working on the ability to link to other notes

your brain will thank you

i created a fake hacker news thread roasting my own product: jottie.io/hn

this is such a small thing, but layout shifts caused by webfonts loading and swapping drive me up the wall. i added some logic to preload the font and only display after the font has loaded and it's so much smoother now on hard reloads

this is ottie when you scroll past this post without signing up for jottie.io

how do you guys able to draw at different angles?

image uploads will now recognize text and automatically include the transcription in the note #jottie

hey friends! i know ive been away for a while but wanted to share a project i've been working on recently. jottie.io is a note taking app that is focused on keeping your thoughts organized using auto-tagging, semantic search, and a rag-powered chat. let me know what you think! logo is called ottie

playing around with a new alien fish prototype #gamedev

why do grocery stores always have like 3 different places where they sell cheese

strudel session 4

strudel session 3, chat i think i cooked with this one

strudel session 2

strudel is one of my favorite pieces of software ever, like how damn cool is this, and it runs in your browser!

ngl my hero academia is kinda peak anime rn

online discourse in a nutshell

the year is 2046. a slice at cheesecake factory now costs $78 and has enough calories to feed a small village

for halloween this year i'm dressing up as our aws bill

i love how the children in this sign are just squished versions of the adults

if i ever get the chance, id love to visit atlantis, el dorado, and shangri-la

that one exec at sony animation studios that sold the rights to k-pop demon hunters to netflix shortly after it released

it's sad to me that it's 2025 and there are people that still immediately dismiss anything animated as childish

the average american probably thinks probiotics and antibiotics cancel each other out

my coworker messaged me today saying he doesn't know how to kill the local mailserver daemon. gonna hop on a call with him tomorrow to show him how it's done, done, done

so, um. cascadia?

how's everyone holding up

playing a pokémon fire red randomizer and my starter is a lonely moxie entei holy shit

soon: republican outrage as clips surface of zohran mamdani walking around barefoot in his own home

you can't just declare a ceasefire donald

literally all i want in the next zelda game is one with the expressive freedom of botw/totk and the dungeon design of skyward sword and the atmosphere of twilight princess and the charm of windwaker and the story of ocarina of time and

so cool, thanks to the fediverse i can now see and follow my threads account here @hi.im.vijay.threads.net.ap.brid.gy

i love how when you're playing pokémon diamond and you enter the chamber of the champion only to be greeted by this beethoven-ass piano composition, foreboding tones sending chills down your spine as if to warn you about the shellacking you're about to receive from cynthia's perfect iv garchomp

it's kinda crazy how all music is in 4/4

the trump-elon fallout was more predicable than the bachelor couple breaking up after the finale

it's funny because the thing that's happening right now is something that absolutely no one saw coming. no. one.

i had this beautiful dream last night where i tried to do something with ffmpeg and it worked the first time

if steve ballmer never stepped down, we'd probably all still be using sublime text

i don’t get offended by terms like chai tea and naan bread. you know why? because, as a software engineer, i value redundancy in my systems.

due to inflation, dollar tree will be rebranding as tree fiddy

i still don't understand how a client side routing library somehow turned into a server side rendering framework

i love working in tech, but it is legitimately insane how someone can be at a company for 18 years while making significant contributions to both the company and the industry only to be laid off without even a moment's notice

wrote code without using an ai agent today please clap

vscode is old and outdated. is there a good alternative?

tread carefully

you're adding validation to an existing column in production that previously didn't have any validation for years? oh my sweet summer child

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it's really hard to find competent engineers. i've interviewed about 20 cs majors who claim to be experts at typescript and none of them have been able to explain what the reparameterization trick is, why it’s used in variational autoencoders, and what would go wrong if we didn’t use it.

hot take: big functions are not inherently bad. sometimes shit is just complex, and breaking it up just causes unnecessary cognitive overhead

dubbing is the product i'm currently working on, and it's so damn magical to see it in action. this tech will make any content universally accessible in any language

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