vinaygaba
Re:The Toddler Mindset: Decision-Making Without Constraints
on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @12:12PM (#43092253)
I totally agree with the need to be cautious - however, if there's one thing that Big Tech has taught me, it's that there will be 20 other people in the room that will remind you of exactly what you are suggesting. There's plenty of pessimism to go around, not enough optimism.
Re:The Toddler Mindset: Decision-Making Without Constraints
on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:40AM (#43091792)
I recently wrote about something I call "Toddler Mindset"—a way of approaching decisions by asking what’s possible instead of what’s allowed.
It’s a mental shift I'm forcing myself to learn after watching my daughter have zero regard for rules that we as adults invent for ourselves.
It's utility extends beyond just engineering systems and is even more applicable in how I'm trying to think about life in general.
I'm new to expressing my non-programming related thoughts on the internet so....be kind
Pocket Revolutions
“Space Hoisting” for building reusable and encapsulated UI Components
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King
on Sunday November 13, 2022 @12:24PM (#33585108)
> How on earth did he get £16Billion
I think this tweet really explains how he was able to raise a ridiculous amount of capital so easily - https://twitter.com/vinaygaba/status/1591822398894247946
What is “donut-hole skipping” in Jetpack Compose?
Re:Building apps in minutes, not months
on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:21PM (#28567324)
Very cool. I feel like this is the early version of a "programmable Notion[1]" in some ways which is built on similar building blocks that are customizable.
Showkase: UI component browser for Android developers
Re:Storybook: UI component explorer for front end developers
on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:43PM (#28494632)
For anyone interested in this space and wishes something like this existed for Android, I got you covered! I open sourced this project last year - https://github.com/airbnb/Showkase
Re:Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples
on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:46PM (#28420067)
I have a really similar motivation behind a project that aims to teach Jetpack Compose in the same fashion and funny enough, the name is also pretty similar to the title of this thread - Learn Jetpack Compose By Example. You can find it here - https://github.com/vinaygaba/Learn-Jetpack-Compose-By-Exampl...
There's a ton of comments in every example (even though they might be redundant across the examples) and the idea is that you should be able to learn this new framework by merely reading through the examples.
Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:04PM (#27175665)
I built an open source library for Android called Showkase [1]. Showkase autogenerates a UI component browser for your Jetpack Compose components on Android and allows you to search, visualize and organize your UI elements. Think Storybook but for Android development.
Auto-generated UI component explorer for Android (Storybook for Android)
Re:How the Jamstack is failing at comments
on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:20PM (#24844460)
I think a lot of people assume that Jamstack sites need to be static sites through and through. I don't think this is realistic and you will be overcomplicating things for yourself if you try to do this. For things that don't change often, having a static site has obvious benefits and Jamstack is well suited to build those parts of your site. For user generated content, you are better off just storing it somewhere else and loading it dynamically.
Re:Ask HN: What are the most requested algorithms during technical int...
on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:48AM (#13589265)
I have been asked a lot of problems whose solution was a variation of Breadth First Search.