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Written by Ryan on 2025-01-26 at 16:52

I went to open dev docs to learn a new thing the other day and.... my brain just wouldn't.

If you're a software engineer of any variety, tell me:

What are you excited about? What brings you joy when you're creating? Is it a library, a tool, a language?

[#]softwaredevelopment #engineering #software #webdev

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Written by Ryan on 2025-01-14 at 17:46

Where do you like to go to socialize and learn about tech?

Where are your favorite tech communities (besides here)?

Are they Slacks / Discords? Are they local meetups? Tell me all about it!

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Written by Ryan on 2025-01-11 at 16:04

I'm #webdev folk through and through, but I'm in a position where I want to create a cross-platform phone app.

What's the go-to for #android / #ios folks? I'd love to avoid React Native if possible, even though it's a likely choice given my background.

Curious about Kotlin, .NET Maui, Flutter etc and of course anything I haven't heard of yet.

The UI won't be very traditional if that impacts choices

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Written by Ryan on 2024-12-08 at 21:09

What product would you create, what service would you provide, if money were no object?

[#]SundaySurvey

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Written by Ryan on 2024-11-24 at 17:44

My brain is insisting that it's a creation of @sarajw but not sure that's the case!

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Written by Ryan on 2024-11-24 at 17:20

I remember some time ago, maybe even in the days of twitter, someone created a great tool for practicing DNS!

Unfortunately my memory and searches are failing me.

I believe it was a simple web environment where you could set DNS rules and test outcomes. Does anyone recall this site?

Edit: It was the illustrious @b0rk!

https://messwithdns.net/

[#]dns #webdev

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Written by Ryan on 2024-11-16 at 01:54

Hey #cycling friends!

I'm looking for great helmet recs for an electric bike, city biking.

Ideally:

• has a visor

• rated for 30-40mph

• doesn't look TOO silly

I'm considering a motorcycle helmet at this point, if there's any reason to avoid that I'm all ears

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Written by Ryan on 2024-11-14 at 16:10

I have truly enjoyed React in my career, and am fully fatigued by the direction things are heading. They're optimizing towards problems most people don't have.

What I want is encapsulated components where it's easy to track why things change. One-way data binding makes sense to my brain, it just clicks.

I've been out of the game a minute but I'm ready to start poking around. I know Svelte is the new hotness, I'd love to hear other alternatives worth examining!

[#]frontend #react

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Written by Ryan on 2024-10-12 at 17:16

Looking for great resources online or locally for starting a farm / orchard, or agriculture in general. Any leads?

There's a dream somewhere of running a flower farm + orchards + apiary...

[#]farming #philly #agriculture #solarpunk

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Written by Ryan on 2024-09-30 at 18:42

For folks who are into #obsidian, what are your favorite plugins?

I just set up cross-device syncing with syncthing, and am ready to start journaling like my therapist says I could 😆

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Written by Ryan on 2024-09-25 at 21:47

Finally broke the screen on my Pixel 7 Pro. I can

1. Replace the screen for ~$200

2. Buy a new Pixel

3. Buy a new iPhone

What I'd love is a 4th option.

I don't care for any of the new AI offerings on these phones, Google couldn't get the Assistants right for setting timers on my phone.

I wish there was a no-nonsense, solid hardware, flexible software option that didn't require a ton of tinkering.

Maybe it's time to really try out Graphene after getting a replacement.

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Written by Ryan on 2024-09-11 at 18:16

When 9/11 happened I watched the grownups in my world lose their mind. On the news, in schools.

In retrospect it was fear whipped into a jingoistic furvor.

Our humanities teacher was a singular voice of dissent at the time. He used history and fact to help ground us.

No idea who I'd be if I hadn't been allowed into those classes.

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Written by Ryan on 2024-09-11 at 18:09

With #ADHD, my brain slowly tunes out things that have been stationary.

Typical tools for priority like pinning conversations, repeated calendar events, etc often have the opposite effect. My brain starts to gloss over them.

In reality, what I need is a degree of chaos and randomness to keep those items fresh in my mind.

Typical #UX fails me here, and not sure of a great alternative.

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Written by Ryan on 2024-08-28 at 16:14

Anyone have experience buying plots of land?

I feel like the #solarpunk crowd have some insight here!

We've long joked about the "compound", but it's really the dream of securing a lot, building a common space and private abodes, and facilitating community through some folks expertise. Weaving, wood working, maker spaces.

I know zoning is important, and paying attention to any land conservations. Ideally land with access to nearby water hookups saves a lot of headaches.

Any other tips?

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Written by Ryan on 2024-08-27 at 20:54

I still haven't figured out my preferred way to experience two different servers in the Fediverse.

There's me, here on Hachyderm and then there's @ryan@jawns.club for a more local/regional timeline experience.

I'm one person and would love to synthesize the two. Is it a matter of following another instance's local timeline?

I can't believe the first to struggle with this. Any suggestions?

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Written by Ryan on 2024-08-22 at 20:55

It turns out it's edibles.

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Written by Ryan on 2024-08-22 at 20:27

In other words:

I have no chill. Where do I go to get chill.

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Written by Ryan on 2024-08-19 at 18:01

Is there a #vfx community here on the fediverse?

Curious what software visual effects artists like to use these days, personally or professionally!

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Written by Ryan on 2024-08-18 at 16:30

Where's the best parts of the #3dprinting community at these days?

Anything from creative to functional! I follow a few subreddits but hoping to broaden horizons

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Written by Ryan on 2024-08-16 at 19:10

Elixir has modules, comparable to Classes in other languages! Here's how to define a module with a function:

defmodule HelloWorld do
  def print?(word \\ "World") do
   "Hello, #{word}"
  end
end

IO.puts(HelloWorld.print?("Ryan"))
[#] Hello, Ryan

We can see that I've defined a default value here for word with \\

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