DreaminDani

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Putting the human experience first. Developing solutions to make it better.

DreaminDani.com (formerly DESandoval.net)

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Comment · 6 months ago
Great writeup and also a great example of where LLMs can step in to help fill the gaps in areas where you don't have as much skill or interest. For instance, your wife used ChatGPT to come up with a name and you used AI to generate the admin flows that you weren't interested in building.

Sounds like Flutter was a good technology choice too, given its flexibility across platforms. As a designer, I know how frustrating it can be that the Google and Apple interface guidelines aren't too prescriptive but patterns vary so much across domains, that it's better to do what you did and evaluate what others do to solve similar problems. Great work!

Comment · 1 year ago
agreed! I was not a huge fan of the AI integration before in Zed and would always switch to Cursor (or, lately Claude Code) to actually get something done. Now that Zed can target specific pieces of code from the sidebar and edit them directly, it's been my goto for the last 24 hours. I've yet to "eject" to my old tools.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd say it's closer to Claude Code than to either of the two IDE-oriented ones. I say this because it actually does the right thing more often than either Cursor or Windsurf. It gathers the right context, asks for feedback when needed and has yet to "go back and forth between two failing solutions" like I've seen Cursor do.

I don't know what Zed's doing under the hood but the diffing tool has yet to fail on me (compared to multiple times per conversation in Cursor). Compared to previous Zed AI iterations, this one edits files much more willingly and clearly communicates what it's editing. It's also faster than Claude Code at getting up to speed on context and much faster than Cursor or Windsurf.

Comment · 1 year ago
Reading an audiobook is reading. As a partially blind person, it is the only way I can read comfortably. I'm not sure how a different word would help. If one was reviewing the audiobook, specifically, they might call it out in order to comment on the narration quality, etc. But if you listened to the book, you've read it.
Comment · 1 year ago
IMO the dashcam footage of a car crashing into Shrek was way better with the old Dalle
Comment · 2 years ago
It's always been my assumption that we wash our hands when we go to the bathroom for two reasons: 1. Wiping your butt can lead to feces getting in your hand. A lot of diseases can come from feces. 2. It's a good frequency to wash off whatever else you've been touching that day.

Assuming you go to the bathroom 3-7 times a day, that's that many opportunities to wash off the dirt you were digging in, trash you picked up off the street or someone else's hand you shook.

Comment · 2 years ago
In the desktop version of the calendar, you can click the view settings in the upper right and turn off calendar appointments

They still show up on the mobile version of Google calendar though :/

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
> what are the downsides of having those commits?

In my experience, having to rebase on top of a branch with a lot of "lint" "quick fix" "let's try this" "oops, how about this" can be draining and sometimes lead to accidental code deletion.

I like squash merges because I know it was the author's intended change that I'm merging or rebasing onto.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is really cool! One quick note about your marketing copy, though: > Audio for humans, not robots

There are plenty of blind folks who use traditional text to speech for navigating our devices. We prefer the robot text at ridiculously high speeds. We're humans too.

I would love the option to switch to a more natural voice for more literary text (or even a fan fic) so I'll definitely be checking this out

Comment · 2 years ago
Agreed. Tauri for desktop, capacitor for mobile. Bring your own front-end library either way.
Comment · 2 years ago
How do you do this? Is there a button somewhere in android to switch networks?

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