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https://lord.io/spreadsheets/ is one of my favorite technical blog posts of all time. Highly recommend everyone check it out!

Yes, I cite Brooks (and Harlan Mills, seemingly the original source of the idea) in the post!

Author here. I thought about including TCAS in the article but it felt too tangential… You’re right that there’s a voice alert. But TCAS also has a map of nearby planes which is mu…

Author here. Yes, I think the original GitHub Copilot autocomplete UI is (ironically) a good example of a HUD! Tab autocomplete just becomes part of your mental flow. Recent coding…

Neat —- Scrappy looks like a lovely prototype! As the creators say in their writeup, it fits nicely into the lineage of HyperCard-style “media with optional scripting” editors, whi…

Actually, Patchwork has surprisingly few features! Think of it more like an OS than a product. The goal is a small set of composable primitives that let you build many things - doc…

> I agree, I feel like the authors are underestimating the effect the new AI is already having on the concept of local software crafting Coauthor here -- did you catch our section …

Yes, I think atproto is a great example of the “shared data” pattern for composable tools! Especially since it handles public social scale, which is not addressed by the other syst…

I gotta say I don’t understand your point about cooking — billions of people who aren’t professional chefs cook meals every day! These meals may not live up to restaurant standards…

Coauthor here. You make a fair point! Ease of use matters. We all want premade experiences some of the time. The problem is that even in those (perhaps rare!) cases where we want t…

We're happy to share the Embark prototype with anyone who wants to try it out - just email me at geoffrey@inkandswitch.com and I can share a link with you. A couple reasons we've d…

I want to but I’ve been having trouble getting o3 to work - lots of errors related to model selection.

I tried one task head-to-head with Codex o4-mini vs Claude Code: writing documentation for a tricky area of a medium-sized codebase. Claude Code did great and wrote pretty decent d…

I just tried making it public, sorry!

yeah i actually do handle inbound email! just forgot to include that code in the shared version. the telegram inbound handler shows the rough pattern.

(post author here) Yes, it's absolutely great to have a "low floor" -- common use cases should be easy to do, without needing to learn a ton up front. But, hiding the structure is …

This is outside my area of expertise, but the post sounds like it’s asking for “choreographic programming”, where you can write an algorithm in a single function while reasoning ex…

We totally agree! Stay tuned for our next posts on that topic :)

Code is here! Totally support any riffing on this concept. https://github.com/geoffreylitt/wildcard

Creator of Wildcard here! Neat to see this pop up on HN after several years. As others have noted, this project isn't under active development anymore. One reason: while I still th…

Post author here. Just wanted to link to a talk that I gave which expands on the ideas in this essay and shows a couple evocative demos to make it more concrete: https://youtu.be/b…

Post author here! I wrote this post five years ago. Since then, my conviction in the value of customizable software has only grown, but I've also updated my thinking in a few ways:…

I bought one of these for my house recently and it’s been great. We wrote custom software for our own info display, straightforward since you just serve images over an HTTP endpoin…