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Comment · 18 days ago
It would be interesting to expose this on the internet. I wonder what the scrapers etc… would do with it.
Comment · 3 months ago
I built my own weather prediction / visualization app: https://wx.rsp.li (on-device temperature lapsing, on device interpolation modes, user-selectable aggregations, etc…). One of these days I should do a writeup.
I also asked Claude to build a photo gallery for me https://places.pascalspoerri.ch (HDR, map support, similar images)
Comment · 7 months ago
I enjoy Opus on personal projects. I don’t even bother to check the code.
Go/JavaScript/Typescript/CSS works very well for me.
Swift not so much. I haven’t tried C/C++ yet. Scala was Ok.
Professionally I hardly use the tools for coding, since I’m in an architecture role and mostly write design docs and do reviews. And I write the occasional prototype.
I have started building tools to integrate copilot (Opus) better with $CORP. This way I can ask it questions across confluence and github.
Leveraging Claude for a project feels very addictive to me. I have to make a conscious effort to stop and I end up working on multiple projects at the same time.
Comment · 7 months ago
yes. depending on the techstack your experience might be better or worse.
HTML/CSS/React/Go worked great, but it struggled with Swift (which I had no experience in).
Comment · 8 months ago
you have to ask it to profile and optimize the code for you. Then have it document the changes and run it in a loop. It’ll do wonders.
I asked a cursor agent to do the same for a geotiff to pmtiles converter. It managed to optimize the performance from tens of days to half a day for the case I wanted to solve.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been toying with the idea of implementing a distributed analytics engine on top of Cloudflare workers and DuckDB.
I’m not sure if this goes against the CloudFlare TOS tough (last time I checked they had some provisons against processing images).
Comment · 2 years ago
"Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" is a great introductory systems textbook on everything going on in a computer.
For more advanced C/C++ developers I can recommend "The Linux Programming Interface" - (https://man7.org/tlpi/). It is a GREAT compendium for writing code against the POSIX API. I have a (legal) copy of this book on all the computers I have access to.
"The Database Redbook" - (http://www.redbook.io) is a valuable source on database implementations.
"Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (Dragon Book) is a great starting point. The book is out of print and but I think it should still hold up for most basic use-cases.
Comment · 2 years ago
I understand. But as a long-time programmer I like to explore new programming languages or APIs by working on a small project. I start with a first prototype to get the feel of the language, before I look into extended documentation.
Chat GPT helps with this use-case.
It's also more fun to have something which can be easily extended than to start from scratch.
Comment · 2 years ago
When writing a small application in Go I had great success asking Chat GPT specific questions. It helped me figure out which packages I needed to use and how to interact with them.
I understand that this might not fit your use-case, but it's worth a try. Just be aware that it tends to hallucinate APIs.
Comment · 4 years ago
I like
- https://www.meteoblue.com - check out the multi model, the multi model ensemble , the meteograms and the weather maps! Sadly the app itself is not as good as the website.
- https://yr.no - One of the few "free" providers with ECMWF model data (Norway has open data, that's why the data is free)
- https://www.windy.com/ - ECMWF, GFS and ICON. I don't like their presentation, but the available data is quite nice.
If you want a DarkSky replacement API, then checkout out https://pirateweather.net/ (GFS only, sadly :/ )
Comment · 4 years ago
They have also a great YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MiWuLaTV
Comment · 4 years ago
It looks very nice
Comment · 4 years ago
Hugo is very fast in updating a website. Unless you have thousands of blog posts I would not bother.
You can self-host it on a "cheap" webhost and rsync the changes (that's the way I do it). Or you can integrate it with Github and host it with
- Netlify https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-netlify/
- AWS Amplify https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-aws-ampl...
- Cloudflare Pages https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/dep...
to name a few. The hugo site has a couple of howtos.
Some hosting solutions require that the entire website is stored in a separate branch, others regenerate the HTML through a CI pipeline and store it in an object store.
Comment · 4 years ago
Sure, there's certainly interest in doing this. See this post for more details: https://misha.brukman.net/blog/2022/04/writing-math-with-hug... (I'm not the author of this post)
Client-side rendering works well enough for me, and has been for years (as a visitor). I don't see a benefit to integrate a custom Hugo patch to get server-side rendering for my simple personal blog.