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vladdeon Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?

I use Copilot for code, and I find my self turning it off when I'm writing down in comments step-by-step what I need to do. I use it both as a checklist, but also to mentally understand what I need to do.

Maybe it's my brain that's weird, but when I have a train of thought, and then read the auto-completion of my sentence, I forget what I was thinking and suddenly I can't think of anything other than the (usually incorrect) suggestion.

vladdeon Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

test, do emojis work on hn?

󠅤󠅕󠅣󠅤 edit: apparently not edit 2: oh wait, the bytes are still there! copy-paste this entire message and it decodes to "test"

vladdeon No AI December Reflections

To me, the problem always seemed like people who use ChatGPT and alike default into the "I don't care" mode, and copy-paste blindly.

Personally I think this is the root cause of most sloppy AI code. If you just look at the code that was generated, and you don't think "I would've come up with that", then probably the code is wrong.

vladdeon Rhythm in Web Typography

whenever i encounter a blog or website that i find hard to read, i usually open up the dev tools and do the following (taken from Matej's blog):

    1. limit the text's container to `80ch`
    2. set line height to `1.5`
    3. (optional) change the document's root text size to `112%`

this makes any page 99% of the time much easier to read.

(i've never liked my browser's "reading mode", so i don't use it)

vladdeon Software development topics I've changed my mind on

> Good management is invaluable. (I went most of my career before seeing it done well)

I don't think I've ever seen good management. Anyone care to explain what that would look like?

vladdeon A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

That whole video is really neat, love the guy teaching!

vladdeon New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster

I don't think I've ever handled so much data I'd need to increase data throughput.

How much are we talking? Like petabytes? (Do you just stroll in with on a huge disk array?)

vladdeon How I use git

Lots of people commented on the comment about not needing a GUI client in this thread (same link): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41890480

To add my own touch, I find staging certain parts of a file in the CLI bothersome, when I can just click-and-drag highlight what lines I want committed in eg. Sublime Merge. Not perfect, but waaay easier than with the default CLI in my opinion.

vladdeon Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

Love it. I'll definitely be using this!

vladdeon macOS Crash with UnixDatagram

> I expected to see this happen: no crash of the operating system > Instead, this happened: macOS 15.0.1 crashed

It's pretty funny to read those two lines after each other IMO :)

vladdeon Hetzner Object Storage

Looks like it's in beta https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/faq/beta

vladdeon Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree

Looks neat, and way more clean than https://wave.webaim.org/

vladdeon Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public

Could someone explain to me why it was decided that Sable will release the patents to the public?

vladdeon Winamp currently receiving Russian mass-spam issues

Winamp recently had its source code released with a custom license that went against GitHub's TOS, with multiple issues created about it[0].

Within the past 15 hours, the repo has gained over 900 issues in Russian, that vary from "shitposts"[1] to vague threats[2]. An additional 100 issues are also closed.

[0] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/24 [1] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/1324 [2] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/278

vladdeon Playdate – a new handheld game system

I have one of these (I was in batch 1), and it's a really neat little play console. The quality of the physical device is really good IMO, and the operating system has a lot of flare and generally fun to use.

I don't think they have the same problems with manufacturing anymore, but when I ordered mine it took over a year for it to arrive (bought 29 July 2021, received 6 September 2022); something about their batteries not being good back then.

However, I rarely end up playing with it, and more often than not when I want to use it, it's already been so long since last time it has no battery charge.

But I don't regret getting it – every time I do open it it's fun, and it's a really cute device :)

vladdeon Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown

Unfortunately not getting any good results for RFC 3339 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339), such a page where I think it would be great to convert text into readable Markdown.

The end result is just like the original site but with without any headings and the a lot of whitespace still remaining (but with some non-working links inserted) :/

Using thei API link, this is what it looks like: https://r.jina.ai/https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339

vladdeon UE5 Nanite in WebGPU

Got to love in the stated goals:

> I could have built this with Vulkan and Rust. None would touch it.

vladdeon We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines

Is using games for real-life city planning a viable option to later apply in real life? I.e. if my city wanted to try out a new metro line, is replicating the city in Cities: Skylines good enough to simulate what would happen?

Related (Kerbal Space Program): https://xkcd.com/1356/

vladdeon Can you convert a video to pure CSS?

Hillarious! Soon enough people will rebuild entire browsers with box shadows :)

vladdeon The Monospace Web

Super cool! Love how nice the tree-list looks! Readability with monospace is always a bit troubling, but I think this is a great take on it :)

I made a similar thing where I take semantic HTML and render it as old RFC documents: https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css/ (not as readable though IMO)

vladdeon Galois Theory

That's an interesting way of holding a pen, never seen that before

at 4:26 in https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/rec/play/qc1PCp8gTozfuRpMYKcTkPZQ2C...

vladdeon Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code

That's the longest 3 lines of code I've ever seen.

vladdeon Insomnium (offline-only fork of Insomnia) is dead

The online requirements for Postman (and now Insomnia) was a deal-breaker wether to use it at work. We opted for Bruno[1], which is local-only

[1] https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

vladdeon Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs

The example API key on the page is decoded to "WOW YOU'RE A HACKER" :)

vladdeon Don't use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]

Posy made a wonderful video about different numbered segment designs https://youtu.be/RTB5XhjbgZA

vladdeon McDonald's Loses 'Big Mac' Trademark in European Union

> The decision by the EU General Court does not affect our right to use the ‘BIG MAC’ trademark

Do they still have the trademark, or is BIG MAC up for grabs for anyone?

vladdeon Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript

Similar to the paid tool https://www.executeprogram.com/ , which goes very much more in-depth with TypeScript's type system (as well with other languages)

vladdeon Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

I don't get it.

I beat it. It's a neat puzzle, but why the tremendous upvotes for this?