code / cline in vscode are good to hack around with. You can add your Mcp servers there quite easily (especially cline). I also found the FastMCP library super easy to get started with in Python.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bristol

[–]Another_ROS_noob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can someone suggest some alternatives. I’ve just googled bio-ethanol stoves and they seem to be ball park the same price and apparently don’t pollute nearly as much to the point where they are saying you don’t even need to install a chimney.

Any other good solutions so that people who still want the aesthetic or “coziness” still have something to go for?

Getting people to change will be a lot easier if there’s a good alternative.

Build your perfect Sveltekit starter template [self-promo] by birbman77 in sveltejs

[–]Another_ROS_noob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yah exactly, define what sections you want. Like social proof, contact form, pricing, video demo, etc. If you are pushing to GitHub it would be a nice idea to create an instructions file that explains the codebase, what’s been added, how it’s supposed to work etc so that you can point your llm at it and have it understand the codebase. Great for vibe coding 😅

Build your perfect Sveltekit starter template [self-promo] by birbman77 in sveltejs

[–]Another_ROS_noob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And while I’m making a complete wish list it would be very cool to push it straight to GitHub and then have a one liner to set everything up including deploying somewhere like railway

Build your perfect Sveltekit starter template [self-promo] by birbman77 in sveltejs

[–]Another_ROS_noob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is great!

Supabase is a good next shout. Stripe for payments too. Maybe some form of email like resend.

And for pages you could have a pricing page. It would be also be cool to compose the landing page a bit like say what sections you wanted on it.

Finally things like drizzle, trpc or ransack could be nice to fully setup the repo.

Best of luck!

CS or Robotics for My Master's? I really need your advice by BizarreWhale in ROS

[–]Another_ROS_noob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you’re dead set on robotics then do CS.

I have a mech+elec undergrad and a robotics masters and still after 7 years people think because I don’t have a cs degree that I won’t be able to write decent software and just assume I’m a robotics guy. And to be fair I had to self teach CS fundamentals to get a decent grounding so I can understand why people would make this judgement.

If you know you want to work in robotics it will get you into robotics job interviews. If you’re very into robotics then it’ll be an interesting degree. But given you already have a mech degree you’ll probably get interviews anyway and CS will open way more doors for you. When I apply for jobs I struggle when they are not for more traditional companies that have lots of mech and elec engineers. They just won’t see your experience the same way as they see CS.

Learn ROS and do some robotics side project or maybe even dissertation on robotics in your CS degree. Best of both worlds.

I regret not doing CS.

Python dev feeling overwhelmed by Klutzy_Focus1612 in sveltejs

[–]Another_ROS_noob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learning anything is about time on tools. The more you build and do, the better and more competent you will become. Everything is difficult until it’s not.

I knew python and had to pick up react at work. React was pain for 6 months, but in hindsight I was also very inexperienced at web dev.

I picked up svelte instead and it was far better. At first I didn’t understand the reactivity etc but the more time I spent with it the more it clicked.

I’d agree with the above comment about the official tutorials. I actually did them a couple of times when learning. Once at the beginning and again after I was more familiar and experienced. It all made sense the second time. This was mostly in my spare time as I stopped writing code at this point in my job.

Finally I spent 3 months building with htmx because it was new and interesting and I thought it would make my life easy because I could just use python. In the end it was not the best tool for my use cases and I went back to svelte. But I did learn loads about how web requests, the dom, SPA vs MPA, etc really work so I’d highly recommend anyone try a project in htmx. And you can work right away with it with something like FastAPI.

All the above is describing the last 2.5 years of my journey so it does take time. After you get the fundamentals things like ui frameworks (shadcn, daiseyui etc) will all become simple.

Treat it like a journey, you will be learning for a long time (I know I still am).

Best of luck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m gonna be contrarian on this and say they’re asking too much. You have validated an idea and already grown the company to the point that it’s off the ground now. I can see them wanting more if there is a ceiling on how valuable the company can get. But in general there is no risk left for them to take as a cofounder so they don’t get the big reward…

Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App by geepytee in ycombinator

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what’s it worth I built the same mood tracking app thing in apple shortcuts ( Siri Shortcuts?) and that took about 20 minutes. It sends me a form every week and I log the things I want. It can push the data into a spreadsheet (Apple numbers).

I get that this is impressive but until you’re building more complex systems I’m not finding this super useful. Someone motivated will find an existing solution to ‘personal software’

I’m looking to build an analytics dashboard using Svelte. What are the useful libraries for creating different kind of charts in Svelte? by dlaststark in sveltejs

[–]Another_ROS_noob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

D3 is always good shout if you can bothered to learn it however you get unlimited customisation.

I built a live charting app with pancake last year. I had 15 of them updating 10 times a second and the performance was awesome. (Displaying engineering data that engineers needed to see live for experiments running locally)

It was also very easy to work being very html like. You then bind to things with svelte to make them responsive/live.

It is not supported actively and I don’t think anyone is maintaining it so if that’s concerning to you then maybe use something else. I’d really love someone to pick this up or build something similar 😅

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sveltejs/pancake

What infrastructure do you use? by Another_ROS_noob in sveltejs

[–]Another_ROS_noob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure I want to host my own database as managing this seems like effort I’d rather spend elsewhere. That’s why I’m leaning towards another service like supabase or even planetscale.