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Comment by PaulHoule

8 hours ago

I hear people report the opposite.

The sloppier a web app is, the more CSS frameworks are fighting for control of every pixel, and simply deleting 500,000 files to clear out your node_modules brings Windows to its knees.

On the other hand, anything you can fit in a small AVR-8 isn't very big.

Whatever you do, your mileage may vary.

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skybrian  7 hours ago

Yep, but I don’t intend to let that happen to my web app! It’s not that big and I intend to keep it that way.

Dependencies are minimal. There’s no CSS framework yet and it’s a little messy, but I plan to do an audit of HTML tag usage, CSS class usage, and JSX component usage. We (the coding agent and I) will consider whether Tailwind or some other framework would help or not. I’ll ask it to write a design doc.

I’m also using Deno which helps.

Greenfield personal projects can be fun. It’s tough to talk about programming in the abstract when projects vary so much.

  • PaulHoule  4 hours ago

    I've been working with an agent to make a web-based biofeedback "application" which is really a toolbox of components you can slap together to support

      - heart rate via Polar H10
  - respiration rate via strap-on device
  - GSR and EMG via arduino + web serial
  - radar-based respiration (SOTA says you can get R-R intervals as good as the H10 if you're not moving)

    and even do things like a 2 player experience. The code is beautiful, pure CSS the way it was supposed to be, visualizations with D3.js. I do "npm install" and can't get over the 0 vulnerability count. It's coding with React that's 100% fun with none of the complaints I usually have.

officialchicken  8 hours ago

Given the amount of Arduino code that existed at the time LLM's were trained, I would have to agree that AVR-8 might be fine. For now it's on the Cortex-M struggle bus.