is what we do here.
Hot notes
Nope, single instance running on a vps. Nothing of the sort. But you can build interesting things through the API
OK. Thanks! I keep an eye on the experiment. But nowadays I prefer playing with federeated tools, as we know that centralized stuff can go the wrong route entrapping you in it.
You can export your data, and I'm considering federation/replication but it would become an order of magnitude more complicated. A lot of effort maintaining that part instead of improving the actual service. It's something for the future, once the core semantics are in place.
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creator of textlog:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:A feat, for sure. Not that is anything wrong with a sprinkle of JS here and there. Just saying!
Started an and searching for a Fiscal Host to be able to receive funding in a more streamlined manner. Applied to and waiting for their answer. Will keep you posted.
Great news! We have just been accepted! Will tell you more tomorrow when I know more. Exciting!
On a call with them in about an hour to learn details. Will share.
The meeting went well and all the topics we discussed were on a positive direction for ! Main point is we are now a legal entity and we can receive funds and —more importantly— grants, in order to keep this project alive and healthy. Our main goal is now growing the site.
Can you learn programming by building with AI?
Better than before5%
About the same0%
Worse than before55%
Depends how you use it40%
If programming is the typing of characters into a text file, it is way worse. I think the key to learning is still doing it rather than reading it. If the question is about system design I think you can, but only if you curious and it becomes a problem that needs to be solved.
Asking "What do you think" is one of my favorite questions to learn at the moment.
I do think there will be what were hard earned lessons about system design, code smell, designing data structures for the hardware you're running on, concurrency golden paths, etc., which are now with agentic dev even harder to learn and internalize. But also if you have an excellent teacher in the form of an actually-good model pair programming with you always, maybe not? Maybe a pair programming AI programming tutor would be a good Zed/vscode extension. Or product.
What should the first two tabs on the homepage say?
"for you" & "to me" (status quo)13%
"for you" & "to you"13%
"for me" & "to me"0%
"following" & "inbox"47%
some other combination27%
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@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:What the "for you" means? Often I find things there, but, why are they "for me"? What's the criteria? Same for "to me". Are "to me" replies to my notes, or comments, or are they something else? I will start by defining what exactly are those two, before getting into further weeds.
my suggestion :
@ my feed hot all
@ = to me
my feed = for you
hot = hot
all = latest
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Sure is and does.
It leans into how symbols are used throughout textlog for meaning & action, but is not friendly in the least.
Bring back timestamps?
No, I like the cleanliness of the design and the concept37%
Yes, but limited to the post’s page and for historical posts44%
Yes, everywhere, I can’t live without them19%
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Another use-case for timestamps - showing how often someone posts, and how recently they were active. I want to be able to send my friends a link to my user page and say "follow me here for random thoughts". Odds are they're not going to create an account, but they might bookmark it and check for updates from time to time. Timestamps will tell them whether it's worthwhile to do this.
Please no.
This place is special as it is.
Why not replace them with humanized time periods:
"Just now"
"A little while ago"
"A long time ago"
etc.
Yes! I made a similar suggestion on HN, though like your labels better. I was thinking a bit more on it that after "just now" and a hypothetical "new" that the timestamp could disappear so long as there has been a response within X amount of time, for example, after 2 months. After this time period it could start saying things like, "a while ago," "quite a while ago," and "a long time ago" based on (for example) 1 years ago, 2 years ago, > 2 years ago.
What do you think is better?
Students stay in the same classroom all day, teachers come and go60%
Teachers stay in the same classroom all day, students come and go40%
Nobody stays in the same room all day, rooms are booked for the duration of the lecture period0%
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:I picked the first, because you didn’t specified level, and I assumed below college.
We have polls! The way to create one: you write the question, put the hashtag
#poll followed by the answers each in its own line. Simple. @drewfishprofilefollow
retired programmer, new DM, learning Scottish Gaelicreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:
retired programmer, new DM, learning Scottish Gaelicreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:do polls have a closing time, or can they be closed?
@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlogreplied to@drewfishprofilefollowretired programmer, new DM, learning Scottish Gaelic:
creative technologist
creator of textlogreplied to@drewfishprofilefollowretired programmer, new DM, learning Scottish Gaelic:currently they close 24h after posting. We were displaying the time left and the number of votes but I removed them in the same spirit I removed all the other numbers from the UI. maybe we show the number of votes after the poll closes.
Rewrite textlog as a ?
Yes, it’ll be faster13%
No, leave it the way it is44%
No, use a little JS where it makes sense44%
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:Neither, go Rust! 🤪
Already started adding JS here and there, trying to keep it progressively enhanced, so JS-disabled works up to a certain point. Let’s see how far we can go with that model. Next step would be a full frontend rewrite (though trying not to change the feel of the website) and simply making actions not having to do full page (re)loads.
A third voted Yes to avatars, what should we do now? That’s a lot.
I’ve changed the tabs. “Some other combination” was very high in the previous poll and I wanted to keep the labels short so they fit on mobile, so “following” and “inbox” wouldn’t fit along with “random” and “latest”.
So… do you like the tabs now?
Yes, keep ‘em100%
No, I have another suggestion0%
I don’t care0%