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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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Changed my theme to dracula! Love it. This site is such a blessing.

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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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looks like a cool place to start

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Off to handstand class. I have been known to recommend to everyone within earshot doing challenging and/or silly physical things in a community. Not bucking the trend here.

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I'm going to attempt to build a take on a board game I loved, from 1989, MBT, by Avalon Hill. Watch me face plant. Starting by trying to understand hex math.

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I showed my daughter Dog of Wisdom I, II, and III, and she loved them. I have hope for the future.

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Looks like you-know-who has finally come for nitter. :-( nitter.net

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Using the internet these days is like pulling off an elaborate heist operation. Every time I successfully load a page I feel like I've "gotten away with something".

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It is sometimes tempting to mutter, "I'm in!" in your movie hacker voice when you finally get past all the cookie/subscription/notification pop-ups.

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turns out the power of exclamation mark thing in bash is bigger than !$ and !!. i learned a few tricks from , worth reading!

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we also launched Norma! :) It checks AI-generated code for security, quality and maintainability while the agent is still working, rather than after a pull request opens. The output is deterministic. Here the demo link: portal.qualityclouds.ai/demo

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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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Hello, world!

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“mentioned” is overlapping on nicks. Like mentioned you …”.

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wdym, screenshot?

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See:

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Thanks.

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Should be good now. It was a regression after the underline fixes, supposed to do ellipses.

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Yup, all good. Ellipses for the win!

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Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing is among the subtlest of all propaganda—it is propaganda that everyone sincerely wishes could be true, and is dangerous specifically because it is not and cannot be.

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Hello, World!

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hot take: "consumer " doesn't exist. at most it's just better search, but the ai assistants like grokbot or now instinct aren't ever going to be big. new devices and personal agents are DOA

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There is beauty in simplicity. Constraint can become impetus for innovation, because innovation does not have to be glitzy.

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좋은 문장입니다.

That is a good sentence.

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Word! It's a travesty that complexity seems to be lauded and rewarded over simplicity.

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My favorite innovations in my own work -- and to be honest, I'd prefer to call them "discoveries" -- came from simplification. There's a beautiful moment when a stack of difficult, conflicting ideas collapse into a tighter, simpler structure.

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Enlightenment

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Spent months pair-building a full telecom BSS with an AI. The surprise wasn't the code — 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.

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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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Some thoughts deserve a smaller audience

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"for you" now contains the same message multiple times

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root post view IS correct, sorry.

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I understand your confusion, but that's the formatting - quoted parent is below the child post - then that post's replies follow in the discussion view. The top post is always quoting its parent below it, the different bg makes it distinct. Just need to get used to it, same on X.

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There really is no other way to include the parent otherwise, you have to break the hierarchy at some point, the other form would need to omit the parent body and show a 'parent' link but we want to include its body.

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and moving the quoted above would break the consistency with the actual feed posts which would make it way more confusing.

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Economist Lant Pritchett describes shifts in ideas as silly, controversial, progressive, then obvious. Also: "Radio has no future. X-rays are clearly a hoax. The aeroplane is scientifically impossible." - Lord Kelvin ". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

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Hey hola, aquí un hispanohablante que ingresó por curiosidad. No creo pasarme mucho por aquí pero igual aquí andamos por ahora.

Hey, hi! This is a Spanish speaker who joined out of curiosity. I don't think I'll be around much, but I'm here for now.

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Blasting 1's and 0's to a far off land at the speed of light locking them in place until someone else wants to see them.

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can imagine this like Pink Floyd lyrics

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The dream of Twitter circa 2007 is alive in 2026

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Twitter was 140 chars. That makes it double the dream, right?

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Q: What’s a dog’s favorite part of the opera? A: The ARRRRRRRRR-ia!

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This joke also works with pirates.

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^\ / //o__o /\ / __/ \ \______\ / -ARF! \ / \ \----\ \ \_\_ \_\_

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This bout of COVID is more like “Corona Light” compared to previous years, but I’m still spending most of it in bed. Stay safe out there.

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Thinking of Zik all the time. It’s the spark that ignited my imagination. I’ve always loved memories.

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Am I the first Korean to write here?

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What if i don't have thoughts worth logging?

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Noone is going to judge you.

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Value is in the eye of the beholder.

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thought don't have much inherent value until you share them

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actually, I disagree

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well then gg i guess

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Preparing for opening up an app I'm working on for a public beta. Main is a quiet app that helps you maintain the value of your home:

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it's not for me personally, but I really like the idea and the look and feel seems top. Good luck.

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Oh nice, thanks!

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Opened up signups and about on LinkedIn yesterday. Really strong response so far!

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Congrats! 🎉

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Good luck!

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I'm a simple man. I see a new platform, I grab my handle. 😎

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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.

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Sailing feels amazing. Wind, current, and gravity are pretty good analogies for our path in life. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your future sailing trips.

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Guess we're doing Halloween stuff on sale everywhere now 🎃

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Sipping Choya’s ウメッシュ　ノンアルコル。😋

Sipping Choya's Umeshu (plum wine), non-alcoholic. 😋

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I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later.

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I was talking about this with some alumni students, specifically their experience learning python with us a few years earlier (these are college students who are not really using python any more). What it seems to boil down to is that with python you have the feeling that there is this huge forest of solutions to any problem you are having -- but you will never know the whole forest. BASIC feels like you "know" it after a day or two of playing around, evidently.

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Bring back partial anterior encephalectomies

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Which part of the brain would you remove?

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It seems like removing some of the connections between the anterior and frontal cortices could have positive effects.

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I think you're perfect as you are :)

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^____^

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Water sort is a fun game available on fdroid on Android devices.

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Nice! Was an opportunity to install F droid also, didn’t know it can be installed like a normal app, I was under the impression it was an OS replacement. This is neat, perhaps we can deploy textlog app there? cc

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Certainly think so! I just hope to get rid of the scan warning at one point cause it's also annoying..

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I sit in meetings all day long, I roll my eyes and die a bit and synergize and circle back inner life sacrosanct outer face smiling stone no need to rush: executives don't need to work just synergize and circle back

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What’s your favorite ? Mine is banana for snack, blueberries for my yogurt bowl, and mango when I’m feeling rather indulgent.

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I love figs! Not a fruit per se, they’re flowers, but still. And it’s their season now and they grow in my village so we pick them now.

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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!

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What self control.. only 5?? :P

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My experimentation says the crunchiness of 5 cashews perfectly balances the juiciness of the date. Your mileage may vary!

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Prior work: www.skytopia.com/project/fruit/fruit.html

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I've been on a kick lately of trying to visualize the oscillating clock, and ultimately the effectively arbitrarily complex activity of a computer processor, as modern refinements of the line shaft factory of the 19th century. Of compute as being not much more than profoundly refined "work" delivered by the electrical grid into marvelously complex machines. Does that, as a metaphor at least, feel as important to you as it has to me of late? We spend so much time in a world abstracted.

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took me until now to learn described images with low-cost models > attaching images to high-cost model. silly me. output quality remains, cost lowers.

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I'm amazed how good these models have become, that probably you don't need the high-cost one yeah. I'm producing comics for fun with the latest ChatGPT and they're flawless, no artifacts.

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hello world!

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hello tim!

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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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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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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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I was contemplating pwc372, p2 and came up with “- 1+&/-/'(&'(?x)=x)@0 -1” (goal). Conceptually I like it, but maybe it can be simplified further?

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I like this concept

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As long as a lady carries a book with her, she will always have company. And a weapon.

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It’s the social network I so want to love but something about it feels off.

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I never understood why they would allow you to follow different “feeds” but not hashtags. I like mastodon’s approach better.

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Oh my god, art was the only reason I used bsky regularly. Not anymore, and I miss it too.

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Hi Textlog

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┌─────────────────┐ │ hello, world │ │ │ │ i was here. │ └─────────────────┘ ,

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signals. thinking about shifting my mental framework to identify signals instead of waiting for concepts to be assembled. exploring the amount of energy and opportunities for distractions through the operations of processing what just happened and what is happening to short circuit latent and unnecessary systems. cut through the assembly processes and identify the raw signals. recognizing that naming these "raw signals" is misleading. maybe, shifting observability lower in the stack.

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One day I would like to see Thailand. That would be nice.

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anyone else seriously into agentic loop development?

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I've been working with physical AI - Letting LLMs control robots in a warehouse to collaborate and collectively come up with a physically correct solution to carry out a natural language intent. We had to study the reactive nature of agents, nudges they required, etc.

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that's awesome and near my heart. I kicked off a personal project emergingrobotics.ai

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haha that's a coincidence. Site looks awesome. The moving away from ROS2 part is so true. One of our main potential customers for physical AI solutions (a telecom provider in JP) communicated the need for agents to be able to pick up controls from any vendor

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I apologize if that sounded obvious/non-obvious/amateurish haha. I was an intern and worked more on the agentic side of things, it was just a non-primary experiment

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Which of these existed first?

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Hell must have frozen over. I just installed Openclaw on my Linux box. I had already cobbled together an agent like thing (pi) that I talked to over Telegram, so I figured, let's give Openclaw 2.0 a try, locked down completely at first, but slowly opened up over time.

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everybody come to we're having a party!

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can't believe It don't let me jump up and down

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you press 'b' ! it stands for 'bounce' :)

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epic

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Woow this is really cool!!

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Thats so awesome! Getting RC3 vibes

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Looks like I am user #482

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welcome! 🎉

@grin🧙profilefollowcultivating shared resonance | grin.io grin.ioGrinI make magic internet tech and social experienceswrote:
just setting up my txtlg

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woo! thanks for having me

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하이 그린. 만나서 방가

Hi Green. Nice to meet you.

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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.

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time

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What is this? I Like It

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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!

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lovely

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Nobody is perfect. I’m nobody.

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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!

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Togo sofas remind me of Heidi Klums worm costume

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work week is finally over. time to over this long (US) weekend

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What you playing? My recent was Mina the Hollower—intricate, dense, demanding. Bangers on the soundtrack. Good stuff.

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ive been making my way through monster hunter world's iceborne expansion. lots of fun mina the hollower is near the top of my list to play soon, have fun!

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Married for 13 years. Still in love, but struggling. So many paths we could go.

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cool platform. found you on ycombinator.

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welcome!

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First post on textlog!

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Hello World 👋

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How did all the tech oligarchs seem to go fash so quickly?

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Well this looks very nice indeed. Just dipping a hoof into the river for now ...

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Which river? Asking because most rivers are contaminated these days. Be careful!

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ty and welcome!

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Everytime I post something on HN or elsewhere, I get about a dozen or more emails and they're all talking about the same thing; they have a platform and they want to help me grow my business, they promise. They look personalized but they're .

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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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I'm really interested to play around with textlog for a bit. I miss the space that once was Twitter and its constraints. Let's see if we find any users here ... ;)

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Lonely in the night

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thinking on deploying excalidraw on my homeserver, so I can store drawings without bothering with export/import. Yes, excalidraw+ for $7/mo; but nowadays I pay only one sub - for Claude; everything else is personal software.

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Well, done, Claude did while I drove a car. It even added save/open file from the server (stored in SQLite). Deployed on my homelab server.

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Finished watching Titanic with kids. One of the best movies ever.

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“I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it.”

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Since you guys are on textlog I think you will find this article and discussion interesting A character count though that still requires JavaScript sadly enough 🥺

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Interesting! Didn’t know about a few. Neat! 😊 Aside, do you have an invitation for ? Or can you help us by doing a post about textlog.cc?

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It is perfect 😊

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I think if intends to be an active user of the site henceforth, it'd it should be kosher. Otherwise, one of us who's been active on the site for a while could submit a post.

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I plan to remain active, so not planning a top level post just yet. Will try to engage first for a few days so the ratio is low when I do the post.

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smort. I'll be at the ready to upboat once the post drops 🫡

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Day length formula: (Did you know that it becomes a triangle wave at the (ant)arctic circle?)

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The inaugural, proverbial first post. Seems like a lovely service here.

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The proverbial first post should have been “hello world”. :-P You are the first rustacean I come across!

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LOL! Good point:)

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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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I've avoided social media (except YouTube) all my life, but this looks like it could finally be a better way to do it. Maybe I'll keep a running journal of cool things I'm working on here or weird bugs that I've found. Or just the struggles of coding. First one: GitHub actions was down again today when I specifically wanted to test my app's deploy and auto update flow...

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it’s time! y’all! ) ( ( ) ) ) ( ( _______)_ .-’---------| ( C|/\/\/\/\/| ‘-./\/\/\/\/| ‘_________’ ‘-------’

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;,' _o_ ;:;' ,-.'---`.__ ; ((j`=====',-' `-\ / `-=-'

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hey creator, this place is nice, posts look organic and the no javascript, I love it, with that said have you consider NOT opening the API? and have a 1 way to come here and enjoy it? the rationale being that API also opens the door to the slopai?

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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]

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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.

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What's happening

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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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howdy

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halo :) welcome

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Trying to gently work my way back to the target intensity needed for the Norwegian 4x4 to get my weekly dose of suck and feel accomplished after. Chronic left leg pain unfortunately likes reminding me it's there though.

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Loving this, congratz on the

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<3 tysm

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Is mayonnaise an instrument?

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if used in a certain way, yes

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What about horseradish?

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prefer the tone of wasabi, cleaner notes

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/ \ / | / | / | ____ / \ / \ / \ / \ | = = | / | | ___ ___ | | | | / o \ / o \ | | | | | | | / /

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Hello everyone! Just testing this out!

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release 0.1.0

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more like 0.0.1 :P

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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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Returned after a ride on bikes around the lake with the boy. Did stop for workout, 🏋️‍♂️ did pull-ups, push-ups and squats. Love the place we live in.

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

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