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Dan Barclay
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Tech Lead 🧑🏻‍💻 Website and app builder ⛏️
Ending Food Waste for Good with KeepFre.sh
Say you're working on a UI design from Figma that's using hex codes for colours:

If you stumble across a new colour to add to the UI e.g. #EAF2FC, does a tool exist to automatically determine the relative value of the new colour to your existing colour set? Ideally would return blue-100 here
December 31, 2024 at 11:38 PM
"Hey Siri, define recovery winter arc" 📈

*Disclaimer, my work required me to use a different Github account so these are all purely open source commits.

Feels great to be getting back to side projects and super motivated to make 2025 the year they go live.

Happy New Year everyone 🎉
December 31, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Inching closer to getting KeepFresh live (the app I'm building for fighting food waste).

Keeping to a strict MVP is a challenge but motivated to share a TestFlight link in early January.

Back to designing the last screens and then hooking up the API 🚀

github.com/barclayd/kee...
December 29, 2024 at 11:26 PM
This might be my most satisfying Github Actions set up yet.

Context: Large monorepo of projects that each have their own tests (no shared code). Only run tests for projects that have code changes in the most recent commit(s).

Git diff + bash magic generates a matrix of projects to be tested, < 9s
December 16, 2024 at 7:50 PM
TIL I've been sleeping on folders in Mail for over a decade 🤯

Today is the first time I've seen my inbox at 0 since the day I setup my email account. Feels great to have things organised.

Now to create an LLM that can do all future organising for me 🧠
December 16, 2024 at 6:47 PM
@alem.forge42.dev inspired by your great work on getting React compiler into react router v7. Have you had any success in getting Vitest + testing library up and running when using Vite v6?

I'm getting this when reproducing the example test from the docs reactrouter.com/start/framew...
December 9, 2024 at 12:20 AM
I think it’s worth the effort because it’s such a useful tool.
Would be great if people find it organically.

Lighthouse scores are popping, top job 👏
December 5, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Advent of Code never looked so festive 🎄
Thanks @simonbs.dev!
December 5, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Love the idea Evan! Feels like ChatGPT might be the first to win that race as you can now attach it to multiple applications. So it could naturally lead to having scope of multiple editors at once
December 3, 2024 at 10:38 PM
If Apple can serve up error handling UI like this to prod, so can you 🥴
November 22, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Workaround for killing an existing task before running a new one. It really shouldn't be this hard
November 16, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Turns out automatically triggering a build+run with a keyboard shortcut is impossible out of the box too - without manually clicking this popup every time?! 🤯
How does this not have native support yet?
And I've only been developing in Swift on Cursor for 3 hours...
November 16, 2024 at 1:46 AM