I recently vibe coded a stock options vesting tracker for myself. I did a single HTML file with vanilla JS/CSS. Somehow, the design came out looking vaguely similar to what the OP is showing. The AI seems to like these oblong rounded divs.

"tu" is a term of disrespect used by the students at Texas A&M University (Aggies).

A&M is the other very large public university system in Texas. So there is a small intra-state rivalry there.

What does hyprland offer over i3?

From my experience, nice decorations. I haven't gone further than getting a top bar set up and getting my normal shortcuts setup.

I'm sure I'm not getting everything everything I could out of it.

Thanks for sharing. So the dumb question - do you feel like Claude Code & Cursor have made you significantly more productive? You have an impressive list of personal projects, and I can see how a power user of AI tools can be very effective with green field projects. Does the productivity boost translate as well to your day job?

For personal projects, I have found it to be transformative. I've always struggled with perfection and doing the "boring parts". AI has allowed me to add lots of little nice-to-have features and focus less on the code.

I'm lucky enough that my workplace also uses Cursor + Claude Code, so my experience directly transfers. I most often use Cursor for day-to-day work. Claude has been great as a research assistant when analyzing how data flows between multiple repos. As an example I'm writing a design doc for a new feature and Claude has been helping me with the investigation. My workflow is more or less to say: "here are my repos, here is the DB schema, here are previous design docs, now how does system X work, what would happen if I did Y, etc."

AI is still fallible so you _do_ of course have to do lots of checking and validation which can be boring, but much easier if you add a prompt like "support every claim you make with a concrete reference".

When it comes to implementation, I generally give it smaller, more concrete pieces to work with. e.g. for a personal project I would say something like "here is everything I want to do, make a plan, do part 1, then do part 2, example: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/scout-for-lol/tree/227e784...)

At work, I tend to give it PR-sized units of work. e.g. something very well-scoped and defined. My workflow is: prompt, make a PR on GitHub, add comments on GitHub, tell Cursor "I left comments on your PR, address them", repeat. Essentially I treat AI as a coworker submitting code to me.

I don't really know that I can quantify the productive gain.. I can say that I am _much_ more motivated in the last few months because AI removes so much friction. I think it's backed up by my commit history since June/July which is when I started using Cursor heavily: https://github.com/shepherdjerred

Using this, can I test canvas?

I have a React component that renders to a canvas (see "DeckGL"). The component renders data that it gets from the backend. So I'd need to mock API requests, then screenshot contents of the canvas.

yes, i've used vitest browser mode to test canvas operations. it's designed to use 'snapshots' which capture page state, not screenshots, but that can detect visual difference on the canvas.

if you're performing GL operations you'll need to pass options to your browser driver to enable GL (for playwright chromium it's just `--enable-gpu`)

unfortunately, canvas rendering is sensitive enough to platform that you may have trouble matching snapshots between developer machines and/or CI.

I assume you read a lot. How do you consume books, and how do you organize knowledge?

I use Django + DRF for SPA. SPA bundle is served from an nginx container, but I don't see any problem building it into the django image either.

What is the right framework for building SPAs?

Probably one, whose basic idea is to make an SPA. Django has all the tools for making a multi page website/application, which you are then not using. There is probably a framework that is based on the idea of making an SPA and that doesn't include the other stuff.

I am a big fan of gaming on Linux, but I've been running into weird bugs with some of my favorite games.

For example, a couple months ago, my install of TW:WH3 started to crash after 20-30 seconds in the main game. I think it started happening after a minor patch. Another example is Battle Brothers. The game ran flawlessly. Then I installed and played a copy on a Windows laptop using the same Steam account. After that the game stopped booting properly on Linux. (Maybe a coincidence.)

As a result, I still boot into Windows now and again to play these games. I am dual-booting.

The frustrating thing is that it's very difficult to figure out why a game is crashing unless you run Steam from a terminal. The logs are hard to find otherwise - at least if you're using the Flatpak version of Steam.