Ben Patton
building Local First Academy @localfirstacademy.com
Local First Academy Newsletter @ https://newsletter.localfirstacademy.com
instructor @egghead.io
- A killer business idea that solves real pain A business whose sole purpose is to heal wounded code bases after AI has created an utter mess The work would be relatively straight forward: - keep it working - refactor to be well architected - instruct on proper use of AI - no new features
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- For Fullstack Nextjs we will build APIs with Domain Driven Design and Ports and Adapters Your aim in today’s world is flexibility Software will become increasingly malleable thus the way we build needs to take that into account
- Leaning into Aaron Francis "You can just do things" and "play the game". So here are the things Im doing and will start talking on (more in thread): Local First Academy, Fullstack Nextjs, Functional JS, Hypermedia Academy, Web Standards, Realtime Course, Course Builders community
- Why is it that there is no syncing with DynamoDB? Do nosql devs not have interest in syncing? Is DynamoDB fast enough for its users there is no use? Or is the general acceptance of those building 'sync' that relational has won?
- Parenting is the extreme emotions of "Oh Lord please help them sleep." (child is quiet and sleeping) "Oh Lord please let them move just a little bit so I know they are okay but not enough to wake up"
- A feature that should be a part of all learning platforms: If you go through a course and complete it, no matter if you keep paying, you should always have access to that course material OR if you don't complete it you should be able to view completed lessons. Not as profitable though so 🤷♂️
- Say what you want about Ted Nelson, but anyone who has ever written a paper and had to do any level of footnotes, endnotes, bibliography can probably see what he is suggesting would make authoring and referencing infinitely more approachable. What good writing tools have do you use?
- Convinced that AWS is akin to Thanos "Dread it. Run from it. Learning AWS arrives all the same" Feeling like the more I put it off the more I realize I should just get used to the terrible dashboard UI for viewing resources deployed from IaC
- Building something with real potential to be used by people all of the sudden makes this question very potent: Am I actually prepared for that? A lot of side projects aim is to turn into income. But then it kinda feels like if I was a dog who caught the squirrel, what do you do then?
- Where are the templates for anything but react or frontend framework? Where are the standards based templates? Where are the full fledged integration templates from companies whose technology works well in so many other places?
- I want a list of fun designed websites. If I see a tailwindui site you might get blocked 👀😅 Just want to work on my css design skills
- v0's ability to just ignore my prompts for not using nextjs or react is a bit stunning to me and yet I shouldn't have expected any more from it than that
- I fully confess to know nothing of mobile dev, but if @astro.build had a native setup, it would win.
- For the vast majority of Local First development, if you do not use react you are in for a world of hurt. Exceptions include: InstantDB (partially local first) for some other libraries Solid and Zero Some Svelte implementations Please everyone prove me wrong so I can use what you reference
- I think I’m finally realizing that a large constraint on getting started with products and projects is Design I want the site to be wonderfully designed but I can’t do that (yet) and I can’t pay for it and I despise templates 🤷♂️
- It’s funny how slowing down helps me get better at things when perceptively I should be doing more I started building a “framework” to server render web components and progressively enhance them with Nitro Oddly it has made many things clear to me and I’ve been able to dive into @bell.bz’s course
- Trying to work on a SSR web components framework utilizing enhance/SSR and Nitro Here is initial proof of concept that will be fleshed out over the coming days/weeks Thought @scottjehl.com might appreciate/be interested github.com/Benanna2019/...
- I just want to serve static assets from a public folder in a nitro app. I don't understand how I could mess that up but nothing on the root level "exists" I have to be being dumb
- Another good cursor use case, thinking of @threepointone.bsky.social again When you want to adapt a repo that is very particular but does something well to be more broadly used
- One reason I wish I had infinite money to angel invest would be so companies building legitimately cool things would not have to pivot to hype technology to try to ride the waves and get funding/investment I die for them
- I’ve reached this point with cars Cars used to stress me out. Now I just kinda laugh when something goes wrong.
- A lot of times I find encouragement and get the "dang, I could do that" feeling simply by watching/buying other creator courses. The content is so well done and the material is similar enough that it starts to make me want to hit 'publish' more
- For any screen recorder people out there If you haven’t looked into @aaronfrancis.com screencasting.com it is well worth it I found it worth it for the “setting up your screen” section alone Just reflecting after a year or so of having it
- OK Web Components people I am looking at an example of Web Components in react and frankly it works how I expect Web Components to work. I know html doesn't really accept objects but the ability to pass react like props to a web component is pretty cool I know Im probably wrong so please help me
- Watching Parks and Rec and realizing that Amy Poehler could still be the "first female president and be followed by two others she has inspired" We could use some of her optimism these days
- Pretty Sure OpenAI api platform just ripped Supabase's UI
- Ok, a few tips to make this week for Local First and egghead 1. Setting Convex, Clerk, and Tanstack Router (kinda Local First) 2. Starting an InstantDB project 3. Adding Jazz Tools and Auth to an Astro site (think higher order components)
- Got some Scheme programming language setup for a new workshop for the Functional Mastery site. Not really any goal here other than seeing how other functional languages have you write functions and the LISP family of languages feels so odd to my JS background
