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Some notes on how to ship fast and why it matters. This is from my perspective as a indie dev and a startup founder, but I think some lessons here for everyone.

When the engineering department of a company is not the major lever in the company's growth this philosophy might be fine. That's the case of many large enterprise and probably man…

Creating and using virtual environments in Jupyter has always felt a little painful. Now thanks to uv things can be so much better. I've integrated uv into my Jupyter notebook clie…

Thank you for the advice. I get how this might be better suited for a regular blog post rather than Show HN. I will repost it in a month or so. Hopefully some people might find it …

I wanted to learn how to create a code editor with linting support so I made one and added the code here on github: https://github.com/jackhodkinson/lsp-editor In the process I lea…

Thanks! That's a great idea. I have been thinking of doing something like this.

Great feedback, thank you. I've heard this before. I'm thinking of keeping the default but adding an option in settings to "ask before installation" for users who prefer that behav…

Thanks! I just used the builtin MacOS screenshot tool to take the screenshots. I used Tailwind to style the page. I really like the default shadow that the "selected window" screen…

Thank you :) I did write the entire client. I will add support for those soon! I love interactive widgets.

Even as a command line power user, I still wish it were easier to install dependencies while working in a notebook. If I'm working on a project I don't want to have to switch to my…

Awesome! I did some explaining in this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899748 Good luck with your project. Let me know if you'd like any tips on the code edito…

When I learned to program I was working as a scientist. I was relying on OriginLab (a scientific version of Excel) for my data analysis and it was a real pain. I decided to start u…

Is this it? https://www.sagemath.org/ This looks like a programming language built on top of Python. Satyrn only supports the Python programming language right now. If you are usin…

It can be confusing. The key is that you probably have multiple versions of python installed on your computer (that's normal). Secondly, the default "kernel" in Jupyter was probabl…

Thanks for your feedback! I'm looking into this. I'd also really like copilot here.

I'll work on making them easier to configure. At the moment you press `g` (for generate) while in command-mode to create a "prompt cell". I'll think of ways to make this more obvio…

Thanks! I'll let you know when it's ready. What do you use now to work with remote environments? JupyterLab or VS Code?

Thanks for your feedback! If you'd be happy to share: I'm curious to know what scientific field you work in? Do you do 100% computational work, or is it a mixture of experimental a…

I agree! At the very least I can port this to Tauri to make it have a smaller footprint.

That contribution to Zed from rgbkrk looks awesome.

Not yet! But I'm working on this :)