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Doint a lot of exploratory work for my day job and trying to establish practice of good documentation so i hope being able to ramble as i work will make this easier.
At this point it's simple macos flutter app that toggles recording on global keyboard shortcut.
I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge. It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree. This is all generated on-the-fl…
This sort of thing is _very_ interesting to me, and I rather desperately want something like to this tied to listings of books.
I would like to read more diversely --- at one time I was trying to read one book from each LoC division, starting at the top/broadest (so A--Z), then iterating down, but this got to be exhausting because it was difficult to determine which book to read.
A later effort was to read biographies of famous people to my children in chronological order as they were growing up --- dry run was the very simple set of U.S. Presidents --- but again researching and ordering was a big problem.
So, my hopes for this are that it includes footnotes/references/links to supporting material (perhaps affiliate links on Amazon would be one way to fund things?) and that it is possible to click through to find information on specific technical topics as well as general explanations.
I am building an Excel extension that lets me use LLMs in formulas. For example, I can write =PROMPT(A1:E1, "Extract keywords") in a cell to extract keywords from a row and drag the cell to apply the prompt to many other rows. I find this useful when I want to use AI for repetitive tasks that would normally require copy-pasting data in and out of a chat window many times. I actually built it for my girlfriend who was…
Is there anything you can share - about how you're approaching it, and your progress? Need any beta testers? :)
It is implemented in Go, Python and JS, with support from Postgres, TimescaleDB and Kubernetes.
I'm finally frustrated enough by the state of coding that I'm developing my own coding environment and language. The leading question is: What if UI was first-class while programming? Happy to elaborate if anyone is interested, I will also write about it on my blog ( https://watwa.re ) at some point
A search of your site doesn't have a match for "Literate Programming" --- I've found it a benison when developing, esp. in that it allows me to review code which already exists, and to create a structural index while writing which allows a quick/easy check if a given module already exists in a context where it should --- managed to make a system for this w/ a bit of help from generous folks on tex.stackexchange:
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/literati...
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre...
and as the readme shows, I am fascinated by the idea of visualization of code:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/mai...
(probably because of reading Herman Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_ (originally published as _Magister Ludi_)
I'd give a lot to have a programming system for METAPOST/FONT (or some other graphical language) which both allowed drawing in the view and then editing the textual representation of the code causing the view to update (yes, I should use http://tikzedt.org/ )
It's been a breath of fresh air to work on something that I have no plans to monetize. I just want to build something useful for the community to use and that has allowed me to be relaxed with building it.
Anyways, if you play Lorcana I encourage you to check it out! The game is lots of fun.
I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge. It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree. This is all generated on-the-fl…
A while back I made something similar in the form of an incremental "clicker" game where you split things ad infinitum: https://lantto.github.io/hypersplit/
Officially retired. Managing the money I saved to retire on, which is more time-consuming and stressful than expected. Working on yet another static site generator but stymied by my terrible Git/GitHub skills. Studying historical Western secular music. Jazz guitar too.
Most Inuit in Canada speak Inuktitut, which is a language with long words and two different writing systems: the latin alphabet, and syllabics. Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a pain to input on a computer, so often times the more cumbersome latin alphabet is used in casual writing.
Tom Scott has an awesome video about how syllabics work[1], but breifly, the shape of the character determined its inital consonant spund, and the rotation determines its vowel sound. So ᐱ = pi, ᐳ = pu, ᐸ = pa, ᑎ = ti, ᑐ = tu, ᑕ = ta, etc. The word "Inuktitut" becomes ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in syllabics.
Transliterating between the two is fairly simple, but there are edge-cases around dialects and whatnot. The more interesting problem from a technical perspective is having a web extension that can detect Inuktitut on a web page (in wither writing system), and transliterate that into whatever writing system the user desires, whilst never accidentally transliterating the other text on the page ("inhabitants" could be picked up and transliterated as "ᐃᓐᕼᐊᖯᐃᑕᓐᑦᔅ", for example, even though that makes no sense).
The project is mostly using Rust via WebAssembly, which has been a lot of fun to work with and has let me do some awesome things, like avoiding heap allocation and using compile-time hashmaps to do conversions on the text. The build system has to do a lot and I eventually settled on python. Right now I'm trying to wrangle JS and the DOM (there's a lot of edge cases to deal with), and that's been difficult as it's not my wheelhouse.
