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The Voyager Company is truly worthy of study if you are at all interested in a vision for hypermedia before the internet. - Collected media https://the-next.eliterature.org/collect…

Would also recommend https://types.kitlangton.com/ as a companion — sometimes many examples can illustrate the point more succinctly than text.

Both ProseMirror and the newer version of CodeMirror have a pretty elegant solution to this: each modification to the document is modeled as a step that keeps track of indices inst…

Github's https://primer.style/product/getting-started/ does a good job of making a cohesive design language that works just as well for server-rendering Ruby views and "upgrading" …

You're not alone. There's been an effort to transparently update the UI to a React implementation over the past year or two, and while I understand the benefits to that approach, t…

The convention on desktop and mobile is not to have a submission at all. If you click one of these "mercury" buttons, you can always have up-to-date state. Forms and submissions ar…

I'm not very excited about the product itself, but if you are at all interested in spatial computing, it's worth reading through Apple's design and developer resources: Designing f…

If you have one of the newer magsafe iPhones, you can attach one of these to the wall (front camera) or the back of your monitor (back cameras): https://www.shopmoment.com/products…

33 years, if you go by the patent. Lots more fun facts in Tim Hunkin's excellent Secret Life of Machines: https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/0301-The_FAX_Machine...

For instance, with Diagram Maker, application developers can enhance the experience for end customers by enabling them to intuitively and visually build cloud resources required by…

I meant it more as a testament to how far you can get with a Rails app before needing to consider using the power tools :^)

I hope to hear more in the future! Do you envision any extension points to the way engines are implemented that could better enforce boundaries? In our engines, there was nothing t…

A number of years ago, I worked on a team (~20 engineers in total) that successfully carved off two relatively independent portions of a large Rails app using engines. I'm happy to…

Webpack-based projects are heavy. A Rails app comes with a Webpack-based Javascript scaffold out-of-the-box. I wonder if something like Rollup or NCC could be used to create a sing…

It is worth considering why a government would not have such a law.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15884051

I gotta say, the "installing" workflow is pretty opaque and confusing. Why do I need to both authorize GitHub _and_ install a GitHub app? If I elect to only authorize it for specif…

Reminds me of some of the excellent advice in Bret Victor's essay about global warming: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ The investment is not only in the machinery, but in too…

It would seem that https://github.com/atom/atom-languageclient is still under active development. Hopefully this means that the core Atom team will continue to work on language ser…

There's https://github.com/google/zoekt which provides a pretty straight-forward and memory-efficient implementation. Their design document goes a bit into what makes it fast: http…

It's true that macros exist in languages like Nim and Elixir, even C. They either use something more akin to string templates (expanding a macro fills in the holes) or a DSL for ma…

Swimming along, sometimes at great speed, sometimes slowly and leisurely, sometimes resting and exchanging ideas, sometimes stopping to sleep, it took them a week to reach Amos's h…

I for one fully support Musk's efforts to hurl himself into space.

I for one fully support Musk's efforts to hurl himself into space.

It's likely less about meter than flow.