piffey · HackerTrans

3 miesiące temudiscuss

For me seems to be. I keep it in my front shirt pocket, pull it out to read all the time. I've gone through 8 books on it so far this year. That's 7 more books than I read on my Kobo by this time last year given how convenient it is to take it everywhere. Granted I'm usually a paper book reader so my Kobo was always just a travel device, but the Xteink makes it so easy to squeeze reading in everywhere.

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5 miesięcy temudiscuss

First time hearing about ifMud despite being someone who spent a lot of time on MUDs and MUSHs in the past, hacking on various ones. Seems like a neat community and would love to hear more about it.

piffey

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

I've been really curious about pi and have been following it but haven't seen a reason to switch yet outside anecdotes. What makes it a better daily driver out of the box compared to Claude or Codex? What did you end up needing to add to get your workflow to be "now capable to write its own extensions"? Just trying to see what the benefit would be if I hop into a new tool.

piffey

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Just setup my personal blog again after a four years hiatus using Astro (loved the good docs). Kind of disappointed, but given how simple static site generators are, probably something Claude could crank out easily with parity of features I actually use then wouldn't be beholden to any project's creators.

piffey

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

https://piffey.net - Only content from 2020, has been down the last ~4 years due to job, but redesigned and got it up again in the last month and have lots of writing planned.

piffey

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Outside of what has been mentioned here (thanks folks for some new brands) I've found clusters in Canada and Portugal of great clothing brands making quality products with good materials:

Canada - Anian (https://anianmfg.com/) for wool products. - Reigning Champ (https://reigningchamp.com/) for cotton tees.

Portugal - La Paz (https://lapaz.pt/) - Isto (https://isto.pt/) - Portugese Flannel (https://www.portugueseflannel.com/)

I also like this site No Man Walks Alone to find quality brands. It is about learning how to spot quality though in stitching and fabrics. Wish there was more educational materials out there on this.

piffey

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Take a look at the REMNux reverse engineering page for PDF documents (https://docs.remnux.org/discover-the-tools/analyze+documents...). Lots of tools here for looking at malicious PDFs that can be used to inspect/understand even non-malicious documents.

piffey

7 miesięcy temudiscuss

Love this. Can't tell you how many times I've screenshotted maps then drawn on directions for family/friends. Great idea.

piffey

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

Doesn't always work. I've got old Agfa negatives I developed from my grandpa in Korea in the 50s. Developed them after finding them in his attic maybe 10 years ago now. They sat between two panes of glass for 5 years with volumes of books on top, not a single change toward flat. I finally gave up and just put them in the archival sleeves and in the binder with the curve.

piffey

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

I'll give this a go. My second TL is Lithuanian which is very difficult to find content in outside of state TV stuff.

piffey

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

Just kicked off my third language after reaching B2/C1ish in my second (~5 years in), we'll see what the C1 test determines this fall, and Anki has been the consistent thing that stayed through all the other learning experiments. It's amazing just investing in Anki right out the bat how much quicker I'm moving on the new language. Especially considering it's way harder as it's not like any language I know (rich declension system, etc).

GenAI also been a big helper when I run out of content. "Write me an essay involving [subject I want to learn about]. In my response after reading, any word I've written separated by a comma generate a CSV of the format "that word, english definiton"." I'll then just dump those new words into Anki.

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9 lat temudiscuss

Better yet, net total HN comment karma.

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