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codazoda
4,739karma·1,614submissions·March 24, 2014
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Software engineer, entrepreneur, serial hobbyist, and writer.
Over 500 technical articles on joeldare.com generating over 10k monthly views. Creator of Neat CSS, the minimalist CSS framework with over 700 stars on GitHub. Author of Write & Publish Your Book, rated 5-stars on Amazon.
Joel Dare
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I don’t use Groq, but I agree the free models are probably the biggest competitors. Especially since we can run them locally and privately. Because I’ve seen a lot of questions about how to use these …
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I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for but I've blogged about using Markdown on GitHub as a site. https://joeldare.com/hosting-markdown-on-github-with-neat-cs…
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I guess I’ll also take the opportunity to point out that my Neat CSS framework was partially inspired by reading their work. I continue to use it for nearly all my projects now. I have become addicted…
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I love their work. I’ve also been working on some video to teach people how to publish their own book (the first of which I’ll make available free when it’s ready). Anyway, I’d like to NOT embed YouTu…
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This looks great. I wrote my own “counter” for my personal sites but I haven’t developed it a lot more. This probably makes more sense.
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I feel like they started to get really bad when YouTube started offering the monthly subscription.
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Probably. See my comment (and example repo) elsewhere about running any old binary when someone connects.
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I experimented with writing a shell replacement a while back. Turns out you can just run any old program. Here’s and example “hello world” shell replacement written in Go. https://github.co…
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I recently added microblogging to my blogging routine. I just added it to my own page. I use an alias of “status [message]” and it throws it on the top of my status page (an md file) and replaces my p…
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I recently started doing this with my todo list. I wrote a few bash functions and aliases: todo: Open my list in an editor todo [thing]: Add a thing to the bottom of my list. next: Show me only my nex…
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Are you close to them? I hired someone (a friend) to go to their office and present the invoice in person. They told him that the finance guy was out, so he said, “I’ll wait” and he made himself comfo…
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The book gives you permission to lean into your scanner personality type. It explains that exploring our ideas is often enough and you can do so in a notebook. Interestingly, I eventually complete man…
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Consider the book Refuse to Choose by the late Barbara Sher. This book helped me fill notebooks where before I would start a notebook and throw it aside after a handful of pages. https://am…
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I've been working on a minimalist daily habit tracker that I designed for counting calories as part of my own weight loss journey. It's called Quick Calories. The PWA is free, it doesn'…
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Off topic, but I notice FreeDOS still uses email mailing lists. What email mailing list software / platforms are people using these days? Can you get mail delivered if you install an OSS mailing …
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I liked the idea of this but it won't work for me in practice. A down-side of periods is that you can't use them in an `alias`. Since that is how I configure a lot of these commands the peri…
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I’m not sure how to figure out if there’s a profitable market I can tap with the thing I want to make. As an example, I created a modified level so that my wife could set tumblers up for full wrap las…
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I like the idea of using periods for collections of commands. I have a todo list hacked together with shell scripts and I've been thinking about how I might want to stay away from collisions. I t…
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Probably a little later but I had an Amstrad 8086 as a teen. I think it was the first computer I bought with my own money.
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So much nostalgia! I miss the used book stores and the shareware racks of floppies (which I think another user mentioned).
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Thanks for sharing. The app functions really well and is beautiful. It took me quite a while to figure out what it does and I'm still not 100% sure I understand completely. Is the app profitable?…
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You should consider HTTP Basic Auth. It’s a quick path to “good enough” and you can iterate to something better later. You can read more about why I started using it for my side projects on my blog po…
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Reach out if you want to start a conversation. I'm thinking maybe a Slack for people at this stage. My email address is in my profile.
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“I’m okay, the bull is dead”, for presentations. https://www.computerworld.com/article/1702433/i-m-ok-the-bul... …
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Unfortunately, I think YouTube rewards you for this. At least it feels that way based on how long YouTube video’s take to get to the point