keithnz

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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   CBOR is a pretty good middle ground
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   a variation of lisp is SUPER easy to do, give it some primitives to graphics/sounds/inputs and away you go
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   Stick with Github if it solves your problem. No particular reason to move off, only reasons I've seen so far is "don't like Microsoft" and "Don't like the UI". But overall, GitHub is the leading tech in
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   that website is horrible, you can't reject the advertising cookies
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   not sure about for pull requests, but for protocols it could be interesting. I asked it to generate a comic for https negotiation over tcp https://imgur.com/a/0p0Pzum I think with a bit more prodding it might be i
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   you should complain a lot when the offering is not great, odd design decisions, bad price point, etc.... All of that is information to make better offerings. Instead of this thing, I think there are far better offerings from things like
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   the choices made on the keyboard layout seem weird to me, though I do like the left hand numpad. But the big esc? the Fn key up top right seems like it makes key chords with it kind of hard. No ins key? no prt scr? is that 3 ctrl keys?
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   I had a similar experience when I wanted to draw a circle on my Atari 800XL. There's no prebuilt drawing function for circles, so I had to learn about sine and cosine with the help of my dad. I then figured out from there how to do
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   by keithnz 11mo ago

   I really like windows 11, works great. I have it way more customized to my liking than most "normal" users would, but there's really no negative impact on me. I also have a Mac and use Linux (bounced between arch, ubuntu, a
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    Back in the 80s we had logo, that was super popular and a common way a lot of people (kids) learned programming, the birth of turtle graphics! That repl way of programming and getting visual results was really good. I think the biggest pr
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    oh, you might be doing it via the UI, I turn off all the UI elements and hotkey everything, if you use hotkeys you can add a thing like :- action = wezterm.action.CloseCurrentTab { confirm = true },
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    you can configure that...
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    I have zero problem with WezTerm on Windows.
14. 224.▲
    by keithnz 1y ago

    took a while to pipe my multi-terabyte db to /dev/null but now that I have I'm saving a ton of money on storage.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    I would say I get more (I've been coding 40+ years). I get pretty good results, I find a lot has to do with crafting your prompts well. I think knowing what the outcome should be, technically, makes a big difference. It's getting
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    likewise, for a lot of frontend I "vibe code" it. I mostly don't look at the code anymore while doing it either, after I get where I want, I will look through the code and maybe clean stuff up. But a lot of the code is fine.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    Thing is, with AI, this is much less of an issue, as long as AI can maintain the code it would be able to transition it through tech change. This seems a better bet than trying to choose things that will remain static.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    in that list there is https://smallbasic.github.io/ ... but there may be better options.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    it has forums now :)
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    we've been using discord for years, it's great. Its model for making money is different, its primary market is gamers. Servers are content for their users to consume and they charge the users directly.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    we use discord, it's great, we wrote our own bots for the things we need. In terms of making money, it's just discord has a different model for making money, it doesn't want the servers to cost money, it wants as many servers
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    I think the point is to add the correct end of line depending on OS.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    I'd like if it was an option on github to easily have a billing option that would have an automatic donation to the open source in the active repos.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    Then google killed it, they made a great product, Google Reader, then killed it, and then after that huge amounts of RSS feeds just faded away. Ironically, my microsoft feeds are pretty active, and xkcd is still there, The Daily WTF is stil
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    I pretty much exclusively use chatgpt search now. Best thing about it is you can have all kinds of follow up questions
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    Oh, very cool! It was like magic when we got that!
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    the big thing I missed was their macro editor, it was really good for automating things.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    It doesn't point out the massive productivity boost of Visual C++ 6, IntelliSense (ie, autocomplete). This saved so much time from having to look up documentation.
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    WezTerm is a great terminal that IS cross platform and works well on windows (and arguably better than ghostty)
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    by keithnz 1y ago

    you said it in your question, Apple was making a transition. Windows isn't.