The completely private and anonymous global group chat with no login is now live: globalechowall.com #webdev #sideproject #golang #privacy #software

I GOT THE BACKEND RUNNING!!! Now I'm still missing the frontend, but I'll probably do that tomorrow. Deployment is much more work than I initially anticipated. #DevOps #golang #webdev #software

I can't figure out whether I dockerize everything (i.e. backend, frontend and database) or just the backend. There's many contrasting opinions online and I don't really see the advantage, there's only added complexity, especially for the database. #databases #webdev #docker #software

I got it working 🥳🥳 #golang #web #webdev #software

My gosh, websockets are a pain (especially with the go x/net library 😭) #golang #websockets #webdev #software

I must admit, SEO wise, averagelambda.dev has been kinda dry.

I'm trying to build a (very simple) backend in Go. It's fine, but what the heck is the error handling 😭 Once I'm done with the project I'll post about it here, it'll be a web app which everybody can use. #golang #buildinpublic #software

Building software for yourself is (without exaggeration) about ten times easier than building it for the public (i. e. random users). The security principles and handling of edge cases have to be much more robust, as well as the usability and UI/UX. #software #buildinpublic

I just realized that my blog articles are actually doing something in terms of SEO. Here's a couple of stats from Google Analytics if you're interested. I got almost 40 impressions through SEO alone. If you need a file converter, go check it out: averagelambda.dev

I'm thinking of going on a side-quest and building some sort of online board where everybody can post anything (just text, no pictures). Kind of like a forum but there's no account, it's anonymous and no "algorithm", it's sorted chronologically. Like one big group chat. #buildinpublic #software

Quick update on the SEO of my file converter website... It's not looking good to be honest, but it's fine, I've heard that it takes months to see consistent results. Yesterday we got zero active users 😭 averagelambda.dev

I just heard about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Irregardless of political views, I find some of the posts people are making about him quite frankly despicable. Feeling joy because of someone's death is psychopathic behaviour.

I created another blog post yesterday. #seo requires an immense amount of patience it seems, because I'm not really seeing any results. Go check out the post, it compares the JPEG image format to PNG: averagelambda.dev/blog/jpeg-vs... #buildinpublic #software #webdev

I'm procrastinating after work instead of working on my goals 🫠 #buildinpublic

Having a blog sounds fun to be honest. Like a personal one where you write about anything that comes to your mind. Kind of like a YouTube channel, but in written form. #seo #webdev #blog

Progressive web apps are such a pain. I have no idea what's going on, most of the stuff I'm writing with AI, it's unintuitive, typescript is poorly supported, the service worker API is still a mystery to me, it's hard to test and to debug. I wouldn't wish it upon anybody. #webdev #software

Here's an update on my SEO journey. It's going alright, the main problem is that I don't know how Google counts active users and how often it counts my own visits (even just for testing). Anyhow, make of these numbers what you will. Here's the site: averagelambda.dev #buildinpublic #software #seo

Guys, I tried setting up my blog. It's my first time and the article I published is kind of basic but maybe some less tech savvy people can benefit from it. Check it out: averagelambda.dev/blog I also added a slight gradient to the background but idk if it looks good... #buildinpublic #software

Alright for real this time, my file converter site averagelambda.dev officially got indexed by Google. Which means that I can now rank for keywords. I will post updates about the whole #seo game. #buildinpublic #software #webdev

I'm going to sleep at 7pm today I feel old lmao

Sorry I got confused, it hasn't been indexed yet, only crawled... I'm new to this search engine stuff 😅 #buildinpublic #software #seo

My file converter just got indexed by Google 🥳🥳 #buildinpublic #software #webdev

Improved the mobile responsive design on my file converter, go check it out! averagelambda.dev #buildinpublic #software

Launched a crazy cool file converter yesterday. Would love some feedback. :) I still need to improve the responsive design, but for now it works. Here's the URL: averagelambda.dev I know it doesn't have much to do with file conversion, give me a break please 🥹 #buildinpublic #software

*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

nginx is a pain 😭😭 #buildinpublic #software #linux

am I the only person who hasn't tried Claude Code yet? #buildinpublic

Alright so I'm about to drop my file converter. I looked at a potential server I could get. Stay tuned. #buildinpublic #software

LLMs are NOT valid sources.

My guy just claimed that the base64 encoding is a type of encryption 💀 #linux

To my knowledge there is no way to get the mouse coordinates in modern CSS, many cool animations could be done based on it. Also it would be cool to have access to any element's position. That way you could figure out where the mouse is relative to the element. #software #webdev

Is it just me or have Google's search results' quality been declining since AI took over? Either the AI answer is good enough or the results are mostly decent at most.

The more I code, the more I love the hassle of strongly typed languages. Dynamically typed languages like Python are such a pain, you have to keep checking what the fields of objects are called 😭😭 I have to switch tabs all the time instead of writing actual code. #PythonProgramming #software

www.ft.com/content/fe2c... So the U.K. government is wanted broad access to everyone’s iCloud, they don’t care about edtech safety, they want your ID tied to your online activity… stop using tech as if the government care about your security and privacy. They don’t

Idk about you guys, but I genuinely enjoy writing clean and organized code and maintaining a codebase. It's like tidying up your room in a way. It feels relaxing and gives me a feeling of satisfaction. In fact, I refactor and tidy up my code WAY more often than I do my room. #software

How to complete a big project: Just start working on it instead of trying to figure out what the most optimal way of doing it would be lol #software #buildinpublic

The SQL Alchemy docs are a nightmare. There are so many ways of doing the same thing it's making me hate it. #PythonProgramming #software

I sidetracked a bit and started building an online Browser-Local file converter. Once I figure out how the privacy policy stuff works in the EU I'll soon release it. I did it just to have SOMETHING out there, really wanted to have that feeling for once. #buildinpublic #software

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky

My urge to build a custom web server or either HTTP server or RPC api in C from scratch rn 📈📈

So I worked for hours to extract certain stuff that my frontend needed into a separate local npm package. I was stoked when I got my frontend to run. Now I go to run the backend not expecting any problems, because even though it uses that same package, I didn't change things related to the backend.

It kinda sucks that posts ok Bluesky have a hard cap of 300 characters ngl. Sometimes you just want to express some deeper thoughts or considerations. Also, don't come at me, I know you can start sort of a thread by replying to yourself, but that feels clunky and it's just not the same. #BlueSky

Today I wasn't able to update my Arch Linux laptop. I then found out that AUR (amongst other things) is under a DDoS attack. Who decides to DDoS an open source project?! Apparently this has been going on for weeks. I wish them the best and hope they resolve it soon. #software #linux #ArchLinux

I want to create a portfolio website for myself, but there's always some other thing that gets in the way of me actually doing it 😭 There's always some newer, hotter thing. Some new project, some new language, some new technology, or just another life goal altogether. #software

Yo guys I just found this account: @tannerlinsley.com He's literally the creator of Tanstack query which I've been loving with my TRPC backend. He's like a mythical creature to me at this point. #software

I just spent two hours setting up a monorepo for tailwindcss. It's so clunky, there has to be a better way of doing this. Anyhow, it works now. I had to do this because I wanted to build a landing page for my Chinese learning platform. I guess I'll do that in the next couple of days. #software

I am currently trying out AstroJS and I have to admit, it seems very very interesting. It even has a blog template which basically sets you up with a blog, you don't even have to have much coding knowledge, as you can do most stuff with markdown. #software

I want the old internet back where people could just host their websites and have these forums and blogs scattered across the internet. Now the overwhelming majority of internet traffic is in the hands of a couple of companies.

I tried using TRPC for my current project that I've been working on, and it's such a breeze. Complete type safety and even type inference functions, strict input schemas with the zod integrarion and very nice project structure. If your project allows for it, I highly recommend it. #software

I feel like AI in software has been more of a negative than a positive. Sure, it can boost productivity, but now you've got a lot of people convinced that developers are worthless because AI is able to code a bad calculator app with HTML and some JavaScript 😭 #software