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by thesephist 5y ago
I'm usually in NYC these days, but WL is my hometown. Appreciate the offer! Maybe we'll meet up in NY instead :)
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by thesephist 5y ago
Hey HN, OP here. Ink isn't really anywhere near in a shape for any kind of "public" or "production" use. It was a toy programming language I built to (1) learn how interpreters worked and (2) build some side project
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Write good examples by starting with real code(jvns.ca)
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Building Monocle, a universal personal search engine for life(thesephist.com)
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by thesephist 5y ago
Glad the ideas resonated with you! Two things you said stuck out to me: >And, setting the intention to "add," not "update" reduces friction to capturing. This is a subtle point I felt, but failed to capture, that you
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by thesephist 5y ago
"Threads" is an interesting concept on which to build an incremental note taking system. I know folks who keep a CRM by emailing themselves after conversations, on a separate email thread for each person. I also know folks who use
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by thesephist 5y ago
The "search and entry are the same" thing reminds me of Notational Velocity / nvALT. I think it makes editing multiple things at the same time difficult, but generally feels really nice.
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by thesephist 5y ago
Fair points. But I was going less off of raw capability here and more from how I've observed these tools to be used in the wild. It was very common for most people to dump things like contact info, recommendations, random links into Ap
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by thesephist 5y ago
OP here. There are a lot that I left out -- Workflowy of course, but also Notational Velocity and its cousins (nvAlt, nvUltra) are another favorite of mine. I guess I mostly mentioned the ones that were top of mind / in the zeitgeist i
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Incremental note-taking(thesephist.com)
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Liquidity of Skill(thesephist.com)
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by thesephist 5y ago
I think the ideas here apply equally well to anything else where you improve exponentially! But you're right that that's the pretext assumed here, because that's the context in which I've been thinking about this (career
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How to commit to the few right things(thesephist.com)
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The End of Paper (ReMarkable Tablet Review)(jessmart.in)
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by thesephist 5y ago
At this point I've made a habit out of building homebrew tools and languages. Very few of these are purely because I was dissatisfied with off-the-shelf solutions; many of these just exist because I thought it would be fun/educati
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Controversy Budget(thesephist.com)
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Show HN: Quickly generate Twitter Card, Open Graph tags for side projects(socialite.thesephist.repl.co)
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Designing a better thinking-writing medium(thesephist.com)
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Work, Play, and Motivation(thesephist.com)
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Bet on the Sprinters(thesephist.com)
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Cripes does anybody remember Google People(qntm.org)
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This Repo Has 788 Stars(github.com)
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Software, the Boundless Machine(thesephist.com)
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Crypto: Rally or Inflection Point?(justine-humenansky.medium.com)
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by thesephist 6y ago
My favorites have got to be: Issue "Does not dispense birdseed as advertised" - https://github.com/microsoft/DeleteMe/issues/14 Pull Request "Rewrite it in Rust" - https://githu
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My Dev Environment Setup on Apple Silicon(zouhir.org)
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Request for Tools(awarm.space)
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Not “Any Purpose”(boringcactus.com)
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Taming infinities: adding tail call elimination to Ink runtimes(dotink.co)
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“Write short sentences” is bad advice(thesephist.com)
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