jeffsheets

jeffsheets, 4 months ago to random

Some last call musings on NA brews for Dry January. So surprised at the tons of options out there! Really hop’d up about it. But it’s late, so here you go before I tap out for the night. (Faux) Cheers! Let’s see how fedi clients like this link with a 🍻 emoji in it https://sheetsj.com/blog/dry-january-beers-%F0%9F%8D%BB/

jeffsheets, 8 months ago to random

Migrated https://sheetsj.com over to @eleventy and a new template today -- after nearly 20 years (2004-05-12) on Blogger!

Still some rough edges, odd html/css in markdown here and there, not quite finished design, but I'm loving iteration 0 so far 🚀🎉

jeffsheets, 1 year ago to random

Probably the frequency illusion, but ever since starting at https://www.devobsessed.com/ I can't help but see other companies who are also obsessed --- So time to start an Obsessed 🧵

jeffsheets, 7 months ago to random

Random beautiful fall afternoon thought: Omaha hype is high lately - tech scene - city growth - airport expansion - streetcar line going in - metro at 1.1 mill and growing --- going to be a handful of remote-work centers in this next century --- so don't sleep on Omaha!

jeffsheets, 3 months ago to random

Since blogs are cool again — can’t wait for the modern incarnation of javablogs[.]com but as webdevblogs[.]com this time

jeffsheets, 2 months ago to random

Kotlin's mapNotNull is beautiful magic

jeffsheets, 4 months ago to ChatGPT

Really wish ChatGPT could share source links. I mean the answer it gave to "why are mainframe validations called edits" sounds plausible -- but really no idea if it is hallucinating or if it based it on a valid source link. I was using it because Google results weren't helpful but ChatGPT is also only mildly helpful without citing a source #chatgpt

I asked ChatGPT to share its sources for the answer. ChatGPT responded that it can't share sources.

jeffsheets, 4 months ago to NFL

Super Bowl party prep!! #NFL

jeffsheets, 4 months ago to random

Quarterly rant about npm (and yarn) — the default for npm i really should have been npm ci behavior of not updating the lock file. Plus don’t update package.json by hand unless you’re feeling extremely YOLO!

jeffsheets, 1 month ago to random

I see yet-another-react-form-library was released, but this time part of the core itself. interesting. not sure how to react https://react.dev/blog/2024/04/25/react-19

jeffsheets, 9 months ago to random

Ah man, the schools updated their lunch calendar link, so my alexa lunch bot stopped working after 3 years! Time to dive back in for a fix tonight #alexa https://twitter.sheetsj.com/1374171248813608968/

jeffsheets, 8 months ago to random

Migrating from Firefox -> Safari on my Mac for a new daily driver. So far so smooth with the import making it easier than I had expected so far....

jeffsheets, 5 months ago to random

Is there a name for the idea that:

• a professional generalist (AKA me) is really good at storing pieces of info in the brain in a way that it is easy to know how to look it up, but hard to recall exact details
• great at solving problems across disciplines via creative solutions
• quickly retrieves the data stored across the vast internet
• And yet, really bad at remembering exact answers in direct interview conversations

jeffsheets, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to webdev

Took a journey to find a free static hosting solution that includes some simple server-side analytics stats. Used github pages for years (no stats), but finally looking to replace the client-side JS analytics piece...

Was surprised to find that the simplest (and maybe only?) solution was through Cloudflare(!) using Pages (https://pages.cloudflare.com/) with DNS (https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/account-and-zone-analytics/zone-analytics/#free-plan)

Happily moved https://gaspumpr.com/ over without much trouble at all this morning! #dev #html #hosting

jeffsheets, 10 months ago to webdev

I haven't quite wrapped my head around how best to use it yet, but Split Screen in MS Edge is kinda cool! Using Edge on a client Windows laptop for the latest gig, and I've never seen this trick in other browsers before... #webdev #dev https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/split-screen?form=MT00D8

jeffsheets, 2 months ago to random

Trying to get my head around the GenAI APIs popping up all over lately. What's a good use-case for wrapping calls to ChatGPT in your own application?

For instance, the Spring AI's for calling various LLMs. Seems like you could make cool party tricks of creating poems, maybe creating content for your marketing, maybe images based off your data... But is any of it useful?

https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/api/chatclient.html

jeffsheets, 1 year ago to random

So proud of my daughter Madi finishing her 1st half marathon today! And for talking me into training and running with her! Lincoln 1/2 Marathon was great today

After the run medal photo!

jeffsheets, 9 months ago to random

Started reading a 1986 book Secrets of Consulting by Jerry Weinberg, and the intro lists him as Lincoln, NE my hometown. And now I'm down a rabbit hole of learning about him and how often our paths might have crossed. Wow what a small world! And kinda sad I somehow never knew of his legacy until now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg https://twitter.com/JerryWeinberg

jeffsheets, 9 months ago to Sports

So excited to drive to the game tomorrow! Pretty awesome to see the top Huskers team on the frontpage of ESPN today! #sports #volleyball #nebraska https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38271128/nebraska-volleyball-record-crowd-memorial-stadium

jeffsheets, 10 months ago to javascript

JS is great until you need to parse in a date in "MM/DD/YYYY" format and output it to "YYYY/MM/DD" format, and you just want to ignore timezones.... ugh i hate timezones.... #dev #javascript

jeffsheets, 11 months ago to random

Can’t follow hachyderm accounts from Threads? I thought I heard Threads was federated but I guess not?

jeffsheets, 11 months ago to random

i'm just the consultant/contractor, so i don't really care... but threatening your dev employees that if they don't deliver quicker that they'll have to start commuting to working in the office with mandatory overtime -- probably isn't going to get the reaction that you are thinking it will get #agile

jeffsheets, 7 months ago to random

:pixel_battery_5: I've had an EV for 18 months now
⚡ I've loved most every minute of the experience
🔌 After collecting a list of thoughts/tips/tricks for many months, I finally put them down on paper
🔋 Thoughts On My EV After 18 Months: https://sheetsj.com/blog/thoughts-on-my-ev/

jeffsheets, 2 months ago to random

Can't believe this was 30 years ago, dang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Unplugged_in_New_York

jeffsheets, 1 month ago to random

imposter syndrome, but instead the feeling that I'm always meant to be doing something else -- so never quite give 100% focus on one thing because of feeling like I should be focusing on something else instead -- and wow it is exhausting to type that out as I'm nervous as I should be doing something else besides typing right now