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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke (one of my favorite quotes!)
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
so interestingly, one of the most popular URLs imported from the extension is actually localhost:3000, meaning people use it to import their own design context and iterate on it. It pains me that people jump to the worst use case (copying
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
Totally agree with you it feels roundabout. The really challenging part was converting the computed styles to output that is as human-friendly as possible. And what's interesting these days: human-friendly means LLM-friendly... We do a
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
thank you - we're a team of 2 and former full-time frontend engineers so that means a lot to us! You're spot on with the guard rails: we do a lot of post-processing, i.e., after LLM spits something out, we parse the AST, strip out
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
thank you! Given Tailwind's conciseness, it's interesting seeing how "LLM-friendly" it is. Less tokens needed to style more! But if you want to start with an existing design: first deterministically grabbing the styles v
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
Hey, cursor composer (an IDE that lets you pair-program with AI)is awesome! I use it myself. Our extension is very different: its use case is for getting design context from any website, and then feeding that into our AI design tool - Magic
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
hey thanks for the bug report! I tried to repro and see it using Verdana, Geneva, san-serif when: A) selecting just the logo — https://www.magicpatterns.com/21ae73b5-3e14-480c-9a2e-596146... B) the bar: https://w
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Show HN: Convert any website into a React component(chromewebstore.google.com)
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We asked 39,425 people how they make espresso – this is what we found [video](youtube.com)
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
Interesting observations here about how espresso drinkers choose their dosage, ratios, extraction time based on mathematical convenience, not taste. "We like even numbers, you'll see [from our data] there are spikes at all of the
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
It's a fun space indeed: Magic Patterns co-founder here! Feel free to message me at alex [at] magicpatterns.com if you have any feedback. Awesome OSS project in this thread!
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
[3] https://www.magicpatterns.com/ can also help that! Use cases for engineers: https://www.magicpatterns.com/teams/engineers
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by alexdanilowicz 2y ago
That's my bad. Is there a list of rules somewhere? I didn't see anything mentioned about the year here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html I appreciate you calling it out!
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Linus Torvalds, the famous embroidery file converter developer(torvalds-family.blogspot.com)
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Hvaldimir, the Russian spy whale, was almost named Agent James Beluga(newsinenglish.no)
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Mouse Cat Game(mousecat.herokuapp.com)
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
I can't get past the 20s. This game is addicting. Looks like it's impossible to cheat too (by messing with the window object.)
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
What MoR are you going with?
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
ah thank you! yes we need to make that waaay more clear. - The $8/mo is for unlimited usage of the public design systems you see listed. (Up to 5 generations are free) - The "Contact Us" pricing is for company's with hig
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
hey thanks! Not hard, we add custom design systems all the time for our customers and have plans to make it self-serve. I've never scheduled this through hackernews before haha: would to hear more about your use case and hook it up for
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
I am not the author but absolutely huge kudos. I’m building something similar called Magic Patterns. Considering you asked to try it in real life, you can try on our website directly: https://www.magicpatterns.com/ We do a
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
my wife is a teacher and has shared anecdotally it feels like kids' attention spans are way worse recently, even in 2nd and 3rd grade. Reminds me of this tweet: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/17346151
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
https://www.designpatterns.io/ai Generate React code from any design system with a simple text prompt. Trying to figure out if the code output is more useful or if the design "inspiration" is more useful. Would ap
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
Interesting! What do you think the main value add is: 1) saving the developer time from tagging known errors themselves? Or 2) is the idea that this would be applied to complete unknown errors, and give a sense of what's going on by la
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Show HN: Patterns – Compare React Component Libraries(designpatterns.io)
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
I imagine it would be pretty obvious from an engagement metrics perspective how a regular user acts (scrolling, stopping to read, upvoting) vs a robot. Not to mention the sheer amount of content you'd have to scrape, which would defini
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
Oh certainly — I don't mean to undermine private schooling at all. (I happen to be the product of one.) I should have rephrased: My worry is that schooling will become more and more expensive.
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Happy Teacher's Appreciation Week to All the CS Teachers
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
A lot of people already "live" in Slack (i.e., slack has a 'network effect', same with Discord) and so naturally I think people are more likely to engage with my community on a tool they are using because of work (their
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by alexdanilowicz 3y ago
I feel like with everything in computer science/software engineering, there are tradeoffs to every solution. What do you think are the positive benefits of .env files compared to what the author is saying?

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