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I've been using deepseek v4 for cost/performance reasons. I feel it is generally not as good as some others, but in the end, you can make any model work by giving it the right acce…

It needs a purple gradient mode.

It was definitely easier pre-LLM. The difference between launching things today and 10 years ago is night and day. When I made websequencediagrams.com, it was free and companies wo…

Working on laconic, a "Ralph loop for Research" API costs for LLM are getting ridiculous. By managing a 4K context window, I can get tiny local models to do advanced research tasks…

I wish WebSequenceDiagrams was further up your list. I guess I have some work to do. When I made it, nothing like mermaid, plantUML，lucid charts existed. The syntax of most tools w…

WebSequenceDiagrams supports this: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/?lz=dGl0bGUgVW4AAwVkCgpB... Premium version allows crossed messages: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/cgi-…

This happened to me. I never did figure out the cause. One day customers of www.websequencediagrams.com started emailing me saying they couldn't access their files. Turns out it wa…

https://languagenow.app I created an HTML app to help you learn Mandarin or German. It's flashcards for vocabulary and writing. I was very excited about it a couple of years ago bu…

I make a Saas web application and I still got something from this. I'm going to commit some $$$ and buy some other Saas apps to see what they do right.

Right now they only appear for people that arrive from a search engine directly to a word page. http://rhymebrain.com/en/What_rhymes_with_purple.html My theory was that those peopl…

I have three side projects that together became my "full-time" job. I'm able to spend a lot of time with my kids since I can work fewer hours. I'm tired all the time due to a 4 mon…

I created http://www.websequencediagrams.com . PlantUML came several years later. I'm happy that my syntax is good enough to emulate in so many different projects.

In Canada, at tech startup seminars, the lawyers remind us that the government has a "Ministry of Labour", and it is NOT called the "Ministry of Employers" for a reason. Lawyers ad…

Don't be silly. Nobody in the real world reads Hacker News.

It does. Search the chrome extension library.