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scottrblock

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About scottrblock

currently working on phonetonote and thinking about data interoperability in tools for thought.

previously: compass, contactually, ventureboard.

full stack engineer, writing mostly typescript and ruby.

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    How about our software engineering jobs, which will now entail managing a team of agents?

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    plus one, I would love to configure a folder of markdown/txt(+ eventually images and pdfs) files that this can have access to. Ideally it could RAG over them in a sensible way. Wou…

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    touchscreens don't have to be small. one of the only pie menus I can really think of in the wild is Adobe Illustrator on iPad, which is relatively interesting because its an "ipad …

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    I wandered into the comments to find or write the correct "before times" bit, and I think this covers everything I would've mentioned. I'll add that looking back, EXT seemed to be …

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    Comment #30950777

    I agree! I'm the creator of phonetonote [1], which tries to integrate with different tools for thought. I just started a `tft-interop` repo [2] with similar goals. We're just getti…

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    Comment #30774492

    thanks, "TB->PCIe expander chassis" wasn't on my radar at all! I'm holding out that apple will release something better than the Studio Display in the next 6-9 months and make some…

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    I think the Dell 8k 32" is pretty close to what you want — https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-m... . It's certainly not cheap! edit: in case anyone knows, I…

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    I tried using are.na and it just didn't stick for whatever reason. Kinopio on the other hand, I wanted to use it more and more once I started. Just suited my brain better I suppose…

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    `Baas` as a term might be dead, but `JAMStack`, which Netlify invented [0] is alive and perhaps thriving -- it's a bit hard to say. Maybe not the same exact concept, but it seems s…

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    I'm afraid this won't be useful in the real world. API consumers who continue to use legacy endpoints after being told not to are unlikely to update their code to listen to a new H…

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    Very much so. Especially if it pulled in other tangental data such as weather at the time and location of the game.

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    Yep. The one closest to where I work is in a great spot in downtown DC, ironically enough half a block from Bezos owned Washington Post headquarters. The one closest to where I liv…

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    Comment #7908660

    I think the news is that it was sent to Arrington of all people. Plus the "Go TechCrunch" bit.

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    Comment #7601321

    Not sure if they're better, but for rails, I use: MiniProfiler- https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler- from the Railscast[0]- "MiniProfiler allows you to see the speed…