Damn dark mode is annoying! Didn't expect it to take so long to add in or create so much complexity in the app 😅

#buildinginpublic

Bugs that I made in Scarlett Panda yesterday while rushing through some frontend changes:
- Broke the logout button and trapped everyone in the app
- Dark mode missed a couple of pages
- Dark mode status flickered when logging in

#buildinginpublic

Finished my freelance work quickly because I was excited to get back to another #buildinginpublic day for Scarlett Panda.

Today we're refactoring the story generating backend.

But first, cleaning up a few bugs I created yesterday while rushing through the frontend changes...

Last change's of the day for Scarlett Panda are live:
-LLMs bumped to GPT-4o-2024-11-20 for the "creative improvements"
-Storybooks (premium stories with 15 min generation) have more consistency
-Some clean up of the code ahead of a big refactor in the story generation logic tomorrow

Oh my god - I just realised that Scarlett Panda was still using Dall-E 3 for one of the content types 😅

Not only embarrassingly behind the times, but also expensive. Thankfully only ~1,000 generations in the last couple of months so not too bad.

Okay adding dark mode took sooo long!

I had to research dark mode reading best practices, and checking that I didn't break any page also took a while.

So much for the long to-do list I had for today... but I'm glad dark mode is finally done.

Change 2...

Finally a dark mode for Scarlett Panda. This took embarrassingly long to add given that we make bedtime stories 🙈

Also embarrassingly long to align all the colours between themes.

Get ready for a big #BuildInPublic day for Scarlett Panda 🐼

I wrapped up a bunch of freelance projects to carve some time this week to fix a bunch of things on Scarlett Panda that have been neglected for toooo long.

Firstly: Black Friday offer....

It seems like @windsurfai.bsky.social is getting pretty popular!

Any fellow sci-fi book nerds on here?

I’ve just finished the 2nd Three Body Problem book (Dark Forest) and looking for a recommendation for another book before I jump into the 3rd

It gives me a headache to think about how JavaScript-focused developers build apps without something like Jupyter Notebook for Python 🤯

Anyone have decent headphones that can last > 1 day or work while charging?

I've been using AirPods for a while but having to take them out to charge 3 times per day is so annoying

Me when Cursor can't solve a bug after 3 attempts and I have to open the file and have a go myself

When you have too much paid work to do before you can get to your unpaid work 😴

We had a client misread their contract, assume meetings are free, and rack up a big bill with a bunch of unneeded catch ups - now they're disputing their invoice.
What would you do?

I've been trying out Windsurf today 🌊

Really cool and definitely the potential to be a better tool than Cursor in the near future but it feels like an app in beta and will probably slow you down until they solve all the bugs.

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An actual country has an “efficiency” department with 2 heads named after a meme.

Reality is a sitcom and the writers are actually funny 😂