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exploring, looks cool, writing emacs package for it.

This is what we need.

I suck at math so bad ；⁠∀⁠；

It was only yesterday that I clicked on a Translate button to read a Japanese post. Today I see a Chinese post with English translation right below. Beautiful stuff.

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I like this.

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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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Clean Code

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I had so much pointless discussions about this ... but when you say "Clean Code" , do you mean the book or the general idea that such a thing exists?

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The book, but actually ideas, like tiny functions and names. Aposd is much deeper book. Hilarious read

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Been working on an old mastodon hosting project I tried to start a few years ago, with a focus on privacy. This is the first big project I've tried to come back to with the help of coding agents and find it invigorating, and gives me the confidence to actually finish the project. Who knows if it will ever make a dollar, but it sure is fun to watch my ideas come to life.

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Huge items in the plus column for Quebec City: lots of music stores, and lots of shops where you can buy a really good chef's knife.

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Monthly Mixtape - Sep 2026

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Drew a comic of vulpes inculta and my oc, I love SO MUCH!! ibb.co/B2x8dq9n

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Apologies for my horrible hand writing.

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Good efforts bro 💯 but the budget thing you can improve it a Lil more

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I'm trying to construct an argument that LLMs are like a chess engine. People still play chess. But somehow this falls short.

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Taking a small break from here to work on an for a friend! I missed .

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It didn’t work out, we found competition offering the same service for free so the fell apart. Need to find something else to do as a side project to textlog. 😕 Thinking of a code editor that’s focused on the new agentic workflows, so you have it on the side regardless of your agent tools and it monitors the git diff and offers a nice panorama view. I’ve done an extension for VSCode similar to this idea.

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Good outcome! Better to bail early and avoid toiling on a doomed idea. I'm always afraid of this 😅

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You might want to check out . Not exactly what you're speaking of, but the idea sounds similar.

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hát, jó, éppen telepítem a Windows 11-et, most járok körülbelül annál az érdekes résznél, hogy a TPM 2.0-ás processzor-izé egy Rufus nevű programmal elvileg szoftveresen kiváltható, meg hogy a windows 1125H iso-t kell beletölteni egy minimum 8 GB-os pendrive-ra

Well, I'm currently installing Windows 11, and I'm getting to the interesting part, where the TPM 2.0 processor chip can be replaced in software with a program called Rufus, and where the Windows 1125H ISO needs to be loaded onto a pendrive of at least 8 GB.

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I read Still trying to figure out the boundaries of these tools' strengths without outsourcing important thinking, problem-solving, and the collective building-up of a mental model of the systems we're developing. The shape of LLM tools as tools—fit for a purpose, ergonomic—is becoming clearer, and human patterns of behavior with them that do more harm than good are also becoming easier to recognize.

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hello folks

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Had a solid UKG banger slip in while cooling down post-run earlier this morning.

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The most elegant code I've ever written, is of a , using a tribool return (null, undefined, boolean) to denote status. I find it perfect.

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看到其他文章有自動翻譯，我覺得很酷

I think it's really cool to see other articles with automatic translation.

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所以我來嘗試一下自動翻譯的文章功能，但發現自動翻譯只有在瀏覽器上，行動裝置要自己手動按翻譯功能。

So I tried the automatic article translation feature, but found that automatic translation only works in the browser; on mobile devices, you have to manually press the translation button.

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Hello world!

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