✍️ My new post is all about my favorite YouTuber, @kevinpowell.co. scriptraccoon.dev/blog/kevin-p...

No I do not have time to join your party. I need to review this.

I need more monitors. For monitoring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsR...

"The people that look like they are keeping up [with all the new tech] usually aren't going very deep on any of it. A lot of them are just paid to say what they say." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3S... Another great video by Brad Traversy.

I like to write detailed pull request descriptions ... github.com/ScriptRaccoo...

Issues and PRs are coming in for CatDat and I just LOVE everything about it. More motivated than ever!

Modern software developers in front of their coding agents be like

The German in me wants to sue every company that sends me newsletters I never subscribed to.

I am so excited that CatDat already got a few issues and pull requests. I have worked on a couple of them already. github.com/ScriptRaccoo... 🧑‍💻

🎉 Introducing: CatDat - A comprehensive database of categories and their properties. Built with SvelteKit and SQLite. Made for mathematicians who love category theory. 🔗 Link: catdat.app 👀 Demo: youtu.be/dQXbPxk__qA #svelte #mathematics #categorytheory

Neues Tutorial 👀 youtu.be/kCtC2LYcJiY Hier geht es darum wie man eine #svelte Anwendung in mehreren Sprachen umsetzen kann.

Say I have a SvelteKit in which most pages can be prerendered and this requires data from the DB. Some pages require the DB live. Now what happens during a deployment? I need to update the DB (if migrations were added) and then update the web application and push the new code. However, since... 1/2

POV: you can show off that you fixed the deployment pipeline in one commit. May the --force be with you.

Here is the todo application I am usually working with inside of my repositories. 🥌 TODO.TXT

Any ideas how to prerender a list of dynamic routes in SvelteKit whose slugs are saved in the database? In config.kit.prerender I can list them, but currently it's hard coded. Not sure if it's good to query the database for the build step? I could have a secret page with links to all these routes...

I tried out a new web framework (I won't mention its name). Every time that happens, I immediately compare it to SvelteKit and come to the conclusion that it's much worse. DX, speed, structure... Nothing beats #svelte. Only downside is that my projects have the same structure and don't vary much.

I have recently switched to creating my video thumbnails with HTML and CSS. This is the most recent one. This approach has several advantages over using a graphics program (version control, unified design, repeated patterns, easy to update). Repo: github.com/ScriptRaccoo...

So I guess I am the only developer left who doesn't use AI to write code?

YouTubers reaching 1mio subs: big party, screaming, donation special, explosions, bragging, storytelling, guests, ... Kevin Powell reaching 1mio subs: cool. :-) I plan to write a blog post about why he is my favorite programming YouTuber (since 2019 actually).

Top 8 Countries from which people access my portfolio website: 1. United States - 23.51% 2. Singapore - 17.55% 3. China - 8.46% 4. Germany - 6.27% 5. France - 5.33% 6. United Kingdom - 4.7% 7. Canada - 3.76% 8. Italy - 2.51% I am really surprised about Singapore. Also, India ... where are you?

Is there actually any good SQL formatter extension for vs code? I have tried the first 5 that pop up in the search for extension, and they all have big issues. I am thinking about manually formatting the code for now.

Git is the best software in the world. But sometimes, it does this, and I hate it.

I call the YouTube data API every day to get the number of views for a video tutorial (which explains exactly that). Yesterday it went from 243 to 242. 🤷

Man I'm watching Tech YouTube videos from ~10 years ago and they feel like a window to such a radically different world. People used to care about shit.

It was time to migrate a SQLite database to a Postgres database. The setup took some time, and I needed to change the implementation of my wrapper query function. But most of the application code did not need to be touched, basically because the *interface* of my query function did not change. 🦝

✍️ New blog post: CRUD operations in SvelteKit - no client-side JavaScript needed! I walk through the mental model I use for SvelteKit apps and explain how to build a fully functional todo app using form actions and load functions. scriptraccoon.dev/blog/sveltek...

Really nothing beats the simplicity, readability, straightforwardness and portability of raw sql. ✍️

If you think you don't make any progress, just look at the code you wrote one year ago. You will likely immediately see lots of things that can be improved. This is what you learned in the meantime.

Thinking about writing a blog post about why I left my corporate job and how all their bad decisions have destroyed me...

👨‍💻 This is a calculator written in CSS, without JavaScript. Currently, it only works for two 1-digit numbers as inputs. 🔗 Codepen: codepen.io/scriptraccoo...

Cubecursion 🪄 An infinite animation of cubes made with #html and #css only. Find the codepen link in the comments.

You won't believe how many times I need to delete a comment and send it again (here on Bluesky, but also on X when I was active there). It's much better on Reddit, for example.

I find it quite surprising that 70% of the visitors of my website are using light mode, only 30% are using dark mode (this is one of the dimensions I have recently added to my analytics). I would have expected 90% dark mode, because I was under the impression that developers are nerdy night owls 🦉

I published this blog article almost two years ago. Has Tailwind improved in the meantime? 👀 scriptraccoon.dev/blog/tailwin...

Node crashes? nvm I will install the right version

Try to create a GitHub account today (with email + password). 😮‍💨 While I understand that GitHub needs to check that I am a human being: why do I need to make 10 tests? Also, why did they choose such low-res images? Sometimes the solution was not clear at all. The audio tests also take too long.

I am one of those people left who creates code on which AIs can generate other people's code.

TIL: better-fetch is a typed fetching library Fully typed input, output and query params based on path better-fetch.vercel.app

New blog post ✍️ How to track page visits in SvelteKit - without any external analytics provider scriptraccoon.dev/blog/track-p...

Let's introduce hard mode! The country is vanishing quickly :D

Am I the only one who always removes all URL parameters when sharing a link (especially from social media) with other people? I don't want to support the tracking of myself or others. It always takes a bit of time (hitting backspace backspace backspace...), but it's worth it.

I completely agree with Brad here. When AI writes all the code for you, it feels like there is a lack of ownership. And it less fun. This is why personally I restrict my use of AI. I ask questions, that's it. I am still actually writing 99% of the code. And I love it. youtu.be/UaB0gWFwuEU

I have just added this unscrambling animation to the country scrambler game. I find it so satisfying to watch. 🫠

👨‍💻 country-scrambler.netlify.app

Love it.

I love this Chrome extension! I can now easily preview and showcase my apps on different devices (including the device frame and the device keyboard, much better than devtools). The extension also works in Brave (my main browser). www.webmobilefirst.com

I just took the time to add proper link previews for all of my blog posts. Here is an example. scriptraccoon.dev/blog/create-...

Neues Tutorial 🍿 youtu.be/xncNiyBxqkM #svelte

I have built a diary application called "Mind Echoes". 🪄 github.com/ScriptRaccoo... This has been developed mainly with SvelteKit and pure SQLite: no ORM, no UI library, almost no third-parties. Since diary entries are quite personal, several account security features have been implemented.

My coding personality: having fun to implement features by hand for which everybody else uses a library