Category: Indie Journal
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GitHub CoPilot is Good at SQL
I’m reminded how quickly life can change when I check my blog and see that the last posts were about spending all of my time in Jetbrains products. I’m not using them much now. All my time is spent in VS Code, because I changed teams at https://automattic.com from working on Android to working on…
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React Native Animated Text
On Cyber Monday I sprang for William Candillon’s course on animation with React Native. I love his style. And I like how beautiful his examples are. However, it took me a few minutes to understand that he’s basing all his work on two libraries, Redash, and Reanimated. These tools are super powerful, and I’m off…
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On media uploads, and annoying S3 APIs.
While working on Storytime Studio a couple of weeks ago I decided to upgrade my media uploading approach. I had started with the naive “I’ll just upload everything to the server and put it in a folder on the hard drive” approach, because that was simple. And it worked really well until I tried to…