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I don't know if you are trolling or what, but you win at the internets today

I saw this headline, saw the tweets and missed what this was about. Then read Simon Willison's breakdown and got the 'Aha!'. I like what they've done, played with it and immediatel…

What's with the retro gear on the desk? Do you use it much and what for? In particular Commodore tape player.

Isn't that what Geoff did: https://ghuntley.com/cursed/ OK, it wasn't a Claude Skill, but it was done using Claude.

Try the reverse, get a document that is critical of the US foreign policy, from China, and ask your well known brand LLM, to convert the text from PDF to epub. It'll right out refu…

The same here. Because of him, I installed a RSS reader so that I don't miss any of his posts. And I know that he shares the same ones across Twitter, Mastodon & Bsky...

It works great with Emacs :) https://github.com/dotemacs/emacs-mcp I like the fact that it's just Bash

> Your options are kind of limited: - Amazon Q CLI - Claude Code CLI - OpenAI Codex CLI Ampcode have a CLI, which is their agent using Claude 4. Google also came out with Jules a f…

This is a product by Sourcegraph https://sourcegraph.com who already have a solution in this space. Is this something wildly different to Cody, your existing solution, or just a "s…

I guess it's hard to switch from a working setup that you've invested time in. Especially since you might not be familiar with the new one. Personally, I'm trying out things in VS …

Has anybody actually used Windsurf's Emacs mode? You'd think that with a generative AI coding editor, they'd stay on top of it and make it work. But I guess that wasn't the case up…

Interesting that you're seeing the lack of intermediate server/API as a drawback. InstantDB sees it as progress, see their essay on it: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/sync_future…

I'm glad that this package exists. I know of UNIX parameters, with a single hyphen & a single letter, and GNU parameters, with a double parameter and a word. But a single hyphen an…

Somebody brought up a point about outdated documentation. Currently https://clojuredocs.org is sort of the go to place. It wins due to Google algorithm. I wanted to add the ability…

> I found myself frustrated a lot when I used it two years ago. Sad to hear about your experience. > A lot of abandoned libraries. There's not a huge ecosystem around it compared t…

> Kosovo is a country. Not according to the international community and international law. The majority of the UN recognised countries, 106 do not recognise it. Whilst only 94 do. …

> My post reported the perceptions that non-Serbs often have about Serbs, and how this can hinder yugonostalgia I was driven by an Albanian taxi driver abroad, who loves ethnonatio…

mytailorisrich shurgs. Nothing happens. Or what would happen?

Thanks for these suggestions, bought the books & signed up for the course!

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Wow, two cool Clojure related things happened today! This and and a sneak peak at ClojureDart: https://twitter.com/cgrand/status/1350063059864346624

I'm glad to see that certain extensions are what's stopping people from switching to Safari. For me the issue is that Safari garbles the sound when using Google Hangouts and Whereb…

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Yes, this is an ad for their service. But then, you are on HN, not on Lobsters. I think that this is great idea that you're trying this. I hope you stick with it and succeed. Becau…

The author even has this whole site, which is essentially a slide deck: http://boringtechnology.club/ But even though he talks about "boring" tech, he did go on to have a startup, …