This is awesome and I love it. Thanks for sharing! I'm just wondering what made you wanna be a pilot instead of sticking with a regular software engineering career, especially since you’ve got a degree in that and, of course, your talent here :)

Thanks! My father being a pilot certainly played a large part, not in the sense that he forced me into it, but rather that I had the opportunity to sit on the jump seat as a kid (pre-9/11) and it planted the seed quite early.

After finishing my degree, British Airways had opened their cadet pilot scheme - windows of opportunity like that are usually short and infrequent, so I went for it! The nice this is that I can still code and keep up on the software engineering trends (what I tell myself while checking HN for the n-th time in a day) on the side, and I think it is also a safe set of skills to have in case I can no longer fly (pandemics, losing my medical, etc)

ive always wanted this. im going to give it a go!

does this happen to support IDE like vscode?

From the readme:

  VSCode Extension
    1. Open VSCode
    2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
    3. Search for "mbake Makefile Formatter"
    4. Click Install

thanks! apologies i was on mobile and missed this. im excited to try it out

i second this! datasette is amazing and i've been using it to publish data that i collect and find interesting

do you have examples i can refer to? i’d love to learn to write better docs

I write documentation for a living (a different, non-tech kind). The best resources in my opinion are the writing guides of various governments. Gov.uk leads the way, but the Australian government puts out great guides too.

Steve Krug's "Don't make me think" is old but still applies to the modern web.

i found Soft Skills Engineering Podcast this year and i'm enjoying it!

over the past few years: Dune Part I/II. I love the story telling, the visuals, the character building, the intensity etc.

mermaidjs is my default go-to. it works super well with Claude 3.5 if you ask it to visualize <something> in mermaidjs syntax

Thanks -- yeah mermaid is pretty awesome, and the integration into markdown (in many places) really makes it even better.

i experienced this too! it happened to my work account but not on my regular personal account. i’m not sure what happened there

this sounds like a cool story to write about!

i built a chrome extension recently and i was evaluating/trying out different frameworks for building a browser extension.

for anyone who is interested for an alternative to Plasmo, i chanced upon https://github.com/extension-js/extension.js