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by gklitt 6y ago
Strongly agree with the original article, and it's fun to see all the niche use cases that people are mentioning here. But I have a major frustration with user scripts: writing them requires experience with Javascript and reverse engin
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Bugs and Battleships (2011)(blog.ezyang.com)
12 points by gklitt 7y ago|1 comments
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by gklitt 7y ago
Very neat project! I think visibility into intermediate stages of a pipeline can be enormously useful for data restructuring tasks, where the individual steps aren't necessarily "difficult" to understand, but it can be hard t
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by gklitt 7y ago
An awesome research project in this area: https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/sieuferd/
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by gklitt 7y ago
Just FYI, the version on Amazon is a draft preprint, and he's currently revising it towards the actual publication. (But even the draft version is a fantastic read!)
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by gklitt 7y ago
Yes, you're right! In practice, though, we're finding that many useful customizations can fit into that framework. For example, the Expedia demo in the paper shows a "1 row table" to represent an input form. It's wo
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by gklitt 7y ago
Thanks! "View source mindset" is a nice word for what we're trying to promote with this project. Brittle site-specific logic is indeed a challenge. So far we've started with the simplest thing possible of programmers man
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by gklitt 7y ago
You're absolutely right that limited data access and pagination exclude certain types of modifications. So far, we've decided to defer thinking about that limitation, and first focus on other questions like getting the spreadsheet
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by gklitt 7y ago
Thanks for building Handsontable! It's been essential for quickly prototyping this project and I'm a fan of the API design. re: scraping, it's true that semantic HTML makes things easier, but we've also been building sit
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by gklitt 7y ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions! To bring it full circle, here are a couple recent demo videos I made of using Wildcard to customize the HN front page: https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/12292512171
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by gklitt 7y ago
Author of that tweet here! Happy to answer any questions. If anyone wants more info on the project: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/
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by gklitt 7y ago
"Home-cooked" software is such a lovely analogy. I've used the same comparison to explain my unease about ad-hoc spreadsheets being replaced by domain-specific software [1]. Often the new software is "better" just l
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by gklitt 7y ago
He was such an intriguing thinker. I love this 2013 blog post from Ben Thompson. It's titled "What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong", but I think it ironically does a good job of showing how Christensen's ideas are actually
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React to the Future (Jordan Walke at ReasonConf 2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by gklitt 7y ago|0 comments
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by gklitt 7y ago
I made it ~60% of the way through this and thought it was really well done. The guide gives detailed instructions so you never feel stuck, but because it's language-agnostic you still have to translate everything into specific code whi
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Show HN: HQ→CO2: Corporate Cause, Climate Effect (Built with Svelte and WebGL)(hqco2.org)
3 points by gklitt 7y ago|0 comments
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software(geoffreylitt.com)
320 points by gklitt 7y ago|186 comments
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by gklitt 8y ago
Yeah, I like doctests but also find it limiting to have everything in the source code text. Having a GUI for viewing examples is nice, although it does introduce other problems like how to store and version the examples.
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by gklitt 8y ago
Yeah, the examples are serialized so it's theoretically possible example recorders in any language that emit a standard format. It's kind of just a logging format in some sense. On the viewer side I've thought about building
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Margin Notes: Automatic code documentation with recorded examples from runtime(geoffreylitt.com)
2 points by gklitt 8y ago|0 comments
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by gklitt 8y ago
For those who have used modeling tools like TLA+ and Alloy in industry -- could you give an example of at what point(s) in the development process you used the tool and how long it took? I'm intrigued, but having trouble visualizing ho
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A crash course in compilers(increment.com)
3 points by gklitt 8y ago|0 comments
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Adding tail call optimization to a Lisp interpreter in Ruby(geoffreylitt.com)
6 points by gklitt 9y ago|0 comments
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by gklitt 9y ago
The conclusion of the article reminds me of the idea behind blameless postmortems for system outages. Human mistakes are inevitable, and it's our responsibility to design resilient systems that acknowledge that simple fact. While softw
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by gklitt 9y ago
I’ve been hacking on a Twitter client that batches your tweets and lets you consume them in a more pull-oriented daily digest format, with the ability to customize rules for which subset of tweets get included in the digest. In my personal
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by gklitt 9y ago
If you're more into the terminal, a coworker of mine made a nifty tool that does similar things but works with Markdown files and a CLI. For example: $ friends add activity Got lunch with Grace and George. https://github.com
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ENHANCE: Upscaling images CSI-style with generative adversarial neural networks(geoffreylitt.com)
2 points by gklitt 9y ago|0 comments
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Notes from an Emergency (pinboard)(idlewords.com)
3 points by gklitt 9y ago|0 comments
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by gklitt 9y ago
It seems like the browser vendors are doing a good job coordinating to provide a robust ecosystem around Web Assembly. Clearly much healthier for the future of the web than fragmented browser-specific solutions.
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Introducing Panorama Student Success (Panorama Education S13)(blog.panoramaed.com)
1 points by gklitt 9y ago|0 comments

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