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Not sure how I feel about my most common commit message lately being "refactor" #buildinpublic #indiehacker

It's a new year and I'm back at it again. This is the one. Watch this space. All the best to those making the dream happen. #buildinpublic #solofounder #indiehacker

Oh no, I'm in very dangerous territory of launching too late. Why? Because I'm considering implementing dark mode. Waste of time, yes. Needed for launch, no. Please send help. #buildinpublic #indiehacker

So psyched to be on leave this week. Time for full focus on my side hustle.

Sometimes coding with a copilot is so fast that I feel like I need to spend time faffing around with something to fill in the time I would have otherwise spent typing something out manually. And that leads us to why I'm here posting this now.

I'm facing a dilemma between wanting to reduce potentially costly api calls versus prematurely caching everything in sight. #python #django #buildinpublic

Sometimes you need to go slow so you can go fast later. I spent most of today planning, figuring out architecture stuff. I'm now confident in my approach to the new #sidehustle Ready to go fast.

I find myself smiling when my AI copilot tells me my solution is creative, elegant and robust. Seeking validation from a robot. Me? Never! #python #django #Copilot

Nothing better than finding an elegant solution to a coding problem that you've been struggling to crack. No surprise why sales and marketing always take a back seat to coding,...to our own detriment. #solofounder #indiehacker #buildinpublic

Busy setting up my new macbook pro. Hasn't taken too long so far to get up and running. Anyone have any tips and tricks to getting up and running quickly instead of manually setting everything up based on my old macbook. Things like #vscode #iterm2 useful macos apps etc.

Eleventy fans, do you use eleventy-img and keep your images in the repo? What about repo size over time? Anyone do something else, like use R2 or a cdn for images rather? #11ty #eleventy

So I spent an hour failing to get something working on an old codebase. Eventually figured out I was looking at an old version of a 3rd party package docs. Just another day. #python #django

Wow I just can't love frontend dev. Likely a me not you problem,..but still. Today I spent 3 hours just trying to get a layout with 2 columns, some content, and a header bar with some dropdowns. To look half decent. Me + frontend = zero productivity

AI coding copilots are awesome for productivity, but we can't rely on them completely. Our jobs and engineering skill sets are safe. Today I spent hours debugging a bug related to iframes and cookies. Chatgpt and Claude failed to figure out the root cause. I begrudgingly used my brain instead.

Does it mean I'm old because I still continue to use git checkout instead of git switch for changing or creating branches. Too many years of checkout finger memory to unlearn.

Dang, that pesky day job keeps getting in the way of my side hustling. I wake up at 5am every day to get a couple hours in before work, but the progress is so slow. Oh well, need to pay the bills somehow. #indiehacker #buildinpublic

I'm giving #tailwindcss a go on my latest project. I'm going to tentatively go out on a limb and say, I think I like it so far. #buildinpublic

Setting up dns, google workspace and all the niggly annoying things for a new domain is getting easier. My only explanation is that I must be buying too many domains for SaaS ideas.

Back from holiday yesterday and super pumped to get back to hacking on my side hustle before the day job on Monday.

Hi Bluesky,... getting setup.