
Bolt Hackathon
Bolt Hackathon - Week 4
A last-minute custom worksheets feature addition! Dramatic video making! Hackathon submission drama! And some thoughts after dragging my feet on this post for 2 weeks.
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Bolt Hackathon
A last-minute custom worksheets feature addition! Dramatic video making! Hackathon submission drama! And some thoughts after dragging my feet on this post for 2 weeks.
Bolt Hackathon
Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 TLDR; This week I worked on the custom lined paper generator and worksheet list. The CSS for the template creator tool really stumped the AIs. Then I played some more with worksheet and blog list designs. What Shall We Do With Worksheets
Bolt Hackathon
I ended up getting distracted by a One-Shot Prompt Challenge Side quest (separate post coming). After getting that (mostly) out of the way I turned to tackling the layout and design issues this week.
Bolt Hackathon
I'm taking part in the Bolt.new hackathon. First week playing with Bolt has been a fun. Hopefully the practical nature of the project I picked for this will help keep me away from procrastinating over perfecting the code.
One of many annoyances on a Mac for me has been navigating around folders quickly. Especially going up the folder tree - I was used to just clicking on the folder name and getting the full path. Not so much in Finder :( Turns out while clicking on the folder name
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It’s been six weeks to the day since the Automattic layoffs, so it seems fitting to finally gather my thoughts about it. I haven’t blogged publicly for quite a while, not counting the odd code snippet post. But in the last few months I’ve been itching more
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I kept struggling to remember what the type predicate was in Typescript... turns out I just didn't really know what a 'predicate' is in the first place... shakes fist darn you grammar!
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FeathersJS v4 switched from storing the jwt token in a cookie to localStorage. This was fine when the app stayed on one domain, but when splitting things out into several apps on different subdomains I realised unlike cookies localStorage does not play nicely. I found the Customization option in the
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When restructuring my project and moving it to use Create React App I've ended up with an odd error for my shared jsx components (I've split the project into two separate apps but some of the styling and UI components will be the same so didn&
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It might have been the late hour but spent over 1.5h chasing this the other day... and getting tangled up in config and softdelete2 feathers-plus hooks. Turns out to setup soft deletes in FeathersJS using feathers-sequelize you only need the Sequelize built in paranoid option. Here's the
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Another note to self post... since this bit me more than once. ssh USER@SERVER ... packet_write_wait: Connection to IP_ADDRESS port 22: Broken pipe Most of the answers point to the ServerAliveInterval or ClientAliveInterval but if you are running the command from inside VMWare Workstation (broken for me
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Recently started getting the following error when trying to run git gui. Googling the issue didn't seem to help much. Error in startup script: bad pad value "2m": must be positive screen distance while executing "grid $w.bitmap $w.msg -in $w.top -sticky news