@stagas · textlog

پھر وہی شام، وہی غم، وہی تنہائی ہے

Then it's the same evening, the same sadness, the same loneliness

My understanding is when text in a paragraph is all in an RTL script, the whole paragraph should be aligned right. I am not a native speaker either so take all of this with a big sack of salt. Not urgent or anything but if you are looking for your next challenge look into dir="rtl" and unicode-bidi: plaintext;.

Implemented! Thanks!

Wow so fast! Thank you. For anyone else reading, this is the context Before After

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It was a single prompt 😋, most of the features here are one-shotted by GPT 5.6 Sol. I’m very impressed by how good it is.

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.

The vast majority of the time I prefer silence. Unlike , my gets distracted with music. When I do listen to music, it has to be no vocals. I find , like Jonn Serrie, Brian Eno, and Steve Roach best for me.

I've never heard the term Space music but I am intrigued. I'll definitely check it out

Awesome! Let me know what you think!

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Man this was so up my alley. Thank you for these recommendations, several of these tunes have gone straight in on my "WUBRG Goodstuff" playlist

I used to listen to marketing team say zingers like

twenty twenty vision in $current_year (before 2020)
I don't disagree but... (What does that even mean‽)

Because office floor plans I am very thankful to work from home now... In complete silence.

Oh wow, this I feel in my soul. I am so glad I work from my own office nowadays and don't need to listen to these constant non-conversations marketing people tends to have

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.

Me exactly.

good videogame music is often my coding sweet spot--no lyrics, something familiar

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I can recommend rainwave.cc if you want an online radio for video game music. I tend to hang around there quite often and listen to their chiptune station.

listening to a lot of Tunic soundtrack atm

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

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.

that's really cool!

i think id love to do something along the lines of (physical) product design im currently a software engineer. ive been into keyboards for a while and designed a good number. few things are as satisfying as taking an idea from something on paper or in my head to a shiny, pretty thing to play with

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Electrician. This is not a farfetched idea, by the way. Tumultuous times; each day could be my last workday.

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You are not the only one. [warn: that site may not be what you want to be on]

Ah, a recurring question that undesirably keeps me awake and staring at my bedroom ceiling these past couple of years due to all this AI apocalypse rhetoric. Wish I had a firm answer. Preferably, not something frontline customer-facing, and where I can still exercise agency.

Turn the car on. Shift in Neutral. Gas to the bottom. This is how my head feels most of the time.

You’re in the right place.

I do feel oddly at home here, and it's unusually pleasant!

One idea that I've been thinking about is an or where it is a app so you get a new file everyday right except the app keeps track of all the files for you. the idea is that anytime you type anything it it basically makes a commit and use so anytime you type something it commits automatically after a quick pause after you stop typing.

That sounds ! Could also create summary titles with for the filenames in addition to their date so you can find what you were writing about easily. Also full text search.

Yes! Great idea. Not sure how I would implement it but the main idea is that you should feel free to delete text through out the day because everything is tracked in a git repo. 🫣

It's cookie o'clock, y'all.

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cool platform. found you on ycombinator.

welcome!

can we have a feed that is chronological but parent posts only? I guess “all” is the closest but it moves posts to the top also based on new comments. But if I wasn’t interested in a post to begin with, comments won’t change that and it does not need to be resurfaced

I guess we can add a new tab that does that.

Check it out!

Amazing! Thank you!

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This is perfect. Thanks!

Taking a small break from here to work on an for a friend! I missed .

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.

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.

I hate it when I don’t remember if I took my midday pill or not. Not that it matters a lot, but still, annoying. I have notifications set up but I discard them by habit because they are exact times and my sleep pattern fluctuates.

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:

That might work, thanks for the :)

when I took insulin I would always forget and got a cap that had a time since the last time I had uncapped the pen, worked really well so I never double dosed. they make similar tools for pill bottles, but the best has been just having a pill case as much as it makes me feel old.

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It actually works!

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!

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.

The "mark all read" link isn't working for me, under Linux Zen (Firefox).

taking a look

try again?

No dice, still the same.

should be working now? it was cache showing a stale page according to gpt

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Yup, working now. Thanks!

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:

Looks great! Nice job! reveal“I think my house is haunted” 🤣 — the blank og image scared me for a bit also :p

hahaha you're the first person to call out that easter egg I threw in 😆

What blank og image? textlog doesn't render og meta previews, right?

it does, when you hover links on desktop only. And there is a comment in the source you left that says it’s there to allow crawlers to process it without doing a page screenshot.

example

Ah, yes. Had focused on og meta text for iMessage previews, but still had a blank image for og:image. Lemme address this now. Thanks for mentioning!

ok, have a nice new og:image. The link in my original post in this thread still shows an empty preview. Looks like you download and re-serve the og:image files in textlog.

Yes the og is downloaded and re-served, to avoid leaking/tracking of client information. You need to edit and save to refetch, I did it for you now.

Oh nice, thanks!

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

Congrats! 🎉

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Good luck!

noo i dont like emojiis

haha don’t know if I’ll keep them, just doing random features to see if they stick :p it’s hard to find new work to do here everything has been covered! any ideas?

hmm if i were deving this id prolly polish the ui, i see youve already made some progress, im liking it. everything on here is text and sometimes theres too many different sizes/colors/underlines next to eachother, slight visual spacings ^^ this bar with the jump-to buttons right under the drop downs is quite busy: www.pasteboard.co/8sRp7CSspeym.png and it also has this · character which is nowhere else and kind of ugly-thin.

this screen also has lots of 3 slightly different font sizes www.pasteboard.co/vL7YjbGLJRwV.png which could have better visual hierarchy

thanks for the pointers! it’s a good idea to polish the UI yes. it has become a bit of a mess you’re right. Send if you spot anything else!

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hovering over the the textboxes also gives a "please fill out this field" tooltip, probably best to just have none cause on my os it contrasts a lot with the rest of the sites aes

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly." - Marcus Aurelius

What a dude.

, I posted under a secondary account and it doesn't show up in all. Any insight?

yes, is an alias for and they’re hidden from all. Just remove that hashtag.

Derp. Thx.

probably want timestamps lol

they are a preference under Appearance → Misc now!

The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...

They will become more frequent before they become “dangerous”, giving us time to mitigate. Of course if someone says “hey let’s connect an agent to our biolab infrastructure” and then that designs a lethal virus it would be a stupid plan to begin with. Noone can stop them though.

Been a bit quiet here the last week or so. Recovering from ill health, at risk of redundancy, and working on side projects. It's been a bit full on. Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects? Can I use my redundancy runway to turn some websites from side hustle to salary money?

Recovering from ill healthHope you’re feeling better now!Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects?That’s the dream, I’ve only made a few hundreds so far. I’ve had a machine gun approach. Shoot as many rounds as possible in the hopes I might hit something. has helped immensely in this direction. I’ve done a dozen projects past year and while became I’m still not there yet. I’m hopeful though! 😊

for those new here, this is my other project, online ! come for a dance! ~~~~~> <~~~~~

Be there in a bit. Hanging out with .

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Seeing Hallucinate brought to mind . 😅

Yes! I was thinking of doing the same, see .

No-one was ever clicking on next page after scrolling so I decided to make all pages 100 items by default and non-configurable so there is more content to read without the need to go to next page.

Good call. I noticed that page size setting over the weekend. Feels more fiddly than it's worth, tbh. Agree that it's better to pick a sizable default and let people not have to think about it.

No-one was ever clicking on next page after scrolling How do you know?

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I look at the logs. I swear I never saw ?page=2. Everybody just opens a feed, scrolls to the bottom, doesn’t find anything interesting and leaves. Now I’ve made it such that you have more to read and something might catch your attention to engage. It’s better this way. The alternative would be introducing client side JS to enable doom scroll.

I see. Setting page length to 100 will not do much, I think. People will simply stop scrolling at certain point, before ever hitting the pagination. Doom scrolling makes it easier, sadly.

I think we just don’t like clicking on things so I’m changing bits now to reduce them.

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