Nick HK

Had a great time in Indonesia the last few weeks spending time with the family, now sat in the airport waiting to go home. I won’t miss having cold showers though 😅

Been learning some SwiftUI with a recent purchase which has been interesting! Started making a lil app for my wife to manage fermentation / batch cooking, crazy I have to pay for a developer account to put it on TestFlight though …

Been struggling for a couple of days, does anyone know how in Astro I can create OpenGraph images from e.g. a cover image I use in blog posts in its meta? I think the issue i'm having is the OG generator cant see the unoptimised image path so i get an error, not sure how to solve it #AstroJS

Managed to finally deploy my personal website today! Finally. Playing around now with making a simple Go board in JS, with the goal of being able to potentially put it into a PWA to use on my phone - also thinking of potentially hooking it up to engines speaking GTP via a websocket bridge 🤔

In a bit of a down period right now, mulling over some new ideas, thinking about starting something smaller scope that can grow / integrate in with what I eventually want to finish. Doing a bit of Advent of code etc though, and waiting for this cold i've picked up to go away!

My day 3 OCaml full solution: gist.github.com/nickkeers/7f... Wrote one version using a standard sum type and then learnt about Polymorphic variants and went back to clean it up, very handy! Probably still not so great, but getting easier #ocaml #adventofcode

Ok, this is not so bad, its a bit easier to write OCaml if I write it like F# (duh) using pipelines, before for some reason I had it in my head I had to write recursive functions to do anything useful... So this is day3 part 1 of #adventofcode not got time to do part 2 in the middle of the day

www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix... this is great to see LiveView reach 1.0.0! Love the idea of the markup annotations and using hotkeys to jump to them, crazy! #ElixirLang #LiveView

And thats my Advent of code + Advent of cyber done for the day! Gave up and did it in Python, I was going to do it in Raku but have forgotten a lot...#adventofcode #python

Just finishing up a redesign of my website, i'm pretty happy with how this has come out, I used Windsurf to help me build it. Its probably turned out to be the best design I've ever managed on my own (ignore the Astro dev toolbars) and Astro has been a delight to work with. Also responsive!

Working on trying to design a website again, god it’s hard. I have a design but it just seems…too basic, simple can be good but I feel like it’s too simple

Another one! Adding sorting and filtering (filtering still WIP) and a slight UI tweak #buildinpublic #ElixirLang

More to come tonight I think, going to take a crack at making the language more generic now - adding a new Ecto model for languages to make it more dynamic instead of typing it each time, and then possibly using Rustler to make a nif to integrate the dictionaries (for fun)

I finally found a source for some basic dictionaries to use in my app using Perplexity, I just happened to do a search to ask where to find dictionaries and one of the sources helped! They at least give a translation and the part of speech which I really wanted to find somehow :)

Don't forget to encourage people to enable the alt text setting to require them to use it when they post! A lot of people dont know this setting exists. Please share 🙂

The cat that can’t catch a fly to save his life, no hunting instincts #cat #petsofbluesky

How do you go about naming your projects? Looking for some tips and tricks or suggested names! I'm building an app to learn words in a foreign language with the slant of logging words in lessons with a teacher & remembering them, later on there will be some extras on top #buildinpublic

A great example of the community here already, I was talking to Marcin about generating websites in tools like v0.dev + bolt.new and he went out of his way to make an entire video and example just to share his knowledge

Got search working quickly this morning before work! In the end it turned out not too bad, starting to understand how LiveView streams work now. Also looking at getting the blog / website redone, but going to be slow progress I reckon

Playing around with the new UI still, but having trouble with #PhoenixLiveView streams. When i click edit and then cancel, all my words disappear and I have to reload. I suspect its some interaction between my mount function and the "apply_action" function the view was generated with #ElixirLang

Digging deeper into Phoenix LiveView today, made a couple of custom components and am making some progress redesigning the words list page, more to follow later! #buildinpublic #ElixirLang

I thought I could get in an hour of sideproject work before work as I was up early, ElixirLS humbled me hard. I had to install Erlang + Elixir via asdf, and had multiple issues building erlang, so that took an hour and now I have no time left! Ah well, at least its ready to go now #ElixirLang

After a holiday it seems like my brain has really reset and I am thinking more about coding for fun like on my small project. Now I’m thinking about refreshing my old blog and making it more of a “portfolio” / blog, I’d like to put some smaller projects there too, maybe some one-page apps 🤔

I continue to be amazed by Phoenix's one liner for generating an entire authentication system: `mix phx.gen.auth Accounts User users` And job done, can move onto other things, and its all using Phoenix LiveView too so its lightning quick #buildinpublic

I just saw the CEO of Vercel making a pro-Trump post, I'm not American, but that's enough of a reason to stop messing with NextJS to be honest

Heading back home today from Indonesia and it’s always sad, been here around a month and had gotten used to life here. Back to work straight away too, features don’t write themselves!

Thinking about finally building an app to help me practice Indonesian, I've had a teacher for a while but really struggling to remember words, I think being able to practice conversations would be helpful. I've tried flashcards but ultimately just get bored with them... #buildinpublic #idea

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More photos from Pura Tirta Empul and Mt Batur #photos #bali #indonesia #holiday

Few shots from today so far! #photos #bali #holiday