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One Day Build - Play Outside

Inspired by Adam Savage and his One Day builds on youtube. I often build things, and want to make them generally useful for others and over configure out of the gate. This project is purely for me inspired by a need I have.

This post will not directly show how to make a weather app, but document the process that I went through to make mine. It will show the tools that I used to make it, and the final result.

It often goes in our house ask dad while he is busy and he will probably just say yes without thinking much. This happens a lot when kids ask to go outside. I think sure, go for it, you will figure it out. Then my wife walks in and asks where they are, followed by, did you even check the weather, its -11 degrees outside right now.

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I am working on a page for htmx-patterns and I ran into a situation with lots of duplication. Especially when i am us...

thoughts on unit tests

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Theo’s response puts a lot of my feelings about unit testing into words. Many of us have grown up in this world preaching unit testing. We often hear these statements “Everything must be unit tested, tests make code more maintainable.” In reality when we are not writing complex low level code unit tests are probably the wrong approach.

thought 192, a thought about theo’s reaction to prime’s unit testing

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Looking for a Heroku replacement, What I found was shocking!

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I’ve long hosted my personal blog as a static site on waylonwalker.com. It’s all markdown, converted to html, and shipped as is. It’s been great, I’ve moved it from GitHub Pages, to Netlify, tried Vercel for a minute, and have landed on Cloudflare Pages. Each migration has not really been that hard, it’s just pointing ci to a different host after the site has built.

Now the part that I have struggled with is how to cheaply host a server rendered application that can just live on forever without me paying for it. This is a harder problem as it costs more to keep servers spinning, memory, and disk all ready for you to use at a moments notice.

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I've recently given tailwindcss a second chance and am really liking it. Here is how I set it up for my python based ...