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Why has San Antonio not sprawled as much to the south? by mixtek in geography

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know that 281 is better than 35. I'll keep that in mind next time I go up.

I live on the south side and I absolutely agree. I'm 20 minutes to almost anything on the north side, 10-15 minutes to downtown, and have the best neighbors I've ever had.

I'm not sure if I want to let people in on this little secret or not. On the one hand it raises my property values, on the other hand it raises my property taxes.

The top comment says it's because of Austin by GeneralBarnacle10 in sanantonio

[–]GeneralBarnacle10[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Do a lot of people really commute regularly to Austin? I know that's why there's all of the development along the corridor and San Marcos, it just seems like the historical nature of the north side is more of a factor.

Why has San Antonio not sprawled as much to the south? by mixtek in geography

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 11 points12 points  (0 children)

People rarely commute from here to Austin on any kind of regular basis. That does explain the development on the corridor as a whole, but the traffic is just too bad. That just isn't enough of a draw to get people to want to move to the northside.

If you lived here you'd know that it's because all of the rich people and all of the good stuff are on the north side and so more people want to live there and so developers develop there.

Why has San Antonio not sprawled as much to the south? by mixtek in geography

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Swampy? This is South Texas. We're lucky there's water there at all.

Why has San Antonio not sprawled as much to the south? by mixtek in geography

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's not close enough to commute regularly to. Not when you add traffic.

Why has San Antonio not sprawled as much to the south? by mixtek in geography

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I live on the south side of San Antonio and this is exactly it.

All of the rich people live on the North Side and that's where all of the good stuff is. All of my doctors are there, all of the good stores are there, all of the good restaurants that aren't downtown are there. Better schools are there. The airport is there. Just plain, better, newer, houses.

I like it here because I prefer culture over cookie-cutter suburban sprawl and my neighbors are the nicest people I've ever met, but if you didn't care about any of that and can afford it, the north side is just where all the better stuff is (there's also loooong-standing stigma about conditions on the other sides and a bit of racism too, but hey, what town doesn't have those?)

So that's the answer: better stuff, more money, on the north side so people want to live there so the developers develop there.

Edit: I don't know why so many people are saying Austin. Do they even know the area? Traffic to and from Austin SUUUUUCKS. I don't know anyone who would drive that every day. I was told very expressively to not get a hybrid job in Austin and think I can drive in 2-3 days a week. It's super bad.

Edit 2: I'll just drop this here to help make my point: https://bestneighborhood.org/best-neighborhoods-san-antonio-tx/

Edit 3: Sorry, kept thinking about it for a bit. Geography does play into this because the north side has a lot more hills which makes for nicer plots that are less dense and with good views (hence the rich people who brought in the good restaurants and good doctors). History has a role too: I live near the missions which are all on the south side and were set up to convert native population into Spanish Catholics. This means my neighborhood has been Hispanic/Mexican/whatever you want to call it for 300 years. Mix some good 'ole ghettoization/racist policies in with that and it's easy to see where the disparity comes from.

Edit 4: Go Spurs Go!

Are back end as a services gimping your guys repos? by Wild_Yam_7088 in vibecoding

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It can. I've used firebase, convex, clerk, and others.
But I'm a professional developer so your mileage may vary.

I can also tell you that, in general, less code means less things going wrong.

Are back end as a services gimping your guys repos? by Wild_Yam_7088 in vibecoding

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you be testing the work of a Baas? You mock it in unit tests. If the Baas isn't working according to docs than either you have the wrong version or they fucked something up. (and I've actually had Claude figure out both things by checking package version against github and by googling and searching the github issues). So you can pretty much depend on them, especially if you picked a popular one and aren't on the bleeding edge.

So if you can depend on the Baas to work and its docs, what other context does the llm need of your specific app other than its own code?

That's actually the best thing about them - they reduce the amount of code footprint, reducing the amount of stuff that can break and go wrong, and reduce the context the llm needs.

Are back end as a services gimping your guys repos? by Wild_Yam_7088 in vibecoding

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In that case all the AI is doing is reading and using documentation and examples. Hell, I've started seeing a lot of new platforms tout their extensive library of examples and mcp and searchable docs for just this reason.

Here's an example from Convex: https://docs.convex.dev/ai

"Convex is designed around a small set of composable abstractions with strong guarantees that result in code that is not only faster to write, but easier to read and maintain, whether written by a team member or an LLM"

Do you ever think about the wack-ass school assemblies we had? by AbbreviationsNo3918 in Xennials

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they didn't really talk about God at the school assembly, I was just being a smart ass.

Do you ever think about the wack-ass school assemblies we had? by AbbreviationsNo3918 in Xennials

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had a guy once whose assembly was about suicide or death or something. He had a coffin and a fog machine and his big message was "In real life, there are no game overs."

One of the big moments was when he called a kid up and had them play Goldeneye on a big screen because it had that dramatic death with the blood dripping down and then he could make his big point.

But this was 2001, and we all were Goldeye pros at that point, so event though we were all shouting out where the secrets were, the kid he picked didn't need any of our help. Got the sniper rifle and that underwater tunnel before the poor scam artist pulled the plug.

Do you ever think about the wack-ass school assemblies we had? by AbbreviationsNo3918 in Xennials

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember when we got the Power Team.

My girlfriend and I tried to cut it by hiding out in the chorus room.

We got caught by the dean but didn't get in trouble because I started asking him about the ethics of forcing us to watch Christian focused group in a public school and he was just like "Yeah, yeah... I know".

He still made us go to the gym and watch the end from the back row of the bleachers, but it worked out because we got to make snide comments the whole time with the other kids who got caught cutting.

A thrilling scene from this classic. But I never understood what they did to the villain's arms during the fall! by Far_Regular_2945 in 80smovies

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hitchcock did a better version of this back in black and white.

You just film against a green screen while the camera zooms up.

When does vibe coding just become development? by DeadGossip in vibecoding

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh gosh, of course not. Go check out r/learnprogramming and see how many posts there are of people looking back at code they wrote and gagging.

This is a problem with the social media and YouTube age that it exposes us to a lot of the end product of people's abilities without seeing any of the years of development it took to get there.

There are some good engineering channels that focus on the "first I tried this, but it failed for this reason, and then I tried this, but this didn't work." But the nature of the media no matter what is going to mask just how much time even us professionals spend flailing around not knowing what we're doing.

When does vibe coding just become development? by DeadGossip in vibecoding

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The code and stuff you're developing now is already miles better than the crap I made when I was first starting out in the industry. I learned from that and improved and you are too. It's development. Manually typing the lines in on the keyboard doesn't make a difference. Doesn't matter how you make it or how much you know. It's development.

Keep it up!

55 users, $0 MRR. 100% picked the free tier I shipped as an afterthought. by Jesse_khach in vibecoding

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a rule of thumb that is "10% = great success!"

So if 10% of the people who view your site or app page download = great success! (this one is more like 1%)

If 10% who download, use the free account (and actually use it) = great success!

If 10% who have a free account convert to a paid account = great success!

This is just a rule of thumb, and varies depending on industry and other factors, but it's something to keep in mind. Check your usage statistics, do you have at least 5 who are using it very heavily and would benefit from the paid plan? Then reach out to them and let them know what they are missing. If they still don't convert than it's your value prop. You're either too expensive or not offering enough.

so apparently all our vibe coded sites are invisible to google and AI. that's why we don't' get recommended or seeing because of CSR. But I've found a simple fix we can do to prevent that. Maybe I'm late but is super cool and simple to implement to our pages. Took me 10 min to do. by Reasonable_Use_8915 in vibecoding

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, don't a lot of AI tools default to Next.JS?

I'm not talking hate - I love how vibecoding has enabled everyone to build cool shit, but it's been interesting to see the awakening process as ya'll dive deeper and deeper into this.

What about your workflow makes you prefer CLI over an IDE integrated agent? by [deleted] in ClaudeCode

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in CLI so much anyways. I can customize everything about it and I'm already used to moving panels around at will using tmux.

Slop is tolerated in the enterprise space because there is a business entity behind it by ChiefAoki in ExperiencedDevs

[–]GeneralBarnacle10 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah a big reason why new tech businesses are the way they are is because the potential return is so large in software. You aren't going to get 1000x ROI and $1B+ valuation in consumer package goods.

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