jumpalongjim

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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
I’m out and about so haven’t tried this yet, but sounds like your context is an embedded diagram. For free diagrams (.mmd files) I find AI creation and editing to be highly effective.
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
I recognise your point entirely and I will have to take it onboard for the future of my business. Please do, however, make good use of the website which is completely free, private, needs no signup, and gives you export to SVG and PNG. Also
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Right. Mermaid syntax for basic flowcharting is straightforward. But it's even easier to get your AI to produce Mermaid, which they do very readily. May I suggest you try the Line9 CLI, which lets your AI show you the diagram visually
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Delighted that you saw improvements.
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Thanks, very kind offer. When people paid real money for this, were they paying to make diagrams look good, or for convenient source-editing and rendering in the page? Line9 is built around the first and doesn't have an ideal solution
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Ok, I've investigated Confluence some more. Publishing a diagram from Line9 Pro gives you a stable URL that serves a pre-rendered SVG and which updates when you modify the Mermaid. This can easily be displayed in Confluence by insertin
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
I'd separate Mermaid the language from the tooling around it. The language has real strengths, like Markdown for diagrams, and not least in being ubiquitous so that both humans and AIs can use it easily. What I found poor was the tooli
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Oh dear, sorry that didn't work out well for you. If you’re pasting flowcharts that don’t work then I really want to try to address them. Can you say what happened? Nothing rendered at all, or something you couldn’t use? If you’re able
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Thanks. I haven't yet got to looking into Confluence. I used to use a Confluence plugin for Lucid charts and I guess something like that for Line9 would be useful if it gets much traction. I don't know whether the embedding option
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Mermaid does indeed provide alternative layout engines. Please do try ELK before Line9. My experience is 1) hand-tuning the layout of Mermaid, having to try alternative engines or parameters, is not what I want. I just want a graph that I c
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Neither, really — it's closer to hand-rolled local search. My first three phases are based on Sugiyama to produce a seed layout (which is broadly what Dagre does). Then I've added my new phases driven by a penalty score that grade
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
Recipe websites are about the worst in packing adverts and junk around their recipes, so this is brilliant. But I think you're having difficulty in listing available recipes from the search, some sites not playing ball. But you don&#x2
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Show HN: Mermaid flowcharts you don't have to redraw in a diagram editor(line9.ai)
4 points by jumpalongjim 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jumpalongjim 1mo ago
I like this. I have manually operated blinds and the automated kits were expensive, but not more than about £60 each from memory. Anyway I've occasionally thought of doing something like this. I did something simple for my bedroom curt
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Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout(line9.ai)
87 points by jumpalongjim 1mo ago|35 comments
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
There are no barriers to creating software. There are no barriers to copying software. But there are still moats around some software businesses: non-technical which AI does not directly impact. Nonetheless, advertising is not the only way
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
This might be useful for my son! But he has Android, not iOS. Is Android on the way?
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
This is a well-presented website and looks like a good set of features. I always thought of creating one of these for myself, but I don't think it's a very easy market to make money in. Good luck with it.
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
What would a new social media platform offer that existing ones don't? Important to me: my time and the value I get from spending it. To move off X to a new platform the signal-to-noise ratio would need to be better.
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
It's increasingly common to have fascinating discussions with LLMs, and they do come out with some good insight. (It would be nice if they could vary the ubiquitous stock terminology, such as 'heavy lifting'.) Fable and its l
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
My goto approach would be to ask an AI to investigate. They can get a surprisingly long way in troubleshooting networking, doing web research, etc. and will even decompile Claude Code to work out what the issue is. It's easy to underes
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
No, certainly not necessary in all cases. It's a marketing approach: companies want to find an edge and a way to indicate they're progressing and leading, so they find a way to attach AI to whatever they do. Only a fraction of the
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
I no longer write code. In fact I develop in languages I'm not very familiar with. I use Claude Code, Grok Build and Pi as AI coding agents. I use Linear for issue / task management. I use Github for CI, building on multiple platf
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by jumpalongjim 2mo ago
I'd suggest MCP agent mail https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail I haven't tried it on a raspberry pi at all, but I have used it on my PC and Mac and it enables agents to message each other. It&
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by jumpalongjim 6mo ago
Whether or not your analysis is correct (I'd say not), the root problem is Chinese manufacturing dominance and unfair competitive advantage when it comes to EVs. It saddens me to say it, but the legacy car companies are unable to pivot
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by jumpalongjim 6mo ago
Agree! But there are almost none on the roads in Europe so must have been costly for Honda. Price was too high.
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by jumpalongjim 6mo ago
I love the Honda E and it's not mentioned in the article for some reason. However it must certainly have been a costly flop; they are so rare on the roads in the UK,
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by jumpalongjim 6mo ago
Often suggested by optimistic podcast guests these days: the as-yet-unknown new careers that will replace the familiar old ones and thus give employment in the AI era. I think your story is more a commentary on the current AI goldrush than
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by jumpalongjim 6mo ago
Claude not playing, so resorted to watching television with my wife. Turned out well, actually - history of Henry II and Thomas Beckett :)
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by jumpalongjim 7mo ago
I've enjoyed SW engineering always. It started as a hobby and I'm fortunate to do what I enjoy as a profession. Do I still enjoy it? I find the rise of AI mesmerising. It's delightful to me to use AI and build with it in the

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