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sthottingal

193 karma · joined May 7, 2018

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sthottingal; my proof: https://keybase.io/sthottingal/sigs/2uTTmRof4rLP8gZhYXa6sAWJOGmb-vr9fzK6zwniemc ]
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sthottingal··on OpenErrata – AI-Powered Fact-Checking for the Web
OpenErrata is a browser extension that uses AI to investigate the content you read online and provides inline corrections to empirically incorrect or misleading claims.
sthottingal··on Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
There is one already https://skills.sh/paulirish/dotfiles/modern-css I am not sure whether it covers everything from https://modern-css.com/ though
sthottingal··on Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
Thanks for this. I learned a few new tips. If it is not too much work, a web version of this will be helpful. Also for search engine friendly.
sthottingal··on Bookmarklets I Use
Here is a simple bookmarklet to quickly turn any browser tab to a rich text editor:

data:text/html, <body contenteditable style="margin:2rem;">

Open the above as URL in a browser tab and bookmark.

sthottingal··on Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
Author of this new PoC here. IPNS propagation is slow in the current implementation and it is a blocker for instant propagation irrespective of number of peers. In my discussion with IPFS developers, I was told that they are going to look into this issue in next versions.
sthottingal··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
I am developing a modern wikipedia interface - a Vuejs powered modern, single page, progressive, offline capable web application for Wikipedia. I have been working on this for last several months and have working version available at https://wikipedia.thottingal.in

Source code and more details available at https://github.com/santhoshtr/wikivue

It is a fully client side PWA application using wikipedia web apis, installable in desktops and mobiles and use like a native application. It has offline support - With the help of service workers, the application even works when there is no internet, provided, the content is previously viewed. It is a single page application - page does not reload when exploing wiki articles, presenting an immersed reading experience. uIt ses modern UI framwork Vuetify. Adapts to all kind of screen sizes. It presents an optimized reading experience with good typography and optimum page layout. Multilingual by default - All language editions are in single app. Using language selector user can select the language edition.

I wanted to make this as a p2p capable application. Currently it runs on dat protocol as well: dat://25689f3a757853a511474d38f0a6d6be2cd2b0cb161686d75fda5c1619137921(need beaker browser) or wikipedia.hashbase.io

sthottingal··on Category:Obsolete occupations
Web developer - an obsolete occupation?!
sthottingal··on BenderRule: Name the Language You Study
Here is an example for a very recent progress in language model which does not mention the language name at all: "CTRL - A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation" - https://blog.einstein.ai/introducing-a-conditional-transform...

As a researcher in a non-english, morphologically rich language, I completely agree with the article by Emily Bender. Everytime I read papers, when people ask questions or discuss on NLP in various forums such as reddit/stackoverlow, the language name is taken for granted as English.

sthottingal··on Meli email client, pre-alpha release
A big disadvantage with TUI based email clients is it can only work with English or latin script based languages. Complex scripts(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout) does not render properly in terminals.
sthottingal··on Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
It is broken in Firefox since version 62 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903966