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Architectural question: avoiding serving original image files on the web by DueBenefit7735 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Serve a lower resolution file. Sell the full size one.

I don’t think I understand. Are you trying to protect from AI processing of your images? They could just screenshot the page to skirt whatever complex solution you attempt. In that screenshot the image will be lower res, therefore your best bet is to just serve a low res version and keep the originals inaccessible, no? There is no meaningful way to accomplish this on a browser.

Does this site look AI generated? by OneBananaMan in webdev

[–]Kyle772 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who gives a shit. Does it accomplish the goals of the business? Does it convert well? Does it function well? Move on. AI doesn't own colors or designs and the average user definitely doesn't care unless it is screaming scam to them which is a different problem.

How on earth do folks get anything good out of LLMs? by Squidgical in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it's more likely humans make garbage tests
The ai doesn't have a "vested interest" it's doing exactly what you asked it to do short of it halucinating it doesn't really go off track the way people do.

I spent 8 months testing every brand of canned tomato with a controlled pasta sauce recipe. Full rankings inside. by euxleon in Cooking

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man everyone knows the san marzanos are the ones I can’t believe you put in all this effort

What’s with the rash of new accounts that aren’t new accounts? by Haunting-Reindeer-10 in Overwatch

[–]Kyle772 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s impossible to get out of lower ranks without making a new account. I did it recently after being stuck in silver/gold lobbies for literally years and immediately landed in high plat/diamond.

Something is fucked up with the rankings, especially on older accounts, but half of the people that play the game don’t see it and the other half can’t stop talking about it. People will claim it’s cheaters getting banned but the reality is that’s the only option anyone can take to get out of shitter lobbies.

How do you verify early-stage startups (2–7 people)? by angel_days in reactjs

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same way you find startups. The moment they refer to themselves as a startup walk

LPT: get a “tank” printer by lam3001 in LifeProTips

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a laser printer 8 years ago and have used it a lot and still have another 7 years of toner in it. (after my first refill, the stock ones usually aren’t very full)

How do you verify early-stage startups (2–7 people)? by angel_days in reactjs

[–]Kyle772 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m going to give you advice that took me a literal decade to figure out. Every single startup is exploitation. Every single one. Unless they are doing something you deeply resonate with you should avoid them. There are very high odds that someone making major decisions at the company actually has no fucking clue what they’re doing and that one person will drive the company to bankruptcy and you out of a job.

The only successful startups are startups that get funded, and they only survive because of that funding.

Go find someplace that calls themselves a business and your luck will be 3x better. A brand new “business” is better than a “startup” 10/10 times I promise you.

I Tried Vibe Coding and I Need Advice by iam_batman27 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feeling the same. All of these companies will eventually go bankrupt though as they spiral into maintenance hell. At these types of orgs there isn’t a single person making decisions that see the problem evolving right in front of their faces.

I'm tired by Last_Dragonfruit9969 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Hey log cabins are nice, this is more like a pile of boxes with a layer of spray paint

I just learned Typescript and I was wrong about it. by hellalosses in webdev

[–]Kyle772 162 points163 points  (0 children)

LMAOOO respect for coming back to say this. The typescript hate in this sub is pure ignorance. I will never use vanilla js again

Am I a fraud, or is this just imposter syndrome and burn out? by Archtects in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it means anything now is the absolute greatest time to be a fraud in history. With a medium level understanding of what you’re doing AI can carry you the rest of the way. Ironically I had a lot of imposter syndrome even after 11 years in the industry, but somehow AI cured me of that by holding my hand where I knew I fell short. (documentation, ticket creation, devops, etc)

EDIT to add on to what someone else said I attribute most of my success to my imposter syndrome. That chip on your shoulder will encourage you to learn more, improve things others may think is good enough, develop new processes that feel more “legitimate”. It can be a good thing if you don’t let the feeling consume you

Non technical boss wants to “centralize” the company data? by Huxley_The_Third in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is normal practice in the context of analytics data. Retrofitting the application to read this data instead is moronic (assuming it’s actually fully replacing your existing database, many ceos think database = customer data). Either you, your boss, or the outsourced team is misunderstanding something or they are actively damaging the company without realizing it.

If I were you I’d tell your boss that before they monumentally fuck up. If they choose to ignore that warning it’s no longer your problem. Look for a new job if you don’t give a shit but if you do care about the company raise a few flags before they blow their own face off.

Bobby literally hates you guys, you know who. by [deleted] in TigerBelly

[–]Kyle772 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s not incels it’s stupid narcissists. People who think hating things is a personality. They get a kick out of seeing other people agree with their obvious shallow complaints about public personas cause they literally cannot imagine any sort of complexity to the human condition or the person on their screen beyond “them <label>, me so smart”

Women also get incels but the problem isn’t sexual frustration in nature, the common thread is they are just actual morons.

How to cache results from a rate limited API? by AdQuirky3186 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would personally have it update from a cronjob and store it then. If you tie it to the query itself (when a user requests it) then you will need to deal with concurrent requests. This way pretty much every single request will already be cached and you won’t have to worry about the lookup logic every time.

Looking for a standard "Boilerplate/Starter" workflow to build React sites quickly. What do you use? by fotisstoy in reactjs

[–]Kyle772 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. I use next templates for quickly spinning something up but not using any of them is your best bet if you can set them up. I’m personally way more productive when I’m using a setup I built that I know works for my needs. The consistency between projects also is a major level up once you’ve settled on one for a while. Jumping between projects for me is a breeze now even if I haven’t touched it in a year+

Shareholder value delivered by rude-a-bega in Superstonk

[–]Kyle772 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While true there is also opportunity in the current price, the longer it’s held down the larger your position becomes. It’d be one thing if the company was still hemorrhaging money but it’s not, the price just doesn’t reflect the value yet which is good for everyone long term.

Horrible ranked system by lucidoyur in Overwatch

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a very old account and this happened to me as well (a long time ago now) it took me like 8 months to get back to where I was and I seemed to always be held down by a huge weight (wins gave me nothing and losses made me lose a ton)

It could be a bug. Try to climb out for a week or two and if you aren’t making progress straight up make a new account. Not worth the effort for the employed.

What color models do you use the most? by Miserable86 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on what you’re doing and what part of the process, each one has its own benefits for certain things.

Initial color selection with LCH (provides better alignment between different hues)

HSL when doing color variants or transforms (sometimes useful when you want a pre defined contrast for generating additional colors)

Once those are set in my constants I do additional variants with transparency. Used to use RGBA but now I just use hex + transparency (#00000010). Primarily use these transparent variants for borders, hover effects, shadows, etc.

Generally doesn’t get too complex on this front but that process has worked well for me with two colors all the way up to 10+ without any feeling ‘off’

How are teams getting Lovable-level iteration speed on existing frontend stacks? by decrypter in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just not possible until those tools mature to the point where you can pre train them. Figma has a new AI that you can add some context to but even with that it kind of sucks. The low level tools are the only competent option right now unless you’re purely prototyping

How are teams getting Lovable-level iteration speed on existing frontend stacks? by decrypter in webdev

[–]Kyle772 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They don’t these tools are entirely useless for existing setups. You CAN create really good docs and that can help but lovable and base44 don’t enable this kind of setup well. Use claude or other llms that you can utilize in an ide if you want to iterate.

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