Nate Bosscher

I’ve been getting some pings from my status monitoring service that a whack of things are running REAL slow (part of my sanity checks).... welp, looks like AWS is having a rough day

Today, I crossed of an item on my bucket list: Creating custom scripting language for a client 🙃 It's nothing crazy, a simple macro language that addresses some special quirks in the windows/doors world. Made a little compiler and runtime with ~1000 lines. So fun!!

Do we really need Apple to create a new design language every 3yrs? The current one works just fine thx! I must be getting old...

All complex SQL queries will eventually grow into a undecipherable mess or be converted to procedural code.

It's underrated how much faster autocomplete is in small projects (<= 1000 files)

Am I vibe coding wrong? - I rarely get code that is even close to what I want - I'm unwilling to write english for more time than it would take to code the solution - When referencing object properties it often skips some - Specifically defining the problem/scope doesn't seem to help

Just gonna leave this here...

I think first-year interns are smarter than AI coding tools. Yes, they can't generate new code as fast, but I they're more reliable in basic-mid level problem solving.

26m2.01s for a database migration 🤯 High score!!

Cranking out code for a consulting client this week. No time for customer research :/ Maybe next week.

Hey {cloud provider}, I'd like to use your {awesome API}. > Awesome! Here's are Getting Started Docs Cool, can I have an SDK? > Yep, here are 1,000,000 classes for you to check out. Enjoy! I'm hitting a permissions issue? > Yeah, heh, good luck!

Solution getting too long and complicated? Split it up and give each part a name.

It's all fun and games updating your app's UX, but when someone changes the UX of an app I use!? Not cool man.

idk if people are doing this, but I have pulled so many shenanigans building PDFs using React + html2pdf rendering. It's just so much easier! All the rendering logic is in react, done on the user-side. Extract as HTML and render it on the server to PDF.

Specialty supply stores are AMAZING! - Staff are friendly, helpful and know their stuff. - Have basically everything for their niche. vs Big Box - Staff are non-existent, hide, or don't know anything - Have limited selection and mostly cheap flimsy stuff.

"I bet this would work" ideas still need to pass: - are people actually complaining about this? - would this influence a purchase decision for a cohort? - could I reasonably build/market that solution? Not many of my ideas make it past these 😬

I'm searching for a new SaaS to build. Boy, there are a lot of software products out there!!

CTEs are my new friend. Friends that I may regret in a few months when I need to revisit this code 😬

Date shenanigans strike again! "moment.js thinks that 2013-12-31 is week 1, not week 53"

Nothing like a little strace in the morning 😀☕

I *could* live on the edge and use table alias db for: select ... from delivery_box as db But today I'm choosing to not have a weekend with support calls 🥁

I keep finding out I'm following accounts I totally don't remember adding on here... weird! Maybe I'm starting to lose it :|

Hrm, this new image processing code is running a little slow. *turns off debug snapshots* Ah, well that solves that! 18s to 2.8s 💪

Rewriting legacy software from scratch is always harder than you think.

The data model can only be stretched so far before it's time to pay down the debt and change the structures.

It's the small things that get you in coding. Like: ids.splice(i, id) Versus: ids.splice(i, 0, id)

Got to use IRL as a table alias; just keeping it real today inventory_request_log => irl

Here's what I've learned from image line-fitting over the last few days: - Avoid y = mx + b format (edge cases on verticals/horizontals) - Matrix math is your friend (along with your favorite AI) - Lower your image resolution - Sometimes brute force and picking the best result is a good approach

Nothing like the smell of a musty codebase in the morning! 😀

SQL is both the best and the worst language. Worst because big queries are horrible to read. Best because you can get some nice performance you can't get that easily anywhere else. I'm conflicted

Unplugged for 2hrs this morning, walked to a local coffee shop and got my car under oiled. 10/10, would recommend! It helped that my phone was basically dead, so I really couldn't do anything on it.

@sfioritto.bsky.social 👋

@alxby.bsky.social dude, that tinyglb thing is impressive! I've been doing some webgl/three.js stuff for a client project. That stuff is hard to get right. Do you have some game-dev experience of something like that?

Hello all you new followers 👋 Nice to see you all 🙂 Have a great day!

Twilio error notifications feels very convoluted and detached from the actual events. Like I get a lot of GEO SMS errors, so I go 1. email notification "GEO error", webapp, no further detail 2. sift through the giant list of logs to find an error one (no link from notification to actual failure)