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by blopker 2mo ago
For those wondering, this is now the default markdown processor in Astro 7: https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/#markdown--mdx-in-rust
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by blopker 3mo ago
Sure, local coding is clearly _possible_, but it's not practical for most people. I've yet to see a reliable setup, if you have one, I'd love to see. > creating plans, using subagents and compactions Yes, these are all thi
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by blopker 3mo ago
I've been working with local models for the past year. There's so many possibilities, but I don't think coding is one. Coding requires so many layers beyond inference; I spent so much time trying to replicate what Claude Code
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by blopker 3mo ago
I've been using this keyboard on and off for a while now. I've always switched back to gboard, however this update made me convert full time. It's really good. There are a few issues, like it randomly capitalizes words in the
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by blopker 3mo ago
There are still a few unsolved problems that require tuning for specific applications. Applications that own the video call have a much easier time, they have access to each individual audio stream. Applications like this, however, have to
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by blopker 3mo ago
Nice! I really like how many variations on this idea are coming out. MacWhisper used to be great, but is kinda of a buggy mess now. I'm making my own, for personal use. I did a survey of many and they all (that I could find) skip the f
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by blopker 3mo ago
UUIDs are way over used. There is almost always a better key to use, usually a bigint for databases. If you're making some kind of leaderless distributed data store, then maybe, but even then there are other ID sharding strategies I&#x
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by blopker 6mo ago
Every time I see something like this (turn function calls into a network call), I reflect fondly on the list of fallacies in distributed computing [0]. These are issues that largely have to be handled in an application-specific way, and can
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by blopker 8mo ago
Google answers this question in the FAQ: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#does_webp_suppo... But in my experience, webp is better enough that the whole file loads around the same time the jpg progressi
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by blopker 8mo ago
As always, it really depends on what the source is. Often images are created with some software like Photoshop, would you commit the psd file to git? If you're a photographer, would you commit 20mb+ raw image files? Might make sense fo
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by blopker 8mo ago
This post greatly over simplifies how many issues come up optimizing images. Also, the Github workflow doesn't commit the optimized images back to git, so this would have to run before packaging and would have to run on every image, no
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by blopker 8mo ago
After my dad died from cancer in 2018, I saw first hand the resulting loneliness and the lack of resources available. Being an engineer, I figured I might as well try to solve it, at least for some people. In 2020, I started a non-profit fo
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by blopker 10mo ago
This. The WIP code was committed with the expectation that very few people would see it because it was not linked anywhere in the main readme. It's a calculated risk, so that the code wouldn't get out of date with main. The risk c
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by blopker 10mo ago
I brought up this issue because I thought it illustrated my previous points nicely. Yes, there is a VS Code folder in that repo. However, it doesn't exist as an actual extension. It's an experiment that does not remotely work. The
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by blopker 10mo ago
I dunno, it seems to be real excited about a VS Code extension that doesn't exist and isn't mentioned in the actual documentation. There's just too many factual errors to list.
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by blopker 10mo ago
I took a look at a project I maintain[0], and wow. It's so wrong in every section I saw. The generated diagrams make no sense. The text sections take implementation details that don't matter and present them to the user like they
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by blopker 11mo ago
Yeah, I made a local image compressor/converter for myself that's actually private: https://github.com/blopker/alic
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by blopker 1y ago
Web version: https://clowerweb.github.io/kitten-tts-web-demo/ It sounds ok, but impressive for the size.
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Microsoft: Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models(arxiv.org)
2 points by blopker 1y ago|0 comments
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by blopker 1y ago
I get the feeling we're going to end up in a place where we don't make docs any more. A project will have a trusted agent that can see the actual code, maybe just the API surface, and that agent acts like a customer service rep to
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Zed's new $20/mo subscription(i.imgur.com)
5 points by blopker 1y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: I made a code-aware spell checker for Zed(github.com)
4 points by blopker 2y ago|1 comments
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by blopker 2y ago
The Rust ecosystem needs more high-level frameworks like this. However, I've been shipping Django since 0.96, and I don't think Cot really addresses the main issues Django currently has. Performance isn't in the top 5. Django
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by blopker 2y ago
There is another solution, in this specific case. If all they wanted is to start returning the test results before all the tests are done, a streaming http response can be used. In Bottle, returning a generator or iterator will send the res
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by blopker 2y ago
I actually can't think of another language that has all of that built in. Rust doesn't, it needs a run time for async. JavaScript doesn't, it needs typescript and it doesn't compile to native.
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by blopker 2y ago
Dart is crazy because it runs on every platform, compiles to native, has real parallelism via isolates, native async, and native type safety. There's not really a backend that takes advantage of all that. In theory, one server binary c
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by blopker 2y ago
Nice work! I'm happy to see the server is in Dart, no Firebase! I wish the Dart server ecosystem was more mature though. Being able to compile Dart into a static binary is so nice for deployment.
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by blopker 2y ago
In Rust, there's a controversial practice around putting unit tests in the same file as the actual code. I was put off by it at first, but I'm finding LLM autocomplete is able to be much more effective just being able to see the t
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by blopker 2y ago
I agree with you on Django Ninja, so refreshingly simple compared to DRF. I think Django core needs to adopt something like it. However, Vite is pretty complicated. I prefer just esbuild if I don't need all the extra features of Vite,
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AdAway: Ad-Blocking for Your Android(adaway.org)
2 points by blopker 2y ago|1 comments

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