Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?
Readit Newsmicw commented on FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font arcade.pirillo.com/fontcr... · Posted by u/rendx
micw commented on Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees github.com/gritzko/librdx... · Posted by u/strogonoff
> why does it make more sense to use asts here
For one, it eliminates a class of merge conflict that arises strictly from text formatting.
I always liked the idea of storing code in abstraction, especially editors supported edit-time formatting. I enjoy working on other people's code, but I don't think anybody likes the tedium of complying with style guides, especially ones that are enforced at the SCM level, which adds friction to creating even local, temporary revisions. This kind of thing would obviate that. That's why I also appreciate strict and deterministic systems like rustfmt. Unison goes a little further, which is neat but I think they're struggling getting adoption because of that, even though I'm pretty sure they've got some better tooling for working outside the whole ecosystem. These decoupled tools are probably a good way to go.
I was messing around with a file-less paradigm that would present a source tree in arbitrary ways, like just showing a individual functions, so you have the things you're working on co-located rather than switching between files. Kind of like the old VB IDE.
An AST based conflict resolver could eliminate the same kind of merge conflicts on a text based RCS
micw commented on A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines grith.ai/blog/clinejectio... · Posted by u/edf13
Full system access? Do people run npm install as root?
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micw commented on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? github.com/mandel-macaque... · Posted by u/mandel_x
LLMs frequently hallucinate and go off on wild goose chases. It's admittedly gotten a lot better, but it still happens.
From that perspective alone the session would be important meta information that could be used to determine the rationale of a commit - right from the intent (prompt) to what the harness (Claude code etc) made of it. So there is more value in keeping it even in your second scenario
I try to use AI incremental and verify each result. If it goes mad, I just revert and start over. It's a bit slower but ensures consistency and correctness and it's still a huge improvement over doing everything manually.
micw commented on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? github.com/mandel-macaque... · Posted by u/mandel_x
IMO it depends a bit, but in most cases: No!
If you do proper software development (planing, spec, task breakdown, test case spec, implementation, unit test, acceptance test, ...) implementation is just a single step and the generated artifact is the source code. And that's what needs to be checked in. All the other artifacts are usually stored elsewhere.
If you do spec and planing with AI, you should also commit the outcome and maybe also the prompt and session (like a meeting note on a spec meeting). But it's a different artifact then.
But if you skip all the steps and put your idea directly to an coding agent in the hope that the result is a final, tested and production ready software, you should absolutely commit the whole chat session (or at least make the AI create a summary of it).
micw commented on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model blog.google/innovation-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
NB Pro can do some seriously impressive edits around interior decorating - see the prompt that replaces the window with a mirror which correctly reflects the room. It's not perfect, but it's still damn impressive.
I'm deeply impressed, especially with the "replace window by mirror". It did not only do the window thing right, it also changed the illumination of the whole room while keeping all the other details unchanged.
I also want ceiling sockets :(
https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/LampSockets1.html
Amazing, that's a thing I want to import.
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