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As an experiment to use Claude code I m working on a new project: YalaLoop. It s a cross-platform audio player that allow you to loop sections, slow them down and change pitch. It s built with flutter and should go into the app stores soon. Experience with Claude Code so far Working with Claude code has been [ ]
A few months ago I decided to get back into experimenting in Google Ads advertising for both my day job and Observu website monitoring. I quickly learned that Google Ads is very good at letting you pay for low value traffic and making you believe you are doing a good job. 1. Mistake clicks for [ ]
There is excellent information available on testing Flask e.g. http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/testing/ One thing I ran into was the need to set up a user session for most of my test cases. The documentation suggests something like: with app.test_client() as c: with c.session_transaction() as sess: sess['a_key'] = 'a value' but repeating that in every test case (especially [ ]
Everyone who has ever coded anything significant (and probably everyone who has ever done anything that requires creativity) will recognise the problem of getting stuck. Most of the time it is caused by lack of information or confidence to move forward. Over time I ve identified a number of reasons I get stuck and also strategies [ ]
As a developer, I don’t particularly enjoy customer support. Questions are either about things that are obvious (or should have been) or about things that I don’t have a clue about either and need a lot of investigation. Some customers are just plain rude with “it’s not working” in the subject and nothing else. At [ ]
In October 2013 PayPal changed a bit of their server infrastructure. They announced it well, with multiple warnings about requiring the Host: header to be sent with verification requests. Now suddenly my PHP IPN scripts did not work anymore, data was coming in but nothing got verified. Checking the response quickly points out that PayPal [ ]
For the past two years, I ve been working on one of our products: Observu, a site and server monitoring platform. The last year we ve applied it to our existing sites and customers and now we feel it s ready for others to see and use as well. It took a bit longer than anticipated, due [ ]
It has been common practice for years now for startups to blog about their new product and its development. It s one of the key methods to keep your future customers informed. However, as soon as you find yourself in the situation to blog it can t hurt to have some inspiration. First, I ve selected blogs that [ ]
For Observu implementation we are using Pivotal Tracker to keep track of features and progress. I ve posted a full review on our Observu Blog. To summarize: the idea of having a single ordered list of features instead of just a bunch with priorities is amazing. It gives you so much more information and forces you [ ]
If you start a new product/website/service it s wise to know your competitors. Find out what they offer at what price and quality. There is nothing wrong with that. However, it s easy to fall in a different trap: get the feeling that you need the same features as your competitors have. This leads to three problems: [ ]