Posts Archives - Jay Sharp https://sharpi.sh/posts/ Digital Product Development & Engineering in Europe & Hong Kong Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:52:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://sharpi.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/fav2-1.png Posts Archives - Jay Sharp https://sharpi.sh/posts/ 32 32 My Dev toolkit 2025 https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/my-dev-toolkit-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-dev-toolkit-2025 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:23:33 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2537 Writing this in march of 2026 notable shift at a rapid pace towards going fully AI. Platforms like V0 and Bolt fail to deliver cloud based SaaS for Coding, Gemini and Codex are king and queen. Working locally is most reliable, Vercel offers free hosting and simple deployments from Github. Figma to code is getting […]

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]]> Making an Android to SMS to SMTP App in a few hours. https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/android-to-sms-to-smtp-app/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=android-to-sms-to-smtp-app Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:10:17 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2529 During a meeting I was only half needed in, I ended up spinning up a small Android app for sending SMS to email over SMTP mostly with Gemini 3. That worked for a while, then Gemini 3 Pro started going into full meltdown mode and taking Visual Studio Code down with it. At that point […]

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]]> I found a cache of my early video work circa 2004 https://sharpi.sh/posts/multimedia/i-found-a-cache-of-my-early-video-work-circa-2004/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-found-a-cache-of-my-early-video-work-circa-2004 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:23:01 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2511 My dad somehow managed to dig out my old video production work from an archive. Inspired by Tarantino and Guy Ritchie—think Lock, Stock and Pulp Fiction and shot in glorious 640 x 480, I thought these videos were lost to the annals of history after I lost my Google Video account when it migrated over to YouTube. A […]

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]]> It’s fast, but you probably shouldn’t use the default public schema in Supabase https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/its-fast-but-you-probably-shouldnt-use-the-default-public-schema-in-supabase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-fast-but-you-probably-shouldnt-use-the-default-public-schema-in-supabase Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:07:17 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2497 Supabase’s automatic API generation from your database schema makes web app development incredibly fast. Instantly, your tables are exposed over REST and GraphQL API, and you can start building rich features without thrashing out any backend code or configuration besides the tables themselves. But is it wise to launch a product with data sitting in […]

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]]> Interface Line Commander Game vibe coded with Bolt https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/interface-line-commander-game-vibe-coded-with-bolt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interface-line-commander-game-vibe-coded-with-bolt Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:44:08 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2475 A game that’s like Battleships mixed with Space Invaders, but controlled via a Command Line Interface. You have to destroy the enemy sub before it torpedoes you, using only commands. This actually came from a dream I had one morning. I managed to build almost exactly what I imagined in about 7 hours, no idea […]

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]]> How to fix no pano or photo options on Mavic 2 Zoom, DJI Smart Controller https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/fix-no-pano-photo-options-dji-mavic-2-zoom-dji-smart-controller/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fix-no-pano-photo-options-dji-mavic-2-zoom-dji-smart-controller Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:10:52 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2438 TLDR You can 100% shoot 3D pano’s with the Mavic Zoom 2 and the  DJI smart controller, the options may be hidden due to an issue with the SD card. Make sure you are on “P” flight mode and trial and error fiddling formatting or changing the SD Card until it works. Problem This guide […]

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]]> Did I Accidentally Plagiarise a Chinese Car Company’s Logo? And Other Thoughts on Car Design https://sharpi.sh/posts/design/did-i-accidentally-plagiarise-a-chinese-car-companys-logo-and-other-thoughts-on-car-design/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=did-i-accidentally-plagiarise-a-chinese-car-companys-logo-and-other-thoughts-on-car-design Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:07:41 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2407 I was browsing through a font foundry site recently feeling distractible and stumbled upon an image of a car that caught my eye. The logo on this vehicle looked eerily similar to my company’s logo… Brand agency The studio behind this is Oker. Read more on the project here. This was done in around 2022, […]

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]]> Typical AI hallucination and contradiction in developer help requests https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/typical-ai-hallucination-and-contradiction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=typical-ai-hallucination-and-contradiction Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:03:48 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2387 I have been looking at ways to burn less tokens and use AI for free to code. Sign in with multiple accounts to V0 and work on small components. Use Perplexity for small reformatting or functionality changes, eg make the data in this array into a switch statement Occasonally use V0 for generating UI, it […]

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]]> A quick look at lovable.dev https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/a-quick-look-at-lovable-dev/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-quick-look-at-lovable-dev Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:12:07 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2381 lovable.dev Bit of a sloppy prompt, this could be more explicit about what routes show what, and so on but it’s a test “selfiewall is an app that allows hosts type users to create events for their guests to upload images and videos to. the guest users scan a QR provided by the host at […]

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]]> My Dev toolkit 2024 https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/my-dev-toolkit-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-dev-toolkit-2024 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 05:35:41 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2097 A review of what I ended up using regularly this year. This will get updated with why and links at some point. Graphic, UI Design and Video Davinci Resolve 18 Figma Low Code Webflow Relume.io CRM WordPress Video Online tools and Multimedia I love PDF remove.bg Unsplash Freepik Pexels Convert.io Perplexity.ai Code GitHub NextJS V0 […]

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