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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by 9dev »

outintospace wrote: post #91
NDlurker wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! My only experience with Comic Chat is reading Jerk City comics. Always thought it was a neat concept but never used it

I used it to create a presentation for my talk at a conference last year. https://standefer.com/agent-platform-comic/about.html

I take that comic a bit personal, to be honest - I just returned from a two-month odyssey to find a way of offering our customers a simple way of connecting our MCP Server to their Copilot Chat. Digging through a mindboggling number of documentation that was often outdated, sometimes contradictory, but always written both verbose and yet very light on information was part of that; talking to broken AI chatbots and clueless support staff was, just as trying out four (four!) different ways to create an Agent wrapper - only to discover that multi-tenancy is not supported for any of these, and two of the three SDKs are outdated but still referenced in docs everywhere.

What's more, people seemed to be actively confused by the use case ("Why would your customers even want to use an external tool that isn't part of their Microsoft environment?").

I finally found out about "declarative agents", which seem to be able to do what I need. And if I don't trash my computer against the wall out of pure rage over page changes in partner center taking 15 seconds or longer, I might just be able to complete the 40-step form required for the marketplace listing. Progress!

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by amiga386 »

NDlurker wrote: post #78
outintospace wrote: post #64

Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release ha…

Thank you! My only experience with Comic Chat is reading Jerk City comics. Always thought it was a neat concept but never used it

T DEUCE ME TOO HUGALUGAHGLGHLAHALHGGGGG

https://archive.org/details/big-book-of-jerkcity/

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by astrange »

NDlurker wrote: post #78
outintospace wrote: post #64

Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release ha…

Thank you! My only experience with Comic Chat is reading Jerk City comics. Always thought it was a neat concept but never used it

On occasion I meet one of the creators of that professionally. And then I always think of asking him about it. And then I don't do it.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by runjake »

NDlurker wrote: post #78
outintospace wrote: post #64

Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release ha…

Thank you! My only experience with Comic Chat is reading Jerk City comics. Always thought it was a neat concept but never used it

Jerk City lives on, and is now known as Bonequest. Here's today's comic:

https://www.bonequest.com/

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by anthk »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #56

...for years I've talked about this program here on HN! This is exciting for me, I will definitely be downloading and perusing the code when I get back home from vacation. Thank you to the original developers, and to the current team at Microsoft that made this release possible! I have a vivid memory of my sister and my mom in Puerto Rico, on our packardbell computer, hearing it making dial-up noises for days or hour…

Libera.chat instead of freenode. Also, Bitlbee.org's public servers against your own Jabber and Mastodon accounts and the like.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by anthk »

mrob wrote: post #80
rideontime wrote: post #63

Depressing to see all the AI-generated text in an article about a creative communication tool. Even the comic's punchline is clunky, and no human being would ever refer to Michael Jordan as the "Space Jam guy."

>no human being would ever refer to Michael Jordan as the "Space Jam guy." Maybe not in the USA, but globally I think it's likely that more people watched Space Jam than ever watched an NBA match. Professional basketball is a niche sport in most of the world.

Well, everyone knows about MJ in Europe even if they never saw a basketball match ever (outside school OFC) because of his sneakers.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by kylemaxwell »

Oh man, I remember this from when I was in college. I didn't really realize it was IRC, and so I thought everybody else in the chat rooms was using it and saw the visualizations.

30 years later and I still cringe at the memories. (The problem was not the client, it was me, heh.)

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