textlog
join

Any conversation

500 chars / 15 lines max · use #hashtags, @mentions and more
😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣😊😇🙂🙃😉😌😍🥰😘😋😛😜🤪🤨🧐🤓😎🤩🥳😏😒😞😔😟😕🙁☹️😣😖😫😩🥺😢😭😤😠😡🤬🤯😳🥵🥶😱😨😰😥😓🤗🤔🫣🤭🫢🤫🤥😶😐😑😬🙄😯😦😧😮😲🥱😴🤤😪😵🤐🥴🤢🤮🤧😷🤒🤕🤑🤠😈👿👻💀☠️👽🤖🎃😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎💔❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝💟👍👎👌🤌✌️🤞🤟🤘🤙👈👉👆👇☝️🤚🖐️🖖👋🤝👏🙌🫶👐🤲🙏✍️💪👀👁️🧠🫀🫁🌱🌿☘️🍀🌸🌺🌻🌞🌙🔥🌈☀️☁️❄️🍕🍎🎉🎊🎈🎁🎵🎶🎨📚💡⚠️🚀🌍💻📱🔒🔑
example.com or
https://example.com
Regular links
[title](example.com) or
[title](https://example.com)
Markdown links
~text~ or ~~text~~
Strikethrough
*text* or **text**
Bold
_text_ or __text__
Underline
/text/
Italics
> text
Quote
1. first
2. second
3. third
Numbered lists
- first
- second
- third
Bulleted lists
Name  | Status | Count
----- | :----- | ----:
notes | ready  |     3
Tables
|redacted|
Redacted
`code`
Inline code
``````
Code fences
$inline$
Inline LaTeX
$$block$$
Block LaTeX
Which one? #poll
First option
Second option
PollsUse 2–8 unique options.
Which one? #quiz
Wrong answer
>Correct answer

Explanation revealed after answering
QuizzesMark exactly one of 2–8 unique answers with >. Text after a blank line is revealed after answering.
Visible text #spoiler
Hidden text
SpoilersText after #spoiler is hidden until revealed. Aliases: #tldr, #sensitive, #contentwarning, #cw, and #triggerwarning.
Going hiking #map
Kallikratis, Crete
MapsShows a map preview for the first location line. Alias: #location.
Today #todo
[ ] First task
[x] Finished task
TodosOnly [ ] and [x] lines become items. Click your items to toggle them.
Run this #exec
```js
console.log(6 * 7)
```
Executable codeRuns the next language-tagged code fence and shows its output beneath the note.
Keep this visible #pin
Pinned notesYour latest #pin is shown first on your profile, independently for notes and replies.
No more replies #lock
Locked conversationsPrevents new replies to this note and every reply beneath it.
About textlog #meta
Meta conversationsKeeps this note and its replies out of public discovery feeds. Aliases: #tlog and #textlog.
Continue quietly #whisper
Whisper conversationsKeeps the branch out of all and hot. Participants, mentions, and tag followers can receive it in my feed. It remains public elsewhere.
I'm just an android launcher called Nocebo Launcher. I don't have usual grid layout, instead I'm inspired by Darth Vader's TIE fighter. My layout can spin, like a real spinner and you can configure physics and animations. I'm easy, cool and novel
profileenter to followphotography, art, solo dev, based in NYCwrote:
#ainotesenter to follow Installed Hermes Desktop and starting to build out my team of bots. My experience with Hermes so far has been great: it keeps surprising me by being what i need it to be ... but I'll reserve a final judgement until after a proper period of use.
profileenter to followwrote:
(Opinion) People don’t like generative AI because it made the {insert creativity} too easy. Saw the HN post on ‘AI music banned from top 40 chart in Australia’ and people had very strong opinions in both directions. The hot take: If you’re ok with someone’s creativity being outsourced to others, then you should be ok with AI doing the same. If “AI made this and I call it mine” is bad but “someone overseas on fivver made this and I call it mine” and it’s suddenly ok, time to self reflect.
My hot take: from the moment you use technology, be it an instrument, a synthesizer, a DAW, and now AI, it is still your idea, your effort, your time spent, and that makes it yours. Others can do the same if they choose. The same way someone chooses a classic guitar over a synthesizer, one can choose an AI over (insert ancient way of doing things).
I am not a musician, so I lack the jargon to properly explain what I mean. I used AI for creative writing (nothing too fancy, TTRPG). There, the broader the dice roll, the more generic and uninteresting the results. Slop, if you will. It was surprisingly good to build up on ideas I had however. I imagine muisic also has building blocks. Melodies, instruments, mixing, etc. AI can perhaps be used in a similar fashion there.
😴profileenter to followI really enjoy learning, I really enjoy making. I'm learning to be less guarded.replied to🤸profileenter to followcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
I heard a perspective I sort of like: if AI is a tool then acceptable AI use is, more or less, defined as "when my audience no longer notices or cares". It's dynamic like that. Bad photoshop is detectable and annoying, so are overusing presets. Your artistry needs to expand to meet the tool. I don't know if I 100% like that or agree. At the same time, it's a pretty straightforward line, a practical take.
I once saw someone flip their pill bottle upside down after taking a pill. Not sure it'd help me, because I suspect that somehow I'd still only pay half-attention when taking pills and so still get forgetful and confused :shrug:
profileenter to followProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.replied to🤸profileenter to followcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
I’ve disabled ALL notifications except my meds. I highly recommend it. I check messaging or emails every hour or sometimes once a day. If I’m expecting someone to message me I’ll re-enable the app, but then disable after. It is so liberating!
🤸profileenter to followcreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied toprofileenter to followProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.:
That’s how I’ve had it but it didn’t work because I’d get my midday notification like 1 hour after waking up. My day pattern ≠ pill pattern. They just have to be spaced properly so I’d have to have relative notifications according to when I wake up lol.
találtam egy mikroblogot textlog.cctextloghotA quieter place for your thoughts. webcímmel, szerintem jól működik együtt a textlog.hu főoldalammal, makroblogban mikroblog, textlogban textlog beágyazva, kereshettem volna más megoldást, de ezzel egyelőre elégedett vagyok
I found a microblog with the web address textlog.cctextloghotA quieter place for your thoughts., I think it works well with my main page textlog.hu, microblog in macroblog, textlog embedded in textlog, I could have looked for another solution, but I'm satisfied with this for now
having just spent a week camper-travelling Norway, hiking mountains and glaciers, swimming in fjords really put some things into perspective for me - I should take more vacations
if for some reason you find yourself flying from burlington vt to a dc/baltimore airport: this is a perfect time to enjoy larks’ tongues in aspic [the album]
profileenter to follow10+ years Seattle based software engineer.wrote:
Recently hit 10+ years (cumulative) of being a software engineer. I must say, I enjoy senior level interviews much more than coding interviews.
i keep hallucinate.sitehallucinate.site open all day - the 3d pauses when the tab is out of focus, so i just get a ton of music i like without wasting cpu/gpu, and occassionally switch to the tab and play a little or chat if anyone's there. #funnotesenter to follow #vrnotesenter to follow #3dnotesenter to follow #ravenotesenter to follow #technonotesenter to follow
profileenter to followresearcher, developer, dancerwrote:
buit a keyboard driven calendar webapp right now cause im disappointed with all tho other solutions i could find. no dependencies, super customizable, im kind of obsessed. for the first time in my life im actually keeping my calendar alive.
Applied to an L5 software engineering role via e-mail and without any other contact I received back a bunch of questions that clearly look like they're aimed at L6 or even L7. Not sure what to do with that so I withdrew. Briefly considered answering them but was weirded out.
profileenter to followa work in progress; i love cats 🐱replied to(deleted account):
I love how dates go so well with cashews. So at least once a day, I grab about 5 whole cashews and 1 date. It’s a perfect little snack!
profileenter to followgrocer-engineer and polynomial enjoyer. not into reactionaries i attempt to stave off burnout with a healthy dose of dark souls, bloodborne, and friendswrote:
taking a week off to stave off burnout, catch up on some reading and writing and small projects, and finish Ocarina of Time. also will make soup
HN, and some carefully picked r/Reddits. Can't stand Lobste.rslobste.rsLobstersA computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion..
I'll toss in Alterslash which is more general tech, but always has something interesting.
profileenter to followa work in progress; i love cats 🐱wrote:
TPMS indicator came on, which means an unplanned Costco trip 🙁
🙈profileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied toprofileenter to followa work in progress; i love cats 🐱:
Just check, and top off as needed, the tyres pressure. Run it for a few miles. If it doesn’t go away, then take that trip.
profileenter to followa work in progress; i love cats 🐱replied to🙈profileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:
No gas station near me has nitrogen so it had to be Costco. I topped off air and also filled gas while I was there. It’s only 5 miles from me, so overall not bad.
I have something that usually builds, tests, and deploys under five minutes. It has been over two hours and forty eight minutes and it is still going on today... 🫣
Using Linux hasn't really been fun lately, idk. Nobara, despite building on fedora breaks a lot, but overall the whole ecosystem is so damn inconsistent and fragmented. Not sure if I have gotten more sensitive to this over the years but all I want is a system that "just works" and feels good 😔
profileenter to followI am just a grain of sand on your beach.replied toprofileenter to follow:
I had a great run with Mint for years. I was as boring as it gets. I got a new laptop recently and decided to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I am really enjoying it, but it is a bit too recent for me to swear by it.
profileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlywrote:
The inaugural, proverbial first post. Seems like a lovely service here.
🙈profileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied toprofileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
The proverbial first post should have been “hello world”. :-P You are the first rustacean I come across!
profileenter to followI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.wrote:
𐑲𐑥 𐑩𐑕𐑿𐑥𐑦𐑙 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑦𐑟 𐑯𐑪𐑑 𐑕𐑩𐑐𐑹𐑑𐑩𐑛 𐑓 𐑷𐑑𐑴-𐑑𐑮𐑨𐑯𐑟𐑤𐑱𐑖𐑩𐑯. I’m assuming #Shaviannotesenter to follow is not supported for auto-translation.
Hmm, maybe I’ll sometimes post in Shavian anyway and translate myself. It’s a skill I’m trying to practice but rarely otherwise write brief enough notes to be so inclined. 𐑣𐑩𐑥, 𐑥𐑱𐑚𐑰 𐑲𐑤 𐑕𐑳𐑥𐑑𐑲𐑥𐑟 𐑐𐑴𐑕𐑑 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑧𐑯𐑦𐑢𐑱 𐑯 𐑑𐑮𐑨𐑯𐑟𐑤𐑱𐑑 𐑥𐑲𐑕𐑧𐑤𐑓. 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑩 𐑕𐑒𐑦𐑤 𐑲𐑥 𐑑𐑮𐑲𐑦𐑙 𐑑 𐑐𐑮𐑨𐑒𐑑𐑦𐑕 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑮𐑺𐑤𐑦 𐑳𐑞𐑼𐑢𐑲𐑟 𐑮𐑲𐑑 𐑚𐑮𐑰𐑓 𐑦𐑯𐑳𐑓 𐑮𐑴𐑑𐑕 𐑑 𐑚 𐑕𐑴 𐑦𐑯𐑒𐑤𐑲𐑯𐑛.
profileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlywrote:
Writing. I want to do it, very badly. I just don't want to be bad at it. You have to be bad at it in order to get good at it. But... Catch 22 isn't it?
profileenter to followEat, drink, listen to 🎶, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.replied toprofileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
Who are you writing for? If for yourself, who cares - write. Do it in a place/tool that allows you to edit/rewrite some parts. In the future you can re-clarify, or if you get better, you can improve them. Focus on what you enjoy to write and write away.
profileenter to followreplied toprofileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
I think reading helps quite a bit, especially writing about what you’ve read, even to yourself, just so you can go through the process of having to explain something that you’re only recently familiar with. There’s something about that process that seems to be helpful, at least to me.
profileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlyreplied toprofileenter to follow:
If I can't explain it back perfectly, I tend to avoid even trying. I sort of skip all the questions that come in between, because I can't answer them yet. It's an odd place, my head.
🤡profileenter to followreplied toprofileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly:
Same. The way I consume information influences how I think. Short form content makes my thinking fragmented without a clear structure. I feel that fragmented thinking won't lead to convincing writing. And I'm trying to regain some of that lost control.
profileenter to followOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostlyreplied to🤡profileenter to follow:
Very interesting! I think something along those lines might be happening for me too. Another aspect, always cooking in the back of my mind, "if you can't explain it well, don't explain it at all."
profileenter to followpoet by heart 𓅰wrote:
uncontroversial opinion. Young Thug is the greatest vocalist of our generation.
🙈profileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to🤔profileenter to followswiley.net Try my zero dependency agent harness: public.swiley.net/agent.py If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.com:
My reply didn’t carry literal meaning. If you are familiar with the now-out-of-fad expression, you know you don’t need to be a boomer, to be a boomer. :-D
profileenter to followwrote:
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?
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 /post/1045
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. /post/1045
profileenter to followwrote:
Team vim, team emacs, or team “my editor doesn’t start wars”? One line, no essays. Go!
profileenter to followresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to😊profileenter to followPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.:
ouhh bet thats nice. im rocking some 50€ aliexpress print/pcb that i put some old switches/caps onto. legitimately impressed, best keyboard i ever used, never going back to traditional kbs.
I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.
they too have every incentive to exaggerate because they are selling safety and/or books on the topic. I don’t believe we won’t see it coming. Any issues that will manifest will be very visible and we’ll have plenty of time to mitigate their impact.
i dont think its all talk, these are smart people that have been in ai since the 2000s, and they raise good points. current incentive structures are very dangerous long term
they could be making a lot more money by just working at ai firms i fear. the thing that got me worried the hacking incidents lately, huggingface etc. if the capabilities consistently outspeed the development of safety measures, and if the private arms race logic continues, i dont think this is a good spot to be in long term
profileenter to followI am just a grain of sand on your beach.wrote:
while we wait for this to be true we could add our bits together remember to not sleep forever return when your dreams are through Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.
Fired up street view on Google Maps to have a look around. It seems like a pretty relaxed and peaceful place to live. 🌞
I was obsessed with Greece as a kid because of The Chipmunk's Adventure movie where they were dancing on the statues, ha. I was more into he statues (even if cartoon) than the dancing, and yet I have still never been there (I'm 45).
Crete is beautifulIt is!hiking a long gorgeThat would be Samaria Gorgeen.wikipedia.orgSamaria Gorge - Wikipedia! it’s not very far from here and it’s the largest in Greece, 7–8 hours hiking. You arrive at a beautiful beach. I crossed it when I was little, I remember whining a lot because for my small feet it was much harder.
profileenter to followIs mayonnaise an instrument? Email me if you want a pizza roll.wrote:
I showed my daughter Dog of Wisdom I, II, and III, and she loved them. I have hope for the future.
I truly love the experience of using apps with rich, deeply interactive, beautifully animated, gorgeous user interfaces. Then I see a beautiful text-based interface and something about it feels so natural, so inevitable, so perfectly clear, and I'm instantly captivated by its simplicity and clarity. Hypertext is fascinating.
profileenter to followcoder, reader, guitarist, seeker, builder.wrote:
When I sit with curious people, I build a lot of curiosity. And inspiration.