▲ 5 r/manim

Is anyone using manim for non Math vidoes

I know manim is built for math but, I have a feeling it can be useful for many other types of animations and visuals. Curious if there's anyone out there making videos not related to math? If so, what kinds of videos are you making?

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u/working_unicorn — 13 days ago
▲ 0 r/nextjs

How do I disable this autocomplete

Which autocomplete tool is this? Is this kilcode? or VS code's own native one? I can barely write 2 characters without it getting in the way and I can't seem to disable it. This is a screenshot from VS code. Please help.

u/working_unicorn — 1 month ago
▲ 3 r/selfeducation+1 crossposts

Be honest would you use something like this to learn Math?

I've been working on this for a while, it basically explains any math or physics topic with cool visuals

Still rough around the edges, but curious what you think. Would something like this actually be useful to you?

I've been using it myself for my own self study and it's kind of ok. Not mind blowing but I think there could be potential here.

You can check it out if you want at sycamore.to

u/working_unicorn — 2 months ago

Is it better to study the material or practice a ton of past questions?

I am doing electrical engineering and I'm not sure which strategy to focus on. I can either study insanely hard and understand the core content at a deep, fundamental level so that I can answer any question, or just practice as many past questions as possible to have a grasp of what could come up in the exam because questions tend to have the same format. I feel like practice is better as it directly prepares me for passing the exam, which is the only thing that matters to me, to be honest.

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u/working_unicorn — 2 months ago

I stopped using Canva by templating HTML and screenshotting it with Puppeteer

Creating assets for posts takes forever in Canva, even with templates. So I built a small pipeline to automate that step entirely.

The setup is simple:

  1. I have a standard HTML template for each graphic, with named placeholders in the markup
  2. A function takes in the content variables (title, website url, copy, whatever the asset needs), does a find-replace on the placeholders, and returns the final HTML string
  3. That HTML gets passed to a Puppeteer wrapper that renders it and screenshots it to an image file

That's it. The output is indistinguishable from something designed manually because it is a real rendered HTML/CSS layout, not a generated image.

The practical upside is that I can now trigger graphic creation from anywhere in my workflow.

Downside is that to add a new template you have to manually recreate the design in HTML. There's really no way around this. But it's one of those things which you do once and reap the benefits forever.

Happy to provide the code for this.

u/working_unicorn — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/nextjs

Why is Nextjs caching so aggressive in dev mode?

I am trying to send a request to my backend but it never arrives, and it just keeps returning the exact same error as before.

This is obviously a caching thing, but when you are iteratively developing you need a tight feedback loop to see if changes are actually working. So every time I hit this caching issue I have to restart the dev server, sometimes delete the .next folder, and sometimes delete node modules.

Why on earth is aggressive caching turned on by default in a dev mode? It completely ruins productivity and makes debugging a nightmare.

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u/working_unicorn — 3 months ago

What’s a time your unrelated interests gave you a major advantage?

Have you ever had a moment where being well versed in completely uncorrelated areas gave you a leg up? I mean pulling a concept from one random field and applying it to another in a way that was totally counterintuitive to everyone else, but worked.

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u/working_unicorn — 3 months ago

I only understand physics when I build something. What is the best project to forever embed physics in my mind

If you had to recommend one practical thing to build or do that will make foundational physics concepts undeniably clear, what would it be? Can be a physical build, a coding project

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u/working_unicorn — 3 months ago

Is the fourier transform in any way connected to integration?

I've been thinking since the Fourier transform is adding an infinite number of sine waves to approximate any signal, and integration is analogous because it adds up infinitely many infinitely thin rectangles to approximate the area under a curve, are they related?

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u/working_unicorn — 3 months ago