Coding with Jesse / is on Nostr

I've been a self-employed web development consultant since 2005. I also coach self-employed software engineers to upgrade skills, avoid burnout, and love the work that they do.

I live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, with my German wife and our 8-year-old son. I enjoy traveling, nintendo, minecraft, and chess.

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Last Notes

2024-09-01 19:58:59

I'm thinking of how to set up my personal computer one last time in my life by going all in on using a VM that lives on an external ssd. The idea is that if I ever get a new computer or switch between two laptops, I just plug my ssd in and get access to the same VM with all my software, files etc.
Is this realistic? Has anyone ever tried it? Or how do you solve this challenge?
#linux #os #vm #developer

2024-06-14 14:47:28

Why does so much "refactoring" essentially boil down to changing this:
function a() {
doOneThing()
}
function b() {
doAnotherThing()
}
into this:
function a() {
doThing('one')
}
function b() {
doThing('another')
}
function doThing(type) {
if (type === 'one') {
doOneThing()
} else if (type === 'another') {
doAnotherThing()
}
}
If your "code reuse" is increasing the amount of code, you're probably doing it wrong.

2024-06-14 14:47:28

2024-06-11 14:48:46

Counter-intuitively discovered that scaling down a PNG image can double the file size! This happens if 1) the image was made of solid colours, and 2) when you resize you use interpolation to basically make the edges fuzzier. Turning off interpolation in the resize fixed it, but then it looked bad. I
ended up leaving it large. Wasn't expecting that..!

2024-06-11 14:48:46

2024-06-06 02:17:09

Some of the most critical web infrastructure I've written has been written in Lua. Ask me anything!
#lua #ama

2024-06-06 02:17:09

Some of the most critical web infrastructure I've written has been written in Lua. Ask me anything!
#lua #ama