Funny enough, teaching is my area of expertise, so I think I get where you’re coming from. But I also think it’s important to remember that there are a ton of ways to learn, and at the end of the day, only the person learning knows how deep they want to go with a given topic. That comment, “We aren’t your teachers, and what you need is instruction,” kinda comes off as condescending, but maybe I’m just reading it wrong. “We” means a lot of people, but not everyone.

I’m sure the books you suggested are great for building the basics, but assuming what someone’s willing to do or not just based on a quick post doesn’t really take the full picture into account. It’s like drawing. You don’t need to be the next Da Vinci just because you enjoy it. You can have fun, draw simple stuff, and share it with people. You might not end up in a museum, but that’s totally fine. Not everyone needs to be an expert to enjoy what they do. However, learning the basics definitely helps to draw better, right?

Totally agree with that. I was trying to keep things as simple as possible, but there was always a new thing to try. I’m currently not implementing anything new, just focusing on enhancing what is already there.

Sounds great, I’ve just released a small update after some feedback here. There’s still a lot to be done, but let me know what you think once you test it.

That’s pretty cool, I’ve never heard about newreleases.io I might take a look at it later. Thanks

That’s actually a good idea. I was thinking about getting the features “working” as intended. I’ll give it a try to the “explain back” method and see how it goes. Thanks

I hate bots, for real… I kind of miss the old days of internet where we could jump in a forum or any community to talk and connect with people. But I kind of get the point of building mechanisms to reduce the “bots infestation”. Things are definitely more complex to visually and/or auditory impaired people. But at least, Lemmy isn’t as annoying as Reddit and people sound genuine.

😅 no worries man, your comment just reminded me a popular saying in my local community; “who watches the watchman”

I think documenting everything is key so people can clearly see the progress. I didn’t know that you could merge the changes to the main branch and that it is a core skill as you mentioned. I kind of noticed exactly what you said “it may change other parts of that file that you didn’t ask for” while doing some tweaks. This AI topic has too many branches and it’s a fascinating topic for debates. Thanks for taking the time to give this advice.

Geez, it’s really hard to have normal conversation nowadays on the internet. There’s this constant skepticism of AI comments, and I get it. Most of the time I just feel like I’m talking to bots. However, I’m surprised that people really take their time to give their opinions here and they seem to be legit. Weirdly enough, I’m quite a positive and enthusiastic person… or at least I’m trying to practice that. There’s been too much negativity around me lately, but who cares about what happens in my life, right haha? Don’t need to explain myself to any one, but just felt like I needed to do.

There’s certainly some homarr influence to that. Specially the icon search and the drag and drop cards. I was also trying to create something that could work as a “main panel” for my applications.

'll keep an eye on it and keep asking around. I’m pretty sure there are better ways to do that.

In this world of technology, applications there are too many areas of expertise required to make things “functional” I’m not sure if I can learn everything required to make applications at the level of the most popular ones. I’m more interested in general knowledge and putting ideas out there. I still think that getting this project to the public even if it’s not that great, is still better than have it just on my computer. So, the main purpose is to hear from people what they think of the project, maybe inspire others with more experience to put their projects out there too. My expectations were pretty low about this project, but it turned out to be a great experience to engage with many people from different background just like you.

No worries, reddwarf. I should’ve pointed out that this project was created using AI. It seems that having a tag for this type of projects can definitely avoid some misunderstandings. I hope you have a great day!

Hi ramielrowe. You made great points here. I’m definitely stepping out of my area of expertise. I also understand that when comes to LLM we must not blindly follow/accept things and having some previous knowledge on the topic you intend to work with, gives you much better results and allow you to spot inconsistencies or more importantly, mistakes. I’m aware of the “positive feedback” that is pretty evident specially on ChatGPT, that’s why I try my best to challenge it. I completely understand your analogy on “cognitive debt”. It’s pretty similar to a reinforcing learning process on humans. If you teach people the “wrong way” and keep reinforcing that without any correction, you know the results.

Regarding the code quality, I’m pretty sure it isn’t top notch, that’s why I’m sharing it here so people who really understand it can point out the flaws and suggest improvements. What I’ve learned so far from the feedback in the comments, is that I need to improve the way I communicate my ideas and the purpose of the application. Since this is my first project, and I’m not very familiar with the dev & tech community, I’m learning the do’s and don’ts along the way.

Hi Thaurin, I appreciate your feedback, I understand that security must be a top priority. I’m glad your pointing it out. If you have any advice on how to improve it, it’ll be more than welcome.

That’s right, I’ve been working on this project for a few weeks. I wasn’t sure if I should commit it to a public repo, but I thought it’d nice to have other people testing it out, and giving their opinion. Honestly, I never used github before, that’s why the account is new. I committed everything at once, when I felt like the application was “functional”.

That’s a great question isn’t it? That’s why I posted it here, so maybe I can find people interested in working on this project and help me out to clean things up, get it more organized, structured and “free of AI slop”. What do you think?

Hi Appoxo, I agree that AI can be slop, but it seems like it’s getting better over time. I’m not claiming that this is a revolutionary new application, it’s more like a prove of concept that I wanted to test out. What does it do? well, you basically have a centralized place to keep tracking of your docker images and get a notification when there’s a new release so you can update it manually or automatically as you wish that’s the main utility of it. There are a few other things but, maybe thye aren’t interesting enough.

Hi markko, you’re right, adding a tag would certainly lower expectations and give more clarity to projects. I’ll add this on the post and to the repo.

I won’t stop just because you’re saying it. You can only “know what you’re doing by doing it”. That’s why I made this project public available so anyone interested in looking at it, modifying it, improving it is more than welcome. I’m not selling it or claiming that I’m an expert. Quite the opposite, I’m looking for people who are genuinely interested in exploring new things and helping people out. I’ll rely on the experience and good will of experts of this community.