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Creative developer — www.mnsh.me
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mnsh··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
having llm audit all my work/code, and generate review pages (as a teacher) of before/after with working examples is incredibly useful. Its something no course can do for me, even a teacher wouldn't have enough patience to go through each one of my mistakes.

having things defined/have correct solution to compare for review is useful, and keeps llm on track. Don't think i would trust llm if it were reviewing it all on its own

mnsh··on The history of Indian science fiction
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mnsh··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
HN is feeling janky too, not sure if it's related to this.
mnsh··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
I use infinity app, might as well leave reddit from mobile :/ I sometimes use Twitter from mobile browser, the experience is ok but for Reddit, it's absolutely terrible.
mnsh··on Deck.of.cards
Upvote for just how smooth animation is. Loved it :)
mnsh··on GitHub issue - resolved
> We’ve identified an infrastructure change that has been rolled back and we are monitoring recovery.

From github status

mnsh··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2023)
UI components as a service. I struggle to find inspiration for simple ui components when i design and build websites.

It would be great to not start from scratch everytime and still have base ui that could be customizable.

Codepen partially solve this, but searching them takes time and often they are not customizable.

There are multiple sites but they just redirect to selected codepen.

Don't know if it's viable. I am banking on the rise of indie devs building products without designers.

mnsh··on Ask HN: What projects can new programmers build to gain more confidence?
I can talk about webdev part, dunno about other areas.

When I started, I built simple utilities with just HTML/CSS & JavaScript. When I had a solid understanding of these three, then I dove into frameworks and complex stuff.

Here are some ideas

- Calculator, could be command-line or in a website

- To-do app

- A pomodoro timer

- static webpage (with just HTML/CSS), then learn about accessibility, responsive design, design system.

- REST API with node (e.g. Express js)

- Consume public APIs in JS frontend (or you can use React too)

- Building a full stack app with your CRUD API, can also add auth, image CDN etc

Basically, gradually raising the complexity with every project or within it by adding a new feature

I recently wrote about building projects as beginner (even more ideas here) : https://mnsh.me/blog/beginner-ideas

Good luck!

mnsh··on My bad habit of hoarding information
I hate it when that happens, more often that not i remember the visuals of the site, then i try to find it in my browser history like a sucker.

I have yet to find a solution for this.

One solution is I screenshot all the sites i visit, extract their colors, and create a searchable index. Nice side project idea I guess.

mnsh··on Make your DOM look like an eye that can focus on anything
Well, I thought it was about depicting eyes on a webpage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
mnsh··on Make your DOM look like an eye that can focus on anything
I made something similar for my personal site, except it didn't track cursor, no JS, & blinked too. Made with pure CSS

https://codepen.io/mnsh/pen/BaYxvxo

mnsh··on Ask HN: What's stopping you from blogging?
I built my blog(& personal site) this year.

The thing that stopped me from blogging consistently was the notion that blogs are showcase of your expertise.

When i realized everyone is unique and have unique perspective, all the procrastination was gone and my mind was filled with things i could write about.

False notion of " showcasing expertise" changed to " sharing unique perspectives"

I have multiple first drafts that i am working on now.

Also this helped: https://guzey.com/personal/why-have-a-blog/

My blog: www.mnsh.me/blog

mnsh··on Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
I have been using https://tabliss.io/ for a while now. Yours seem cool, but I personally don't like too much information on my start page.

Only reason I use tabliss is to see random Unsplash image on every new tab.

mnsh··on Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?
I have maintained a list of such books and articles here: https://www.mnsh.me/blog/favourite-books-and-articles
mnsh··on Life Stats
Experience on mobile is quite smooth. Thanks for sharing!
mnsh··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://www.mnsh.me Recently finished building it.