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by kranzky 2y ago
A good problem for tech to solve is this: How do you turn a bunch of random strangers into a community?
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by kranzky 2y ago
You know you're in a community when people help each other move house, for example.
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by kranzky 2y ago
Tech heads are re-discovering what "community" actually means, after overusing and abusing the term for the last two decades when they actually meant to say "audience" or "network".
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by kranzky 5y ago
Just read an article about employers increasingly monitoring their WFH employees with software installed on their computers. This is the "sitting at a desk and typing" measure of productivity. How do they propose monitoring the &q
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by kranzky 5y ago
For sure, we need to collectively recognise how much real work takes place in this mode. I once collaborated with a colleague to design and implement a data sync framework. For six weeks we chatted about it during our lunch break, while wal
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by kranzky 7y ago
I know it's bleak, but the API now includes build server style badges, like this: https://corona.kranzky.com/badge.svg
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Dumb JSON API for Coronavirus Data(corona.kranzky.com)
4 points by kranzky 7y ago|1 comments
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Exponential Growth Is Going Viral(blog.kranzky.com)
2 points by kranzky 7y ago|0 comments
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by kranzky 7y ago
Nice, I remember playing with Dasher many moons ago; visited David MacKay (RIP) back in 1996. In 2009 I developed my own text input system called D-Board. There's a brief video of a prototype here: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by kranzky 8y ago
I suggest you read "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory", by David Graeber. He explains that apprentice -> journeyman -> master no longer holds; we all get stuck at journeyman, working in the service of others for our entire career. You
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by kranzky 9y ago
Oh. Well, damn. I guess Steve Yegge was right. Anyway, wouldn't it be great if Google launched a kick-ass text editor?
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by kranzky 9y ago
Great stuff, and awesome to see this coming from Google (and in Rust instead of Go). Interesting historical note: The author of Sublime Text left Google to work on it by himself when he couldn't get it approved as a 20% project.
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by kranzky 10y ago
A semi-serious brain dump after working with GitHub's new features for a day.
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Proposed New GitHub Features(blog.kranzky.com)
5 points by kranzky 10y ago|1 comments
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by kranzky 10y ago
Thinking about Chomsky and Hong Kong lead to writing this brain-dump.
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On the Origin of Speciousness(medium.com)
1 points by kranzky 10y ago|1 comments
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by kranzky 10y ago
This is obviously, I hope, all just a bit of fun.
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Nobel-Worthy “Seaweed with Musical Timing”(blog.kranzky.com)
3 points by kranzky 10y ago|1 comments
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It's not gun control. It's murder control(medium.com)
2 points by kranzky 11y ago|0 comments
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by kranzky 11y ago
Well, it is kind-of possible for Ruby/Rails. I half-built such a system once. Here's what you do: * Gather coverage information when running tests or compiling assets. * Use that to generate Rakefiles for running tests / comp
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by kranzky 11y ago
Things I would build: * Push conflicted branches so developers in a distributed team can work together to resolve conflicts. * A git-powered version of Rake, which runs only those tests that need to be run based on the git history since the
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by kranzky 11y ago
Nice work! I built something similar that keeps everything in Ruby. It was made to allow models built in Excel by a non-programmer to be executed on the back-end of a Rails app, but it's pretty generic: https://github.com&#x
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by kranzky 12y ago
OK, fixed the autoscroll I think. Let me know if it does / doesn't work for you.
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by kranzky 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback; I did try to do the autoscroll, so sorry it's not working. Will attempt a fix soon...
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by kranzky 12y ago
I spent the last couple of weeks rewriting MegaHAL, and it's finally online again after a brief absence. You can talk with MegaHAL here: http://megahal.kranzky.com/ All source is freely available on GitHub, unencumbere
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MegaHAL Turns Twenty-One(medium.com)
25 points by kranzky 12y ago|7 comments
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by kranzky 12y ago
I have spent the past few weeks rewriting MegaHAL in Ruby and getting it back online, after a brief absence. You can chat with MegaHAL here: http://megahal.kranzky.com/ MegaHAL is also available as a Ruby gem, which include
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by kranzky 12y ago
Yes, the TDD debate really got me thinking about why I write tests. It used to be about saving me time. Now it seems to be about satisfying other people that I know what I'm doing. But I am a fan of code-as-documentation, blindingly
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by kranzky 12y ago
Written for the recent GovHack down here. Integrates spatial data from many disparate gub'mnt departments, and displays as a Tweetable heatmap. I find these ones rather interesting, but you can make your own too: Average Taxable Income
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Show HN: Australian GovData Exposed(australian.govdata.exposed)
1 points by kranzky 12y ago|1 comments

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