Is there a repo link to checkout and explore how this all came together? Since using Cursor, been dabbling about getting back into coding areas I've always had some interest in in the past but never developed into a hobby project; Swift is at the top of list.
Nice site, would you be putting it on GH at some point? I'm very interested, no, captivated by simple projects like this using FastAPI and want to learn that
Am I misreading or are there no translations to pure JS available specifically for collections? The ease of being able to do "what i think I want to do in my head" with a collection using a one-liner often is the primary reason I'd use anything Lodash-y in the first place. The fact that I can import those methods directly to my projects and forget about the guilt of bundling the rest of the library really have kept Lodash top of mind for me for years.
I have found that not so much when writing my own projects and tinkering, but specifically for "real" work (at my job) is when I have to deal with iterating over collections all the time. Anything less readable than Lodash is just overly annoying thanks to JS verbosity. Most people wouldn't remember to pull these methods out of a utils directory that we maintain simply for the purpose of ignoring packages like Lodash.
By a collection, I'm talking about an array of objects that follow the same pattern.
I can understand how what I personally find engaging can be banal and unnecessary to others, but with this case I can't think of anything that would serve as a more fitting opening metaphor for the entire essay. The chunky wine opener that serves its intended purpose and was a gift, but lays taking up an incongruent amount of space for its intended use invites some observation on all the other unused-but-still-owned stuff that we're forced to either continue possessing or send along to the trash.
I guess some (not implying you) might consider the observations somewhat shallow, and maybe they would find the solution to be "simple". Just throw more stuff out.
Have you seen the engineered "glasses" [1] designed to help combat motion sickness during long trips by car, boat, or train? The idea is that there are liquids injected into the "frame" which help create an artificial horizon of sorts, which is designed to trick your brain into smoothing out the mixed messages your movement sensors otherwise get from vibrations and motions.
Of course, they do look a little silly and they don't directly help with the "shaken up" feeling you're trying to avoid, but it would be an interesting test to go against what the article claims is a 95% effectiveness against motion sickness.
With all my love to Mr. Levels[1], I'm personally glad the author decided to approach this as their little "Tiny projects" rather than "Follow me as I build six startups in six months". I feel it nicely sets expectations to what I can get out of checking out each project and thinking "well, it's just a tiny project after all, why can't I have made something like this ever month too?". The 12 startups idea was also inspiring to me but I disliked how the term so frequently leads people to (IMO) somewhat pointless analysis of "Is this even a real startup?" around each individual project.
Relevant to the other conversations going on in this thread, how simple is it to re-map that ctrl-[ to work globally? I'm assuming I'd have to install something for this. I am also using a Mac and use the caps-lock-as-escape to, say, close my spotlight search bar after activating it using the command+space shortcut.
In theory at least Ctrl-[ "is" Escape and is already universal. Reason: simultaneously pressing Ctrl is the ASCII -> ASCII mathematical transformation "subtract 0x40" for keys that represent a single ASCII character. So for example Ctrl-M is 0x4d - 0x40 = 0x0a. M is 0x4d ASCII and carriage return (aka '\r', aka Enter) is 0x0d ASCII. Ctrl-M is, or at least should be, universally the same as Enter. Similarly '[' is 0x5b in ASCII, so Ctrl-'[' is 0x1b in ASCII which is the ASCII code for, you guessed it I hope, Escape. Phew that was tough on a phone.
If you'd allow me to respectfully suggest an edit to the (IMO cleverly written) by-line of the site.
> This is, somehow, a slowly updated news-aggregator with relevant trends, micro-trends and edge cases for borderline nerds, that don't want to miss out, nor spend a shit-ton of time distilling trivia.
> Internal communication and supporting customers in shared Slack channels
If you're using Slack solely for the purpose of talking to your co-founder over a few categorized channels then the price is definitely not worth it over using email etc. IMO - unless you're willing to pay $13 a month to click on reaction emojis.
However Slack's ability to be used as a sort of centralized dashboard for most if not all of the other services listed on the blog article might just be convenient enough to merit that price point. In addition to supporting customers and probably being able to chat with them right through the app, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they've set up one-click integrations for the other paid suites including Sentry, LinkedIn Sales, Hubspot.
Emojis are like coffee. They make doing a tedious thing more exciting.
There are parts of work that are intrinsically exciting. But there are also parts of work that are just tedious, and you just need to get through them.
