muhammadusman

After moving from California to Portland, a PNW summer is much more enjoyable because of the trees. Ambient temps could be around 90°F and walking outside is still pleasant because the streets are covered with huge trees.

I’ve been using this font for almost 2 years now and I love how unique and interesting it still looks

Yes, I’ve seen this happen to me multiple times. And Dalle outputs are lower resolution now

My blog is for the purpose of just having a blog. I love to write medium-long stuff there.

I’ll go from life updates to some technical thing I learned or am learning. I have various topics like keyboards, photography, typography, and other interests that I will write 2 or 3 posts about and then move onto a different topic.

I find it impressive that people can have just one topic to write about but I can’t stick to one.

I also don’t have a lot of readers. Anything between 100-200 unique visitors a month, nothing to monetize off of.

Once in awhile I’ll try these new emulators but I keep going back to iTerm2. Maybe having a comparison of the two or similar would help convince me and others in the same boat.

makes me wanna apply for a job there!

I love the domain potato.horse

Reading this helped me realize some feelings I've been having recently after not being on Instagram for a few years and then going back to it recently. The content has shifted from a feed of my friends' lives to a feed of copy-paste memes, headlines with weird music playing, tiktok screen-caps, and a ton of advertisement as media content. It's unfortunate that the reigns of almost all kinds of social media are now in control of Meta, soon when X/Twitter disappears and Threads becomes the leading thoughts and news platform, it will feel like we might be missing big chunks of real news and life because that stuff doesn't sell ads.

Recently, while talking to a friend who hosts her website on Wix, I noticed that she was using it as a portfolio website and I asked what wix-specific features she was using and her answer was "domain management" and this got me thinking...what if the steps were pretty straight-forward, could someone who is not a web dev or technical get a website up on github? So I started putting together a template that looks very similar to her website and also includes instructions on how to host it on Github Pages for $0/year versus what she is currently paying Wix at around $100/year. The template is here: https://github.com/usmanity/rose

I’ve been following this pattern and now it has a name! I host my projects page like this (https://usmanity.com/projects). I didn’t want to edit an html file each time I wanted to add new projects to the list or change the details on an existing one so I used Notion and I bake the data before committing to GitHub.

Thanks for the info. The dock is the CalDigit TS3 Plus dock and I’m using it with an LG monitor. Their page says it’s a Thunderbolt dock so I wonder if there’s anything else about this particular dock that could be causing this issue. Btw when the monitor was connected over HDMI, it was fine playing audio.

https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus/

This post was informative and I didn't realize just how different DisplayPort is from HDMI. Recently, I got a desktop dock that uses DisplayPort instead of HDMI to connect to my monitor. My monitor has 2 HDMI ports, 1 Type-C, and 1 DisplayPort. So far things have been fine but I did notice that the audio is choppy no matter what I do. I thought it was the dock but audio going from my computer > dock > my webcam's speaker works fine (all over usb-c). So unfortunately, it leads me to believe that the DisplayPort is causing this jittery audio.

Glad the author found a working solution they can stick with. I moved to hosted Ghost about a month ago and have been very happy with it. For me, traffic is super low so their lowest tier plan at $108/year works. It’s pricier than having a $5/mo Wordpress install on DigitalOcean but I never have to think about maintenance or some plug-in not working. My old Wordpress setup requires updating plugins and themes once a week or something.

My blog is https://blog.usmanity.com

I write about things on my mind but mainly the posts consist of project updates, experimenting with new tech, and occasional one-off things. There’s no defined criteria which could be a good thing or bad thing. I recently moved from Wordpress to Ghost.

what happened to them?

Having left DigitalOcean for Fly.io the DX is definitely an improvement. I don’t have any huge apps running there so can’t say how it scales but starting out has been super easy.

it does help you find a really strong password, sponsored by Pepsi!

wow, that is really cool! are you using a UI library or are these custom built?

Author here: I updated the post to include the generated results from Stable Diffusion and Midjourney (thanks to kouteiheika and mdorazio).

thanks, updated the post with your results as well :)

thanks for doing this, I would like to include these into the blog post as well. Can I use these and credit you for them? (let me know what you'd like linked)

thanks for sharing this, do you mind if I include this in the post. I will credit you of course (let me know what you'd like linked to).

update: I've edited the post to include these results as well

This is the sort of content that makes the internet so amazing, someone sharing a slice of life from so far away and so remote that 100 years ago this would've been unimaginable!

wrong topic / hn thread?

  Location: Portland, OR
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript/JS, node.js, react, Next.js, front-end tech (html/css, familiar with various CSS frameworks), Go, shell scripting
  Résumé/CV: http://usmanity.com/resume.pdf
  Email: usmanity@duck.com (to filter out bots/spam)

My name's Muhammad and I'm a full-stack dev with a focus on front-end. I have experience building full stack apps on my own and at work, I enjoy learning new technologies and using their capabilities to improve or build new things. Recently, I've been playing around with generative AI to build small helper tools for myself.

piggybacking on this: does anyone know a Postgres alternative to PlanetScale?

Since covid happened, it's been harder to just hang out with people so finding new hobbies or spending time doing something outside the house has helped me a bit. Still haven't been able to make friends as easily as I did in my 20s.

I'm also working on a meetups+hangout app where people can chat and hangout based on a topic in real life, nothing ready yet so can't share a link or anything.

I am glad the issue was resolved for OP. I've had a great experience with Vercel and never had anything of this sort happen to me, fingers crossed I don't run into it any time soon :D

from the post: What I’ve realized is that there are tasks I’m willing to let AI handle, as this enables me to take on more ambitious projects.

I've started doing this, getting some boilerplate or even throwaway code from ChatGPT helps me validate ideas quicker than if I wasn't using it.

I resisted using 1Password for a long time but then once I got into the 1P world, it was better than all the alternatives. LastPass is unsafe, Dashlane has subpar experience, and all the proprietary ones are missing tons of features.

Chrome, Firefox, Apple, I'm sure Windows too, have all their own password managers and all of them are hard to use and expect you to only have devices in their ecosystem.

1Password is worth every penny for how well they've kept up with updating their apps and their prevalence on all platforms. And the 2FA integration is great too!