Useful for checking if your furniture will fit, planning renovations, or just figuring out how far the fridge is from the couch when all you have is a developer's floor plan

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I find it interesting that I've thought about the exact social mechanics of making friends before as well - low stakes in person common context where you meet on a regular basis is key.

We're humans and no matter what you're pursuing, you'll hit a point where your brain will adjust to the new reality and things will start feeling mundane. This is called the hedonic treadmill.

To me, what has helped is developing hobbies and relationships outside of work. We're social animals and need connection with others to feel fulfilled. Personally, my own life feels way more fulfilled right now than when I was just working on interesting projects at work or on my startup (that went nowhere).

I personally think that even before LLMs, the cost of code wasn't necessarily the cost of typing out the characters in the right order, but having a human actually understand it to the extent that changes can be made. This continues to be true for the most part. You can vibe code your way into a lot of working code, but you'll inevitably hit a hairy bug or a real world context dependency that the LLM just cannot solve, and that is when you need a human to actually understand everything inside out and step in to fix the problem.

I quickly learned that I needed none of that crap. Now I usually just have one dev environment (my local machine) and one prod, usually a free cloudflare worker. DB is almost always a free tier postgres instance. Testing and prod deployment happens on git precommit and postcommit hooks instead of inside a CI pipeline. No docker is usually necessary as I just build typescript services which have native support on most platforms. DB migrations are run directly from my local machine when I need them to run, instead of having specialized config in a CI pipeline.

- It takes natural language input (yesterday at 3pm)

- It can convert a timestamp into different timezones

- It can convert a timestamp into various formats (how many of us have looked up "epoch converter" on google?)

- It can calculate the time difference between two timestamps

- It can add or subtract a time duration to a given timestamp

- It can round a given timestamp to the nearest minute, hour, day, month, year, etc.

I also added a few QoL features

- History section that stores the results on your browser

- A button to copy a result in the history to input (Copy to Input). This allows you to chain multiple operations together

- Last used timezones and formats will persist on your browser across sessions to make common conversions quick and easy

Here's a demo video to show how it all works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcBwIcqBLk8

I apologize for the potato video quality. I used free trial software and this was the first time for me to record or edit anything.

Happy to take questions and feedback!

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Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcBwIcqBLk8

I apologize for the potato video quality. I used free trial software and this was the first time for me to record or edit anything.

I also wanted to learn frontend development, and this felt like a good project for dipping my toes into it. I wrote a lot of code using AI, but quickly ran into trouble and had to take the reins. I still used AI to write tightly scoped functions and hooks, but kept most of the architecture in my head. I used AI to debug issues as well, and found it to be very useful at detecting issues that a new frontend engineer might make.

Everything runs on your browser (except for format inference for unrecognized timestamp formats using gemini-flash-lite). History and recently used timezones and formats are stored in IndexedDB in your browser.

Everything is hosted on free tier infrastructure - Cloudflare workers and the free tier of gemini-flash-lite. It felt incredible to be able to put something out there completely for free, without even having to enter my credit card anywhere.

If you find bugs, please report them here: https://github.com/viraniaman94/datetime-utils-issues/issues...

I didn't want to open-source it because I am not sure if this can take off in a significant way. If it does, I'd like to be able to make some money off of it if possible. If it doesn't, I'll open source it.

Happy to take questions and feedback!

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I don't think that's how it works. You can try to juice the rock as much as you want, but you can only choose any two of the three IMO. It's a structural constraint of making humans write code. If they end up creating code generating machines that can do this, good for them. But until then it'd serve everyone better if people just accepted reality.

How important is feeling "not screwed over" at the beginning of an employment important for you? Does it trump a great work environment and interesting things to work on? How sure are you that your subjective feelings during negotiations match how the employer actually is objectively?

It would seem intuitively obvious that there must be correlations between being screwed over in the beginning and then having a bad experience later on during the actual job as well. But I'm personally wary of blindly following intuitions in matters that relate to money.

Being able to just "walk away" from decidedly some of the highest paying jobs in the world (irrespective of the feeling of being low balled) is a privilege too.

Anyway, in my own personal experience, I was screwed over during the offer phase of a previous job, and the job was not great either - terrible wlb and politics, but I did learn a lot and became very efficient at my work. As a bonus I stopped caring about my work outside of being necessary for paying my bills, while still maintaining decently high quality output.

I had the opposite experience with my latest job - the recruiter was professional and empathetic, and I had a great offer experience. The job itself is great as well.

So yeah, maybe there are correlations, but I'm still just one data point and so I'm not keen to generalize yet.