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Nick Coughlin

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Full Stack Software Engineer I write (mediocre) code articles @ ncoughlin.com Founder @ cascadiacode.io Current side project: #basalt electron/vite/typescript , node directed graph automations app

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I’m on the firmware portion of that project right now, which is less fun, but yes.
And I just ordered my first 3D printer, just going bonkers right now.

24.10.2025 01:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

You posted this on r/homelab! I saw you!

23.10.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pi cluster incoming
#homelab #minilab #proxmox #kubernetes #rasberrypi

21.10.2025 06:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Apparently I’m into mini labbing now. Oops. #minilab

16.10.2025 21:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rotary encoder functional
#keebs #mechanicalkeyboards #diy #groundcontrol40 #esp32

14.09.2025 23:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We have wireless charging!
#diy #gc40

14.09.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Got the ground control dev board wired up to an esp32 microcontroller finally. Started writing the firmware. Realized my pcb has an unwired row. Back to Kicad for a redesign 😩
#diy #keebs #esp32 #mechanicalkeyboards #groundcontrol40

04.09.2025 03:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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SafeFiles A WeTransfer alternative that is simple & privacy first

From hyperspace to SafeFiles.

A journey to build an open-sourced app for private file sharing.

This is not the final official launch but whoever wants to test it

Link: safefiles.app

#BuildInPublic #WebDev #WebRTC #FreeTool

01.04.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Telling everyone it’s been officially launched, brb.

01.04.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Watches are the most judgmental electronic devices.

01.04.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just a few visual improvement on nodes before we wire up the control flow logic, context menu etc.

#basalt #buildinpublic

31.03.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The fun part is starting...

Multi-language automated workflow app side project. Node-directed graph.

#basalt #rete #electron

29.03.2025 22:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not like we gate keep people making impressionist art or any other style by making sure their personal politics align with Claude Monet.

What are we even talking about here.

If you dislike the idea of AI art generally I’m more receptive to that argument. But just this one style not ok? Gtfo

29.03.2025 00:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like people are way off with the studio Ghibli thing. I love Miyazaki films as much as the next guy.

But it’s an art style. A STYLE. Which by the way his style is heavily influenced by other artists that came before. As is every artist.

29.03.2025 00:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There is so much interesting tech lore that I will never use, but love reading about.

28.03.2025 03:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What do you think is the best technical primer on AT proto?

It’s still just black magic to me and everything I read is super vague.

28.03.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Is it like a Dropbox alternative? Is there a website for it?

28.03.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#tanstack #react-table is as close to a perfect library as I’ve ever found. Does exactly what it needs to do. Best react data table library hands down. No notes.

27.03.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the best music in the world is coming out of South America right now.

Just saying.

27.03.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A store that sells a Dyson shop vac AND Sapporo racks. You’re living in the future man.

27.03.2025 03:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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You can instruct it to write in the tone of known author. Here is what it gave me for Hunter S Thompson.

27.03.2025 02:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like the play is to create a β€œstudio” and you have a domain and email for that studio. That would encompass all your side projects. So it’s not a personal email, but you don’t need new ones all the time.

27.03.2025 02:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would do like 2.99 per pet. And then some people could buy multiple. Super fun idea by the way.

27.03.2025 02:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bumping this because I’m also curious. I need to replace some charts using a deprecated library at work.

Chart.js looks well maintained.

I personally like making custom charts for the flexibility but that is a niche skill that my coworkers might not be able to maintain.

26.03.2025 05:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is definitely a space for these little micro tools.

I hit up css grid builders, gradient builders, regex builders etc pretty frequently.

26.03.2025 05:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@anthropic.com I can’t select code in code blocks in Claude? Can only copy whole code block?

26.03.2025 00:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It depends on the product, but in this case the #buildinpublic crowd could all advertise for you.

So that’s kind of a win for you. Why put a time limit on your own free advertising.

25.03.2025 23:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Additionally, you could have a free plan that adds #chage on all the posts. And the paid version removes that.

25.03.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@cjo-dev.bsky.social

I think a cool feature for chage would be automated Bluesky (or other social media posts) when changes are commited.

Also if you could add a flag in a commit to manually trigger or not trigger a post. So you could prevent trivial commits from being posted.

25.03.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

App Store says it’s 4+ years old? You just released it?

25.03.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0