I joined 3 seed->Series A startups where I didn't know one of the cofounders. I would never recommend it. Only join early startups if you have worked with at least one of the cofounders before.
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stonecharioteer commented on Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team annas-archive.org/blog/an... · Posted by u/jerheinze
Please remain up. Libgen no longer works. I've used IRC for fiction and non-fiction but tech books needs Anna's Archive and Libgen. I buy the physical with company budget to pay the author but I need DRM free ebooks to read comfortably on my Tab S9 Ultra.
stonecharioteer commented on I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024) buttondown.com/hillelwayn... · Posted by u/shlomo_z
I was on that hill too.
For years I used Sphinx and Furo to render my blog, which you can still access at https://old.stonecharioteer.com
I like the framework, but it ended up being too in the way. I am not an RST maintainer. I want to blog and get my thoughts out in the world.
I split my website to use different subdomains, and most of the posts in that old blog are now in https://tech.stonecharioteer.com which is on Hugo now. I used Claude to fix some Css annoyances with the Paper mod theme, and to migrate not only the posts from that old blog but also from the Jekyll blog that predates it.
I'm happy with the blog now, it's so out of my way that I can write without trying to figure out how to make Hugo do something like Sphinx-style admonitions. Claude is great for that. What else is there to complain about?
stonecharioteer commented on One-Handed Keyboard github.com/htx-studio/One... · Posted by u/cyberlimerence
Oh wow. I'd love one of these lol.
I wonder when all of them will adopt AGENT.md and stop using gemini.md/claude.md/crush.md/summary.md/qwen.md
https://agent.md [redirect -> https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md] https://agent-rules.org
Symlinks $AGENT.md to AGENT.md in your repo.
Thank you very much for your thought-provoking comments.
I actually sympathize with you very much.
As you say, there is a non-zero chance that this app will contribute to a lack of concentration, but I cannot dismiss the possibility that the opposite will happen.
In my case, I have often found myself wanting the crutch of LLM due to lack of prerequisite knowledge when reading technical or philosophical books.
Also, I am an Asian whose English is not that good, and there are times when I have to read a book in its original language because there is no translation in my native language.
This application was created on an experimental basis to remove these panes, and the chat function with LLM is only one function. It should be used at the appropriate time depending on the user's use case.
I don't agree with the OP, AI assisted reading is the future, especially when you're trying to read a tome like War and Peace and don't know all the Napoleonic references or thst the Russian aristocracy spoke French and tried to emulate the French, or why that matters a lot to the plot and your perception of them.
Good job, OP. I wanted to build this myself.
Do you have plans for android and iOS support and syncing across devices?
stonecharioteer commented on Show HN: goforgo – Rustlings but for Learning Go github.com/stonechariotee... · Posted by u/stonecharioteer
I have been trying to relearn go, and I thought about how I relearn Rust this past year and how much Rustlings helped me. I wanted something similar, and I wasn't happy with what I could find. Exercism came close to being what I want but it's too tied to the web app, I cannot download all the exercises at once and then work without switching to my browser.
Goforgo is what I needed. I had a lot of fun figuring out how to design the application, and how to generate the exercises by reigning in Claude Code.
I'll be working through the exercises myself, and I'll be updating them as I go along.
I also stretched thus beyond what Rustlings tries to do and included exercises for k8s, Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Cobra, Bubbletea, Elastic Search and Mux. The testing system is designing to spin up whatever services a particular exercise needs and not just test STDIO. I now feel I want the same thing for Typescript and Elixir.
If anyone tries it out, feedback is most welcome at the github issues.
stonecharioteer commented on Show HN: Read the RFCs That Built the Internet tech.stonecharioteer.com/... · Posted by u/stonecharioteer
I was working on a pre internet protocol stack in the early 1980s. It was called the "coloured book protocols" because each application and layer had a different colour spine. Email was "grey book mail" and in truth it was substantively the same as what we all know as rfc822 format. Sent over x.25, store and forward mechanisms up at application layer.
Obviously we looked at other protocol stacks. Like IP.
A colleague said to me one day "how can they call it 'simple mail transfer protocol' when it's a quarter inch thick pile of fanfold paper" pointing at the 132 column line printer printout on my desk of SMTP.. (which in turn was rfc821 at the time)
Oh wow.
I wonder how many of these stories are lost to time.