Andrew Schmelyun
@aschmelyun.com
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Software engineer with too many ideas and poor impulse control 🔗 aschmelyun.com
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Hello! 👋 I’m a lead software engineer and content creator who loves making practical tutorials for PHP, JavaScript, Docker, and more. I have also proudly taken the top spot on HN with my hardware experiments, twice! YouTube:
youtube.com/aschmelyun
Courses:
aschmelyun.gumroad.com
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Andrew Schmelyun
Practical and accessible web development tutorials using PHP and JavaScript!
https://youtube.com/aschmelyun
about 1 year ago
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Someone sent this to my receipt printer!
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about 9 hours ago
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I made a daily word game! This is sixhints, the goal is to guess a thing through a series of 6 clues that start ambiguous and get more specific as you go. If this is up your alley, play today's word and let me know what you think! 🔗
sixhints.com
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17 days ago
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I've been tinkering with a daily word game, and I just released it to some close friends for play testing! Pushing it fully public later this week, so if it's up your alley stay tuned over the next 2-3 days
19 days ago
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Absolute talent and madness in this video, I love it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--n4...
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How I Ported Balatro to the GBA
YouTube video by Elliptical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--n4VS8ppwI
21 days ago
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I thought that AI would help reduce my backlog, but instead it's increased it 5-fold because almost every idea now seems "doable" Anyone else have this problem? 😅
22 days ago
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Someone wrote an article about my receipt printer, and over the last ~24 hours I've gotten another thousand or so messages. They're all so positive and excited, I'm incredibly overwhelmed with joy 🥲
24 days ago
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After living in Orlando for the last 5 years, we're moving back to South Florida in a couple of months! PS: If you're in the area, let me know about any tech groups or meetups.
25 days ago
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It’s a self-hoster’s dream scenario today
25 days ago
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I recorded an overview and retrospective on how (and why) I set up a receipt printer to receive anonymous messages. Here’s how it went!
youtu.be/7KtyekivpRM
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I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
YouTube video by Andrew Schmelyun
https://youtu.be/7KtyekivpRM
27 days ago
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Apparently the dissolvable stitches in my mouth are made out of PLA, the same stuff that 3D printer filament is made out of!
28 days ago
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I’m a patron of the arts
29 days ago
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My fiance finished her Stardew Valley shrimp quilt! 🦐
about 1 month ago
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I think I'm entering my web-based game dev era
about 1 month ago
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Bit of a delay on the next YouTube video coming out
about 1 month ago
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I've released my first Go application! It's a (very basic) terminal video editor that uses ffmpeg and whisper to let you selectively choose which lines from a video you want to keep. You can also preview each line with a pop-up video player! It's called tsplice:
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about 1 month ago
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Went to the orchestra tonight 🐔🎶
about 2 months ago
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Presenting in a large work meeting today and I’m sweating like I’m being hunted for sport
about 2 months ago
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If there's anyone looking for a remote Laravel job, this one has been shared in my network and they're actively responding:
larajobs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/patientprism...
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https://larajobs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/patientprism.txt
about 2 months ago
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Are there any pros or cons to streaming just on Twitch? Besides the obvious less potential audience, anyways
about 2 months ago
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Katie Cook
about 2 months ago
Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
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Felt a bit under the weather this week, so I spent a lot of time resting and just finished playing through Viewfinder. Super cool visual puzzle game, and it’s free with PS plus this month!
about 2 months ago
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I’m wanting to get a used mini PC for some locally hosted experiments. Looking at Lenovo ThinkCentres, any other suggestions? Under $200 and pretty quiet are my biggest requirements.
about 2 months ago
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This is like a modern day impossible quiz, love it! Neal with another smash hit.
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about 2 months ago
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I now have a map, and stick a pin in anytime someone pings me with a message that says a location
about 2 months ago
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Sam Rose
2 months ago
Did I feel the need to do this because of the beautiful page of similar function by
@aschmelyun.com
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bsky.app/profile/asch...
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Completely forgot to mention it here, but I've hooked up my receipt printer to a public website through a Raspberry Pi and Cloudflare. You can send me a message, and it'll print out immediately on my desk!
ping.aschmelyun.com
2 months ago
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Slightly different content than I usually create. I put together a sort of retro for my site that went accidentally viral. How it handled a half billion requests on a $4 server, and why I think the web as a platform is unmatched. Check it out below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3T...
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Handling 500M clicks with a $4 VPS
YouTube video by Andrew Schmelyun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3Ti0tCGvA
3 months ago
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Shooting in 4k takes up so much space 😭 Can I attach an external ssd to my iPhone anyone
3 months ago
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This single index.html page I threw together for a meme has been viewed almost a million times in the last week. Absolute insanity and I've loved every minute.
3 months ago
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Megan Fox
4 months ago
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo
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I’ve had a bit of a family emergency and it looks like I won’t be making it out to Laracon. I’m not sure if I can transfer my ticket or if anyone would be interested this short of notice, but if so let me know! I’ll catch you all at the next one
4 months ago
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If I bring my switch to Laracon who’s up for some hotel lobby Mario Kart
4 months ago
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I regret that I waited this long to try bun, it's FAST and built-in TS just seals the deal
4 months ago
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6 months ago
I made a thing and brought back Clippy - combining my nostalgia for 1990s UI with the ability to run local LLMs. Download it at
felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/
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This is the single worst UI that I interact with on an almost daily basis
4 months ago
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What’s the best open source LLM model for coding right now? Is there some kind of comprehensive list that keeps track of this
4 months ago
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With Laracon coming up in under two weeks, who's going to be there? If anyone wants to chat or show off some projects while we're in Denver, let me know!
4 months ago
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Incredible watch from start to finish, taking a vtech from the 80s and making a fully-functional cyberdeck PC:
youtu.be/XewX68F0JDg
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Turning a toy into a cyberdeck
I saw a educational toy from 1989 and had to turn it into a punch-card driven mobile computing platform.
https://youtu.be/XewX68F0JDg?si=0gb2qXiHZmtjFjmY
4 months ago
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Sam Rose
4 months ago
I’ve linked to it before but I gotta link to it again:
nik.digital/posts/tab-ro...
@nik.digital
’s design sense is _so sharp_. I’m jealous how good his site looks.
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Tab Roving | Nik's Blog
Personal website of Niklas Gadermann.
https://nik.digital/posts/tab-roving
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As I make this starter kit, I'm wondering what's the recommended level of "context" to add in for AI tools. Are Claude md and .cursorrules files enough or is there more that can be done? What would be best for your workflow?
4 months ago
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Just finished the first season of Arcane last night. Knowing nothing about League or the lore going into it, it’s easily one of the best animated shows I’ve ever seen. Up there with Avatar.
4 months ago
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Sorry to everyone who knows me as the guy holding a plant, but after 10 years I figured it was time for an updated profile pic
4 months ago
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Any photographers in Denver (amateur or otherwise) that I could pay to help me out with something while I’m there at the end of the month? Let me know!
4 months ago
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I get the feeling that authenticity will have a bigger impact over SEO on getting stuff in front of people's eyes, especially past the next 2-3 years.
4 months ago
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Kinda sucks that every productivity system or hack boils down to me needing the discipline to actually keep up with it
4 months ago
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Banjo Kazooie has one of the best sound designs of any game I’ve ever played. The fades between different instruments playing the same melody while walking through different areas captivated 8 year old me (and 34 year old me still).
4 months ago
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Cassidy
5 months ago
Here's a little overview of my app PocketCal, if you haven't tried it yet!
pocketcal.com
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Extracting my ~300 pages in Notion to markdown so I can use Obsidian. Oh, and run Claude against them 😈
4 months ago
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Hollow Knight soundtrack is absolutely perfect for locked-in coding sessions and I haven’t found something else that comes close to it
4 months ago
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I want to wear cool watches but also need to track my heart rate. What’re my options?
5 months ago
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