Self-taught dev who hated tracking money → built Expenie 🎮
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I’m not a designer myself, but I’d bet that AI is still far from replacing great designers.
Design isn’t just about creating visuals—it’s about design thinking, taste, intuition, context, and solving complex human problems. AI can assist, but I don’t think it has reached that level yet.
Just my opinion. Happy to be proven wrong.
@pcshipp That is why it is more important now to do Test Driven Development. Because coding was never the hard part. The hard part was the programming, the thinking behind building a system.
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How you are doing mutation/fetching within Next.js App Router? My patter : Server Components use DAL functions for fetching, Server Actions for mutations, API Routes exclusively for webhooks. This seems clean but I wonder whether if you run into any troubles with this approach?
How you are doing mutation/fetching within Next.js App Router?
My patter : Server Components use DAL functions for fetching, Server Actions for mutations, API Routes exclusively for webhooks.
This seems clean but I wonder whether if you run into any troubles with this approach?
How do you stay motivated to keep building as a solo developer?
Some days I’m excited to work on my product.
Other days it’s really hard to even open the laptop.
Still trying to figure out how to keep showing up consistently.
What helps you?