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That’s been my experience. LLMs excel at languages that are popular. JavaScript and Python are two great examples.

I built this tutorial repo that gets you started building a webchat. Feel free to take it and use it to build your own. It includes LLM context management, SSE for status progress, and backend calendar integration via Block APIs.

I’ve been building automation tools for small businesses and hit a recurring pain point: every booking platform has a totally different API (if it even has one).

So I’m experimenting with a universal booking API: a single JSON interface that lets developers book, cancel, and check availability across many systems (starting with Vagaro, Mindbody, and Fresha).

Under the hood it’s a mix of native APIs and AI-assisted browser automation that handles login states, 2FA, and DOM drift. The goal is to make booking as portable as payments (think Stripe, but for scheduling).

Right now I’m validating demand. If you’ve ever had to build or maintain integrations with scheduling software, I’d love your feedback. What would make an API like this genuinely useful (or trustworthy) for you?

Vagaro, Housecall Pro, Fresha, Zenoti to name a few

These are usually purchased by the business owner to run their core business then they but add on features for marketing, review management, etc.

I can’t comment on whether the PMs are doing their job, but I’ve been building on my own for almost a year now. Working directly with the end user is what motivates me and it’s very eye opening. A lot of engineering thought can miss without guidance. Some experience is always worthwhile.

While it’s pretty clear that shows like Paw Patrol, Super Wings, and others are built around toys. The article never made it clear why this was bad. The shows still have to be interesting and entertaining to be watched by kids. I personally like Paw Patrol and others for the little lessons learned along the way. This is coming from a parent of a 2.5 year old.

Tried to read on mobile (iOS) but the second code block, maybe called state management, is clipped and not readable.

WeChat for Windows has a shortcut (alt-a) to instantly bring up a cursor to snip a portion of the screen and annotate it with text and shapes. It’s super handy for quickly marking some code or a segment in a doc.

Sounds like you’d enjoy an R5RS scheme. Minimal syntax goes a long way. Unused variables throwing exceptions definitely seems like an over accumulation of technical debt.

I live in Beijing, and they seem to work well. It may help that they are ubiquitous. Or that drivers are used to seeing cyclists (and scooters) everywhere.

In the business world (e-commerce in my case) I know plenty of business analysts who write SQL as their only programming experience. That’s part of what I like about SQL. It bridges the gap.

I was about to add the same comment. I’m not sure why you are being downvoted.

I create a date stamped folder with the company’s name, and put all materials in there. I’ll move emails from each company to separate folder in my mail client as well.

I found this port of auto-arima for Python. I haven’t used it in production, but it was easy to test on some demo data. https://pypi.org/project/pyramid-arima/

Cool idea! I tried it, but it gave me back the same sentence I put in :(. I guess my sentence was not interesting enough. Unfortunately my connection is too slow to poke around more.

A product called Tabnine[1] was discussed on Hacker News recently that supposedly does this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393364

Looks cool, but I can’t try it out on mobile. Good job regardless!

Much better! The OP’s version was not very mobile friendly.

Polar looks awesome! Do you plan to have support for a mobile app? For better or worse I do a ton of reading of PDFs on my phone while commuting by train. It’d be great to sync with my laptop too, but only mobile would be more than enough to get me started.

Unfortunately, I am unable to read the article on my phone. The code examples do not render properly. They extend off the left and right sides clipping most of the code. Some sort of word wrap or shrinkage might be better.

Very good point! I find the structure of modern Fortran very clear (although somewhat verbose compared to same python).

This seems to be more of a story of a flawed interview process. The author claims all the interviews when very well. This suggests their questions are not substantive enough to actually distinguish an experienced candidate from others. Alternatively, the “catfish” was amply qualified and faked references for reasons not discussed in the article.

Fortran is still going strong with Fortran 2008. And even better, it’s backwards compatible still with Fortran 77.

How are recommendation algorithms robbing anyone? I can understand a credit score algorithm denying a loan as potentially robbing. Recommendations seem at the worst to be as annoying as a poorly curated catalogue. Am I missing something?

That is too strong a conclusion. People with nut allergies already have procedures for knowing if nuts are in food, for example, asking the restaurant or preparing food their self.

Without knowing if his app was accurate, we cannot say whether building or not building the app was the right decision.

Apologies for being slightly off topic.

While trying to read to article, my browser (Safari on iPhone) was redirected to a scammy looking amazon gift card website. Did anyone else have this problem? I am trying to figure out if it is a problem with Time.com or my phone.

The indented quote renders as a code block and isn’t readable on mobile. I like your reference, so it might be nice to change to formatting for easier reading on mobile.

FYI, your quote renders as a fixed-width font code block and does not word wrap on mobile. It makes the text very hard to read. For mobile user’s benefit, a different quotation method would be better.

The website was unusable for me. I find the topic super interesting, but it’s not worth the extra time to parse. Not the least of which is that on mobile the font sizes were strange and the text poorly placed. Edit: typos.

Ageed! It was too painful to read on my phone. Dark red on black is a questionable design choice. I appreciate the desire to standout, but usability should trump style.