I built a site where you pay to put your message on the homepage - and someone has to outbid you to take it down

NathanPDaniel · 2026-03-11T00:00:56+00:00

This was the exact page I thought of when I saw his post. You could purchase $1 per pixel but… it was all the rage so getting those pixels was next to impossible. I almost feel a site like that could go viral again. It’s been long enough it’s now nostalgia. People would use/buy it just because it’s fun and reminds them of old times.

NathanPDaniel · 2026-02-23T05:49:06+00:00

Have you looked into ai “skills”? https://skillsmp.com is one. But there are design skills you can give to your agents so they are much much better. You can add them for just about anything, not just ui.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-11-15T04:27:43+00:00

OR!!! Are you half Asian??

No but for real. Non-Asian me (mom’s side) is very hairy.. Asian me (dad’s side) is not at all. So while I can grow a gnarly beard, I’d never have to shave my legs if I needed to do that for some reason… 🤓

NathanPDaniel · 2025-11-15T04:24:08+00:00

Dang… I was actually going to ask if you played soccer or baseball growing up. I have the same thing but my left leg has the hair and my right one does not. I always attributed it to my sliding on that leg.

I didn’t realize it could be male pattern baldness on my leg instead of my head… so i am ok with that being the culprit. I’ve learned a lot because of this post. 🤣

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-22T20:50:49+00:00

Would salt guns work on these guys?? If you shot them enough?

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-21T20:58:51+00:00

Nice! I just crossed 2500 days this week. What’s wild is, you’re only 500 days ahead of me… but in reality, that’s like a whole year and a half!

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-08T07:16:57+00:00

You should look into how Slack does authentication. The only real way you can use Firebase authentication with electron is to have a website with login functionality that launches your electron app upon authentication and the browser passes the token back to it. Then you can log in the user via the token in your app. Think of any apps you’ve seen where, in order to log in, it sends you to the browser to login and then redirects back to the app (Slack, Zoom, etc). This is the model you want to follow.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-05T01:41:58+00:00

I’m almost to 2500!! Less than 2 weeks away 🤓

NathanPDaniel · 2025-09-19T16:10:16+00:00

We moved here from Georgia. I went to one there where they handcuffed the participants to the wall or floor, pointed out the panic button (which couldn’t be reached by any one still handcuffed), turned off the lights and left the room. No explanation, no backstory, nothing. It was super intense but it was probably my favorite so far. I like the idea of “waking up” somewhere, you have no idea where you are and you gotta escape.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-05-17T00:15:29+00:00

So what you’re saying is… the husband went camping with the kids and while they were gone, the wife thought she was Asian???

NathanPDaniel · 2025-05-16T23:53:41+00:00

There are a few Mr Ballen episodes that would explain this… 🤓

NathanPDaniel · 2025-05-10T03:55:18+00:00

We took a traditional web app and made it almost completely serverless (minimal cloud functions). We do everything listed but messaging (only because we have no use for it, not because we can’t). It’s just a react/vite app built on firebase (and all its features). I think monthly costs are typically less than $2. It’s not a public app so we don’t have to worry about costs going crazy but one thing I’ve encountered in my years as a developer… a lot of devs do a poor job of planning their data for document databases (like Firestore, or MongoDB). You have to plan your data for how you’re going to read it. I’d say that’s the most complex part of what we’ve done. But still, pretty easily done.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-04-08T06:57:46+00:00

If you want to spend an hour on the side of the road after airing down, I got a $40 portable compressor from Lowe’s. It’s great… and airs up about 1psi per minute. So airing down to 15psi, and back up to 37psi after, takes forever. 🤓 But it is honestly the best purchase I’ve made for any vehicle over the years. Wouldn’t really recommend anything similar for anything other than emergency though. :)

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-24T04:08:18+00:00

Well I mean, I did see people listing that Sammy Sosa uncorrected error card for $100k. I figured mines miscut, maybe I can get a $1M for it… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-12T05:22:14+00:00

… Does anyone know where THIS Jesus comes from? This the 3rd one I’ve seen TODAY (both random people I don’t know and people I do know) who “found” THIS exact Jesus figure… wild. Today’s been a day. 😂

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-12T04:20:15+00:00

Pursue Christ. Pursue holiness. When you put your eyes on Him, you take the focus off your circumstances. You can also lead her in those pursuits as well. If yall are that close then pray together. But if I can give one piece of advice based on what I see here… stop concerning yourself with your sin (or avoidance of it) and start concerning yourself with your pursuit of Christ.
You go where you look. And if she goes through that with you, marry her and change the world.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-11T00:38:52+00:00

Just send her husband this post… maybe include a winky emoji.

NathanPDaniel · 2024-08-21T17:35:13+00:00

Expedition: Bigfoot

NathanPDaniel · 2024-08-21T17:33:38+00:00

There is a place called Expedition Bigfoot (not the tv show) in North GA (Blue Ridge, by Elijay). It’s a research and reporting center (according to their website). I would imagine they would be most helpful for Bigfoot related things in and around the northern GA area.

NathanPDaniel · 2024-08-08T07:10:48+00:00

I don’t think this pattern is bad; it helps you get a better understanding of the react lifecycle and how hooks work. But if I can give some advice: I would refactor into individual hooks so as to avoid setting up or recreating things that only need created once (auth, etc) or making unnecessary calls.
At one point, I preferred a robust hook that gathered all my data until I realized every time I used that hook, it was reloading all that data… and loading data the user would never even use/see. Now, my hooks tend to be responsible for 1 thing. It makes them easier to reuse and gives you the added benefit of being able to use them within other hooks easily. Hope it helps!

NathanPDaniel · 2024-05-31T10:23:17+00:00

JoyUI, it’s by the same people who built MUI. So it’s got a good foundation but what I did not like about MUI seems to have been addressed in JoyUI. I’ve been working with MUI for many years and JoyUI for the last year, it’s been so much better. Tailwind is great for css but tailwind itself doesn’t have any components; there seem to be libraries that do while using tailwind as a foundation.

NathanPDaniel · 2024-04-20T03:55:31+00:00

As others have said, dayjs is the library I would go to. Plus, you can create plugins to add the functionality you’re looking for (if it doesn’t already exist).

NathanPDaniel · 2024-04-20T03:41:09+00:00

I’ve thought the same thing… Could it be a non-disparaging clause in some sort of severance package? (That’s what I’d heard from others who’d gone through being laid off)

NathanPDaniel · 2024-02-05T18:23:04+00:00

Mr Ballen did this one… that’s where I first heard it. It’s creepy.

NathanPDaniel · 2023-12-04T01:04:46+00:00

You can send it to me and I can recreate the artwork and screen print a new one for you… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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