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by akkartik 1y ago
Email is only part of my electronic memory. Over time it's become more important to me to maintain my own copies of my memory on devices I control. The forms and formats are many, and they all need a commitment to maintain control. S
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by akkartik 1y ago
This works if your code snippets generate relatively static output. Lately I often need to create animations, often interactive ones. See https://akkartik.name/debugUIs.html , for example. In my life I've often switched
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by akkartik 1y ago
I use Lua for almost all my custom tools these days. https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/gen_site
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by akkartik 1y ago
I forward everything including spam to Fastmail. Their spam filter is absolutely fine. This way I don't need to check for false positives in 2 places. You're probably losing one genuine message a year if you don't check your
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TopoLang: An Esolang Based on Topological Pattern Matching(github.com)
7 points by akkartik 1y ago|1 comments
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by akkartik 1y ago
When you see a large number of masters spanning diverse skill levels across a population, maybe it's an easy skill to acquire.
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by akkartik 1y ago
Play and curiosity has always required some level of privilege and a sense of safety.
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The gentrification of videogame history(felipepepe.medium.com)
18 points by akkartik 1y ago|17 comments
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by akkartik 1y ago
Critical data here is how many PRs one is creating on others' projects and receiving on one's own projects. To me OP sounds like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." At my level of git collaboration, just git push contri
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by akkartik 1y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! Signal on the Desktop has receded for me in the past year when I moved to an Arch- rather than Debian-based distro (Ubuntu to Manjaro). This might get me to reconsider. (Ugh.)
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by akkartik 1y ago
This looks brilliant. I just hope they make it easy to do test restores. In particular, I want to test restore without perturbing my main device. Let me restore using the secret key on a new device. When I install Signal on a computer it wo
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We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)(hopefulmons.com)
67 points by akkartik 1y ago|81 comments
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by akkartik 1y ago
https://archive.is/CjIdE
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by akkartik 1y ago
The point of GP is that market-external mechanisms like that will only affect the price when they seem likely to happen.
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by akkartik 1y ago
Sounds like the place to start reading is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcutaneous_electrical_nerv...
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by akkartik 1y ago
There's a GUI library: https://github.com/flamendless/Slab In general, if you use a minority platform you have to assume it has a tiny minority testing it and so budget for there to be more bugs and so on. LÖVE it
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by akkartik 1y ago
Do I need to start living in Emacs to get these benefits? Or are you saying I can use Emacs as my todo list app, close it after writing a todo, and have it pop up notifications?
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by akkartik 1y ago
I want to address the underlying philosophy behind your edit (and also your original comment). "Perfect is the enemy of good" is not just "all that." It is the thing , the critical design constraint. Computers are a hun
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by akkartik 1y ago
I use the Unix way and multiple tools. If something has a date attached, put it on the calendar. If something is time sensitive add alarms as needed (calendar notifications have not been doing it for me in the last 5+ years) 20 years ago it
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by akkartik 1y ago
Yeah, my install instructions are consistently: 1. Download LÖVE from its website. 2. Download my app (as Lua source code). It's not going to lead to Instagram-level downloads, but that's not the aim. My goal is to teach people a
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by akkartik 1y ago
Wow, thank you! <3
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by akkartik 1y ago
As someone who loved Turbo Pascal, for the past 3 years I use Lua and LÖVE. https://akkartik.name/freewheeling
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by akkartik 1y ago
I think it makes sense to go to 3D with a VR headset. But screens are fundamentally flat, and I feel like going to 3D on a screen takes an initial hit in experience. You can reclaim that hit by putting in work, of course.
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by akkartik 1y ago
Oh this is awesome! I might try my hand at implementing it, though maybe not in lines.love..
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by akkartik 1y ago
For similar considerations + considerations of code size and hackability, I lately almost always prefer the Lua eco-system: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling
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by akkartik 1y ago
I wasn't aware of Markdeep when I built this, but looking at it now, it's 6k+ lines of code: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/latest/markdeep.js And then you need a browser underneath that weighs in a
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by akkartik 1y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31637910 (Jun 2022, 192 comments)
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by akkartik 1y ago
> I just wrote a thin wrapper around the somewhat verbose JS Canvas API that lets me write code such as As I said at the start of OP, I want to draw by doodling. So writing code would seem to be disqualified. > Why use a new format in
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by akkartik 1y ago
Ok, I understand now. When you say "make sense" you're thinking just about the mechanical ease of acquiring a key. That's fair.
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by akkartik 1y ago
The architect Christopher Alexander has this pattern in "A Pattern Language" called "Home Workshop". (Summary: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/christopher-alexanders-arch... ) Roughly, the idea was

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