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Oh boy do I have a website for you! I love browsing https://www.themarginalian.org whenever I have a few hours to kill. It's a bit like TVTropes, but much more "literary" for lack …

> I've heard this sentiment repeated and I believe it, but at least the purpose of my own blog is to communicate insights I've had. I almost make a point out of not blogging unless…

This lines up with my own experience with writing and (more recently) blogging. You get over the fear of writing by doing a LOT of it, until you get to a point where writing a stor…

This is a feature many apps actually need. E.g. Tauri uses WebKitGTK on Linux, which has historically been slow, unstable, and frequently lagging behind the main WebKit project. Th…

Not always. Some web pages don't send referrers by making all links rel="noreferrer". Mastodon used to do this by default, though now they've changed their stance. Links opened fro…

I don't even want a local account, I just want to be able to set a custom username for my account instead of some autogenerated jumble of letters. My Microsoft Account email is "co…

Location: Bangalore, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), the React ecosystem, TypeScript, Tailwind, Astro…

Yes! I'm currently working on a script that modifies a bunch of sensitive files, and this the approach I'm taking to make sure I don't accidentally lose any important data. I've sp…

At least according to Statcounter, Linux is currently at 3.86% worldwide: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide . It's slightly larger in the US at 5.28%: ht…

If you use `uv`, you can declare your dependencies at the top of a script: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d... I've started using Python for many more t…

> I think maybe we're talking past each other then. I'm saying I don't agree with the argument that music necessarily needs to have a story to be widely consumed in a positive way.…

Could you put some kind of CORS proxy in front of those URLs? (I know it sucks that you have to do this at all, but c'est la vie.) You could even write a Cloudflare Worker or a Val…

I've started to "standardize" my own use of Markdown as "whatever works in the apps I use". For me these apps are iA Writer, Obsidian, and Astro's rendering pipeline (which uses th…

> markdown is horrible, horrible format to parse... I agree entirely. But it's a lovely format to use . Programming as a profession is entirely about making things easier for our u…

Location: Bangalore, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), React, TypeScript, Tailwind, some Next.js Résumé…

I live in India and a surprising number of people here are using AI. A lot of public religious imagery is very clearly AI generated, and you can find a lot of it on social media to…

I've been analyzing my Obsidian vault using local LLMs that I run via Apple's mlx_lm. I'm on an M4 MacBook Pro with 48GB RAM. The results are ... okay. The biggest problem is that …