alexharri

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TypeScript's unknown type and type variance(marijnhaverbeke.nl)
2 points by alexharri 2mo ago|0 comments
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I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026(seangoedecke.com)
11 points by alexharri 4mo ago|1 comments
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by alexharri 8mo ago
The ASCII moon tool is fun to play around with! No plans to build a library right now, but who knows. Feel free to grab what you need from the website's code! If I were to build a library, I'd probably convert the shaders from Web
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by alexharri 8mo ago
I did actually try out various alphabets e.g. Cyrillic, Greek and symbols (e.g. box drawing symbols), but ended up removing them: https://github.com/alexharri/website/commit/d969ef839 Using only ASCII felt mo
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by alexharri 8mo ago
Looks very cool! Thanks for sharing. The resulting ASCII looks dithered, with sequences like e.g. :-:-:-:-:. I'd guess that it's an intentional effect since a flat surface would naturally repeat the same character, right? Where do
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by alexharri 8mo ago
Just pushed a fix, should be live in a minute or two, thanks again!
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by alexharri 8mo ago
Good catch, thanks! I’ll push a fix once I’m home
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by alexharri 8mo ago
Yeah, this is good to point out. The primary constraint I was working around was "this needs to run at a smooth 60FPS on mobile devices" which limits the type and amount of work one can do on each frame. I'd probably arrive a
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by alexharri 8mo ago
Author here. There isn't a library around this yet, but the source code for the blog is open source (MIT licensed): https://github.com/alexharri/website The code for this post is all in PR #15 if you want to take
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering(alexharri.com)
1353 points by alexharri 8mo ago|149 comments
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Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites(danilafe.com)
3 points by alexharri 8mo ago|0 comments
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Personal Information(tonsky.me)
3 points by alexharri 9mo ago|0 comments
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by alexharri 9mo ago
Happy New Year from Reykjavík, Iceland!
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Rich Friend, Poor Friend (2022)(jenn.site)
3 points by alexharri 10mo ago|0 comments
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The Myth of Rational Design (2010)(zerobanana.com)
3 points by alexharri 1y ago|1 comments
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The Age of Greater Reykjavík(flother.is)
2 points by alexharri 1y ago|0 comments
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Social dynamics of Bluetooth speakers (2022)(dynomight.net)
1 points by alexharri 1y ago|0 comments
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by alexharri 1y ago
Hmm, good idea. There are names that have the exact same pronunciation yet have different patterns of declension, for example: - Ástvaldur -> ur,,i,ar - Baldur -> ur,ur,ri,urs The "aldur" ending is pronounced in the exact sa
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by alexharri 1y ago
It would be good to cover more names for sure -- that's an ongoing process at DIM. Names are frequently added to the approved list of Icelandic names, so there's always going to be some lag. I would not be confident enough myself
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by alexharri 1y ago
As a native Icelandic speaker, I have an intuition for how to decline names -- I don't really think about it consciously. I'd assume that for most people it's just pattern matching. Native speakers very frequently decline nam
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Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie(alexharri.com)
240 points by alexharri 1y ago|81 comments
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)(yosefk.com)
3 points by alexharri 1y ago|0 comments
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Arguing point-by-point considered harmful(seangoedecke.com)
2 points by alexharri 1y ago|0 comments
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Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (2022)(benkuhn.net)
1 points by alexharri 1y ago|0 comments
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Amazon's Antitrust Paradox (2017)(yalelawjournal.org)
3 points by alexharri 1y ago|0 comments
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AI is not our future(procreate.com)
235 points by alexharri 1y ago|168 comments
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The Icelandic Voting System (2024)(smarimccarthy.is)
143 points by alexharri 1y ago|143 comments
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by alexharri 1y ago
Hmm, good point. I’m abroad this week and don’t have a laptop, but I’ll look at adding an MIT licence to the shader itself when I’m home. (I don’t want the post contents to be MIT licensed, but the website code and examples should be) Thank
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by alexharri 1y ago
Thanks a lot! Yeah tons of work went into this post, I’ve been working on it since November. The shader itself was about 2-3 weeks of evenings to get the effect 90% of the way
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Four Kinds of Optimisation (2023)(tratt.net)
41 points by alexharri 1y ago|14 comments

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