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mephos··on Don't be a meat proxy
Realistically many people's jobs are turning into being a meat proxy. But the point should be that you need be a good meat proxy. A good meat proxy injects human reasoning and taste, it doesn't blindly forward LLM-isms into the organization. A human should be able to reasonably compress an LLM conversation into a couple of sentences or follow-up questions that are actually relevant for the team.
mephos··on GitHub is down again
git operations are down too.
mephos··on How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code
How much Claude could a Claude code code if a Claude code could code Claude
mephos··on Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
Great article.

A couple weeks ago, on a flight, I watched the movie Conclave (2024) which is about the process of selecting the Pope, in a modern context. I thought it was surprisingly good, but felt like a warning call for the next papal conclave as it illustrated how the power some of these individuals face can corrupt. Fascinating to think how this process would have played out in 16th Century Italy.

mephos··on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
Interesting tool. This reminds me of the initial steps in the vampire attack idea.

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/04/16/vampi...

mephos··on Espresso.js – minimal React alternative – is now a decade old
Broadly speaking, I think this is one area where people struggle when getting started with programming.

You can read the docs about given library function but often it's not clear how that certain function should be used in practice, leading to confusion and ultimately Stack Overflow.

mephos··on Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
I always love to see Love2d mentioned. Love2d + Lua were my introduction to game programming, and really helped me catch the "bug" for game dev.

It's a very great framework for learning the basics but will require extra work for a polished end result. The forums and documentation are a solid place to start! https://love2d.org

mephos··on Show HN: Glove80 on Kickstarter-500 iterations to make split contoured keyboards
I've been following this project for a few months leading up to launch. The amount of effort invested into making this an extremely well designed and high quality product is impressive.

Like others have pointed out, it's rare to find a wireless split keyboard with ergonomics rivaling the Kinesis Advantage. Especially when you consider the price point.

After much time spent with the Kinesis, I'm quite excited to switch to this board as my daily driver.

mephos··on Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?
At least for me, something important that could be considered "heavy duty" is the ability to read and write notes from both my phone and computer.