this thing is low key awesome. planned my renovations with it and my contractor was blown away. he offered (jokingly) to hire me to make models for other clients
The answer to "is {{tool}} worth it" is almost always "sometimes"
Typescript is a wonderful tool for many situations. Typescript may not be needed for all situations. There's upfront cost to configuration and tooling. But you get type safety and automatic documentation.
In all my new non-trivial projects, I default to typescript. It has caught so many issues and saved me a lot of time. Not having it feels like driving without a rear-view mirror. But, if I'm just writing a little script, I might omit it.
we switched to a heat pump last year and we’ve been mostly pleased. that said in the last cold snap when wind chill temps fell to -30 (we live in chicago) the entire system shut down! we talked to the installers and they said that when articles like this way “works down to -10” you have to understand that it’s the wind chill temp. also i’m sure there are other pumps on the market that would have faired better. we have a mitsubishi mini split.
D2 Diagrams were on top of HN last week. I wanted to use them on an existing db, but didn't find a way to do that. I made a little hacky tool to do just that
https://webreducer.dev - an event-sourced firebase alternative. You get an endpoint that let's you keep state through a reducer function. Change your reducer function and replay all requests to get a new state. Websockets and http endpoints for clients to connect with
