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Monthly Dev Wrapup. This month I made a web crawler and spent a lot of time considering, and developing ways to optimize efficiency. MVP: The product works. However, each run took: ~300s to complete. Implemented Goroutines & Channels: ~100s to complete. Optimized logic to skip unnecessary http requests: ~50s to complete. Realized most of my requests were GET, where HEAD requests would be much faster: ~17s to complete. The push from +4mins to below 20s is an amazing accomplishment, I have been really satisfied with the mental game of considering, researching, and seeing if I can find ways to optimize my application. However, I am not done yet. I know in the coming week I can push the application even further by using a map instead of a slice, no longer making the same request more than once. I very much look forward to pushing the app to try and get the process below 9s as my final goal.

It's been just a few weeks since our launch of Stashpad Docs, and we've already had more people using Stashpad Docs than Stashpad Lists. Seeing how people interact with Stashpad Docs and receiving feedback about their experience has been so exciting. There are two main things that users seem to love: simplicity and markdown. One thing that's surprised me is that it's not just devs who love markdown–it’s anyone who writes a lot. Being able to type and format, uninterrupted without your hands leaving the keyboard makes a huge difference when it comes to focus and flow. Not to mention, markdown is just plain text which means less funky formatting / reformatting when moving text between different apps. Our team wrote a blog recapping what we learned from the launch. Check it out and let us know what you think! https://lnkd.in/eptB98_D

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There are a lot of internal tools I miss from Google, but Critique has to be the biggest. Here's a good breakdown on what Critique did any why 97% of Googlers loved it. I've worked with a bunch of different code review tools now, and I can't point to any single thing that made critique work so well, which is probably why it hasn't been replicated directly yet. I can point out a few things I loved though: * The single dashboard for **every** code review that needed to be on my radar, across the entire codebase. GitHub just doesn't scale this way across repos. * Smart "action" detection, Critique was always aware of who had to take the next action, which allowed it to surface reviews more urgently to those that were next in line. This even worked on large reviews with many stakeholders. * Diffs/snapshots were decoupled from the SCM. You could iterate many times on a review without worrying about squashing commits, rewriting history, or leaking that iteration into the final source code history. Reviewers could see at a glance what changed during each iteration to ensure they covered everything. This helped reviews move forward immensely. 97% satisfaction for an internal tool is bonkers, but that's just how good Critique was/is. Everyone loved it, even in the days before these AI features got bolted on. #critique #google #softwareengineering #swe #codereview https://lnkd.in/dr-73mUC

Over the past week I've been working on a project called Back to Reality, a Node.js browser text adventure/social interaction game hosted via Google Firebase. The experiment was to see how the deployment of AI technologies such as InworldAI and StarryAI might accelerate prototyping and offer unique experiences to players/users, while also offloading work that would have been used to manually code NPC interactions. My partner for the project was Raesean White. The development process was simple in theory but challenging in practice: Make a Firebase webapp project in Node.js, integrate the InworldAI Web Development SDK via API calls to handle character interactions inside of a simple javascript game loop, and use an InworldAI account to control the character behaviors. This project was trying as it was a step outside my comfort zone since my specialization is in XR development rather than Web development, and integrating multiple API's combined with managing their dependencies is not my forte. I did, however, enjoy the challenge of it at the same time. The project can be viewed at the following GitHub repository. https://lnkd.in/gPFxYesC

🌟 New Blog Post 🌟 I'm excited to share with you an amazing IT-Tools Docker Image that I discovered! 🚀 This all-in-one suite of tools and utilities is accessible through a user-friendly web interface, making it incredibly easy to use and navigate. Whether you're an admin or a programmer, this utility tool is a game-changer for anyone in the IT field. If you're using a *nix system (including Synology), I've provided a step-by-step guide on how to get IT-Tools up and running using Portainer and Docker. Simply follow the instructions in the blog post to get started. 🔧 Accessing IT-Tools: Once you have the stack deployed, click the link below to open IT-Tools in your browser: 🔗 [Read Full Blog Post Here](https://ift.tt/hai0Wye) Explore a wide range of web-based tools, from converters to utilities, conveniently organized for easy access. Moreover, you can personalize your IT-Tools experience by choosing between light and dark mode, and even pinning your favorite tools to the top of the page. Trust me, this app is a gem! It's thoughtfully designed and provides the solutions you need in a matter of minutes. Don't miss out on this valuable resource for your everyday tasks. Give IT-Tools a try and let me know what you think! 🌐 #socialmedia #ITtools #docker #webtools

🤔 Are you thinking about how to launch your projects faster so you can test more ideas and see what resonates with your users? 🚀 You're in luck because preview environments were launched on Casa recently! It's super easy to write some code for a web app, push it to Casa, and get a live environment complete with secrets management! And even better, you can take notes, document your findings with users, and more - all in Casa. It's your one stop shop for product engineering. If you're working in a team of developers and product designers, and you're thinking about how to best test new ideas and features for AI and ML applications, give Casa a try. I've put together a FastAPI example that's really easy to clone and push to Casa 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHNBEUEf It's a great starting point! Have questions or comments? Message me here, or in Casa's discord. The discord link is in the footer @ https://casa.dev 🏠

Hello it's Gilles Kidjo 🚀 Good news! The test version of Backend Generator is open.  Thanks to everyone who signed up for Google Form last month. You can now try out the tool and create backend projects easily. An e-mail has been sent to you with the link to the test version. Please check your spam too. Check out this video to see how it works! 👇 Give it a try and tell us what you think! Your feedback is invaluable. 💬 #buildinginpublic #indiehacker

Dweeb Goldberg Machine Idea #1: The "I'm Too Lazy to Open My Apps" Saga Alright, picture this: I'm learning Go, and I'm also lazy as hell when it comes to opening my work apps every day. So, I had this brilliant idea - why not mash these two things together and see what happens? Here's the deal: I use the same 4 apps daily (VS Code, Postman, Compass, and WhatsApp). Opening them manually? Pfft, that's so June 2024. So, I dove into this os/exec package in Go's standard library. Turns out, you can use it to boss your computer around and make it open stuff for you. I cobbled together some code, sprinkled in the magic commands to open apps on different OS's, and BAM! Tested it on my Mac, and it worked like a charm. Riding high on my success, I thought, "Hey, let's make this bad boy work on Windows too!" I mean, that's where my work laptop lives, right? How hard could it be? Narrator: It was, in fact, very hard. (*or maybe Jim face, take your pick) Cue the famous last words of every overconfident dev: "Well, it works on my computer." 😭 So yeah, my Windows machine looked at my code and basically said, "Nah, I'm good." But hey, the code's chilling in my repo (https://lnkd.in/d_ssB69d), waiting for the day I muster up the courage (and caffeine). For now, though, this dev needs some shut-eye.

#Speedlify is simple service using Google's #Lighthouse, which analyses web apps and web pages, and collects performance metrics and insights (including #Accessibility). There link to create a service for your own website, on this example. https://lnkd.in/gHaMY_gR