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markalby commented on Ask HN: What software / applications can you now build thanks to AI    · Posted by u/zarathustra333
markalby · 2 months ago
In web dev, writing load tests and user journey scripts has become a lot easier and something where the end result is more important than the code flavor, compared to maintainable site feature code.

Turn on persist logs in the dev tools network tab; go through as much as the flow as possible; filter out domains that aren’t your site: google, facebook, external api calls; download the .har for all of whats left; convert har into a k6 script using a library, or dump that into an llm to convert it to their newer browser script and point the llm at their docs; edit it to be dynamic so you can test paths from different product pages/types, and scrape and enter proper guids, etc.

On the flip side we’re seeing a lot more bot traffic likely due to bad actors doing this too, but by writing these tests you begin to see what calls cause load and be proactive.

markalby commented on A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash   blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025... · Posted by u/BeetleB
efitz · 3 months ago
I have been using the em dash in writing forever - in Word, for example, you type a word, then space-hyphen-space, then you type another word and the hyphen is autocorrected to an em dash.

I don’t regularly use en-dashes, cause I don’t know how to make them.

markalby · 3 months ago
it’s usually space dash dash space across most word processors.

I picked up the habit a couple years ago of just undoing the autocorrect to an em dash and leaving it as two dashes to avoid accusations -- now it’s stuck with me

markalby commented on Helm 4.0   github.com/helm/helm/rele... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
bandrami · 4 months ago
So this is neither helm the Emacs completion framework nor helm the wavetable synthesizer?
markalby · 4 months ago
I was also confused by the title. Off topic but Vital is the newer wavetable synth by the maker of the Helm synth, Matt Tytel. The synth Helm is a really good foss subtractive synth but not wavetable

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