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I don't really get this point... HTML is not _that_ complicated. I mean is:

<h1>this</h1>

<h2>this</h2>

<h3>this</h3>

really "more complex" than something like:

# this

## this

### this

You still need to know that '#' means header / title, and that more of them leads to a lower header level... and this is just for the most basic concept of web pages: headers. Okay, even if it's not markdown, no matter what system you cook up, the syntactic complexity to support the huge number of elements that exist in HTML has to live _somewhere_ right? (Yes, you can argue maybe not ALL of the 100+ HTML tags aren't needed, but probably most of them are!)

While there is something to be said for mega purists who don't even like JavaScript, we're supposed to not even like HTML anymore either? I think at some point you have to accept that building things for the web involves some minimum level of complexity...

visual studio is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

i remember using their monaco editor as well (https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor), a really powerful editor & the very same used by VS Code (i think you can even get at the AST for TypeScript, for example, in the browser if you poke around deep enough)

crazy cool stuff, and most definitely OSS!!!

It's also extremely interesting to think about how much the statistics or thought process will change if we just find _one single additional planet with life_ - then what kind of life, etc.

Somehow finding a second planet with life seems statistically infinitely more significant - the whole thing right now is a data experiment, and for now earth (as far as we know) is an anomoly - a single "positive" data point across thousands and thousands of "negative" data points.

okay, i could be convinced... but what is the compute for this? you can't just "spawn threads" with reckless abandon without considering the resource requirements

Great stuff, took a look through the README but... what are the minimum hardware requirements to run this? Is this gonna blow up my CPU / harddrive?

to be fair though, using Entity Framework at least for migrations has worked really well in my experience (and doesnt prevent you from using any of those other OSS tools you mentioned!)

still have yet to learn / try dapper

Another curiosity, what do we estimate (if it's even possible) the context window of a human? Obviously an extremely broad question, and of course it must have some sort of decay factor... but... would be interesting to get a rule of thumb number in terms of token count. I can imagine its massive!

Lot of (IMO) useless hot air comments saying this or that in here...

You can do your fancy build process, single binary, whatever. The bottom line is if you want to call yourself a (good/strong/solid) web developer, your site needs to be accessible across all form factors.

I'm on mobile so I can't check, but I would bet this thing doesn't get even close to a good score on a tool like Lighthouse. Then the fact that some people are applauding OP and turning around making fun of "modern" software development (whatever that means) don't even realize they're part of perpetuating that problem (applauding sites which are missing key peices of accessibility and functionality)

This isn't really opinion or up for discussion either, this is quite literally the benchmark of living in our reality. We have accesibility guidelines and standards built over the years by hundreds of dedicated folks who worked hard to make those standards and guidelines clear - SO USE THEM! (meaning HTML5/CSS3/WCAG) Software is for humans, to be used by humans. Sure, I get the aspect that there is a bit of artistic freedom which OP has taken and by no means has to follow any guidelines at all. But this is definitively NOT a high standard or normal in any sense of what decent modern web development is.

probably making mobile friendly websites :)

haha incredible! for every single system out there, always seems like there is someone trying to exploit it :)

I've been talking with a few friends as well about forming a group quite similar to this - can I ask how it went or what was the initial motivation for everyone to finally do it? Are you all having backgrounds in software or do other people on the team have engineering / hardware / other focuses? Absolutely love stuff like this - subscribed to the newsletter! Cheers!

Anyone notice where that request goes here: https://printer.exciting.io/

Very cool stuff!

kurynt.com

plan was to be a one stop shop for breaking changes, deprecations, and so on.

probably with the latest LLM revolution this could be quite a powerful tool!

havent worked on it in months

Gonna sound like an asshat, but really, a mere 40 answers filled with what I could read in any Wired or similar publication... not too much value.

To boil it down: at the end of the day you need capital, clean execution, and aquire the correct customers. (the classic and infinitely repetitive trope of PrOdUcT MaRkEt FiT)

As many comments say, the magic is in how you do this (which no one seems to know! or explain!)

Maybe that's the real SaaS product we all need!

Is Julia bad for LTS? Is it something like no reverse compatibility?

Genuine question; I've never used it before.

The real problem is, at the end of the day, you can't prove or disprove these are ever 'real' or not - and before anyone mentions repeatablity, repeatability is NOT indicative of authenticity! I can get any LLM to provide a repeatable answer for an infinite number of things (what day comes after Monday? I bet it will repeatably answer Tuesday!)

It's like the simulation theory - it can't be proven or disproven, so just stop trying.

At this point I can at least understand why these stupid prompt conspiracy theory things thrive so well on social media though.

The phrase "system prompt" appears exactly once in that document.

> The downside is now there is pressure for quantity over quality. Might be fuzzy in the market for awhile.

I don't know, it's been that way for a while now, hasn't it? Every C level / product manager bombarded with "new tool / language this", "new tool / language that" hype, when often its a bunch of noise and only a small selection are likely the correct choice for the org.

but reading the comments, they mostly fall in to one of these two buckets...

see, i just don't get this. one of my SaaS products is essentially 100% hands off (aside from occasional package upgrading, random refunds or upgrade issues every few weeks) but i still absolutely LOVE adding new features or fixing bug requests that customers bring into my view. it gives me the classic feeling of really helping someone, even if it is just a single individual out there.

then the bug reports start to get further and further apart... now i have had one in months :)

oh give me a break, people were saying the same thing about cRyPto and all we got were stupid ape pictures in the end

The challenge here is that regardless of how simple the input language can be, you'll still need the knowledge as a user to know what to ask in the first place! For example, I've worked with product managers (these "zero coding skills" folks you mention) who didnt even understand the basic concepts of HTTP - so how can we expect them, armed only with an LLM, no matter how powerful, to ask the right questions and actually build something useful, let alone entire applications. (not insinuating this was your meaning, but this is what i see repeated in many places). I think as far as what is useful to no code folks is a WYSIWYG editor, and even those always suffer pitfalls at somepoint, needing custom development somewhere evantually.

This article is perfect. Basically it sums up to, "whats more likely, that every job disappears? (never happened in human history) or we get yet another expansion of products and innovations (always happens)?"

"but this time is different" - I still have not seen a single example that shows otherwise.

don't overthink it

not austrian but I live in austria. at first I was like, okay, higher inflation post covid like everything else, but now at this point where I see prices still rising, it's starting to just feel like a blatant cash grab

HOWEVER, i will add - what do people expect when you give everyone 500 extra EUR a year via this klima bonus? how is that supposed to reduce inflation? my guess is the grocery chains are leaning into this

Gatsby built and served Netlify. I love how its trivial to make hundreds to thousands of static pages with various react components and templates (mind you static doesn't necessarily mean you can't load outside data with an API)

With just a few Gatsby plugins & some tinkering, you can get a workflow that produces sites where each page has a 100 across the board on lighthouse

Great stuff! Thanks for the Playwright link and detailed Lambda blog posts, I had a similar project I was working on trying to convert text into animated (typed) code videos (on visual studio code) - trying to get anything non trivial in lambda to run is indeed an interesting endeavour to say the least!

> smaller visualization projects ... works great in that context

therein lies the entire drama

too many people probably get into svelte and realize only too late that its not intended / useful for larger projects

the alternative is a global query / state management / whatever against the entire DOM tree - much less performant and exactly WHY the virtual dom was invented

i'd argue to an extent that _any_ programming language is not simple

and when you run into something svelte simply cannot do?