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Deni Mintsaev (mintydev)

@mintydev

I make websites and rave about European ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ tech. Creator of https://cubingcontests.com

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I guess it's all relative. If 5-10 years from now AI is able to do 95% of what we can do and much more that we can't, I wouldn't say that's far off.

10.03.2026 13:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't know about very far. Maybe just a few steps ahead at this point.

05.03.2026 07:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RecordRanks Sports organization and ranking system. Provides tools for organizing competitions for different kinds of competitive sports, selecting events, managing competitor information, entering live results, ...

I have now moved my biggest open source project (my website for sports rankings) from #GitHub to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช. I encourage other Europeans to also promote the adoption of European tech ๐Ÿ™‚

codeberg.org/mintydev/Rec...

#coding #programming #webdev #git #Codeberg

04.03.2026 09:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(2/2) If #neuralnetworks are meant to mimic how our brains work, why do we expect them to also never make mistakes, like regular computer code?

02.03.2026 11:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's funny to me how much people love to point out specific issues with #LLMs, like them being unable to count the number of Rs in #strawberry until recently, almost as if people don't also have brainfarts or just make plane old stupid mistakes. (1/2)

#AI #coding #programming

02.03.2026 11:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's cool, but I push for Europeans to use European tech instead. Namely, Qwant and Ecosia.

22.02.2026 23:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Implemented #Supabase Cron with my website for daily backups. Aaand yet again it was super tricky, as it typically goes with #selfhosting Supabase, haha. Worth it in the end though. I also reported a bug, so hopefully that'll be fixed and the next person won't have such a hard time.

#webdev #coding

19.02.2026 08:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd love to move to Matrix. I'm in the process of moving my own community from Discord to Matrix, or at least to have it as a second option that's much more privacy-friendly. I know there's no way in hell I'll be giving discord photos of my ID if that's the requirement.

12.02.2026 10:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
German house edited to have the roof extended vertically to cover four floors instead of the typical 1-2

German house edited to have the roof extended vertically to cover four floors instead of the typical 1-2

German houses be like...
(no AI btw)

#Germany #German #house #meme

12.02.2026 09:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Analyse your HTTP response headers Quickly and easily assess the security of your HTTP response headers

(2/2) than my old Nginx setup. I added all the recommended security headers like CORS, CSP, etc., getting an A score on securityheaders.com (not A+ because it canโ€™t detect my CSP header for some reason). Caddy also makes it dead easy to configure subdomains.

Check it out: github.com/mintydev789/...

04.02.2026 09:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I promised I'd share my final #deployment setup, so here it is. I ended up replacing #Nginx + Certbot with just Caddy. This simplifies my setup, especially SSL (Caddy does it automatically). And I did not compromise on security; even made it better... (1/2)

#selfhosting #webdev #coding #programming

04.02.2026 09:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was able to get rid of all of our "hard-coded" images in the repo in favor of keeping them in blob storage. Trying to generalize my Rubik's Cube competitions/rankings website to work for most competitive sports now, and it's looking good so far!

03.02.2026 10:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Supabase dashboard displaying the contents of a storage bucket

Supabase dashboard displaying the contents of a storage bucket

Set up #Supabase Storage on my website last weekend. As it usually goes with Supabase #selfhosting, this wasn't exactly straightforward, but I'm really happy with the results. (1/2)

#coding #webdev #programming

03.02.2026 10:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cubing Contests The best place for hosting unofficial Rubik's Cube competitions and speedcuber meetups.

(2/2) ...switching to Better Auth, replacing Mongo DB with #Supabase and more. I'm super happy with the result. I'll be sharing more insights soon, and you can read about it here:

cubingcontests.com/posts/the-bi...

29.01.2026 14:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cubing Contests The best place for hosting unofficial Rubik's Cube competitions and speedcuber meetups.

This week I FINALLY finished a huge update for my website after 1 year of development ๐Ÿ˜ฑ It was mostly on-and-off, but with a few stretches of continuous hard work. This resulted in a complete rewrite of the backend (โŒ Nest JS API โœ… #NextJS server functions)... 1/2

#coding #webdev #React #javascript

29.01.2026 14:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm a happy Mastodon user and really wish more people would use it (and I actively promote it when I can) ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

22.01.2026 11:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(2/2) ...TS Start totally fixes those issues and integrates nicely with TS Query and other tools. Gonna build out the website for my freelance business with it ๐Ÿ˜

22.01.2026 09:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Had a bit of a look into TanStack Start, and it really does look great! There are things I really wasn't a fan of with #NextJS like the lack of validation on server functions or lack of type safety on URL params, and... (1/2)

#React #JavaScript #TypeScript #webdev #coding

22.01.2026 09:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now I have a hybrid approach: setting up Nginx as a container in my Docker Compose file and configuring SSL through my hosting provider. No more manual Nginx/Certbot configuration, and potentially better security.

19.01.2026 11:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think I have a new favorite setup for #selfhosting websites. I used to configure #Nginx and Let's Encrypt (with Certbot) manually on my #Linux servers, and then I also tried out a #Docker Compose setup with an Nginx and a Certbot container. (1/2)

#webdev #coding #programming #letsencrypt

19.01.2026 11:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've also been thinking about offering it as a service to other niche sports organizations that have similar needs, and I might already have something lined up now ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
(2/2)

15.01.2026 08:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cubing Contests The best place for hosting unofficial Rubik's Cube competitions and speedcuber meetups.

Finished migrating all the features on my website (cubingcontests.com) that I was planning to. Now I just need to deploy the new infra and we're ready for release, finally after almost one year!
(1/2)

#webdev #coding #programming

15.01.2026 08:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am in a deep state of flow now. Gonna finish my year-long website update this month for sure!

#webdev #coding #programming

10.01.2026 22:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If we're allowing anti-EU parties in the #EuropeanParliament, maybe when the aliens come down to Earth, we should also give them a permanent seat in the UN Security Council ๐Ÿ‘

#EuropeanUnion #Europe #EU #UnitedNations

09.01.2026 12:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Alright, fine, I'll just learn #Playwright. Will probably significantly reduce my headaches from testing frontend code.

#testing #react #javascript #coding #webdev #programming

08.01.2026 12:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe a hot take, but the best AI models out there now probably have more interesting stuff to say than most real people. But yeah, a good author is still gonna be better than any AI, at least for the foreseeable future.

08.01.2026 07:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think every testing library should come with a 12 gauge shotgun, just in case you need to blow your brains out real quick.

#javascript #webdev #coding #programming #react

05.01.2026 21:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes

16.12.2025 19:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 475 ๐Ÿ” 66 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

I've been getting more and more bored of YouTube lately, increasingly leaning more towards reading. Maybe I'm starting to get old, haha. Next thing you know, I'll be playing golf every weekend and become completely incapable of opening my email.

#youtube #reading #books

05.01.2026 08:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cubing Contests The best place for hosting unofficial Rubik's Cube competitions and speedcuber meetups.

I'm nearing the release of my big website update (cubingcontests.com), but a part of me is dreading it, because I KNOW after an update this big, bugs are bound to be found. I did cover it with more tests, but that's not the same as real world use. Fingers crossed ๐Ÿคž

#webdev #programming #coding

03.01.2026 11:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0