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How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ front end infrastructure in Rust

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2 points·by blakewatson·2 ay önce·0 comments

I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted

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2 points·by blakewatson·5 ay önce·0 comments

Understanding, not slop, is what's interesting about LLMs

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3 points·by blakewatson·9 ay önce·1 comments

Why I deleted my Facebook account

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438 points·by blakewatson·9 yıl önce·308 comments

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blakewatson
·3 ay önce·discuss
Seems like people don't like this comment, but I chuckled. Nice one.
blakewatson
·4 ay önce·discuss
The en-dash is for ranges. https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
blakewatson
·5 ay önce·discuss
OP here, yeah I get that! I think the only technical input I had was my prompts for fixing bugs. I'm a web developer, so I have some familiarity with the life cycle of mouse events. Depending on what behaviors I was trying to fix, I could infer what was most likely going on in English, not that I knew how to translate it into Swift code.

But yeah, I'm yelling at clouds right next to you.
blakewatson
·6 ay önce·discuss
Related: This is a nice write-up of how to write reactive jQuery. It's presented as an alternative to jQuery spaghetti code, in the context of being in a legacy codebase where you might not have access to newer frameworks.

https://css-tricks.com/reactive-jquery-for-spaghetti-fied-le...
blakewatson
·6 ay önce·discuss
See also this lovely typeface revival. https://lineto.com/typefaces/valentine
blakewatson
·6 ay önce·discuss
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blakewatson
·6 ay önce·discuss
Probably not too useful for many in this audience, but I wrote a web book for *absolute beginners* learning HTML. It's very much in the same spirit as the OP's post.

https://htmlforpeople.com/
blakewatson
·7 ay önce·discuss
Yes, this was the one I was thinking of!
blakewatson
·9 ay önce·discuss
TL;DR - The ability of computers to "understand" natural language and intent has staggering implications for accessibility.
blakewatson
·9 yıl önce·discuss
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/...
blakewatson
·9 yıl önce·discuss
These are fair points. I feel like it was a net positive for me, personally, but yeah, results may vary.
blakewatson
·9 yıl önce·discuss
That's great advice. I recently changed one of my bookmarks from my Twitter feed to my own Twitter profile and experienced the same effect.