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New comment by davidwparker in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

davidwparker — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:07:50 +0000

You should probably update your comment to at least let people know this is a one-time lifetime cost. Not a subscription.

Which is priced similar to Tailwind UI, which people are fine paying for.

New comment by davidwparker in "You probably don't need query builders"

davidwparker — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 02:46:25 +0000

Meta - anyone else not seeing a scrollbar on the blog? Chrome on OSX.

New comment by davidwparker in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

davidwparker — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:15:43 +0000

Cute game. A lot more forgiving than Marble Madness though.

Needs a good enemy marble to come crack you and hammers too.

New comment by davidwparker in "Notes from building a blog in Django"

davidwparker — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:36:43 +0000

Incremental builds exist, so you'd really only have to build once: https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/data...

That said, personally, I love PG and enjoy using a DB. But I can see pro's to both sides.

New comment by davidwparker in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

davidwparker — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:04:01 +0000

https://www.davidwparker.com/

Pretty inconsistent, but like Svelte, Rails, general tech, general business talk, books, etc.

New comment by davidwparker in "Daily habits of happiness experts"

davidwparker — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:54:19 +0000

It really makes sense though. I don't think it's because they don't go to therapy though. Look at the five levels they provide:

* Every day * 5–6 times per week * 3–4 times per week * 1–2 times per week * Less than weekly

Most people I know who go to therapy go once or twice a month. Very few go weekly, and I don't know anyone who goes 3+ times a week.

New comment by davidwparker in "DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting"

davidwparker — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:21:19 +0000

Seconded. I got awesome results in making "artwork in the style of Yoshitaka Amano" in DALLE but horrible ones in Stable Diffusion. Maybe the prompt was incorrect there (it would be great if these were more discoverable), but they art in SD was lacking.

New comment by davidwparker in "Tailscale raises $100M"

davidwparker — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:46:48 +0000

Maybe technical customers who knew it were Electron. I knew, and don't really care. My wife doesn't even know what Electron is- everything is just another app to her.

New comment by davidwparker in "Is Rust Web Yet?"

davidwparker — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 23:50:09 +0000

Looking forward to checking some of these frameworks out.

Question- Curious to know what backends / languages would be the fastest for a REST-based PostgreSQL backed API?

New comment by davidwparker in "Browser in the Dark: flashlights with CSS and canvas"

davidwparker — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:25:05 +0000

I did something similar on my homepage a while back, albeit not nearly as clean!

Take a look! https://www.davidwparker.com/

New comment by davidwparker in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

davidwparker — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:01:14 +0000

Here are mine:

blog: https://www.davidwparker.com/

portfolio: https://www.codenameparker.com/

app for my Youtube videos: https://www.programmingtil.com/

fun podcast site: https://www.listenaddict.com/

All are made with Svelte (SvelteKit for the first three and Sapper for ListenAddict). Rails API backend. PostgreSQL.

New comment by davidwparker in "Ruby Fiber Scheduler"

davidwparker — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:03:17 +0000

I like it. It's easier to read across short lines quickly versus too long. That being said, you could probably get away with a little bit longer.

New comment by davidwparker in "Ask HN: What are your hobbies?"

davidwparker — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 20:07:42 +0000

Fitness:

- Trampoline wall

- Aerial Straps

- Handbalance / Handstands

- Calisthenics

- Breakdancing (though not as much since Covid)

Reading way too many books

Creativity:

- Making chocolate truffles

- Making ice cream

- Slowly introducing myself to Kintsugi

- Watercolor

I also like to work on side projects and I wanted to get into Pixel art and making music, but I agree with OP about it being hard to sit in front of the computer after being in front all day for work.

New comment by davidwparker in "Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals"

davidwparker — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:47:18 +0000

They also said they've reimbursed all funds. So if you were hacked personally, you would be out money here, vs keeping it on their exchange where you would be made whole again.

New comment by davidwparker in "Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?"

davidwparker — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:56:43 +0000

Frontend: Svelte! (and SvelteKit) Backend: Rails (still! API) Mobile: Flutter

New comment by davidwparker in "Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?"

davidwparker — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:32:09 +0000

I've got a few sites (trying to make money), all using the more or less same stack:

* Frontend: Svelte using SvelteKit (and one Sapper), TailwindCSS / TailwindUI, hosted on Vercel

* Backend: Rails API, hosted on Heroku

* Database: PostgreSQL

* Queues: Sidekiq

* Caching: Redis

* Mobile: Flutter

* AWS S3 for things like images.

Sites:

* https://www.listenaddict.com/

* https://www.programmingtil.com/

* https://www.camerapricetracker.com/

* https://www.useproducer.com/

And business site / blog:

* https://www.codenameparker.com/

* https://www.davidwparker.com/

Edit: formatting

New comment by davidwparker in "Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?"

davidwparker — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:48:28 +0000

Definitely The Tail End by Tim Urban

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

``` It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end. ```

^ This is the crux of it, in familial (parental) relationships, we spend most of our time with them early in life, and that we don't get nearly as much time with them after graduation.

New comment by davidwparker in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2021)"

davidwparker — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 17:05:01 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Denver, CO / Remote

Senior developer with 19+ years experience. Currently focusing on Ruby on Rails API + Svelte applications, but I also have experience in regular Rails, React, Angular, and Django/Python. I tend to enjoy working on making things performant, especially in SQL.

* Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, Svelte, SvelteKit, Sapper, PostgreSQL, Django/Python.

* Email: parker@codenameparker.com

* Portfolio: https://www.codenameparker.com

* Résumé/CV/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamdavidwparker/

New comment by davidwparker in "Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI"

davidwparker — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:51:59 +0000

I suggest you read this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Policing

which goes into great detail many different times where police abuse power, and why things need to change.

New comment by davidwparker in "Generating JSON Directly from Postgres"

davidwparker — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:38:55 +0000

How does it compare in terms of performance to https://github.com/jsonapi-serializer/jsonapi-serializer (a fork of Fast JSON API out of Netflix, which wasn't being maintained)?