Built a little code animation web tool that creates these nice videos or gifs. It’s totally local so no code is sent to my server and there’s no cost or subscription :) you can check it out here bjoernf.com/fun/code-ani...
Can’t believe this is breaking the mobile layout and nobody told me 😡
Ran into a design where I had to implement the following auto-truncated title and couldn't immediately find a nice way to do it. AI didn't help here either weirdly. Since I had to come up with my own solution I just quickly wrote down a mini-post for it. bjoernf.com/blog/flexibl...
I got a preliminary landing page for getkontinue.com deployed last night. There is still a boatload of work required on the app and backend, but at least something is out now. The quick pitch is a knowledge & task management hub but 100% self-hostable, cross-platform and offline-enabled.
Ah yea, I only render text so I already do this by just having the webview background be fully transparent and an opacity animation that fades the text in once the view is loaded. Just silly that it takes a fraction of a second to load some text when it should be instant. Cheers for the idea though
To add, my web view is the main view of a new screen when navigated to, so I can only load it at that point and not just hide it in the background before being visible.
Has anyone figured out a consistent way to preload / precache a webview loaded from a local file in react native (expo)? My view can handle updates of props perfectly fine through messages and it’s super fast but the flicker on initial load is slightly annoying
With copilot / Claude code / etc, how important are well defined instructions/prompts? I’ve seen conflicting reports about how detailed they should be. Similar thing for subagents. what are some good, reasonably evidenced resources for this?
Not sure if Microsoft and I are ever gonna be friends, but this was a good one to figure out. Silent login through MS Teams is pretty cool once things click into place. Their documentation is just so hard to figure out sometimes… bjoernf.com/blog/ms-team...
Getting tiptap running in expo, what a thrill
I’ve also been doing a lot of nosql and js/python professionally, so backend in rust + Postgres is such a nice breath of fresh air
Im working on an offline-first-but-cloud-synced app / service with expo (native + web) and tanstack query right now. There’s some kinks but it’s the most addicted I’ve felt to building something in a while.
Turns out generating uuids in expo requires an extra step and I just quickly jotted down my findings on it
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It would be cool if GitHub PRs had the ability to „highlight“ a change as the author. I regularly have PRs that only change a few lines for the main change and then a bunch of chore stuff alongside it. Sometimes I wish I could surface the main part to the reviewer somehow
Still cracks me up every time how on British trains the conductors ask you if you still need your ticket scanned instead of just requesting it
revisiting a years long forgotten project and actually making it into something usable put me into a state of pure catharsis
It’s one of the few days where I can feel vindicated for buying an aircon in the UK
I upgraded my Tailscale home server setup to allow having subdomains for multiple services on one device. I love Tailscale, but it would have been great if this was supported out the box.
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My friends still play my silly game every day and post how well they did, and I find that very sweet
Had a bit of fun making a virtual bookshelf that reads my data from goodreads! You can use it for your own books too :)
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Maybe there is something to vibe coding for fun little projects
I beat the daily Wikipedia Connections in 3 attempts!
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Play it yourself at bjoernf.com/games/wikipe...
meme format: STOP DOING RICH TEXT - WORDS DON'T NEED TO BE DIFFERENT SHAPES - YEARS OF (microsoft word text format bar) YET NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR STRIKETHROUGH - Wanted to emphasize language We had a tool for that: It was called "write better" - "Yes please give me words I can click" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Microsoft have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the Markdown& .txt we built for them (This is REAL formatting done by REAL writers RTF file icon: ?????? In-line rich text formatting pop up: ??????? Microsoft Word "Style" designer: ?????????? "Hello I would like WIGGLY LETTERS" They have played us for absolute fools
Finally found the motivation to continue hacking on pdfblaze, added a nifty new infinite page size feature today
I see hahaha genuinely one of these days then 😭
Assuming shallow equal doesn’t it make sense for (curr, curr) to be true and (prev, curr) to be false or am I missing something?
Just remembered I finished my PhD, that shit was crazy
„Another bug in the code“ to the tune of „Another brick in the wall“
Cannot tell whether or not Sentry Wrapped is supposed to be a joke haha
