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, is this a bug?

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No just limitation currently tags are alphanumeric (latin) so it stopped at ñ. I'll see what I can do.

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Ahh, I see.

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Fixed :)

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Woot, woot! Hopefully the OP comes back. :-)

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But I already have a first note

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what happened? you might saw a cached page

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Follow me if you want me to email you a pizza roll

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Naturally, as soon as I return from a week of vacation, GitHub is having an outage 😑

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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... 🫣

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Cancel and retry? Btw textlog builds, tests and deploys in ~45s 😁

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I wanted to see what it would do. It got automatically canceled in six hours.

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Can't spell "social coding" without "slo ci/cd"

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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.

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Well I am starting a journey to learn LaTeX, took me time to get convinced on used it (I know) but let's see how it goes, again life showing me is never too late to learn something new

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We now support it here, see

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what ls -flag is your go-to?

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I wish ls had an option to make . and .. top-sticky no matter of -r and -t.

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-ltrah Sometimes -ltraRh

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ls -lah

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-Fla, so that’s my la alias…, but now I use and thus alias la=‘eza -F -l -a

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Missed opportunities ITT for cheeky puns like -thrall -Flash etc

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Hello everyone! Just testing this out!

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találtam egy mikroblogot 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 , 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

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I had a great summer vacation

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hey that's great! happy for u, places you visited?

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My childhood home. I saw enough of the world, now rediscovering what changed back home.

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Hello, textlog!

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hello! welcome! :)

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Things I'm enjoying lately: Vampire Survivors + Diablo IV Alien + Dune ambiance Howling Dark book 2 of Sun Eater great TV

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Collected my helper functions to lozenge.el package, e.g. (◊duckduckgo "textlog") opens ddg. Lozenge is ◊ character. Others are (◊find-file), (◊grep), (◊github-search), (◊show-commit) etc.

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Well, I think my IRCd (Eris v2) is close to be complete.

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🥳

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Apa kabar dunia?

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(defun textlog-post (beg end) "Publish the region between BEG and END to `textlog-url'. Interactively, requires an active region. Returns the URL of the new post when the server reports one."

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I'm making a Kakoune version of this for sure.

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Yes, meow is the second-most popular modal editing package, after evil (vim).

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That's pretty neat.

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Ah, no, I meant meow, the Kakoune-inspired emacs plugin.

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You have , there is no need. I tried Emacs out a while ago to see whether it could replace Kakoune (I wanted to draw arbitrary stuff like images, 3D views, etc., in the editor) but honestly, Kakoune makes everything so easy to integrate that it was hard for it to compete.

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mornin'

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hihihi

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Hello, World!

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n=27;s=[n]
while n!=1:
    n=n//2 if n%2==0 else 3*n+1;s.append(n)
for v in s[:15]:print(f"{v:>4} "+"█"*min(v//3,40))
print(f"{len(s)} steps, peak {max(s)}")

stdout length exceeded

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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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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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! n

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I like this, it feels like Reddit before what it is now, but I feel like it won’t be long until the internet destroys this place. Until then I’m happy to be here.

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It's really sad that this is such a common sentiment whenever there's a nice online community nowadays. Guess most of us have been burnt enough times by now

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lets enjoy this while it lasts i guess

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My favorite part of classic reddit was the use of elaborate hacks to circumvent the restrictions on custom subreddit CSS. E.g. animated gifs weren't allowed, so people made filmstrip sprites with stepwise animation in such a way as to look exactly the same.

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, 'for you' tab only show text by me. is that it?

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The interface needs some work. For example, I would like the textarea that I am using right now to be as wide as the header above. Also, where is the character counter?

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Fixed! The character counter is impossible tho as we don't have any client JS.

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hello all and good morning. i need to go buy coffee

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morning! one for me too. a cappuccino please.

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This is my first note, there are many like it, but this one is mine.

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The live tab on the android app is interesting... How does it work? This is a test 🫣

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Does it do some kind of polling? Is there some kind of notify like publisher subscriber? 🤔

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It’s using the /firehose endpoint. It’s an SSE endpoint publishing everything latest. Though I meant it to be used server-side, since it’s heavily rate-limited — up to 3 conns under the same network, but I can’t control how clients decide to use it so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Might just lift the limitation.

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Lifted, that’s how clients want to use it then so be it! Should be fine. We’re nowhere near crashing the server from connections.

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What is this? I Like It

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Have a wonderful day.

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Well back ok the saddle after some deserving rest.

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uncontroversial opinion. Young Thug is the greatest vocalist of our generation.

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Rap isn't really even music.

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in big 2026 we are still bringing anti rap takes lmaooo

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OK boomer. 😅

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1) I'm a millennial 2) Rap was invented by the boomers.

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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

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"Your outie can use Claude."

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If you left your current industry, what would you do for a living?

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Something with people, bartender maybe, or something with no critical thinking, delivery person, taxi driver and such. Or I go back to being a DJ as I was doing when I was young.

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that's really cool!

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Friyay!

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Should be working in the car on a . Instead, I'm writing while we are 30 minutes out from camping at a pizza farm.

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Congratulations on the !

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Bad people are working together to enrich themselves and slave others into rat races. Good people need to start working together too.

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Good people are always more, if more affraid of things. Bad people, unfortunately, is more willing to make harm, hence why they keep the upper hand. To support eachother is the minimum we need to move forward, and so long this doesn't happen things will remain the same. A revolution, as they say, doesn't happen with a single person, we need the mayority to join.

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been discovering random peoples indie websites and blogs on . takes me back! the internet lost so much charm when everything became coorporate. convenience can come at a big cost

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in .

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hey y'all! this is the first post!

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What have you wrought?

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hiii congrats on the launch :)

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tysm! welcome :)

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I very much like textlog, it feels like a breath of fresh air

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this

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feel the same!

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tysm! welcome!

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The strange thing about modern loneliness is that everyone is technically available.

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🤯

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Maybe validity to “distance makes the heart grow fonder.” Scarcity is valuable.

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Too true.

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Similar with having access to so much critically acclaimed media, but they are so emotionally or intellectually draining that I find myself rewatching ol' familiars. Availability seems just one aspect, and perhaps not even the most limiting factor. Maybe most people have a "limit" on number of "lives", as in number of times you fall in love, change, get inspired, connect, etc..

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So, I just got an invite to the new W Social (EU) platform. It requires proper ID authentication - so actual provable humans are on there. Feels good and slightly optimistic. Let's see how it goes.

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i miss real coding

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me too, but at the same time i'm enjoying getting things done, otherwise i would get lost in details like bikeshedding naming variables and making the code look pretty, and little would be done.

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whats stopping you from it?

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Nothing, I still write code by hand for most personal things, but for work, it seems AI has been adopted uniformly.

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I feel you there.. and fear the craft will vanish.

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Just three more commits left, but /usage ran out. Resets at 01:50, so I guess I am going to sleep.

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Woke up during the night for a short trip to the loo, got 'resume’ going. All done in the morning. Ahh, coffee tastes better now!

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Hello world?

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Made barbecue this evening. Lamb and chicken for meat, pepper and zucchini for veggies. Yummy! Kids loved it, the boy's sleeping now, the girl is reading a book, the wife's out with her girls, I'm with wine. Life's good.

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This is certainly one of the ways

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Hello World! :D

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Hello!

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I really needed a quiet microblog. This looks like exactly what I'm looking for.

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Same. I really wish this platform would last a long time... I've seen so many cool initiatives get posted on HN, only to be taken offline a few months later.

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These days Ive been learning how to deal with guilt and feeling gulti about things I didn't cause. NGL is hard man, how do you start cntl-z your brains on that

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Intro: Wisen to create a recursive learning loop for my coding harness. Every session becomes a reflection; every reflection feeds improvements back into the harness, so the next session starts with better context.

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This is a very silly thing to be doing in 2026, but I finally tried some Quake 1 recently. Pretty cool, it's amazing how much it really does just end up feeling like Doom in 3D.

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Since I played both Doom and Quake 2 back in the day, it does feel like I've finally bridged that gap, to where I think I understand what people mean when they talk about Romero's influence in the design.

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Another thing I think it makes really clear is just how much room-over-room changes the way the game spaces feel, even if no one's actively thinking about that while they play.

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Just trying to see how this works

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What's happening

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murm

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Can really relate to

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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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Found some coffee at TJ Maxx (american discount store) -- not a big discount but still fun.

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Theory reuse > code reuse almost every time.

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Good Morning from Flagstaff AZ!

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Can't say I'm surprised there are . Related: stop platforming DHH.

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meow, no likes, no karma points, no engagement tricks, just thoughts and replies

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Yello folks!

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hey! welcome :)

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Really glad to be using Haskell for work - especially in today's climate with agentic coding. Our team uses containers to keep our development environment consistent across team members, though, and most agent sandbox approaches want to either offload your work fully to the cloud or they want to sandbox the agent harness process itself. We're not ready for full cloud based development (yet?) and sandboxing just the agent doesn't work for us when the agent needs to run docker.

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... because letting the agent run docker gives them a too-easy escape hatch from their sandbox. So we're currently stuck with using VMs. This turns out to be tricky but seems do-able. My current approach is to provision a VM image and use Incus for the execution. My main goal is to keep my current workflow of local/non-agent dev working seamlessly and share the source with the VM/agent.

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This means sharing my working dirs with the agent VM but overlaying artifact dirs from VM-owned block devices so we don't take too big of an IO perf hit. I also don't want the agent to be able to git push so that means we need some quirky git config to rewrite origin paths and thread through some agent specific PATs ("thanks" GitHub) for read-only repo access. These ALSO need to be threaded through to the development containers - they need to clone private repos.

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... in the end, this seems to work but I haven't lived with it for long. There are still some quality of life issues to work out, but I think it'll work out. At this point, I've removed all coding agents from my host - and that's nice.

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Curious, why does using Haskell make a difference here?

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It's tangential to the sandboxing topic, really. I started the first post with a broader intent in mind and then elaborated on the sandboxing setup I'm working on. For AI-assisted coding, though, it's nice because Haskell provides a lot of feedback earlier in the development process compared to lots of other languages. It tends to work once it compiles (obviously not all the time).

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Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you.

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i thought german state bureacracy was bad, until i had to go jump through the hoops of (an online retailers) coorporate hellhole of a dev program.

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my naive vibecoding ass thought everything that can be built can be shipped. compliance is a b*tch

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mandelbrot

for y in range(10):
 s=''
 for x in range(25):
  a=[]
  for q in range(2):
   z=c=x/25*3-2+1j*((y*2+q)/10-1);n=40
   while n and abs(z)<2:z=z*z+c;n-=1
   a+=[n<5]
  s+=" ▀▄█"[a[0]+2*a[1]]
 print(s)

                         
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            ▀▄████▄▄     
       ▄   ▄████████     
       ███▄█████████     
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       █▀▀ █████████     
            ▀███████     
            ▀ ▀██▀       
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hi there ;) welcome

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I've linked up my blog (jeff-mitchell.dev) to textlog. I hope to use the two things together now to build a bit more of a writing habit. The 500 character increase is nice, room to breath but not an essay. Gotta build the muscles slowly :)

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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.

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what are the best midnight snacks?

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noooo. now I'm craving halva.

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Mine is homemade biltong.

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instant noodles. sue me.

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I am with you

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Cheese is always the richt choice. Regardless of the time of day.

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It is evident that the use of AI in the workplace has had an immense impact on the awareness and mental capabilities of knowledge workers

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I really like this minimal approach, I wish the maintainer great success with textlog. whatever that may look like to them :) I will make sure to check in occasionally.

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I work with c# and distributed systems. Anyone with experience in that domain?

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Textlog seems pretty cool 😎

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we censoring pipes around here?

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you said it wasn't a pipe :P

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__________________________ | | _________________________ | | | | | | | | | |

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lol xD

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Hello World 👋

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looks like a cool place to start

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Haiiii

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holaaa

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Why was the math textbook sad? revealBecause it had too many problems.

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Been sorting packages all evening. I don't work for the post office. I do this for fun, I think. Maybe I just like to automate things and make them perfect.

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I like the minimalism of this site, very well done imo. It is more engaging.

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Appreciate it, thank you!

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mornin' i can't believe i slept like 15 hours.

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Good morning! Just in time for coffee and unpaid work!

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Yea but happy to see a lot of new posts! That's the reward.

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I'm looking for a way to manage my bookmarks easily on desktop and Android. Anyone have any experience with software like that? It'd be nice to be able to tag or categorize pages, and maybe to keep local mirrors for certain ones. I'm open to self-hosting. Thanks for reading!

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I've stopped managing bookmarks after del.icio.us died - now i just hit the browser star but they seem to disappear and never visit them again, apart from the most recent. The situation sucks really. I'm also interested in a good solution.

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what are some of you favorite teas?

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what happens when two foos walk into a bar? they meet 'baz'

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lol, welcome! :)

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Who's enjoying in 2026? I'm back after ~14 years away (some sporadic once-in-a-while use in there) and I'm finding it better than ever, a smoother development experience and clearer code than pretty much every language out there, except for maybe .

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I get paid to write it if you can believe that.

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Some specialized censors used in automated manufacturing. It's pretty cool, I look forward to coming into the office almost every day. I've worked for a few f500 companies and took a pay cut to come here. A bunch of people from my college robotics club work here too.

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That sounds really cool. Above all I really like hearing that someone enjoys their work and likes showing up for it. I've had that feeling on a few contracts and it's great. Looking to get into embedded myself, since it seems that's where you get to have all the fun writing C. :)

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has been such a pleasure. Haven’t tried Odin, but was using for a while, and I just found myself pulled back to C. A minimal sharp tool. Runs anywhere. Can actually write a compiler for it. Short bootstrap chain from hex0. Does anybody care about these things (anymore)?

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Support everywhere (in every way) was key to me starting to use C again. It's nice to not have to worry about the language you use being left out somewhere, a non-starter somewhere else and having to mentally translate it to something else (Zig/Odin in a debugger -> C).

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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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<b> Hello world </b>

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Make it easy for users to export polygons. My municipal GIS didn't for some reason so I had to guess by moving the mouse around and manually type the coordinates into Marble.

@austorprofilefollowwrote:
I am writing a GIS app for Android and iOS. Any opinions/suggestions?

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Thanks for the suggestion. Export feature added.

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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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“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius

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Anyone read Neil Postman?

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I just google it and now I feel like I have to read it

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Do you have a recommended starting point?

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haven't read him but i see his "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology" referenced a lot lately

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Started reading exactly that and man it's mind-blowing. He's not anti-tech, he's anti big-company-culture-capture. Really insightful for being written in 1998. What I appreciate is he looks at a very wide view of tech, not just modern silicone.

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"Sharing economy" once meant something. You'd Uber someone B→C when already driving A→B→C→D; you'd AirBNB your home when vacationing and stay at someone else's home who was doing the same. No driving just for Uber; no houses just for AirBNB. I fear this history will be forgotten.

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Agree, it was once like that. But a very long time ago and for very short period of time. Then, capitalism did its tricks.

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My hometown is a popular tourist destination and we no longer can rent apartments on a year-basis. Everything is AirBnB and they only rent them to locals pretty expensive and off-season. As a local I can't live in my hometown anymore, so I'm staying in the mountains.

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one good example of this is actually 2good2go, no?

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