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Everybody Gets Their Own Key Fred Brooks said in the Mythical Man-Month, "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." I don't think…

Create-Decent-App 2.0 Released We've released Create-Decent-App 2.0, which is a project source code generator for local-LLM-based web apps. I say "we", but "we" is "me" right now. The Royal We, perhaps. If you know how to write React-based web apps already, the tool will be…

After a month of work, I've released Create Decent App 2.0. This is a tool that generates project source for a local-LLM-based web app. It can also be used to create apps intended for deployment on the Decent Portal. (quick-start guide for Create Decent App)…

There's plenty of 3rd-party libraries for web widgets and design systems, e.g. Tailwind, Material Design, Bootstrap. Why reinvent the wheel? I think there are good reasons that will often justify writing your own widgets. First, they aren't that hard to write. I think many web…

I've got some developers interested in writing apps for the Decent Portal. And it occurred to me there is one important thing for me to fix in the create-decent-app (CDA) project generator to avoid annoying them. If you're not familiar with vendoring, it's when your…