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I was just wondering if I should do something like this. I use a couple query string values and I validate them and issue a 40x if the value is invalid. So, I was wondering if I should issue a 40x for an unused query string val.

Dungeon Crawler Carl, book 2

The cornerstone of coding is the function. Study functions.

Refactoring Comment Castles [0]. It uses Express, but I previously wasn't using any of my own middleware functions. Now, I'm starting to write some middleware, and it's a nice way to reuse code.

[0] https://www.commentcastles.org

apple auth is a clusterfuck

Neuromancer - 2nd time I read it. Such a good book.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go - 2nd time I read it. Cool book. It's about a world with a big river where humans are reborn after they die on earth.

Use of Weapons - 2nd time I read it. One of the more popular Iain Banks Culture novels.

Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 - Loved it.

Matter - 2nd time I read it. This is another Banks Culture novel. This book is actually very good. Most of it takes places on a megastructure planet with different levels.

Assassin's Apprentice - I don't get the hype.

Memories of Ice - 3rd Malazan book. I thought the first quarter was lit.

Cursed Cocktails - Cozy fantasy, good book.

I log all my read books here [0].

[0] https://www.commentcastles.org/r/ireadthisbook

I built an RSS reader in 2005. I never figured out how to 100% reliably detect already downloaded articles.

RIP Arduino

SEEKING WORK | Portugal | Remote

Remote freelance software developer for 22 years. Mostly web apps. Prefer async written communication. Part-time only. No LLM use. Email and portfolio in HN bio.

10 minutes ago [0]. I needed to git diff two files that weren't in a repo.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16683121/git-diff-betwee...

Technology as a whole is on an exponential growth curve. The further we get along that, the more likely it is that we'll see an artificial intelligence singularity. LLMs/chatgpt may or may not play a direct role.

Couldn't agree more. I love text only pages/sites that have some style.

Thinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.

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I have 20 years of experience as a remote freelance developer.

Technologies: Anything with documentation. Learning is my top skill.

Email: In my HN bio.

Musical Instrument: A cheap digital piano with broken speakers, so I am using MIDI output + Linux [0].

[0] https://www.commentcastles.org/p/jnA0cdCtStN0R9flkVVLj2

Fast and light weight. That's why I love vim/cli over IDEs.

Btw, cool site design.

My Reddit clone called Comment Castles [0].

Earlier today I implemented "bbcodes" for bold, italic, underline, em (grey background color) and strikethrough. They way it works for bold is like this: b[text here]. If you want to apply multiple you can go bui[text here] for example, which would be bold, underline and italic text.

[0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

Yes, I thought the padding/margin below the header was reduced.

Could a computer simulation also contain another universe, with virtual black holes that have universes?

I develop a HN/Reddit clone [0] that has high density settings. The home page is fairly high density by default. But if you go into the settings [1], then you can really crank up the home page UI density by setting posts per page to 50 and post spacing to 2. The density is more apparent on desktop since the lines don't wrap.

[0] https://www.commentcastles.org

[1] https://www.commentcastles.org/settings

What app/problem requires so much JS time zone manipulation? I have an app that's front and back-end JS, and I do all time zone stuff in Postgres.

JavaScript is excellent.

Remember when Covid hit, and no one was going anywhere (in a plane or a car), and the skies were crystal clear everywhere.

Doesn't billing my the hour go against all of the contractor compensation advice given here on HN?

I'm making a text-based dungeon crawler [0] with C++. Also working on my Reddit clone [1] a little bit.

[0] https://github.com/ferg1e/stepping-stone-dungeon

[1] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

Yeah, here is what you need to do:

- install Node.js, Redis and PostgreSQL

- start the Redis server

- start PostgreSQL, create a database and run structure.sql: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles/blob/master/sql/st...

- get all the source code for the actual app (ie. the code from the comment castles repo)

- figure out all your environment variables (the ones I list in the README)

- now you can run the node app (you probably want to use pm2 if on Linux)

- then connect that running node app to the public internet (I use something random for the HTTP_PORT environment variable, like 3333, and then I Nginx reverse proxy that to port 80 on my domain name (I will try to get this Nginx code and post it here later))

- and then I run the let's encrypt certbot for https

Comment castles:

https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

(I'm the developer)

Building blocks / concepts

Yes, I would get bored of using the same stack for many years straight.

Apple authentication is atrocious, I've had my fair share of issues.

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HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL

https://www.rysapps.com