jamestimmins

Much of the way that people talk about and pitch AI is around agents that work without human prompting. As a programmer, I struggle to find ways where this is useful beyond a tool I once built that created playwright…

Asking here bc others may be in a similar position. Software developer in the data/platform/python space. I have training funds to spend in the next 12 days. There are plenty of paid resources out there, but relatively…

I'm an experienced backend dev, but with minimal frontend chops. What are the best resources for learning serious modern css/html, ideally with lots of practice problems? Tried googling this, but it's been SEO/content…

I built an Airtable app and it took 3-4 months from the time I submitted until it was approved and live on the site. Slack was faster (only a few weeks IIRC) and Procore took a couple months as well. What platforms…

A shortened version of the famous YC application question

For example, I assume that in 20 years Python will still be popular, meaning that at least one of the existing web frameworks will still be popular. I suspect Postgres and SQLite will be in still, but MySQL will be out…

We’ve all been there — a seemingly huge mistake as an intern or Junior developer that you were sure would get you fired. What’s your story? Mine: I nearly took down production by joining multiple large tables on…

UML is quite formal and involved. Drawing boxes with arrows on Lucidchart or Draw.io is easy, but the lack of detail is a liability when code gets complex. How do you personally diagram code so there's enough detail,…

I own multiple well known design pattern books because I went on a buying-spree a while back (Gang of 4, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Clean Architecture, Head First Design Patterns). But as I look…

My understanding is that nuclear waste is relatively small in volume, yet storage is problematic. If companies like SpaceX succeed, and the price of launching cargo into space falls by another order of magnitude or two,…

I don't mean people like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg who worked on the early version before becoming CEOs. I mean people for whom programming (or architecture) is their primary activity. Obvious candidates: -Satoshi…

Lots of companies and industries are presumably transitioning to tools like Slack and Zoom for the first time. Is anyone currently experiencing this right now or aware of folks who are?