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For those wondering, this is now the default markdown processor in Astro 7: https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/#markdown--mdx-in-rust

Sure, local coding is clearly _possible_, but it's not practical for most people. I've yet to see a reliable setup, if you have one, I'd love to see. > creating plans, using subage…

I've been working with local models for the past year. There's so many possibilities, but I don't think coding is one. Coding requires so many layers beyond inference; I spent so m…

I've been using this keyboard on and off for a while now. I've always switched back to gboard, however this update made me convert full time. It's really good. There are a few issu…

There are still a few unsolved problems that require tuning for specific applications. Applications that own the video call have a much easier time, they have access to each indivi…

Nice! I really like how many variations on this idea are coming out. MacWhisper used to be great, but is kinda of a buggy mess now. I'm making my own, for personal use. I did a sur…

UUIDs are way over used. There is almost always a better key to use, usually a bigint for databases. If you're making some kind of leaderless distributed data store, then maybe, bu…

Every time I see something like this (turn function calls into a network call), I reflect fondly on the list of fallacies in distributed computing [0]. These are issues that largel…

Google answers this question in the FAQ: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#does_webp_suppo... But in my experience, webp is better enough that the whole file loads aroun…

As always, it really depends on what the source is. Often images are created with some software like Photoshop, would you commit the psd file to git? If you're a photographer, woul…

This post greatly over simplifies how many issues come up optimizing images. Also, the Github workflow doesn't commit the optimized images back to git, so this would have to run be…

After my dad died from cancer in 2018, I saw first hand the resulting loneliness and the lack of resources available. Being an engineer, I figured I might as well try to solve it, …

This. The WIP code was committed with the expectation that very few people would see it because it was not linked anywhere in the main readme. It's a calculated risk, so that the c…

I brought up this issue because I thought it illustrated my previous points nicely. Yes, there is a VS Code folder in that repo. However, it doesn't exist as an actual extension. I…

I dunno, it seems to be real excited about a VS Code extension that doesn't exist and isn't mentioned in the actual documentation. There's just too many factual errors to list.

I took a look at a project I maintain[0], and wow. It's so wrong in every section I saw. The generated diagrams make no sense. The text sections take implementation details that do…

Yeah, I made a local image compressor/converter for myself that's actually private: https://github.com/blopker/alic

Web version: https://clowerweb.github.io/kitten-tts-web-demo/ It sounds ok, but impressive for the size.

I get the feeling we're going to end up in a place where we don't make docs any more. A project will have a trusted agent that can see the actual code, maybe just the API surface, …

Hey HN, I wanted to share a project I've been working on to help with my terrible spelling. CSpell is the thing everyone uses in VSCode, but they don't offer an LSP for other edito…

The Rust ecosystem needs more high-level frameworks like this. However, I've been shipping Django since 0.96, and I don't think Cot really addresses the main issues Django currentl…

There is another solution, in this specific case. If all they wanted is to start returning the test results before all the tests are done, a streaming http response can be used. In…

I actually can't think of another language that has all of that built in. Rust doesn't, it needs a run time for async. JavaScript doesn't, it needs typescript and it doesn't compil…