Daniel Milner

Daniel Milner

@danielmilner.com

🧔🏻‍♂️ He/Him. 🏢 IT Systems Manager (Dev + Infra) | Full Stack Development | Network Security | Systems Architecture

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My coding agent just output this line: "A zombie dev server (with hot-reloaded new code but a detached database handle) hijacked my verification. Killing the whole tree and doing a clean cold start:" 🤣

I’m at my son’s track and field meet today and this is the timing website. It hurts to look at this and know that it’s currently 2026 and not 1996.

After taking a little break from coding my Picasa-inspired photo manager/editor, I've decided to move away from Electron and React and instead write it for use entirely in the browser using web standards. Oh, and I'm using this as an opportunity to learn @svelte.dev

Just a reminder that Michelle Obama’s documentary, “Becoming”, is on Netflix. Might be a good weekend to push it to the top of Netflix’s charts 😉

I had deleted my Threads account at the beginning of the year and decided that I wanted to give it a try again. After signing back up using my Instagram credentials, I was presented with this screen. What the hell? It was apparently against their community standards to delete my account.

Well, after one day, this is what I've ended up with. My first Chrome Extension, a virtual keyboard. I'm building some touchscreen kiosks at work, built on Raspberry Pi that run Chromium in kiosk mode. Extension built on WXT, using simple-keyboard.

Another update on the photo management app, inspired by Picasa, that I am working on. The import screen is nearly done. There are a few interface pieces that I have to connect up, but this screen is nearly there.

I’m working on an MCP server for work that will allow our customer service people to ask an LLM about orders, stock quantities, etc. when customers call in. Can’t wait to get this working!

A little over a month ago I purged everything from my Twitter account. (I will never call it X) Today I finally deleted the account. I also deleted my Threads account. #FeelsGood

Quick tip for the new Mail app in iOS 18.2. If you use Categories, turn off Group by Sender if you want to use the Remind Me swipe option anywhere other than the Primary category.

Here is a Tauri context menu example in React and TypeScript. I had a hard time finding an example that I could get to actually work. This one is simple and doesn't require any event listeners. Your app will need the "core:menu:allow-append" and "core:menu:allow-new" permissions.

I've been working on building a Picasa clone for about a week in my spare time using Tauri. Here's a screenshot of where I currently am in the process. Features so far: * Directory tree of folders * View grid of images * Navigate image grid with arrow keys * Pin photos * Thumbnail size slider

Features, continued: * Light / Dark mode * Photo information bar Next up: * Full-size photo preview w/ keyboard navigation * Import photos from external storage (eg. Camera or SD Card) * Export pinned photos to a specified directory

I'm working on my first desktop app using Tauri. I've been putting off upgrading MacOS on my wife's computer because Google's Picasa app will stop working. So I've decided to build my own version that looks and feels very similar to Picasa and has the features that she uses the most.

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