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foo42 commented on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore praf.me/ai-coding... · Posted by u/_praf

foo42 · 6 days ago

The tradeoff of higher velocity for less enjoyment may feel less welcome when it becomes the new baseline and the expectation of employers / customers. The excitement of getting a day's work done in an hour* (for example) is likely to fade once the expectation is to produce 8 of such old-days output per day.

I suspect it doesn't matter how we feel about it mind you. If it's going to happen it will, whether we enjoy the gains first or not.

* setting aside whether this is currently possible, or whether we're actually trading away more quality that we realise.

foo42 commented on The End of Handwriting wired.com/story/the-end-o... · Posted by u/beardyw

benrutter · 13 days ago

Any tips for lefties? I find in very difficult to avoid complete smudgification of everything I write with a fountain pen, since it takes so much longer for the ink to dry.

foo42 · 13 days ago

I write with my hand below the line to avoid smudging. A consequence of this is my pen meets the page at quite a shallow angle which I find is perfect for fountain pens but scratchy with ball points. These days I do very little hand writing and find my traditional pose (described above) causes hand cramps, but I don't know if that's specific to the odd way I write or if all poses would when so out of practice

foo42 commented on Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs github.com/afnanenayet/di... · Posted by u/mihau

jacobr · 2 months ago

Could the next-gen version control system just store ASTs? Does this already exist?

Every user gets their own preferred formatting, and linters and tools could operate on already-parsed trees

foo42 · 2 months ago

you might want to check out eyg lang (eat your greens) as I think the idea is explicitly that syntax is user preferences and the ast is the _real_ language

foo42 commented on Hidden interface controls that affect usability interactions.acm.org/arch... · Posted by u/cxr

IggleSniggle · 2 months ago

Right! If you want it to denote an action, you need to include the verb: "TURN ON" would be entirely clear. It's even clear if you sometimes DO want to show state / not a button "IS ON" is also perfectly clear. There's only a few that might he confused when the verb is shown, like "INCREASE," although I would have to work a little to imagine the UI where it's not clear whether the button is showing the verb or noun.

foo42 · 2 months ago

you can get the same issue with icons too. The one that gives me anxiety is the microphone with a line through on a button. I _am_ muted or I should click to _mute_. If my kids are arguing in the background and it's an important call it can feel like a high stakes thing to get wrong and often times it only becomes clear what state I'm in by toggling a few times. Does the icon change to a mic without a line when I click or does the previously shown mic with a line now get coloured in, what does _that_ mean?

foo42 commented on The Grug Brained Developer (2022) grugbrain.dev/... · Posted by u/smartmic

aspenmayer · 2 months ago

I’m getting zombo.com vibes from this client request.

foo42 · 2 months ago

you can do anything at Zombocom!

foo42 commented on Progressive JSON overreacted.io/progressiv... · Posted by u/kacesensitive

kenanfyi · 3 months ago

I find your analysis very good and agree on why companies like Vercel are pushing hard on RSC.

foo42 · 3 months ago

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foo42 commented on Learn touch typing – it's worth it typequicker.com/blog/lear... · Posted by u/absoluteunit1

Ezhik · 3 months ago

I've been messing with keybr daily for a while now and have retrained myself to do things more properly but two things about doing everything the "right" way bother me:

1. Too many keys on the right pinky - all punctuation except for `!`, `,`, `.`, plus backspace and return.

2. Opposite modifier keys rule - I just can't retrain myself for this one especially since it's a yet another key for the right pinky. I always end up only using the keys on the left side.

Not sure how to best fix those.

foo42 · 3 months ago

For me, using a keyboard with more keys around the thumbs and configurable keymaps with layers solves this. I have space, return and esc all easily accessible on my thumbs and my most used punctuation across the easily reached keys (such as home row) on a layer, also activated with my thumb.

fwiw I use a moonlander but many keyboards could work equally well I'm sure

foo42 commented on $30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024) sifter.org/~simon/journal... · Posted by u/busymom0

J_Shelby_J · 3 months ago

I just want to share that these are by far the best home automation you can have. I love my smart lights, hacked together smart humidifier, smart fans (the vornado dc fans with outlet switches), intake air pump, and air quality monitoring.

But nothing has the quality of life impact of smart blinds. It’s the best, and probably only, way to reliably keep your sleep schedule in sync. Smart lightbulbs - four of the brightest you can buy - are nothing compared to a window on a cloudy day.

foo42 · 3 months ago

curious if you have any more details on your hacked up smart dehumidifier?

foo42 commented on Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy programmablemutter.com/p/... · Posted by u/akkartik

foo42 · 4 months ago

what the heck has skin pigment to do with anything?

foo42 commented on Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client yaak.app... · Posted by u/gschier

foo42 · 6 months ago

Thought this was about the language learning app https://yakk.app/ for a brief moment looming at the URL!

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