Developer Tools developer. ex-Apple, I worked on WebKit Inspector for a decade. I do partner acrobatics in my free time.
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2007
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I've been consistently getting better ChatGPT answers for algorithmic questions by starting with "You're Donald Knuth"
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Asked ChatGPT to write a JS function that, given a non case-sensitive prefix, returns all matches from a sorted array. Most of the time, it didn't even use binary search. sharegpt.com/c/E5EXm0S
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I'll start every algorithmic question with "Pretend you're Donald Knuth." from now on 😂sharegpt.com/c/8T7sL3F
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That aside, it seems like if you're a beginner programmer and you need to do this exact task, you're much better off with leetcode solutions or StackOverflow, at least for now leetcode.com/problems/find-f…
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Object.keys(obj) in JS returns keys in insertion order but TIL:
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A better browser address bar autocomplete is feasible to make, but it’s harder than I anticipated two weeks ago 🙃
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In the browser address bar, do you more often type a query/URL fragment
83%Visited before
17%Entirely new query/URL
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How many tabs do you usually have open in your browser?
35%<10
31%10-20
35%>20
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AWS S3 & Cloudfront are really not that great for hosting static websites.
Want /page/ to serve /page/index.html? Run some JS on the server 🥴
stackoverflow.com/questions/…
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Want to publish changes? `aws s3 sync` uploads what’s changed to S3, but then you need to feed those modified paths to Cloudfront to create an invalidation. AWS CLI doesn’t provide that! I ended up writing a script gist.github.com/NV/8d905ed2a…
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