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by rikroots 1y ago
Please excuse me for spamming this thread with examples of how my canvas library approaches these issues: > Use case: Styled, Laid Out Content in Canvas. There’s a strong need for better styled text support in Canvas. Examples include ch
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by rikroots 1y ago
Wilfred Owen: soldier and poet (whose poetry was ignored/neglected until the 1960s)
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From my experience with my canvas library, devs seem to want different types of documentation for different purposes: 1. Something that tells them what the library does: what problems it's gonna solve for them; how easy it is to work w
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by rikroots 1y ago
All of my canvas library's demo pages are hand-coded HTML, CSS and JS. Including the site navigation. Is it worth the effort? Probably not; I just do it this way because I'm too lazy to pull together a sensible tool chain. https:
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by rikroots 1y ago
I published 2 (two!) new chapbooks of poetry, both priced at $0.00: > Sonnets of dark-held love - A sequence of poems after the 'Sonetos del amor oscuro' by Federico García Lorca - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk&
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by rikroots 1y ago
This is why I've had to spend a huge amount of my free coding time this year documenting my canvas library[1][2] in a way that can (potentially[3]) be used as LLM training data instead of, well, developing my library with new and excit
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by rikroots 1y ago
Developmental prosopagnosia wasn't recognised as a "thing" before the late 2000s. Before that, everybody assumed that being able to recognise someone was just something everyone, well, did. Failure to recognise a friend or re
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by rikroots 1y ago
When I first discovered that I suffered from a "new" condition called Prosopagnosia - by means of an online "Are you face blind?" test - everything about my life suddenly fell into place. It was a liberating self-diagnos
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by rikroots 1y ago
I fixed my poetry website[1] - mainly by ripping out TailwindCSS and replacing it with a few lines of vanilla CSS, and adding a canvas library so I could include some of my graphic poems[2] on the site. I also wrote some new poems to comple
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Show HN: Simple screen recorder (100% client-side, in-browser)(github.com)
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I can maybe see some value for opening a web page like this, then taking a set of screenshots (for me CMD+SHIFT+4) which automatically get added to the web page, which the user can then curate in some way to generate a final image for downl
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Model (Poem)(rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk)
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Following my recent interactions with ChatGPT and Gemini, I had to commit verse. For those who don't like clicking on links: **Model** Do you know me? Your flat-box line blinks off, on, off, daring me to type. &
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> Would love to hear if you’ve faced similar problems, and if this feels like something that would’ve helped in your own projects. Maybe people could combine this reporting solution with a bug capture solution I built a few weeks ago? It
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by rikroots 1y ago
I've spent the past week overcoming my fear of Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT. Things I've learned: - Using an AI for strange tasks like using a TTS model to turn snippets of IPA text (for a constructed language) i
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by rikroots 1y ago
I posted a recent Show HN[1] detailing why I felt the need to understand the basics of what LLMs do, and how they do it. Even though I've no interest in building or directly training LLMs, I've learned the critical importance of p
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Show HN: The Scrawl-canvas developer Runbook(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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I recently did a ShowHN post for my browser-based screen recording web page side project. 100% vanilla, with added wasm-based ML shenanigans. It really is amazing what functionality can be built into a web page without resorting to framewor
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Show HN: Browser-based screen recorder (for bug reporting)(github.com)
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I just extended the sequence - Utd needed 8 more wins to get to 21, City needed 5 to get to 13, etc. The only prediction I'll put money on is Leicester winning in 2040 because the only thing that explains their 2015 win was some divine
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by rikroots 1y ago
My Premier League title predictions for the next 21 years: 2026 Man City, 2027 Man Utd, 2028 Newcastle (or Sunderland, to keep things interesting in the North East. But not Spurs), 2029 Man Utd, 2030 Arsenal, 2031 Chelsea, 2032 Man City, 20
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by rikroots 1y ago
I code at work so they can give me money so I can buy the stuff I need to carry on living. I have very generous employers who pay me a lot more money than I need to live on. The code I write at work is not very creative code - I contribute
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by rikroots 1y ago
Ashford at least has a high-speed rail connection to London. If nominations were to open today, I'd vote Dover.
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by rikroots 1y ago
I've got a demo[1] where people can play with (my interpretation of) various calculation engines, adjust variables, etc. But seeing this comment made me realise I've never heard of Verlet integration[2] before - not surprising giv
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by rikroots 1y ago
I worked at Portex back in the 80s. After a shift at that factory it was a pleasure to get home, slip on the shell suit and spend the evening drinking and discussing minor, mindless vandalism opportunities. I moved away in the end (to a squ
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by rikroots 1y ago
> "I mean: incredibly, governments and local councils didn’t read my work and decide to mend their ways. The UK did not get better. Instead we got more than a decade of Tory austerity, Brexit, and all the accompanying neglect and ba
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by rikroots 1y ago
I've always loved this sort of cloth animation. I think the first one I saw was dissimulate's tearable cloth demo on Codepen - I can't believe they wrote that code 9 years ago! [1] - https://codepen.io/dissimu
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by rikroots 1y ago
> I keep hearing this argument, but I still don't understand, what's the incentive for authors of one-man projects to choose anything "permissive". My JS canvas library is licensed using MIT. From my personal perspect
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by rikroots 1y ago
tl;dr: if OpenAI's recent models have been taught to lie in positive, ego-reinforcing ways then I, for one, am entirely on board for the experience! I'm wary of tools like ChatGPT, but yesterday I asked it to give me a list of JS
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by rikroots 1y ago
You made me go and search for for my first-ever favourite word processor. It turns out that Wordworth v7 is available for download via the Internet Archive[1]. Apparently there was a v7.1 release back in 2008[2] but I can't locate a do

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