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prezjordan

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About prezjordan

https://jordanscales.com

webmaster @ notion

email me! scalesjordan@gmail.com

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    Looks good! Did you build your own text editor? The markup doesn't look familiar. (Would recommend grabbing one off-the-shelf that handles cross-paragraph selections and concurrent…

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    Comment #44022477

    I just loaded Hacker News after a WaniKani session. Any recs for moving this into Anki? I already use Anki for cards I created while going through Genki with my tutor, and world ca…

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    Comment #43955282

    As a framework-enjoyer, I'm finding this helpful to leaf through just to learn about modern web platform tech.

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    Comment #43909804

    I should probably 1.0 it and call it a day, it's pretty much done. In the back of my mind I've thought of making the markup more amenable to LLMs like Sonnet (maybe with tailwind s…

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    Comment #43883306

    To the author: you can add a .devcontainer directory with a Dockerfile, allowing folks to try this in their browser with GitHub Codespaces Shameless plug, feel free to copy my setu…

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    Comment #43811413

    > In my experience, a fundamental part of spaced repetition's efficacy is in creating the flashcards yourself. +1 to this, have found the same when going through the Genki Japanese…

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    Comment #43775775

    Potentially useful to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture#As_a_parity...

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    Comment #43230739

    You're leaving out the most important bit of a component like InlineStack: the props [0]. Yes you can just apply `display: flex` to the div you're working on, but like any proper a…

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    Comment #43230667

    Strangely enough the analogies that scale earth's orbit to ~centimeters and nearby stars to ~kilometers actually makes me think we're not that far from other stars! Once you scale …

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    Comment #42829861

    Thank you :) A real labor of love [0] for me. [0]: https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

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    Comment #42824070

    TIL Intl.Segmenter[0]. The ECMAScript standard library never ceases to amaze me. [0]: https://github.com/dddddddddzzzz/api-oh/blob/312d490641c7ec7...

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    Comment #42062854

    Phenomenal work

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    Comment #42062553

    > also the dropdown menu, when opened, looks very different than the original 98 style Sadly this is the dropdown provided by the host operating system. The tell is that it can ext…

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    Comment #42062043

    Author here – happy to see this posted again! This was my burnout recovery project and I wrote some thoughts on it recently https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

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    Comment #41540868

    Had no idea it was in active development! I spent a weekend with Factor about two years ago and it was enlightening.

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    Comment #41408691

    A lot to admire in this post about passion and long-term thinking but this is too egregious. > Back in 1979, for example, I’d invented the idea of transformations for symbolic expr…

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    Comment #41218776

    Impressive! I wonder what this guy went on to build /s

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    Comment #40474432

    I find Lua so dang pleasing to look at

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    Comment #40334270

    No experience building exactly what you're describing, but the Adafruit MagTag may work for you https://www.adafruit.com/product/4800 . I've only done so much as display text on it…

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    Comment #40132051

    Dan doesn't use 98.css (krazam does!). You can tell by the 45 degree angles on the button borders.

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    Comment #40105989

    It includes J and K. One more than the Rosetta Stone!

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    Comment #39500797

    I can't seem to figure out what you mean by inverse. Is the inversion of addition subtraction? Neither post seems to explain what it is (or maybe it assumes knowledge of ⊥ and ⊤?)