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Building educational content to teach users how to use your software is extremely challenging. Would be interesting to position this against startups.

Most of those subject matters - to me - are fun to chat with LLMs with to learn (Gemini hooked to web research works nicely).

But the expectations of easy-to-use software is rising. A solution to this problem would be extremely valuable.

Sorry, this comment feels a bit like https://www.youtube.com/shorts/61ZqBW30LLA but just rambling

A well articulated blog, imo. Touches on all the points I see argued about on LinkedIn all the time.

I think leveling things out at the beginning is important. For instance, I recently talked to a senior engineer who said "using AI to write programming is so useless", but then said they'd never heard of Cursor. Which is fine - but I so often see strong vocal stances against using AI tools but then referring to early Copilot days or just ChatGPT as their experience, and the game has changed so much since then.

This looks like a cool solve for this problem. Some of the other tools I tried didn't seem to contextualize the app, so the comments were surface level and trite.

I'm on Bitbucket so will have to wait :)

Impressed by how accurately this identified and transcribed. Nice work

The easiest way to understand unprocessed food is "nothing bad added, nothing good taken away".

For instance, pure peanut butter is unprocessed. While it runs through a mechanism to change it from peanuts to peanut butter, there is no oil added, nor are any of the healthful nutrients of peanut butter extracted. Opposite to this is peanut butter like JIF which is processed - the mix is diluted with sugar and vegetable oil to make the same amount of food for cheaper.

Same with tofu - it starts as soybeans and is ran through a mechanism to turn it into the blocks of tofu we see in stores, but we do not add sugar or oils to change the contents of that block, nor do we remove nutrients from the soybean (this may not be 100% accurate, but generally speaking, nutrients are not removed in this). However, many vegan meat products put a lot of unhealthy additions into the mix, thus making it processed.

I am very interested in seeing where this goes. I would love to see things get fleshed out a little more ala BlitzJS (auth, simple client/server session management, integrated database tooling), but I don't know if that goes along with Fresh's principles. But this is a very exciting start for this framework and looks like a great addition to the Deno ecosystem.

i <3 forwardemail. thank you for building this!

Anecdotally, every client that rejected a PWA approach has been due to insisting on push notifications. These apps are typically internal employee apps and the push notifications are important alerts that they do not want lost in the shuffle of emails.

I typically write my Lambda functions as Nest apps, develop locally, and then deploy with the aws-serverless-express (or fastify) NPM package, and I enable The ability to trigger a kinesis/s3/etc events locally as well. The fact that my app gets deployed to Lambda doesn't really have any impact on my developer experience. What stops you from working locally?

+1 for code-first migrations. It's a bit of a learning curve, but the effort is worth it imo.

I'm surprised no one has pointed out the value of Ionic Framework (https://www.ionicframework.com). I'm a huge, huge proponent of this. TypeScript is a great language (in my opinion), UI code-sharing is inherent, and Capacitor (https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/) is great for all the native work you need to do. Worth noting you can do this in Angular, React, Vue, or pure JS.

This won't suit your needs for processing-heavy apps (though can WebWorkers help), but will work well for many apps (https://csform.com/top-10-apps-built-with-ionic-framework/ for a "top 10" list for examples).

I noticed after submitting that you mentioned machine-learning. Any reason you can't offload that to a web API and take the load off the client?

Sure, but this is a tool to build cross-platform mobile apps which look and feel native. Imo, proper UI defaults makes sense for such a purpose.

This is a satire piece.

I have the same complaints. I've found NestJS (https://nestjs.com) to be a wonderful solution for a lot of what you're talking about. There's a few recipes to get you up and rolling with a real framework and also an ORM (TypeORM or Mongoose). Highly recommend.

Maybe I'm naive but I think a lot of people consider this, but the benefits of development speed outweigh the risk for a number of cases.

Same. I don't get it. My machines are 16gb and have zero problems with VMs, docker. What am I missing?

I wish I could do single monitor, but I need at least two - one with editor, one with browser for the app/site I'm building. Then preferably one for database admin/documentation/email/chat. Context switching between all that tends to slow me down I feel.

Wow, that moving IBM ad in the background is ridiculously annoying.

I am also a React fan but phrases like "I worked with React for a year and know well enough to get a brand new app up in less than a day" make me kind of sad. The cost just to get up and running with a JS framework these days is kind of painful. CLIs are doing a decent job resolving this, though.

All the teams I've been a part of use Bootstrap, including a lot of experienced front-end devs. Using SASS customization with Bootstrap really lets you hammer out a unique toolkit of common UI elements. However, my context is in web apps, not web sites. I could see strong reasoning for not bothering with Bootstrap for sites.

He is the opposite. The story is an anecdote of someone who is not well-educated, but is incredibly skilled (as opposed to someone who is very well-educated but not as skilled).

What service do you use?

$18/mo seems pretty steep for such a service, but this is a pretty cool idea.

This is awesome. I've been looking for a Guitar Pro alternative for years, and this is preeeetty dang close. Copy-pasting measures could be simpler, and manipulating note length via keyboard would make it precisely what I need - maybe i just need to figure out how to do that.

Great work, Flat!

As primarily a C# and JavaScript developer, I'd say TypeScript. Best of both worlds and I feel pretty productive in it (once past the pain of setup).

I, uhh, think you make aaaaaa, a good point there.

Been a .net MVC developer for 5 years. Lots of problems with Core right now (RC1 is pretty stable but lots has changed since then, so it is a bit of an uphill battle).

I would suggest looking into Django and Django REST Framework. I'm loving using it in my off-time. I'm personally not a fan of Ruby, so I wanted to through my personal suggestion out there.

Is there a similar tool for guitar tablature (not guitar pro)? This is fantastic.

Ahh, cool to see this on the front page. I did some work for Quorum. Dr Stefik is a great guy and Quorum is pretty interesting.

This doesn't seem like it would be easy for novices to grasp, though it looks like a solid language. For teaching, I think Quorum (http://www.quorumlanguage.com) seems like a stronger alternative (disclosure, I am a member of a CS senior project team building their web system).