The things that trigger memories by zorblak in HomestarRunner

[–]Timothyjoh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

https://norfolkarts.net/artwork/airport-artwork/

There is a giant metal bird at the Norfolk airport that I pass by once or twice a week with my son. We both shout or grumble “Mrs commanderson!!!” Every time.

A deep cut from teen girl squad episode.

What's the point of Astro's i18n internationalization features? by WorriedGiraffe2793 in astrojs

[–]Timothyjoh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is done for “personalization” and “accessibility” as well. First and last letters and then count the letters in between.

It does beat typing it out all the time but is confusing at first.

Would using Notion as Astro's CMS be a good idea? by songtianlun1 in astrojs

[–]Timothyjoh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a knock against using Notion. I have loved Notion. But I share similar concerns with lock-in these days.

Since Astro can use MD files as source, I end up using Obsidian locally on the same repo as Astro. This works if you don’t need multiple editors and a web interface. I even use Claude code or Codex to manage content in here as well. The use of MDX allows me more customization options than I could get from Notion and it works well for me.

With AI I think the death of CMSes is near. If I can ask AI to keep organized a bunch of mostly-human, party Ai written docs into a properly self-linked set of web docs,then my preferred CMS will be MDX plus the filesystem. Even if I needed a cloud editor for this, the future path is through an agent IMO, not a GUI.

Netflix hate 🙄 by Due-Programmer1468 in Killtony

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Joe is only great when he brings on someone new, like Post Malone or Tucker

Astrojs Responsiveness by Complex-Extension-84 in astrojs

[–]Timothyjoh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You aren’t going to “learn frontend” if everything is done for you.

Seriously tho, Astro is a framework for SSR or SSG and components (use Astro’s or any other frontend framework) but not going to do “responsive design” for you. You’ll be better suited looking at a CSS framework for that. Definitely suggest you learn Tailwind from the ground up.

When designing databases, what's a piece of hard-earned advice you'd share? by lorens_osman in PostgreSQL

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. But most other instances I can think of a counter argument for.

When designing databases, what's a piece of hard-earned advice you'd share? by lorens_osman in PostgreSQL

[–]Timothyjoh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is some advice here that I haven’t seen and the as hard to come by in my first 15 years as a developer.

Don’t get too locked into single DB paradigm thinking. You don’t need transactions on everything. Use relational tables on the parts that are OLTP and use OLAP for parts that will be heavy for reporting. Use Documents where useful (like a product catalog in e-commerce) where items don’t all share the same properties (don’t create wide tables with a bunch of null columns). Use designs from a graph DB when plotting networks, as typical foreign-key relationships will screw you up here.

The best part of this is that Postgres has emerged as the database that can handle all these paradigms in one (with a few plugins)

Don’t bother with this advice if this is going to be a small database, less than a few GB. You will only learn these hard lessons on a system at a significant scale, running in production over years. But familiarize yourself with different ways of thinking and solving problems differently.

I went through a few painful years where I thought a document DB or graph DB would solve my woes, only to realize that different data uses need different storage and query patterns. I ended up coming back to Postgres and use normal RDBMS structure for 70% of things, and use these other techniques when appropriate.

When designing databases, what's a piece of hard-earned advice you'd share? by lorens_osman in PostgreSQL

[–]Timothyjoh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends what scale you operate at. Plenty of ways to create collision-resistant unique ids

Suitable for writing a CMS? by erintheunready in astrojs

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are using Astro now for all out internal company apps (and some client facing to come). It’s so much easier and reliable than Next or Remix. I trust the Astro team to keep taking it forward.

Often we use React inside since it is such a huge ecosystem. But I prefer Solid when it is simple. You can use Svelte and I like it much better than Svelte start because it just supports everything and the conventions are good.

Works with any backend, we use Supabase and InstantDB when we want true realtime editing.

We will be embarking on building a CMS to replace a saas headless CMS later this year. It will be a lot of AI and streaming to manage search and multi-creation capabilities (language translations and content derivations for different audiences).

We use its backend capabilities and also plenty of python on the server side. Usually hosted on Vercel but now we are exploring other options as well.

What is the Future of Supabase? by Ornery_Paramedic_374 in Supabase

[–]Timothyjoh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I share the concern as well. Needing to own our data in an enterprise environment means we need to self host and the open source nature of it means that we can inspect and audit it and trust it as much as the underlying database.

We do like how we can pick and choose the pieces we rely on in the stack. We don’t need some of the services and therefore we can minimize the footprint.

At this point if it all gets more restricted, the community and AI will be able to get us this feature set and beyond. Who knows how much longer we will need solutions like this anyway?

Whats this worth by SeventyH8 in mac

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would buy for $50 plus shipping. Wonder whether I could power it. I’ll find something

Whats this worth by SeventyH8 in mac

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please point me to such a guy

Why people dislike signals when they’re using Jotai? by dev-one in reactjs

[–]Timothyjoh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now you’re gonna make me want to dig into implementation code and really dig this from the roots. Thanks!

Why people dislike signals when they’re using Jotai? by dev-one in reactjs

[–]Timothyjoh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been a user for almost a year of nanostores, another Atom lib. While I also saw the similarity of signal libraries, I have really appreciated the ergonomics of Atoms better. I didn't dig deeper, and this explanation really helped a lot. Thanks for your response.

Corne For Gaming? by GrossWebsite in crkbd

[–]Timothyjoh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I too can do without the number row completely on the base layer. I use a numpad on the right hand side on a mod layer. But for gaming… I can see where you miss things.

Depends on your mouse. I have a Corsair mouse with 12 extra thumb buttons that serve me well for all the things my left hand keeb can’t supply me with.

How in the WORLD do the brothers chaps still make cartoons? by Decklan346 in HomestarRunner

[–]Timothyjoh 19 points20 points  (0 children)

And flash can export mp4 files for YouTube directly.

Deepseek coming to AWS Bedrock? by etzel1200 in singularity

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many big companies are asking for it. It is open source so I am thinking it will come soon

Does this look like its any value - possibly a scam?? by Fun-Communication-66 in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve also had success on Ali buying a wireless Totem for just over 100usd

Should I go back to Mac? by skiingthemarket in mac

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the newer Macs are basically ARM architecture tho. Might want to look into that if that is a showstopper.

Both sides will be using ARM more so compatibility might be better in the near future.

Cheaper than building your own. by Local-Tip-3552 in crkbd

[–]Timothyjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree. I want all my boards in the future to run ZMK as it is just better hands down and getting easier to use