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codazoda
4,738karma·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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Nice design. I’ve been wanting a larger watch than most companies make. I’d like a traditional digital watch. Since I can’t find what I want, I’ve been thinking about building my own. I want to go to …
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> The Authenticated Transfer Protocol, aka atproto, is a decentralized protocol for large-scale social web applications. I must not be the target audience for this older article. Several paragraphs…
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I use ImageMagick a lot and kept finding myself Googling for examples. I started writing notes for myself and recently combined them into a small field guide of command-line examples. I go on to expla…
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I use ImageMagick a lot and kept finding myself Googling the same flags. I started writing notes for myself and eventually combined them into a small field guide. It’s still early, but it’s already us…
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I’ve been putting together a small “Field Guide” for ImageMagick. It’s meant to be a concise reference of commands that actually work in day-to-day use. The first draft covers common tasks like resizi…
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If you’re worried about your VPN provider but you can trust your VPS provider, try an SSH Tunnel. https://joeldare.com/ssh-tunnels-my-vpn-alternative-for-priv... …
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> Preparing contingency plans & pitching then, then executing them, is the best way I’m interested in hearing more about how you execute on this. Where/how do you keep your plans in wait?…
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I read number 2 more as being ready with your own agenda items. For example, if you want to make a code base more minimal, have a POC and some details worked out for when the opportunity presents itse…
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My first computer was a Tandy CoCo TRS-80 with an audio cassette tape. Just yesterday I was using AI to formulate a plan to create graphics for a BASIC program. I don’t know if I’ll build something, b…
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Mostly posting out of frustration today. My builds just keep getting longer and longer. This isn't just about my blog, it feels like ALL the builds I use are slowing down.
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Impossible for me to read in dark mode.
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I made a simple docker container to jail an LLM for a recent project. https://github.com/codazoda/llm-jail …
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I applied for a job about 12 years ago where the company was still using BASIC for some of their software. If I remember correctly it was numbered BASIC, not the more modern stuff. I think the softwar…
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I find LLMs most useful in this understanding of legacy code. I can ask questions like, “how is this code organized” and, “where does [thing] happen?”
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I use HN a fair amount. I often post articles here but I also feel bad about doing it because 1 or 2 upvotes makes me feel like maybe it doesn't belong. I think it might be good to cross post eve…
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The author dismisses this as out of date, but this is one of the most straightforward examples I’ve seen. At least reading 00 and 01.
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LLM-Jail is a Simple Docker Container to Contain Your LLM CLI https://github.com/codazoda/llm-jail I don’t know if this is really necessary, but I created it after doing an in-ho…
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Minimark is a minimal markdown editor and static site generator for static website publishing. https://github.com/codazoda/minimark …
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Consentless is a Minimal Website Analytics Tool that Preserves Privacy https://consentless.joeldare.com/
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I would say that much of my code starts out stupid and, hopefully, becomes better with refinement.
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You left out words at the front that are important. “deliver better quality while also improving the efficiency.” Reads fine to me. An editor would likely drop “the”.
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I get the same results as Op, but on mobile, where there are 4 sponsors above the link. It’s about two screen scrolls to the real result.
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Hey Artyom. :P
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But, never forget, it’s possible to maneuver yourself into better position for luck to find you.
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> Thank god for tauri I’d love to try it, but speaking of security, this was the first thing I saw: sh <(curl https://create.tauri.app/sh )…