nickagliano

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by nickagliano 4mo ago
I can’t believe there’s a Pope from Chicago quoting Gandalf in an encyclical about AI.
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by nickagliano 10mo ago
There’s some nuance to this surrounding the “creative commons” licensing of these ACM publications. Open access does not mean Creative Commons license (CC-BY, or CC-BY-NC-ND). Jan 1 2026, all ACM publications will be open access, but not al
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by nickagliano 1y ago
Fantastic comment
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Premature Optimization: How Donald Knuth "Skill Issued" Dijkstra(blog.slamdunk.software)
2 points by nickagliano 1y ago|1 comments
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The Internet, Remote Work, AI Ethics, and an American Pope(blog.slamdunk.software)
3 points by nickagliano 1y ago|0 comments
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by nickagliano 1y ago
Interesting to see astral come out with this right around facebook’s release of “Pyrefly, a faster Python type checker written in Rust”. Not making any sort of ethical statement, just interesting that rust keeps eating the python and JS too
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by nickagliano 1y ago
As a card carrying Substack hater, I’m not suprised. > "How could Substack improve this situation for technical writers?" They don’t care about (technical) writers. All they care about is building a TikTok clone to “drive disco
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SpacetimeDB-A Yak-Shaving Success Story?(blog.slamdunk.software)
1 points by nickagliano 1y ago|0 comments
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A Sinister Brood of Web Crawlers Is Hatching(slamdunksoftware.substack.com)
6 points by nickagliano 2y ago|1 comments
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Dear Substack, Please Add Syntax Highlighting(slamdunksoftware.substack.com)
2 points by nickagliano 2y ago|1 comments
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by nickagliano 2y ago
After much deliberation, I've started writing on Substack. One of my main points of contention is that, well, since it's not my own blog, I can't just implement feature (i.e., syntax highlighting). Syntax highlighting is pret
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The Hardest Thing About Software Engineering(slamdunksoftware.substack.com)
2 points by nickagliano 2y ago|0 comments
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Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury(slamdunksoftware.substack.com)
209 points by nickagliano 2y ago|78 comments
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by nickagliano 2y ago
I saw this comment on the marimo post too. Is there a source of Fernando saying this?
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by nickagliano 2y ago
Most fun game on HN since Infinite Craft. Worked well on iOS Safari. Installed as PWA and everything. Managed to keep my attention for 5 levels. Nice work.
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What I Learned About Software from Building a Chicken Coop(simplethread.com)
2 points by nickagliano 3y ago|0 comments
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LLMs in a Vacuum Are Useless(simplethread.com)
1 points by nickagliano 3y ago|0 comments
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by nickagliano 3y ago
Yes! Thank you Simon. Takes like this will make this conversation a lot more well-rounded. Of course writing is important. Writing free-hand on paper is beautiful. But so are the ideas, and the organization of the writing, and the style, an
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by nickagliano 3y ago
No, I agree with you! I'm not trying to simplify things by saying it's a tool. As you use the tool, it changes you as well. I think the chatbots are particular technology that will have a lot of that effect. One of my favorite ram
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by nickagliano 3y ago
It's more complicated than, "using AI more and more will cause us to forget how to write." It's just a tool. I like comparing it to something like quizlet (online flash cards), which can be a great study tool, but which
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We're at a crossroads–navigating the intersection of AI and creative writing(fivehundredwordsaday.com)
1 points by nickagliano 3y ago|1 comments
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by nickagliano 3y ago
I posted something else a day ago more focused on the fivehundredwordsaday website, but I'm more interested in the topic of this post.
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500 Words a Day – GPT-4, LLMs, and Text Generation in Habitual Writing(fivehundredwordsaday.com)
1 points by nickagliano 3y ago|1 comments
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by nickagliano 3y ago
Hey HN. I submitted something about this website 6 months ago and got some traction, and I've had a fun time playing with this tool I developed for habitual writing ever since. Hopefully this is an interesting update and maybe could be
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by nickagliano 4y ago
To be transparent, there is database backups on this site, but letting people download their own backups feels like a nice to have. So everyone can have their bytes.
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by nickagliano 4y ago
That sucks, I’m sorry you lost your writings. That sentiment is part of the reason I built the site myself. But that does make me think that when I build an exporting feature there needs to be a “download a backup” option.
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by nickagliano 4y ago
I made a change which should hopefully fix any calendar date staying blue problems you were having. Let me know if that's not the case :)
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by nickagliano 4y ago
Also text exporting is the next thing I'm working on :)
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by nickagliano 4y ago
Here you go! Monthly support: https://buy.stripe.com/5kA5kn2jd8XV39m144 One time support: https://buy.stripe.com/00gaEH3nhdebfW83cd
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by nickagliano 4y ago
What browser are you using?

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