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This seems cool. For going from Markdown to slides I’ve often used Marp: https://marp.app/ — It doesn’t require much specialized syntax, it mostly does the right thing to turn plai…

Huh. I don’t doubt you, but I guess this is a sign pervasive AI/LLM generative artwork is messing with my brain’s pattern matching at a deep level.

The BlueSky post has another interesting clue. The pencil sketch on the right. Seems possible a human artist drew the sketch, then had an AI model "colorize" it. And in so doing, m…

It'll be interesting to learn whether it was AI-generated. It certainly SEEMS like it is. It has a few "tells": - two belts and two Clojure logo belt buckles - same code repeated o…

Nice find. Check out shykes commenting here on that thread! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5409678

Makes sense! Thanks for working on it -- truly a wonderful paper!

The math of “a decade” seemed wrong to me, since I remembered Docker debuting in 2013 at PyCon US Santa Clara. Then I found an HN comment I wrote a few years ago that confirmed thi…

Hey, I am just reaching out to say: "thank you." When I was in high school, I played a lot of UO. It was actually the last computer/video game I ever played regularly, because I co…

If you were utterly confused, like I was, how the iPad Air M4 compares to the iPad Pro M5 and the iPad Pro M4, this 3-column comparison table from Apple's website might help: https…

Someone named Ashley Blewer did such a deep dive on this show that she produced a full online course and syllabus centered around it. https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-f…

Glad I could be helpful! They are great plugins.

I've used vim as a prose editor in addition to a code editor for a long time. For me, Goyo was the plugin that always matched what I wanted vim to become when I was in "prose writi…

“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studyin…

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I'm working on startup #2 and we recently came out of stealth. PX is a daily developer tool that helps backend engineers go from working code on a laptop to deployed code in a fres…

Agreed. I wrote a post about the history and power of plain text in computing here: Simple and Universal: A History of Plain Text, and Why It Matters https://amontalenti.com/2016/0…

As someone who thinks a lot about how best to use one's limited time; is child-free by choice; and, who is also interested in the societal value of good parenting... this article d…

That's cool. I've wanted to track my movie watch history for awhile but just couldn't find the right software to do it. I really dislike Letterboxd. I also agree with your point th…

Wow, this is cool. I had COMPLETELY forgotten about Delicious Library. That is such a nice look-and-feel for this sort of app.

Digitizing my physical bookshelf was one of the first fun “vibe coding” projects I did with ChatGPT4o in 2024. First, I took photographs of all my physical books simply by photogra…

Cool to stumble upon this in the wild! Congrats again!

This reminded me of another discussion on HN a few months ago. Wherein I was reflecting on how the entire culture of internet standards has changed over time: "In the 80s and 90s (…

A cool thing about Doug Lea's java.util.concurrent (received a 10/10 rating here) is that its design also inspired Python's concurrent.futures package. This is explicitly acknowled…

I just did a small programming side project with a friend in Elixir and I was pretty impressed with the language, especially how it approaches functional programming, concurrency, …