Bao Huynh

Maybe it's just me but I am so sick of reading AI-touched-up articles. It's the same nauseous tone of sounding self-important with either short, choppy sentences, or tackling on with (And...) in parentheses.

I read to enjoy human perspectives but now many times it's just the same AI-ish tones

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Been touching up on some Auth topic, and it truly is "Convenience is the enemy of Security"

Specifically, I have been reading about how, JWT, for all its convenience benefits, actually has bad security - so it should never be a first option. And I am really convinced.

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He is so cutee

With increased generative AI in software development, I reminiscence past times where I "handcraft" the code for a personal project I love, fighting through doc frustration and enjoying the little victories when things work. It's much more efficient now with AI, but I still love the manual way.

You have horses ???!

Wishing that things will be fine for you through this winter storm.

I don't want to use Nextjs but my team is very good at Nextjs, partly due to AI, and so now I also have to use Nextjs

I thought this's just a myth. That as long as you own your code and understand the implementation plan, everything is still okay, even if you don't read all the code.

Skills of planning and System design should still stay right? In the same way that libraries don't degrade our high-level skills.

One thing I have been adding more to my instructions when chatting with LLM:
"Give me the command to do/check/verify it myself" instead of letting the LLM conclude on its own

A deterministic command run prevents against LLM's outputting solution & conclusion using baseless and wrong assumptions.

I like your framing "talking to a junior".
I also find myself doing this - often out of frustration - when I see the LLM veering off, mostly to berate the AI how dumb it is and hopefully reorient it. Also because "hey, still wrong" doesn't work.
Sometimes a new chat is needed if context get too big

I actually kinda like Antigravity's name and logo.

Functionality-wise, still testing out, but I have had decent result so far.

This is me when VsCode asks me if I trust this folder

One of my favorite dessert 😋

You know what they say: If it works, don't touch it.

LLM capability seems to be hitting a plateau lately, but at the same time, we're also figuring out the appropriate process/prompts/tooling to make a most out of LLM.
Likely a good time to learn how to use AI now that experienced ppl has figured about best practices. Cost can be prohibitive though.

Mini git tip of the day:

When pushing a brand-new local branch to upstream (i.e. with `git push -u`, you don't have to type the whole branch name.

You can either just type the first letters then use Tab to let the CLI autocomplete

Or just use HEAD: git push -u origin HEAD

Keystrokes saved!

Incredible Vim tip I just learned today

Use = to let Vim smartly auto-indent for you. Very useful when you copy-paste blocks of code and they become jumbled.

Not sure how Vim knows where to indent, but it has been quite correct so far. I feel so stupid for all manual indentation I did in the past.

What's the benefit of never removing rows?

Another day another being bitten by <button> elements having type="submit" by default if one forgets to do type="button"

Man Svelte {@const} block is such a godsend. Being able to keep variables close to where they're actually needed feels so so elegant and powerful. And these variables are reactive too.

Svelte snippet is becoming my new favorite way to organize long component/page.

Snippet can access all of its parent data, making it a lot more convenient than separate components. I can easily split away part of the markup into separate snippets put at the end of the file to improve readability.

Definitely need to sketch out an API agreement first then backend and frontend can work semi-independently until the big intergration

I love and prefer to use built-in tools, but the `apt` package manager on Ubuntu very often will have outdated package versions.

So I installed `brew` and have been enjoying it so far.

Mini Git tip of Saturday:

`git merge-base` finds the common ancestor between 2 branches: `git merge-base main branch-1`

This is especially useful when you want to rebase/filter-branch from the branch's begin - change committer emails, remove files from history, etc.
`git rebase -i <merge_base>`

Unironically, I really love Svelte because its font choices are just so elegant. Fit very well with Svelte's motto to "optimizize for vibes"

I think I will give up trying to make my dashboard web app mobile-friendly due to long tables. The intended use case is for desktop anyway - it's just for use by me and my small team occasionally and I know we wouldn't using phones.

Trying to fit a table into mobile view looks negative ROI

I love using chatGPT for bash command. Like how to run this Python script on all files in this folder individually.

I have also needed to learn new Bash command at work like jq or the AWS CLI and chatGPT has been amazing

Peer programmer is nice subtle wording, suggest that the bot only helps you program, and an actual developer/engineer still need to do other parts like requirements gathering, discussing trade-offs and pitfalls, clarifying questions, design business-specific high-level logic etc.

Reminds of the quote that I am finding increasingly relevant in my life: "The way you do anything is the way you do everything". Our attitudes and mindsets are the biggest "optimizations" we can make to improve and propel our lives forward.

Really enjoying "Wild Courage" by Jenny Wood 📖

A quote I find very profound: "Success mindset precedes success". You need to have a winner mindset before you can succeed

There's no magical turning point where everything will suddenly become perfect. Build success from the way you take action daily

Cmd-K still works for me. Though I just learned that Cmd-T seems to do the same.