Nick Coughlin

@ncoughlin.com

Full Stack Software Engineer I write (mediocre) code articles @ ncoughlin.com Founder @ cascadiacode.io Current side project: #basalt electron/vite/typescript , node directed graph automations app

I feel like people are way off with the studio Ghibli thing. I love Miyazaki films as much as the next guy. But it’s an art style. A STYLE. Which by the way his style is heavily influenced by other artists that came before. As is every artist.

@cjo-dev.bsky.social I think a cool feature for chage would be automated Bluesky (or other social media posts) when changes are commited. Also if you could add a flag in a commit to manually trigger or not trigger a post. So you could prevent trivial commits from being posted.

Today on #electron side project: Successfully got programmatically generated JavaScript and Python functions to execute via child processes and PASS DATA TO EACH OTHER and also pass end result AND LOGS back to the render process. Let’s go!

I feel like there is a lot of pressure to code things really quickly and skip over a lot of details now as people rush to MVP. A lot of times this is a mistake. Setting a solid foundation for an app and making good architecture choices at the start saves time in the long run.

Everyone listen to me. If your local meteorologist uses the term “atmospheric river” think about the most amount of rain you’ve ever seen and then double it. If that’s gonna be a problem for you go out and buy sandbags and a utility pump. Heed this warning.

My Traeger just stopped working and I need to pay $200 to replace the computer unit on it. I’m seriously questioning why it’s necessary for a smoker to have WiFi right now. IoT was such a mistake. Will be disassembling to see if I can fix.

While I really appreciate all the hard work people do developing new technologies to push web tech forward (often thanklessly, free, open source) it does sometimes feel exhausting to constantly be learning the new tools. Could we like… call a tech armistice for 5 years to just build things.

I started reading into Stoicism because it seems to be gaining traction as a philosophy. In a nutshell it says that you shouldn’t worry about things outside of your control. My issue with this is… is anything really completely outside our control?