Lot of wildlife run-ins on my neighborhood trails this week. Ran past three deer yesterday, including a buck. Then a hare as I made it to the top of San Pedro Mountain this morning.
I lately been a bit curious of strudel io and the live coding movement. I have found some cool artist but if you have any recommendation feel free to drop it.
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.
I made a chrome extension to bring the top Hacker News stories to your new tab, with quick summaries.
So every time you open a new tab, you might discover something everyone else hasnโt heard about yet.
If youโve never heard of Hacker News: it was created by Paul Graham(founder
Do you code in silence or do you listen to music? If so, what kind of music do you prefer? Personally, I prefer Synthwave, vaporwave or the occasional country.
Techno. I'm in the autistic spectrum. It somehow helps me calm and focus. But, at some point I prefer silence. I often work with sound cancelling headphones with no music. So, it is total silence or total noise.
Gotta give it try, by now making a list is like the top of the list
@thechelsukprofilefollowCurrently in remission from ME/CFS after 3+ years. Occasional software engineering leader, app developer, blogger, zwifter, and just being online.replied to@catastrofer๐ฅธprofilefollowJust another AI guy:
Determine what matters most and make a list of the no more than 7 things.
Do one thing well at a time, top down. Reprioritise as you learn more.
Notes:
If you half-arse a task and decide that'll do, it's evidence it wasn't the right priority. Learn.
Any sort of productivity, multi-tasking, app, solution type thing is a scam or a money grab and isn't needed.
People tend to remember 7 things well, but struggle with longer lists and particularly fail to remember things in the middle.
I've been leaning hard on NixOS in my latest attempt at a linux desktop box and have been really enjoying it. LLMs definitely help as there's a tremendous amount of information you need to use it effectively, I feel. I also started with Hyprland but then moved to Niri and have really enjoyed it.
Arch, because I feel you cannot use Linux without knowing how it works, and sway for window manager because it is highly stable, wholly keyboard driven, and tiling
I spent some time looking into what Omarchy has become since I installed it on my system, and I donโt think I like it anymore. ^^
Using it mainly to open a browser or applications like VS Codeโฆ well, I can do that with any OS. But the whole โAI-firstโ direction, DHH, and everything surrounding it are making me reconsider. Iโll probably migrate away from it soon. #bummernotesfollow
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
Regarding the entire history of the internet, I can say I've been largely an observer. I've always consumed content, but I haven't produced any. There's no trace of me on the internet, which is an unforeseen consequence due to China's identity and content policies.
I don't quite understand how China's "Great Firewall" works. For example, how exactly did you access this website?
(I'm communicating with you through translation software.)
As a homeless person without an ID, I don't have any way to pay for a VPN. Also, using a VPN to access the internet in China without government permission is illegal.
#ainotesfollow
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.
Big holiday today in Greece, bells ringing, bands singing, people gathered in the village, eating, enjoying life and I'm spending it inside coding. I don't feel bad and I'm not #antisocialnotesfollow, it's just that I'm a bit odd. I don't like these forced gatherings. Feel stressful.
@fastidious๐profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyerswrote:
I had hit a throttle now. Thatโs a โsubtle" way to tell me to slow down.
on the contrary, at least for me, it unleashes creativity because I donโt have to switch to execution mode (linear thinking), I can keep myself in the creativity mode (lateral thinking).
Went to the summer house to watch the #eclipsenotesfollow but it was cloudy so we missed it. But the kids are asleep so guess I'll light a fire and crack a beer instead. Woe is me!
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearwrote:
The rise of postmodern cuisine: "The beverage's photogenic bright green color proved particularly well-suited to social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, helping it gain viral popularity among wellness enthusiasts and influencers." (Wikipedia, "Matcha") #teanotesfollow#philosophynotesfollow
@erikprofilefollowI'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!wrote:
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell your name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!
@amyprofilefollowa work in progress; i love cats ๐ฑreplied to@erikprofilefollowI'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!:
Nobody is perfect. Iโm nobody.
@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@erikprofilefollowI'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!:
Yesterday upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
How I wish he'd go away!
The inaugural, proverbial first post. Seems like a lovely service here.
@fastidious๐profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyersreplied to@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโฆmostly:
The proverbial first post should have been โhello worldโ. :-P You are the first rustacean I come across!
@crustyrustaceanprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโฆmostlyreplied to@fastidious๐profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:
shower thought: swap 'is a model' for 'is constructed' and postmodernism suddenly becomes a lot more palatable without losing much of its core message. #philosophynotesfollow
Any #Pinotesfollow users around?
I have been customizing it to the way I work, as it is meant to be. Bent it in a way that I enjoy holding it, so to say.
Maybe someone will find those useful, so I took the time to get it published.
Gruntfooot is a footer customization, where you can try new colors/glyphs in real time and also has theme support.
Piflux is a coding workflow. You can steer software development by running commands that issue reasonably general prompts. /plan, /code, /review
I created this because I find it very useful to have different models/ perform each of those tasks in isolated sessions. Managing this manually was very much a hassle.
Why do so many tools have JSON config filesโฝ Commenting why options have been set the way they have is just such a basic thing to want to doโฆ Why do tech people have such an aversion to writing things downโ
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
Thatโs 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 โ very interesting
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.
I recently made a 10 foot sailboat and took it on a fifty-mile adventure in the Salish Sea. I can still feel the way the wind pushed the boat over the water. I kept imagining the way that our progress was the sum of the vectors of wind, current, and gravity. #tinkeringnotesfollow
โPassion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.โ
โ Mark Z. Danielewski, Ho
@javisrikeprofilefollowSoftware โข maker projects โข music โข DIY
Mostly figuring things out as I go.wrote:
bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain. now that he's a billionaire no longer dependent on the free market for his own success he's discovered the virtues of taxing the next wave of computation. 1995 gates would have called it a tax on innovation. classic pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you politics.
#billgatesnotesfollow#microsoftnotesfollow#AInotesfollow#AItaxnotesfollow#techpolicynotesfollow
These were exactly my thoughts reading about how he thinks we should โpreserveโ some jobs for people; I donโt remember him being an advocate of preserving the jobs of typists, draftsman, typesetters, and other clerks when his company was leading a prior digital revolutionโฆ
ouhh bet thats nice. im rocking some 50โฌ aliexpress print/pcb that i put some old switches/caps onto. legitimately impressed, best keyboard i ever used, never going back to traditional kbs.
The rho coding harness Iโve made has come along way and Iโm constantly trying to evolve it, but whenever I go back to pi itโs startling the difference of what a solid computer science background brings.
personal projects probably just arent the right knob if you want to get unpoor. if you want my honest advice i would recommend not showing hallucinate to potential employers, its landing page looks one-shot claude and is gpu heavy. but the others look very nice.
loved it, I visit whenever I can, it's my favorite place on earth :D tried to live there many times, even had a job two times but it didn't work out. The air is different.
Last year I wasn't feeling too good.
I turned forty, waited for surgery, and was hurt by my own colleagues. So I dealt with things. Maybe not so well, but to the best of my ability.
One of the consequences was that I got a bit heavy. My body changed, and I didn't feel like myself. It was a problem for future me. So now I am here with this little belly of mine. We're not enemies, but I decided it's time to part ways.
So I count calories. Maybe not so well, but to the best of my ability.
Thank you! Almost back to baseline now, after a few months.
trigger warning, eating disorders:
I sometimes forget to log what I eat in my app of course, but what is perhaps slightly nore disturbing is the fact that I sometimes log stuff and then forget to actually eat them. Some sort of Baudrillardian simulacrum of eating.
a few #securitynotesfollow fixes this morning, some actions in your account are now gated behind email(or password) confirmations, like "delete account" and "enable password" - this is to keep the account safe. #featurenotesfollow
ah haha i thought u meant some feature to geo fence the posts, like twitter shows posts near your location. anyways welcome to the platform! :)
@jojoprofilefollowBelieve powerful technology and ease of use can be combined. 46elks founder, an SMS and telephony API for Europe based in Sweden, 15 years in the running.wrote:
@fastidious๐profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyerswrote:
Maybe implementing a subset of Markdown would be a good thing. I am thinking about bold, italics, inline code, and code block, mostly. Oh, and links.
I agree that minimalism is hard. Thatโs why the subset was explicitly recommended small. Yet, I believe it is extremely useful to have.
@fastidious๐profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyerscontinued:
I've tested MD and honestly I don't like it. Bold/italics add unnecessary noise/clutter and the font is already monospace, suited for code, so inline code & code fences are not needed. If 3rd party clients want to implement them it's fine but I'm sensitive to visual noise.
I agree with this. The core you're building is around a deliberate minimalist philosophy. I was happy to build an opinionated client for my own use-case, but it should imo stay on the fringes for those seeking it.
Judgement, taste and quality were always precious skills. In the world of #AInotesfollow, I have become more aware of the fact that it is often hard to put in words why something is good, great or amazing - or just looks good, but is average.
A lot of the professional content I see feels like most Netflix series. They have all the elements - but the overall experience is still meh.
Quality is still hard to achieve.
@radiocappy๐งprofilefollow"The impediment to action advances action, what stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aureliuswrote:
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly." - Marcus Aurelius
#philosophynotesfollow
@avioliprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.wrote:
@michaelprofilefollowMac user since before it was cool.
Interested in #html, #css, #php, #swift, and lightweight software.
Not really Windows compatible
I suck at picking nicknames anyone interested in lightweight apps especially on macOS gets my follow
I laughed at this. I'm all for people crafting their own tools, but it really feels like everyone's reinventing the same handful of wheels for agentic development.
Spent months pair-building a full telecom BSS with an AI. The surprise wasn't the code โ it was that the real job became verification. The AI read 450 tokens for every 1 it wrote. Turns out building honestly is mostly re-reading.
#opensourcebssnotesfollow
Switching from Claude Max to Team, cc was trivial, just another login, but Claude Desktop and on iOS holds sessions in the cloud so need to move them somehow.
@eatziprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to ๐ถ, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.wrote:
@fastidious๐profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyersreplied to@kateprofilefollow:
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.
I naively went into a work problem thinking that RAG was solved by the service offered at work, and wow was I wrong. Been a fun week so far experimenting with many different methods before doing the academic research, and it's been nice to be validated by outside research.
#Emacsnotesfollowโ keybindings are easy and the best out there, they are mnemonic.
C-c k p l - kubernetes-pods-list
M-g n - go next
C-h v - help on variable
M-s o - search occurrence