Aro

A true role model for all of us

And I kinda liked the interviewing thing

Hell yeah, not easy though, I am trying to love the problem and not the solution

🚀 Building in public #1 – My first user interview

I just did my first user interview! Why?

Before coding, I need to know:
1️⃣ Does the problem exist?
2️⃣ Is it worth solving?

📆 Next interview next week! Have you done one? 👇

2024 Christmas Eve will be my first one with my dad since 2012.

I moved to France in 2013 for my studies, and traveling back to Madagascar during the winter holidays has always been too expensive. This year feels extra special. 🎄✨

Can't wait for the time I'll celebrate it with both my parents

1 is better than 0

I’ve run out of friends to share this newsletter with 🥲

Just tried adding newsletter aggregation to my read-it-later app and checked Resend for receiving emails.

Setup seemed easy, until I realised they don’t support receiving emails. 🤦‍♂️ Bruh, guess I need another solution. This is such a bummer!

Totally agree! 🙌 I also think it’s a great idea to talk to people around me, especially about their passions. Exploring other domains outside my own interests often sparks fresh ideas!

One good approach, in this scenario, would be to ask explicitly the AI what you're trying to do like `I want to you to create this database table with those columns of those types` (just an example). But it requires almost as much focus than writing the code yourself.

15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use

Interesting read on the good and bad use cases for AI: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-t...

I added a quick summary feature to my read-it-later app! But I’m still figuring out how to craft the perfect prompt to summarize articles on any topic. Suggestions welcome! cosyreader.com

#ai

I didn’t know better-auth, I was looking for an auth solution to eventually replace supabase, I will definitely check it

I love coding, but I have to admit—it can be exhausting. Spending the entire day meticulously crafting code for my 9-to-5 job often leaves me with little mental energy for my side projects.

Today is the last day of Fêtes des lumières

Yes, it’s less magic that it seems to be, so when using it for using time and then getting bad results, they assume it’s not for them

That's some dedication though

Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard

This article resonates with my own day-to-day experience with gen AI. I get better at prompting it just by using it. Overtime, I build the intuition of what works and what doesn't, without the need to specifically learn prompting techniques.

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...

I completely agree, fully AI generated content is like scam for me

I plan on launching a side business soon while having my 9-5 job. My main reason is to work on whatever projects I want. I love coding, but I also love helping others. If I can help people with my code, and be able to live from it, that would be awesome.

"Pwned", The Book, Is Now Available for Free Nearly four years ago now, I set out to write a book with Charlotte and RobIt was the stories behind the stories, the things that drove me to write my most important blog posts, and then the things th...

Troy Hunt, the creator of haveibeenpwned.com released a book called Pwned. It's a sort of behind the scenes book. And it's free, awesome.

Another awesome book on my backlog 😎

www.troyhunt.com/pwned-the-bo...

English is my third language, so it happens (sometimes) that I ask the AI to rephrase what I want to say. And I am amazed at how what I was trying to say could be simplified a lot so it gets so much clearer 😅 (this comment was not AI)

I kinda agree with the beginner mindset but there are really big douchebags when playing football that doesn’t let you enjoy the game, especially when playing without a coach.

I miss the days when I did proper football training with a real coach when I was young

I have a growing interest in using Elixir / Phoenix for my backend instead of Supabase. I really like Ecto.

But I feel that it won't be a good idea as I am not very proficient yet in Elixir compared to Javascript. Maybe I'll give it a shot on another of my future projects.

Boilerplates too 😅

Chill guy vibes

Whatever choice here is gonna be a challenge 🙉 but I would teach Next.js and alike for the easy deployment and for its frontend first approach

As a developer spending so much of my damn time at a desk, going to the gym at least 2 times a week help me so much. Not just for my physical health but I also find myself more stable emotionally.

Go to the gym folks, or do whatever physical activity you like

Your therapist is the goat

Super annoying. Before wrapping up my day, I always stop the instance to avoid any project conflicts the next day.

Every time I tried to address accessibility issues or build things the right way, it often went unnoticed. I can understand why some developers might feel discouraged and stop caring too.