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graylien··on Show HN: Memex is a Claude Code alternative built on Rust+Tauri for vibe coding
Nice, by TS+Rust+Python and Tauri, does this mean it is not a VS Code fork? I have been exploring those recently. I'll give it a spin anyway!
graylien··on Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf)
funny how ChatGPT is already old fashioned
graylien··on Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf)
Hey, to clarify it's about the user experience of IDEs - how it feels to jump from one to the other, how the UI prompts you to add more credits (so you can end up spending a lot if you're not careful with prompts).

This has often drawn similarities to a slot machine, the way it is not deterministic what code will come out, and what changes to which files will be made.

graylien··on Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf)
and they prompt you to add more credits, it's seamless to spend more - slot machine is referring to the experience using it, not what is happening technically
graylien··on Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf)
Do these forks keep updating with the new versions of VS Code? I wonder if once they're forked, they are stuck with that version they forked from?

On the other hand, I think MS are pretty much cloning the good stuff from Cursor, like agent mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dutyOc_cAEU

Leaves me thinking VS Code might be the best in the long long run, but for now they're all kinda similar?

graylien··on Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf)
Were you using Copilot? I haven't tried VS Code for a while, I guess I can have that one open too. You can even have Windsurf inside VS Code with the plugin I think..

Maybe Cursor/Windsurf could've just been plugins? Only Zed.ai seems really different of the popular IDEs

graylien··on Show HN: Instead of opentowork on LinkedIn, I'm desperate cos it's true
#desperate xD haha love it
graylien··on Show HN: I Built an Indoor Cycling Web App to Get in Shape Through Gaming
that's so cool - I don't cycle but I just love the website and the language used like "Welcome , intergalactic athlete" haha the video does a good job of showing the app too, good luck with it!
graylien··on Show HN: ChatHN – Chat with Hacker News using natural language
this is so cool how it writes into the table, thanks for all the examples!
graylien··on Endless Horse
infinite scroll!
graylien··on Instagram's Immersive Feed Is a Pig Trough
yeah surely if you want replicate Tiktok, you would make a new app rather than destroying the one good thing they have. Pumping our feeds with random vids isn't the same as stealing that snapchat feature
graylien··on Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
Apple probably the lesser evil, I mean at least they make products that help us create
graylien··on Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programming language is best?
Swift ?
graylien··on Show HN: Stylepad – Free moodboards for creative professionals
this is good, is there a story behind it?
graylien··on Meta hit with 8 lawsuits for 'exploiting young people for profit'
>the only industry besides advertising and war that isn't liable to the customers it serves in a socially meaningful sense.

absolutely, it's all designed to be addictive

graylien··on Show HN: Looking for feedback on Truegit, Git powered Blogging platform
nice effort, I think the content ownership part is good. But how does that work - is it hosted on github? or is it the ownership more to do licensing
graylien··on Show HN: Album Rotation – Organize and visualize your favorite albums (desktop)
this is nice idea, do you plan for more visualizations or maybe integrating with api like spotify?
graylien··on How I finally get daily journaling done with a workflow on my iPhone
I started doing this, but for blogging
graylien··on Show HN: Score Da Ball
hardest game ever!
graylien··on I Don't Like Medium
Medium use many deceptive patterns - especially with language:

‘Paywall’ → called ‘Partner Programme’

Double negatives → weird phrases like 'To make your post unmetered, deselect the checkbox'

Paywall is Opt-in by default: The option to log in is checked by default, meaning you actively have to say no to earning money when unchecking it.

They were a major offender in this post i wrote:'Dark Patterns in UI Copy' https://prototypr.io/post/we-value-your-privacy-at-about-0-5... (need to replace dark patterns with 'deceptive patterns')

Thanks for sharing, and hope more people are thinking about this, it's not fair for the web

graylien··on Designers + devs on Twitter who post threads
Lol was trying to post a link and it wasn’t working, so pasted in some nonsense because I thought maybe I am shadow banned, and unfortunately it went through
graylien··on Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser
okay thanks , it all looks very promising, I'll give it a spin!
graylien··on Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser
okay that's what I'd be doing anyway, it's much easier to upload to something like s3 anyway - is there any boilerplate for uploading?

Or do I just install the s3 package and do it like an express server?

graylien··on Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser
Looks useful, can it handle image and video manipulation npm packages? So I could crop and resize images on this service?
graylien··on A list of what Women Makers shipped in 30 days
so many projects, great work everyone
graylien··on Show HN: Takeaways from Nonfiction Books
how do you choose the books?
graylien··on Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
apparently english language helps you think more creative??
graylien··on Show HN: How to Build Community – my 4 years research
really useful, will you continue to add new companies?
graylien··on Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator
it's almost like no code, but it is code
graylien··on Show HN: I built custom bundles into DarwinMail to replace Google Inbox
This looks great, is Bundles kindof like how the iPhone groups notifications? Can Darwin do this automatically?
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