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Nick The Sick

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I write many codes @ https://blocknotejs.org Working on @bookhive.buzz github.com/nperez0111 Read my blog at nickthesick.com

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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · Jun 15

I've been working on a new Y.js synchronization server for the past few weeks now.

Today, I've hit a milestone for it, multiple clients synchronizing their documents & cursor updates!

I threw together a demo with blocknote.js.org and it works!

OSS: see the code at: github.com/nperez0111/m...

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 8h

To be fair to junior devs. The amount of clutter I see with error messages are ridiculous. The terminal being flat text really hurts understanding of nested relationships.
NPM is worse here since everything on stderr is printed in red, so everything is red.

Alex Riviere @dangitalex.wtf · 17h

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Junior Dev Tip: "Scroll Up"

My junior developer just came to me asking for help because their linting setup was broken. I’m writing this very quickly because I want to get all the details down.

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 2d

Hobby definitely. I have very little idea of what I’m doing 😆

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 4d

I run my own PDS, you’d use this docker image github.com/bluesky-soci...

And migrating your existing account from blue sky’s hosting to your own would be through using pdsmoover.com
By @baileytownsend.dev

ATProto account migration tool

Reposted by Nick The Sick

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 7d

Amazon bought goodreads, but now there’s BookHive.

BookHive @bookhive.buzz · Aug 25

We've done it!

The BookHive mobile app has been approved by Apple!

app.bookhive.buzz/app

Download it to your iPhone or iPad today!

The BookHive iOS app lets you manage, organize, and review your books anywhere.

app.bookhive.buzz

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 6d

Sort of depends on what you get out of something being async, as a consumer I’d probably never opt-in to an asynchronous API if I could do it synchronously. So it depends on what I get in return for using the async version how I’d approach the change

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 6d

Nice! Yea that seems difficult. Interesting syntax with the YouTube node, I guess that I would’ve expected just shoving the HTML output if markdown doesn’t support an element type

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 6d

This is still in a PR, but feel free to check out our other stuff!

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

Invalid handle btw, switch your PDS?

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

Nice! I can imagine that was difficult to get right

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

Yea, is an abstraction of ProseMirror's positions. Idea would be that you could specify anything you could do with positions in terms of locations instead. So Decorations could just be tied to a location & resolved every time the document changes.

So a widget at position 0 would always be the same.

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

Markdown lists are definitely difficult, especially for block-level elements like code blocks in lists.
Not envious of you at all.

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

I'm working on an API for describing positions within a ProseMirror document, kind of based on what we were trying to do with the decoration API: github.com/TypeCellOS/B...

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

I certainly know that it has been done but don’t have any public examples of it.
imo, it wouldn’t be that hard, just annoying. I’d probably prefer a good expression system instead

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS:

Say something witty, and interesting

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

Context matters

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

Ever left a light on? His AI query took way less electricity than that

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

Both @yoav.codes, and I are software engineers.
So this is a somewhat different context than “I’m too lazy to do the math”.

At that, we both make free software that helps people. So, again, I urge you to direct this energy towards the large corps that are really driving our planet into the ground.

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

So your suggestion is strictly worse in terms of the environment funnily enough.
Not to dunk on you, but to make the point that Google making that _the default_ is actually significantly worse for the environment, orders of magnitude more than anyone’s single silly question!
Go after Google not Yoav

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

And people can use models to do good, the fact is that a single run of AI pales in comparison to the number of things that are being injected with AI.

Funny that you should mention just googling the question, Google runs AI on most searches now. So you both run an AI and Google’s infra.

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 7d

I actually love this thread. What a funny thing to be so fumed over.

@kaylaflame.bsky.social, I think what you are missing here is that some people do tests on new models in silly ways to avoid the test being “already known”. So it was never a serious question that @yoav.codes asked.

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 8d

I can very much agree with this based on my armchair observations

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 9d

I have been in the past, in the NL too

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 9d

Vinted is actually super clutch. I’m totally fine getting clothes second hand, after the first few times of wearing something it’s basically secondhand anyway. Or even just borrowing something from a friend.

Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 9d

Yep typically this. I see he was using node 23 which is a non-lts

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BookHive @bookhive.buzz · 10d

@popfeed.social how are you able to do this? Very cool!

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 10d

Actually delighted to see how @popfeed.social has picked up my book reading activity — originally added to @bookhive.buzz — thanks to the power of #ATproto