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I like this concept

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I love the "feel" of this place. It's minimal, but not too minimal. Nice work! I'm probably gonna be a little chatty on here. If anyone minds that, then just @ me :-)

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Also, thank you for not turning my emoticons into emoji!! As someone from the pre-internet era, I appreciate that :-)

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But can we use emoji if we want? 🤔

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It's just very pleasant.

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curious to know whats the experience of production push in other companies? e.g lots of documents/approvals…

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Why do so many tools have JSON config files‽ Commenting why options have been set the way they have is just such a basic thing to want to do… Why do tech people have such an aversion to writing things down⁇

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TOML is a better format for configuration files IMO, if not for many reasons, primarily because TOML accepts comments. However, one annoying thing for TOML was the lack of schema, and the reliance on JSON Schema for that. Which I decided to tackle years ago when I started the TOML Schema project. In the past few months I leveraged code agents to take to the finish line and got something compelling: tomlschema.org

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that is so nice

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That’s really cool. I suppose it would allow people to verify their config file is valid without having to pass it to in the intended program, which might be running in production or infeasible to run locally — very interesting

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Exactly! The schema also enables tools to have rich editors to config files without having to know about the config file format upfront. There is an editor for TOML Schema as an example, on the website.

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I don't know:  
  They should be using YAML:
    - That's for sure

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playtested my game at an event last night. so much fun to see people curiously prod at mysteries i constructed, and stubbornly battle its challenges. oh no i might actually have to finish this one

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Awesome! I'm reading right now and you've captured the vibe.

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ah nice, i’ll have to check that one out is it a fun read?

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I’m enjoying it. tbh I never played the game, but his journal entries are a fun view into the mind, insecurities and all, of someone building something they’re excited about.

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At Chipotle for dinner.

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It is Taco Tuesday after all.

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World's best off-by-one error

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There is someone absolutely rotten and fetid in this airplane. Every 10 minutes. Dear Spaghetti Monster!

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日本語話者はどれくらいいるんだろう。ここで日本語で書き込み続けるのはどうなんだろう

I wonder how many Japanese speakers there are. Is it okay to keep posting in Japanese here?

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こんにちは世界

Hello World

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こんにちは。はじめまして。

Hello. Nice to meet you.

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ここで日本語で書き込み続けるのはどうなんだろうサイト作成者はさまざまの言語の話者が一緒に話せる場面にしたい気がする

I wonder if it's okay to keep posting in Japanese here. I get the feeling the site creator wants this to be a place where speakers of various languages can talk together.

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Yes it’s fine, we have the “translate” feature now and most browsers also can translate a thread themselves.

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τώρα έχουμε αυτόματες μεταφράσεις!

now we have automatic translations!

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Productive weekend started four hours ago for me (at 06:00 EDT). Visited aunties and mum. Just got home, and waiting for wife to finish preparing to get on the road again. Next destination: nursing home (visit family, and “adopted” elders).

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Frustrated with my phone usage again tonight, I uninstalled several pointless and time-consuming apps. It’s a cycle I repeat every few months. During this cycle, I wasted a lot of time on one of those puzzle-matching games. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu Touch at this point

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i made it is an open-source version of grammarly that uses chatgpt, grok subscription or even then already local apple intelligence models.

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looks great!

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thanks mate.

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But maybe we'd all be a little saner if we remembered what we're actually doing: building tools to make our lives and the lives of others easier.

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This resonated a lot. I’m glad I read it now, before going totally insane lol. But I disagree that it’s just a glorified spreadsheet. The UI/UX matters, how you present the data, how they can change and so on, all of those things play a role. The good thing with AI is iteration is cheaper than ever, so you can experiment and process the results quickly. But yeah sometimes I just do things here because I just have to be doing something, I can’t leave it alone.

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Agreed. The "just" makes the statement sound dismissive, but I do agree with the underlying sentiment that most software boils down to CRUD apps that help people organize information and complete tasks more efficiently. I think the path to developer enlightenment is realizing this truth without despairing over it.

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Turn the car on. Shift in Neutral. Gas to the bottom. This is how my head feels most of the time.

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You’re in the right place.

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I do feel oddly at home here, and it's unusually pleasant!

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Recently hit 10+ years (cumulative) of being a software engineer. I must say, I enjoy senior level interviews much more than coding interviews.

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Being interviewed or interviewing?

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Yeah, got through some interviews earlier this week. Waiting on responses.

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i'm always anxious and i stutter when i get an interview, which lately has been none hence i have time to build things like this site

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For , the tension between & to eat healthy is an interesting problem. If you don't have time, it is difficult:

to learn to cook,
to source real food,
and cook real food

If you don't have money, it's difficult:

to afford real food
or solve one of the time problems above

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Yea, aside from the money, sourcing is a big problem, one thing I noticed when trying to at some point was that there are zero vegan snacks in ordinary neighbourhood stores, so that didn’t last very long.

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Choice is definitely a problem. We notice it when we go to our cabin, about a 2 1/2 hour drive away. The grocery store there targets for its local community. It is beef-centric and often boxed foods -- which is not our diet. Access -- or lack thereof -- is the worst kind of problem. illustrate the historical and complex nature.

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Hello world

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Tried some after a long time again today. Couldn’t hold my thoughts for 15 seconds. I used to be able to and blank my mind for 5 to 10 minutes. Need to practice again, I remember how beneficial it was to my when I did it in the past.

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I've heard it said that every moment you realize your mind has been wandering is a moment of clarity. So uhhh.... a moment of clarity every 15 seconds sounds pretty good :grin:

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Mind should not wander. Mind should obey. :p

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Personally, I think I found good framework/vocabulary to help with meditation in some discussion by Jiddu Krishnamurti. Here is one in which he works it out with kids There was a short, to the point lecture where he basically walks you through observing thought, which profoundly changed how I approach meditation but I can't find it for the life of me!

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I'm in a similar spot. I haven't maintained a regular practice since I had kids. I can observe the absence of the benefits I got from my practice, too. I'm more reactive and less focused in general. I think that my practice gave me the tools I need to stay present with my daughters, though, so I'm grateful for having retained that.

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Hello to friends. Holla for tools. 👨‍💻 : , , and Pragmata Pro 💪 : NotePlan 🎧 : Overcast 🧠 : Allume 🖋️ : Mark Two (EDC), Pen Type-B 🌳 : Anisota

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