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by phforms 3y ago
What a beautiful(ly told/written) story/experience. Love how the visuals interact artistically with the writing. Can totally understand the fascination with grids, although it came to me much later in life (as I child, grids felt
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by phforms 3y ago
I believe there is great value in introducing learners to tools that are so simple and easy to use that they can just get started and focus on programming without having to wrestle with tools and incidental complexity. This is a design chal
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by phforms 3y ago
This. Been using it for more than 6 years for freelance work and never had any issues with it. Also never paid a penny since it has a generous free plan and I never had much use for any of the advanced features. It has a simple desktop app
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by phforms 3y ago
I feel your struggle. Especially for these cases, I am always writing my own personal documentation (recently switched to .org files for that, which makes navigation pretty convenient in Emacs). It seems redundant since you can find all thi
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by phforms 3y ago
I am very new to shell scripting and as I wrote the script, I actually just realized that I can plug anything into fzf that is split into lines of text and that I can use the selected output for further processing, since it’s just text. I j
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by phforms 3y ago
I really like the suggested command `<my editor> $(fzf)` to quickly open files in <my editor> relative to the directory I am in. However, when I abort the fuzzy find with esc, it still opens <my editor> without a file inpu
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by phforms 4y ago
In Ventura (13.2), you can turn off automatic updates in the “General” tab, then “Software Update” and click on the little “(i)” icon to the right of “Automatic updates”. When I saw it the first time, it was unclear to me that I can even cl
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by phforms 4y ago
I’ve been using Vimium for about a year now and really like it. I use it almost exclusively for fast keyboard-based scrolling, because I hate having to continuously rub my finger against a cold aluminium surface or spin a little plastic whe
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by phforms 4y ago
There are some interesting notes and links related to the course on the instructors website: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cs378.html Check out the course outline as well as the links on “Lectures with dra
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by phforms 4y ago
Have you tried Calva for VS Code? Although I don’t use it myself (I use vim-iced with Neovim, which I like very much), I have heard lots of good things about it and it seems very easy to set up and use.
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by phforms 4y ago
Same here, started using Clojure pretty much exclusively about a year ago and never looked back. It was rough to get to that comfortable state where I am now, having to find out how Clojure CLI tools work, what Java Classpaths are, how to p
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by phforms 4y ago
I recommend taking a look at Processing: https://processing.org When I was young, generating visual things was my gateway-drug to programming. With all the tooling, frameworks, workflows, concepts, etc. that you have to learn to
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by phforms 4y ago
There is a free version with a limited feature set available for personal use. Unfortunately, some essential features are missing (like tags and thought/link types), but at least you are not limited in the number of thoughts (= nodes)
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by phforms 4y ago
In my understanding, in order for an activity to count as “play”, the primary and _sufficient_ motivation has to be fun, even though there can be other motivators. I understand _fun_ as a motivation that is not goal-oriented and not forced.
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by phforms 4y ago
What I struggle with the most is not so much the struggle itself, but the repetition of the struggle. When I overcome the urge of giving up, it feels like a bitter-sweet victory because I know that with great certainty I will have to repeat
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by phforms 4y ago
If you want to go nuts with structural editing you may also want to check out symex mode: https://github.com/drym-org/symex.el It uses paredit (among others) for its low level functionality, but the vim-style modal int
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by phforms 4y ago
Structural editing is one of the amazing things you get for free in Lisps, but I cannot imagine how it could be done without parentheses. I also don’t really find it more readable without them, but it might just come down to what you’re use
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by phforms 4y ago
I wonder how this difference plays out if we are looking at a timespan of centuries instead of decades. Multiple generations of computers or various kinds of computing and reading technology would have to be stored and maintained along with
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by phforms 4y ago
I believe webrings could still be great discoverability and serendipity tools for smaller communities today. They could provide a curative answer to the failure of qualitative selection in search engines and a (small but significant) counte
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by phforms 4y ago
There is an interesting article about the reasons why Wolfram decided against open source and why their products would not have been possible otherwise: https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isn
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by phforms 4y ago
I think this might actually help, thanks! Maybe my problem was that when I write `(< a b)` I unconsciously read `< a`, which is where the confusion begins when I don’t explicitly think about the order. But the skiing guy helps to make
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by phforms 4y ago
As a Lisp/Clojure beginner, I don’t find s-expressions any harder to read – in fact, I like how much they take away the cognitive load associated with remembering and applying syntax rules in other languages. But for me there is one ex
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by phforms 4y ago
Tristan is still my favourite pinball game to this day. I remember my dad playing it on whatever old Mac he had back then and I got to try it every once in a while. I like the simplicity of its design and I come back to playing it on my iPh
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by phforms 4y ago
So this means that drafts will be immediately public or is it just notebooks that you publish “privately” through invitation, a shared link or something like that? (seems more like the former to me, but I haven’t been able to confirm) [EDIT
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by phforms 4y ago
I have tried out Clerk yesterday and was really satisfied with the plug & play setup, the simplicity of the approach (no need to change anything in source files, just add markdown in comments) and all the features (Hiccup, TailwindCSS,
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by phforms 4y ago
Oh I forgot that Org-Roam is different in this regard than Roam since it is based on Org-mode. I don’t have much experience with it, but you are right, it is less fixed like Obsidian. However, I think Org-mode’s headings (*, **, …) have gre
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by phforms 4y ago
I always feel like the term “outliner” misrepresents the approach to note-taking that tools like Logseq, (Org-)Roam, RemNote, etc. have chosen. I don’t really have/know a good alternative label, but there is so much more to it than jus
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by phforms 4y ago
I believe it may be much more fruitful to observe and talk about our conception of holes rather than discussing any kind of ontological existence. We only perceive a hole as some kind of entity because our perception works in such a way tha
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by phforms 4y ago
I tried cljfx earlier this year for a prototype and was really satisfied with the developing experience. But I was also quite disappointed when I learned about the GraalVM incompatibility; it would have been a dream to have AOT and fast sta
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by phforms 4y ago
I especially like your idea because of the modern-age allusions in BotW. The Shieka-stone seems a lot like a smartphone with “apps”, that even lets you take pictures. The map in the pause menu could also be such an app, given its detailled

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