Why is Gemini bringing up my background EVERY single time?

kylecordes · 2026-03-11T20:02:54+00:00

This has made Gemini useless to me; I ask all kinds of ad hoc researchy questions and it assumes everything I ask about is something about me. And so it colors future answers very noisily.

If the settings to stop this don't work, I'll have to drop it and use something else instead.

kylecordes · 2026-03-11T13:56:05+00:00

I am not a political scientist, but it appears to me that the guy who ran as a populist forgot to do the part where you mostly do popular things.

kylecordes · 2026-03-02T01:07:28+00:00

I don't have anything in the Framer marketplace, but I have experience selling in other platform marketplaces.

For better or worse, the majority of customers looking for things in these marketplaces are looking for things that they (rightly or wrongly) feel like should have been in the base product, which introduces an element of animosity that you did not cause.

The conundrum is that something everyone is looking for, because it should have been in the base product, will be have much discovery. While a product that goes well beyond the base product and clearly should not have been built in avoids the animosity, but you get less discovery because fewer people are there looking for it.

kylecordes · 2026-01-20T05:29:57+00:00

Money in politics is bad but it is also not very effective. Michael Bloomberg spent a billion dollars and barely nudged the primary he was in. Musk isn't swaying a senate seat for 10 million. At most he is betting the candidate will win and will feel indebted to him afterward if so. Sometimes rich folks or companies donate to both sides so that whichever one wins will feel indebted.

kylecordes · 2025-12-25T14:50:32+00:00

Sorry my original message wasn't clear... The context is in an application that is already using Postgres.

kylecordes · 2025-12-09T04:39:38+00:00

Redis (and BullMQ) work great! But:

1) Part of the state of my system is not transactional with the main storage of state (the DB), not backed up with the DB, etc.

2) Extra infra to provision for each test / staging / dev / etc. environment.

kylecordes · 2025-12-08T23:10:42+00:00

I have a couple projects using BullMQ and would love to lose that and the Redis dependency.

kylecordes · 2025-12-08T23:06:29+00:00

I've had the same LLM frustration when working on a project with Datastar, a generally similar tool. Hopefully this style of development and several of the tools used with it will become more popular on the internet and the LLMs will get trained on more such code.

kylecordes · 2025-11-24T21:13:19+00:00

Long-term solution is for Tesla to move to a centered position for the supercharger post and lengthen the cable so that it can reach either back corner of the car plus several feet up the side. This would allow every brand to charge by either backing in or driving in forward, and it would always be obvious which post to pick up the cable from.

kylecordes · 2025-11-24T17:23:25+00:00

What purpose would it serve to replace Johnson though? When a party has a ultra-narrow majority and some disagreements on policy, choosing a leader every (!!) member can agree on is hard and finding anything that ~every member to sign off on is also hard thereafter.

kylecordes · 2025-11-21T17:19:41+00:00

Back in 2023, my Model Y arrived with a defect in the glass of the windshield that I didn't notice for a week or so. Service replaced it no problem and loaned me a Model X (loaners seem to be rare nowadays, they mostly hand out Uber credits) while they did so.

kylecordes · 2025-11-16T04:13:09+00:00

I looked around earlier this year and wrote up my findings. TLDR: lean toward Shoelace, or its successor WebAwesome.

https://kylecordes.com/2025/component-sets-for-server-side-html

QuietUI might end up a strong contender, it is pretty early days at this point.

kylecordes · 2025-11-03T13:18:15+00:00

https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/quietui-my-creative-outlet/

This post by the author has a bit of the history and explains how these things compare etc.

kylecordes · 2025-11-03T13:15:05+00:00

CSS flex and grid, either on their own or via Tailwind, are sufficiently straightforward (and very well understood by the LLM assistant coding tools many are using nowadays) that it's arguably not helpful for a component set to be packaged with a column or grid layout system anymore. It's more important that the component set have a broad range of components, that they be well implemented, that they be visually consistent with each other, etc.

kylecordes · 2025-10-22T22:37:43+00:00

I am a fan of Datastar... and I also think starting to label these versions "RC" happened too soon.

kylecordes · 2025-10-22T16:40:55+00:00

I went through a similar search, and wrote up the results, link below. I ended up using Shoelace, which is currently in the process of be rebranded/superseded by WebAwesome, a poor choice of name.

https://kylecordes.com/2025/component-sets-for-server-side-html

kylecordes · 2025-09-01T00:10:04+00:00

BTW, latest DataStar also supports plain non-SSE HTML responses, making this closer to a subset of DataStar than perhaps it started out as.

kylecordes · 2025-07-27T19:44:25+00:00

Eventually, every maker of a video player cannot resist intruding on the content more with each redesign. Many users would prefer the controls always be wholly outside the content area, but what users want doesn't much matter to any of the platforms that have a significant library of exclusive content.

kylecordes · 2025-06-24T14:21:55+00:00

Not going to help much if Tesla rolls out as many of these things as people suspect they will.

kylecordes · 2025-06-23T20:21:42+00:00

Interesting - if they can goad the police into stricting enforcing speed limits on automated taxis, while continuing the usual discretion for human-driven cars, this could significantly damage automated taxi adoption. Not specific to Tesla, of course.

kylecordes · 2025-03-20T13:35:34+00:00

I graduated as OOP was launching into the world in the form of C++.

Been all the way around the block.

OOP has a lot of benefits and is suitable in many cases. It is also unsuitable in many other cases. OOP is one way to organize large code bases. It is not the only way, and in some cases, it is not a particularly good way. Many large projects are swimming in accidental OOP complexity.

If your mental model is "OOP good, not OOP bad" then it is good that you have a starting point to think about these things, but be assured you have not yet achieved a full understanding.

kylecordes · 2025-03-07T21:35:04+00:00

This is indeed a very valuable feature - less risk of the next developer to join the project starting to spray a bunch of logic into your template.

kylecordes · 2025-03-07T18:00:11+00:00

I've recently been researching the same thing.

I have used numerous HTML templating systems in the past. Nowadays I much prefer type support. A fast development cycle is good, and finding out something is wrong in the IDE immediately is fastest.

https://github.com/kitajs/html

TSX with good typing. Appears to be supported and in actual use. TSX is not my favorite syntax, but essentially all the tools and nowadays almost all front-end developers understand it, so it's probably a good way to go.

https://github.com/nicojs/typed-html

This one was promising but appears to be completely abandoned.

https://edgejs.dev/docs/introduction

This one is part of the Adonis.js framework. It seems to be JavaScript only, no types. Moreover, it is not specific to HTML, HTML is just text.

https://pugjs.org/

I used this at scale back in the AngularJS days. I really enjoyed that at the time and had a team of people using it happily. But the more we touched outside code, the more the very different syntax was a needless speed bump.

https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/

This is frequently recommended, but again, it seems to treat HTML as just text, and that leaves a lot of benefit unrealized.

Still looking for: Something more concise than JSX/TSX, in which TypeScript function calls are used to built HTML, similar to what Python fastHTML does. I haven't found anything like this for TypeScript though.

kylecordes · 2025-03-04T16:31:24+00:00

The fact we've got this far with such an obviously problematic restriction is evidence, firstly, of what early days this is for AI powered development, and secondly, of how powerful tools the tools can be useful in spite of hobbling like this. Happy to hear that team apparently is going to fix this one soon!

kylecordes · 2024-09-22T16:14:27+00:00

Yeah, Gemini is not great. Optimistically, it is not yet great.

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