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mbrezu··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Get off my load-bearing lawn!
mbrezu··on Best Coding Fonts for Developers in 2026
Annotation Mono :)
mbrezu··on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)
These sound a little better than I remember. I wonder if the sound was cleaned up?
mbrezu··on Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
`gdu`, which is like `du` with a TUI.
mbrezu··on Almighty Lisp
Using the Turbo Pascal 6 colors is kind of awesome --- not sure it's intentional, though.
mbrezu··on Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
I guess the "link" is the implicit suggestion to write your own :-)
mbrezu··on Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993
Man, we're old...
mbrezu··on An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)
How long before this is included in an AI benchmark? Can't wait :-)
mbrezu··on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
Now I would really like to know what these guys think of Omarchy :-D
mbrezu··on Nebula Sans
Look for opentype features in https://practicaltypography.com/. There is more fun stuff, right next to tabular numbers.

And if you want more, there is also https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844....

mbrezu··on OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback
> Let's start with your details
mbrezu··on How to professionally say (2022)
This is such a nice example of high power distance "speak". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_distance
mbrezu··on Discovery Coding
How is this different from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_programming?
mbrezu··on Ask HN: Recommend me some silent movies
Yasujiro Ozu, "I was born, but...".
mbrezu··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
To some extent, centering is in the eye of the beholder.
mbrezu··on Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python
Marimo looks and feels great!

Have you considered adding support for mermaid.js in the markdown? I tried including some mermaid.js in a `mo.md` invocation, but it didn't render the diagram :-)

https://mermaid.js.org/

mbrezu··on Persuasion through status rather than argument
plus ça change...
mbrezu··on Ask HN: How do you organize your life?
I use text files. One text file per day, named `yyyy-MM-dd.yml`.

YAML! Shudder! But it's the best way I found to enter Markdown with some metadata at the top.

Each day file has multiple Yaml documents, with ids like `yyyy-MM-dd/number`. I use [ ] for todos and turn them into [x] when they are done. This way, searching/grepping for `[ ]` gives me a list of stuff not done yet. I sometimes have a list of things to do in my day. I move the `[ ]`s to the next day at the end of the current day (or start of the next).

I use Visual Studio Code snippets to enter the metadata.

Example:

    ---
    id: 2023-10-13/1
    links:
    tags:
    project:
    text: |
        This text field is **Markdown**, not **YAML**.

        - first note
            - [ ] todo 1
        - second note
      
The `links` item points to other notes by id (it's an array).

The idea of having ids with daily counters is from https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes.

[edits: formatting the yaml, mention 'how to take smart notes' book, mention that the `text` is Markdown]

mbrezu··on Launch HN: Noya (YC W23) – a new kind of design tool
IMO the end product looking "average" is quite different from the prototype looking "average", and Noya looks great for prototypes/MVPs.

Put differently, Noya feels like an exploration tool. When exploring, tents are fine. They do not provide a lot of comfort, but replacing them with houses while still exploring might not be optimal :-) Personally I don't mind average tents, as long as they don't leak.

EDIT: Hmmm, maybe Noya is actually between a tent (Balsamiq) and a house (Figma) - something like an RV? :-D