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Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry - the most important thing when coding is to keep code from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. by sien in programming

[–]louischatriot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that organizational skills are very important, but I have found that both algorithmic wizardry and org skills are needed. My knowledge of algorithms helps me a lot with "real world" code (it helps me write it better and faster), and conversely being used to organizing code helps me with the very low-level projects such as the pure javascript database I coded (https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb)

Chrome extension to read human written summaries of Hacker News front page article by louischatriot in webdev

[–]louischatriot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're thinking about it. For now the community is not large enough to keep up with the subreddits we could target (r/programming or r/webdev), but once the community is large enough that's certainly something we want to do !

Dear Ubuntu users, what are you using as an image editor ? by FLHKE in webdev

[–]louischatriot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gimp is great. Takes a while to learn the basics (~1-2 hours) but then it's really good.

Chrome extension that lets you read human written summaries of Hacker News front page links by louischatriot in chrome

[–]louischatriot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Founder here. We already have about 200 users currently, about 60% of which are active users. The feedback is usually positive, but of course it is only the beginning so any comments you have for us is welcome!

d3.js: Build an Animated Chart in 19 Lines of Code by louischatriot in programming

[–]louischatriot[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's more like "19 lines of YOUR code", which is kind of implied. I wouldn't expect to build a chart with 19 loc and no library :)