okay definitely fixed it but ios chrome caching is super annoying, can't get it to fetch the new build 🤷

ahh I always forget to check my layouts on mobile until long past my deployments 🙃 webdev is hard

new blog post: blog.neilsriv.tech/tech/db_migr...

always fun to migrate off AWS, especially to something designed for distributed databases

postgres on aws rds -> cockroachdb cloud migration ✅ blog post coming soon

aws free tier ends in 3 days 🙃

will be doing some fast and scary migrations

tried out a fun coding challenge, git ctf: www.mrnice.dev/ctf/

read my write-up here: blog.neilsriv.tech/tech/git_ctf/

I wrote a blog post about using hugo as a static site generator to make said blog: blog.neilsriv.tech/tech/hugo/

this sounds like a nathan for you idea

Thanks so much for your interest! FYI the app is NOT available yet. I hope to start an open Testflight beta next week and will post the invite here.

Leetle - Daily Python Coding Challenge Like Wordle meets LeetCode!

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I feel like they shouldn’t count errors as attempts since you aren’t able to run it at all before submitting

Leetle - Daily Python Coding Challenge Like Wordle meets LeetCode!

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forgot an = sign 😞

Leetle - Daily Python Coding Challenge Like Wordle meets LeetCode!

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I added a random length condition check for no reason, could’ve been two lines

big fan of production freezes for tech

imagine if the crowdstrike incident happened this week

+1 to the FE type safety you get out of the box with this template

moment of silence for all the lost heroku projects 🙏

GitHub - qutebrowser/qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt. A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt. - qutebrowser/qutebrowser

Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356668

thoughts on terraform versus just using a docker compose file? I don’t usually feel the need to scale my resources

thinking I'll just use AWS, I like managing everything myself plus easy access to an RDS or DynamoDB

what do people use for server hosting these days?

Used to use Heroku's free tier, currently on AWS for full-stack stuff and Vercel for SPAs.

I usually like to host multi-container docker compose projects for APIs, redis, nginx, FE, etc.

Do you have to be trying to build and sell a product? I just like building fun projects for myself and my friends

tryhackme.com/r/christmas -> Cybersecurity challenges that are great even if you have no previous experience!

Advent of TypeScript Advent of TypeScript

www.adventofts.com -> Test your knowledge of TypeScript with challenges around creating the correct types for a specific scenario

Advent of SQL 2024 Try the advent of SQL 2024 and finally master SQL!

adventofsql.com -> Challenges for SQL experts who want to practice their skills

adventofcode.com -> classic software challenges that can usually be solved with DSA approaches

🧵 for "advent of <some software related thing" this year

advent of code/sql/cyber

too many things to do every day!

how do you come back from an OOM?

sizing on ios stickers are so annoying
images need to be at least 300x300 pixels otherwise the sticker will blow up to half the size of the screen

if anyone knows more about Apple software dev and wants to point me at a better way than just optimizing for people saving images, lmk