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by iansinnott 2y ago
Indeed. I suppose they are hoping people will associate the two letters with their thing rather than the original acronym.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Why migrate to a new language? I didn't see it mentioned in the post. Seems like they already had a working solution.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
You can do better than the Tab key when navigating a site via keyboard. Install a plugin that creates hotkeys for most actions on a site. I'm thinking of Vimium [1] but I'd guess there are others too. [1]: https://githu
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Ad-based business models will lead to UIs that force you to do things. There's not much to say here other than not to use those services, if possible. Ideally UIs and services (APIs) would be separate, so you could choose the interface
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by iansinnott 2y ago
The idea would be to reduce the likelihood of a payout.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Odd that (on desktop) the actual install URL is obscured by a gradient.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
> Traefik is more comparable to HAProxy than to nginx/caddy/apache2 Aren't caddy and traefik fairly comparable? I've only used them both lightly so I may be missing the core point of each, but I thought of them as ver
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Have used this a bit on personal projects. Being runtime agnostic was the selling point for me. Wanted to try Bun as the runtime but not use APIs that are Bun specific, in case I ran into issues and had to move to Node.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
> I've basically stopped using Google search altogether. This. As a portion of the global market I suspect Kagi's userbase is tiny, but the fact that it has become an actual viable alternative makes me hopeful for a resurgence
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by iansinnott 3y ago
I've faced (and am still facing) this problem as well. I don't think there's a good single solution, especially for finding specific photos. My current imperfect approach is to use Raycast / Alfred as a meta search tool
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Check out: https://github.com/uncss/uncss I've only used it once but it did the job (NOTE: Plain HTML, plain CSS, no build pipeline. So YMMV)
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by iansinnott 3y ago
While you can't buy discipline you can buy accountability, which is very powerful for affecting change. Given your budget you can hire a trainer for every session. A good trainer won't just tell you what to do but will also help t
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by iansinnott 3y ago
This is great. Foreign-language practice definitely seems like a great use case for LLMs. I'm surprised it understood your “你 dei tie ..." example, since "tie" is also valid pinyin.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
100% in agreement with regaining paste. Another workaround is to create a macro that will "type" the clipboard contents, simulating typing it out by hand. On macOS you can do this via Keyboard Maestro [1]. Create a macro with the
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Fair point, I hadn't made the distinction in my mind. Perhaps that resolves my previous qualms.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
100%. Was never able to get past the fact that it's slightly just not quite actual JS. Close enough to the base language that it seems they could have easily used JS, probably with some additional APIs for showing graphics.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
> But for me, still, the language with the greatest unlocking power is clearly Mandarin Chinese Chinese has really excellent grammar. No conjugation, no tenses, no words that change with gender. (All the rest of it is hard though, at lea
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Fair point, and it's not implemented that way currently. It's more like "custom instructions" but thanks for pointing that out. I haven't used multiple system prompts in the OpenAI playground either, so I hadn'
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by iansinnott 3y ago
You can update the system prompt in the settings. Admittedly this is not mentioned in the README, but is customizable.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
You could try out Prompta [1], which I made for this use case. Initially created to use OpenAI as a desktop app, but can use any compatible API including Ollama if you want local completions. [1]: https://github.com/iansinno
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Excellent library. This is what i'm using to build a full text index of every website I visit [1]. It doesn't work perfectly, but well enough. [1]: https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever
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by iansinnott 3y ago
I seem to remember it can be run with JSDom rather than a real DOM. I've never tried with CF workers specifically though.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
No one using postgres in the cloud is going to use this as an alternative, but there are at least two use cases where this could be very useful: - You want your app to be local first (snappy, great offline support, etc) but sync data to a s
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by iansinnott 3y ago
> what happens if you want to use modern syntax like esmodule, or maybe you want to use types with typescript? You are going to have to use npm. Shout out out to Bun (and Deno too?) for allowing you to treat typescript as an interpreted
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by iansinnott 3y ago
At a past job the team had a custom CLI tool to manage all sorts of dev tooling. Worked great, highly recommended. The distribution mechanism was to build from source[ ]. Once compiled, all other dev tasks were handled by the tool. If you c
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Not OP but Obsidian (as mentioned) and Logseq are both good options.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Agreed that grid styling works better in plain CSS, but that's often only a small amount of the CSS a site needs in my experience. You can write grid in a normal class and then write all your other styles inline via classes. Best of bo
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by iansinnott 3y ago
There's definitely a subjective element to authoring CSS, so I'm glad people have options. That being said, one of the things Tailwind got right is that it's even faster to type out than normal CSS _or_ JS objects. When you k
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by iansinnott 3y ago
> Customizability is important enough that it may be worth prioritizing it over security in some cases. 100% this. It should at least be acknowledged that "security" often means less options for the user.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Entirely agree, although as a developer the auto updating is definitely a feature. Since it lets you assume users are all on the same version. It is definitely a risk for users though. You can also "opt out" of automatic updates,

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