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by scottfr 6y ago
First, Text Blaze should run on every screen you use. Right now we're Chrome only. We want to expand to other browsers (another user commented about Firefox) and we also want native desktop and mobile applications (keyboards in the cas
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by scottfr 6y ago
Sorry, I've never used AHK, but my understanding is it's very much focused on scripting UI's. We support a little bit of that (you can tab between different fields in a webpage with Blaze), but we're much more focused on
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by scottfr 6y ago
Agreed! Once we have the higher-level functionality for this in place it's something we'll really focus on as it's a killer feature. For now though it's too technical for most users (outside HN of course) so it's no
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by scottfr 6y ago
I discussed our dynamic features a bit in an earlier comment, but I want to highlight what a Chrome focused extension offers over a system wide app. As a Chrome extension, Text Blaze can use the contents of the webpage you are on in your sn
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by scottfr 6y ago
We definitely want to add Firefox support! We haven't yet done so because we really want to nail the experience on a single platform first (Chrome). Text insertion on the web is actually surprisingly complex [0] and we leverage some DO
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by scottfr 6y ago
Text Blaze is a freemium product. The free version works great for basic use cases and also lets you try out the more advanced features. Then we have paid versions that offer more advanced features (like embedded forms and formulas) and imp
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by scottfr 6y ago
I am not an expert in Alfred so I can't talk too specifically to it. However, there is a lot of competition out there in this space like Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Text Expander, Typinator, etc... One thing special Text Blaze offers is
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Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing
82 points by scottfr 6y ago|51 comments
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by scottfr 6y ago
Stan: Predict the values of parameters in a model Deep Learning: Predict an outcome variable For example, if I want to know what effect household income has on a student's chance of getting into college, Stan would allow you to estimat
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by scottfr 6y ago
Chrome Extension content scripts are evaluated in an isolated JavaScript environment which does not share variables with the page's JavaScript. By creating a script in the page itself, the "_gaUserPrefs" variable is made acce
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by scottfr 6y ago
While we are on the topic of XPath improvements, I would love to see a built-in XPath syntax to pierce the shadow DOM of Web components. It's an important need for the automation and testing use cases. Without it, targeting an element
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by scottfr 6y ago
Chrome was at one point developing a `scoped` attribute on the `<style>` element for scoping stylesheets that would not require WebComponents. `<style scoped>` However, it was abandoned partly because it "adds a lot of comp
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by scottfr 6y ago
> If you want a GUI for some commands, why not just get GUI apps which do those things? Why try to bolt a GUI onto a CLI, especially one that works by pasting commands back into a CLI? Having both provides a smooth skill ramp for users.
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by scottfr 6y ago
I was reading BigQuery the Definitive Guide last week and I was surprised to learn that BigQuery is actually immutable at its core even when using DML statements. This is surfaced in the query language and you can query the table as it exis
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by scottfr 6y ago
My company is trying to solve similar challenges for automating common typing tasks on web pages (email, chat, CRM, etc...) with our Chrome Extension Text Blaze [1]. It was a pretty extensive formula support [2] enabling you to create dynam
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by scottfr 6y ago
You can get a lot of the benefits of Typescript in VSCode without leaving JavaScript behind by using JSDoc. Typescript will pick up the JSDoc type annotations and use them to type the code. This can be a great option when typing an existing
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by scottfr 7y ago
This is a great point and also very applicable to sales generally. There's definitely a continuum between "hyper target / completely customized" and "spray and pray" and each person/company needs to find t
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by scottfr 7y ago
Firebase is fantastic. There is also a steady drumbeat of continual improvements going on in Firebase that keeps making it better and better. Even when Firebase is using other GCP products under the hood (e.g. Firebase Storage is Cloud Stor
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by scottfr 7y ago
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by scottfr 7y ago
"Still under development: do not use for production systems yet, there are known security holes that need to be closed." Also note the experience of Figma who used the realms shim I think this project is using to secure Figma&#x27
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Command and control now easier in BigQuery with scripting and stored procedures(cloud.google.com)
3 points by scottfr 7y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 7y ago
I am a bit surprised at the extreme negativity here. Obviously, this was mismanaged on many fronts [1], however the idea of tracking product usage in order to improve the product is generally a good thing, not a bad thing. Hacker News likes
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by scottfr 7y ago
If you take a look at their extension, it injects a number of separate content scripts on the document_start event for a webpage. This blocks document loading and Google's recommendation is to load content scripts on document_idle whic
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by scottfr 7y ago
That's also problematic. If w includes characters that have special meaning in a regex (e.g. a period), this will cause issues. You could try to escape those special characters but that is potentially error prone. For an arbitrary w, o
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by scottfr 7y ago
There are also issues with the JS examples. For example: """ Remove all occurrences of string w from string s1, and store the result in s2. var s2 = s1.replace(w, ''); """ Since w is a string, this wi
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Closing of Pacific Standard and Topic Shows Perils of Depending on a Rich Patron(nytimes.com)
2 points by scottfr 7y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 7y ago
Google Cloud Function streaming inserts to BigQuery. Then analysis is carried out with the BigQuery UI (ad hoc analyses or scheduled queries for pipelines), DataStudio (visualizations -- we use this infrequently, it's really not great)
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Boeing: Out-Sourced Profits – The Cornerstone of Successful Subcontracting [pdf](seattletimes.nwsource.com)
1 points by scottfr 7y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 7y ago
Extension content scripts can inject script elements into their pages which then allow them to access the page's JS variables. But even then there wouldn't be any way to access key parts of the state like closures.
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What's New in Apache Lucene 8(elastic.co)
2 points by scottfr 7y ago|0 comments

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