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avdept.bsky.social
Alex 🔔
@avdept.bsky.social
Software engineer with over 15 years experience 🚀

Ruby | elixir | go | c++ | dart

My OSS music player -> https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer
Building updatify.io in public ⚡️ and sharing my experience
Finally got a chance to update OG image on updatify.io

Looks much better from what it was before!
December 20, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Finally upgraded updatify.io to liveview 1.0

Did you have many issue or blockers upgrading?

#myelixirstatus
December 10, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Got multi window support to work on flutter/macos

2nd window is actually a NSPopover which acts as top bar menu dropdown

Multi window support in flutter was always its weak point, but with just little bit of digging into internals - its not that easy to achieve

#flutter
December 6, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Some people say test coverage it overrated

Well, we have different opinion. Literally saves from lots of bugs and issues
December 3, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Coming closer to updatify.io release and now trying to improve landing page. Here's the new design I'm thinking of

What do you generally think UI feel?

Surely I'll change texting and some icons.
December 2, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Spent 30 mins debugging why some styles works on dev but not on prod.

Well, turned out its how vile handle CSS compilation.

In my case had to add this postcss section to get it compiled during assets:precompile step

#rubyonrails #Ruby
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
First error from updatify.io in bugsnag. Now I know that it works.

Added a while ago, but haven't seen any errors so far

#MyElixirStatus
November 27, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Continue my work on updatify.io and today added new section where users can configure their project and also get script to install it.

User gets redirected to this page right after creating new "Site"
November 27, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Made this quick Cars&Bids mobile app prototype, just to find out Doug recently launched his own app.

Well, lesson learned, you gotta be faster showing off something. Had this app gathering dust since August

Fully operational, done with #flutter
November 27, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Awesome Enumerable method found today.

Returns a hash containing the counts of equal elements

#ruby
November 27, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Ceiling speakers greatly underrated.

It helps to create this "lounge" vibe without actually distracting you from work

I installed them long ago but didn't really used much until few weeks ago
November 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Dirty and easy fix for TipTap editor inline code backticks which aren't removed automatically
November 19, 2024 at 7:55 AM
As I'm continue to work on updatify.io I've started to use app's widget to share my own progress through my own landing page.

Its not many visitors there, but this way I can show to future customers what's the progress on building it.

With better SEO I could have better results

#buildinpublic
November 18, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Spent this morning adding docs section to website creation flow.

Once created you shown code snippet to embed updatify.io widget to your website

Not gotta lie I like how its done on few other apps, so I copied their approach until I have better idea how to do it

#buildinpublic #elixirlang
November 17, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Wanna my 5 cents? State of Health on modern car doesnt really matter if car has less than 100-150k miles

I recently finished rebuilding bmw i8 and also fixed HV battery.

I used dealer's software to read state of health and it was 72%

But car still makes about 15miles on EV charge, same as new
November 17, 2024 at 9:15 AM
One of the coolest things being developer - is that you can create software that you need "right now and right here"

On screenshot my own music player client for Jellyfin. I made it fully open source so that everyone could use it

github.com/avdept/Jelly...
November 15, 2024 at 1:21 PM
This is mine

Knights & Merchants
November 15, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Trying infused coffee beans today

When opened package - it smells really nice and doesnt have that chemical feel

The taste is good too, but I think not everyone would like it
November 15, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Added update note preview page to updatify.io

It was needed as its easier to see it without actually publishing
November 14, 2024 at 8:25 AM
I run my small outsourcing agency and overtime created my own ERP/CRP

Should I make it open source or try to turn into paid product?
November 13, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Worked a bit today on landing page and widget.

Now all updates about product anyone can see directly on landing page through popup widget, check it out at updatify.io
November 12, 2024 at 9:05 AM
My ODROID H4 Ultra died today

Woke up to see it stopped to work and PSU had blinking green LED(which is usually a cause of over AMP protection)

Checked fuse near DC Jack, checked if PSU supplies 15v, all good.

I bought it from abroad and I think its impossible to RMA

Disappointing, only 2 months
November 11, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Small win

I hope at least few out of those 15 are real persons, not just bots
November 11, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Spent Sunday adding tracking to update notes widget views.

When at least 25% of note is visible on screen - it considered as viewed.

The views instantly shown on dashboard. Powered by
LiveView + backend(only) websocket + a bit of CSS

#MyElixirStatus #buildinpublic
November 10, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Sunday morning is the best time to work on updatify.io
November 10, 2024 at 8:11 AM