thomasreggi

@thomasreggi@indieweb.social

Hi there 👋! My name is Thomas (he/they). I'm a 33-year-old New Yorker living in #Astoria. I've been working as a professional #coder for over a decade, and I'm currently open to new opportunities. I enjoy thrifting online and in person, as well as practicing hot #yoga, and a good #espresso. Recently, I've been tinkering a lot with different front-end meta-frameworks, #Typescript, and #Deno.

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thomasreggi, to random

Doing a lot of coding this weekend using ChatGPT. Realizing I'm paying $30 a month to pay for both ChatGPT Plus and GitHub Copilot. Curious how much we'll all be spending in the upcoming years. I'd be willing to pay more to not have to copy and paste back and forth, wishing Copilot was better...

simon, to random
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OK, who can recommend a domain name registrar that:

  • Is boring and dependable and has a rock solid track record
  • Has a really good UI, including on mobile
  • Supports as many TLDs as possible
  • Isn't likely to get acquired by someone else
  • Ideally supports multiple payment methods as insurance against accidental card expiry

I'd settled on Google Domains... but they just sold themselves to Squarespace! https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/

thomasreggi,

@simon the one thing I liked about Google domains is they didn't over charge you an insane fee to keep your "whois" information private, that's a big requirement for me too!

thomasreggi, to random

snapped a before interviewing

thomasreggi,

@nosherwan storage

thomasreggi, to random

I got my first take home coding exercise for a job without any communication from the company, no intro call, nothing. Botted up the wazoo. Like i'm fucking cattle. 👿

thomasreggi, to random

Wanted Apple Vision Pro software engineer 10+ years of expierence.

thomasreggi, to webdev

I'm looking for a new position as a Software Engineer. I have 10+ years expierence, and I'm looking for Senior / Staff Roles, Node.js, React, JavaScript, Typescript!

maxim, to gamedev
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Somewhere in the deep basements of the Ziggurat, the great pyramid, where religion intersects with ancient technology

Wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/1224030/Erra_Exordium/

video/mp4

thomasreggi,

@maxim damn congrats on the video and the steam page. I've been watching this game slowly grow over the last couple of months and it's looking really good, congrats 🎉

thomasreggi, to random

I feel the heavy weight of the incompatibility of full stack javascript development across the board. Components, Runtimes, Servers, Frameworks, Static Sites, Dynamic Rendering, file system routing, HTML Streaming, bundling, code splitting, islands, resumability, vendor lock in, configuration files, and unavoidable NPM packages... ugh

I just want a simpler primitive for the web. I want small modules I can use universally that are sandboxed. Insert <iframe/> rant here...

thomasreggi, to random

I'm really torn between developing things for Next.js or Deno, React or HTMX / WebComponents.

Next.js is offering the premier react ecosystem, server components, server actions, app directory, etc.

Deno is offering standards, url module imports (which I conceptually love) with the potential for really great composability and modularity.

Both have KV, both do serverless edge.

I want the ease of use of react Next.js, with the composability and simplicity of Deno.

cc @deno_land

thomasreggi,

@nosherwan @luca I'm interested in astro as well, it's just been stated a bunch that their goal is not to create a framework for app development and while they can do dynamic server side stuff, they prefer to aim in the static generation area. Astro is an interesting solution but still comes with NPM and Vite + a build step, I like the simpler buildless deno stuff.

Bottom line is Next.js is way more powerful than Astro, and will continue to dominate the job market to come.

thomasreggi,

@nosherwan I'd compare fresh with next.js, I haven't done much with preact signals id assume you could use it in an island not much benefit using it outside an island.

thomasreggi,

@nosherwan yeah anywhere you can install the deno binary, or uses docker container, fly.io has docs too https://fly.io/docs/languages-and-frameworks/deno/

thomasreggi, to programming

I am a big proponent of a programming paradigm where writing code and building up relationships and connections leads to the emergence of new, unforeseen connections and avenues. Instead of leading you down the wrong paths and requiring rewrites, coding should sculpt and shape connections, offering surprising new connections for free.

thomasreggi, to tech

I'm interested in this idea of tech jobs outside of tech. I was thinking about this last night and just found this article: "How to land a job in climate tech", but you could swap "climate tech" for anything, the music industry, how about the art world? I was imagining a directory with a whole list of companies that do tech and tagging the companies based on their tech stack and industry. It should be easier to find cool companies. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/05/04/how-to-land-a-job-in-climate-tech/?cb=1

thomasreggi, to random

One use case for LLMs is to store data. There are many ways to store info: files, folders, spreadsheets, CSV, docs, and databases. I've always had a problem with how to represent information. Once you shape it in one way, it becomes hard to view it in other ways. I love the idea of telling an LLM something and having it pull it up for you in any way you need. This is kind of the way the "Her" operating system worked by scanning all the files on the computer.

sindresorhus, to random
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My App Store numbers for the past year.

thomasreggi,

@sindresorhus wow 🔥🔥🔥

thomasreggi, to webdev

HTMX is trending again on hacker news, it's making me think more and more about the deno / typescript library I created "HTMX Components" and perhaps revisiting it with fresh eyes. I'd love feedback on the approaches in there. I think @deno_land has the potential to be the first-class server to utilize HTMX. It just makes sense to use JSX...

🧑‍💻 https://github.com/reggi/htmx-components

📝 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829733

thomasreggi, to programming

I'm bothered that https://www.webcomponents.org/publish uses NPM packages as the main way to publish a web component. I want a better web-component "package manager", something that's simple, uses module imports, can use Tailwind and TypeScript, and just plops out a URL like Deno packages do. It would support LIT and webc. I'd want a storybook-like UI and sample code.

thomasreggi, to random

Everything old is new again we got "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" based TikToks talking about how thoughts, emotions, feelings, vibrations have an effect on physical matter in some woo-woo way. This stuff is timeless, people will always eat this up. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRwqMH3M/

thomasreggi, to programming

Who is someone you follow on mastodon that is a programmer and posts regularly about new technologies? Looking for people to follow.

thomasreggi,

@isagalaev @simon couldn't agree more Simon's work is great! Actually before I posted this, was the first person that came to mind.

thomasreggi, to random

After tinkering around with the Mastodon API and Deno, I've been thinking about business that support decentralized feed syndication between Mastodon, Nostr, and Bluesky by implementing apis that recreate the protocols.

Alternatively given my experience in content moderation, third party tools for these platforms that aid in reporting, flagging, tagging, and combating spam.

The thought of the day is, how can I make supporting decentralized software my job?

thomasreggi, to random

Just got KV access ❤️ and I need help brainstorming what to build this weekend.

Thinking a lot about building a mastodon compatible api server that would allow me to have a followable "feed" for my brushwork currently using GCP api to read from a bucket.

I love the idea of using deno and KV for self-hosted / decentralized framework. The innovation is that the database is embedded in the runtime. Think wordpress but if mysql and php were even tighter.

cc @deno_land

thomasreggi, to random

All recruiter emails suck, every single one of them. All I need is:

  1. The job title / level
  2. Tech Stack of the company
  3. What I'd be working on
  4. Compensation
  5. Remote or in office location

It's not that hard. The same could be said about every job board. The filtering options are always out of whack.

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