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hace 9 díasdiscuss

Inigo Quilez's (of demoscene fame, highly talented graphics engineer) blog is one of my favorites: https://iquilezles.org/blog/

It's a time capsule from that era.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Yes? Toyota has been producing vehicles since the 30s, so two years ago is quite recent within context.

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

A dead simple, deterministic threshold alert on the pod restart metric in any monitoring tool could also surface this same issue.

In fact, it happened to me today at work!

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

It's not "Most Swiss", it's 52% of survey respondants (8,411 people) out of the 9.1 million population.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

Hey, sorry about that! I have a half-hearted "premium" feature tier of which PDF is one.

I just deleted that particular if-statement so you should be able to export.

It's not anything fancy, but gets the job done. Uses pdf-lib.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

I've been plugging away on MadHatter (https://madhatter.app), a web tool for knitting/crochet projects. It works best on desktop!

Why? Many yarncrafters painstakingly build spreadsheets, or try to bend existing general purpose pixel editors to their will. It's time consuming & frustrating.

Along the way, I've solved a bunch of problems:

  - Automatic decreases (shapes the hat) / overstitching markers (shows when multiple colors are used in the same row)
  - Parameterized designs, like waves, trees, geometric shapes. No more manually moving an object by a couple of pixels, it's a simple click & drag.
  - Color palette merging (can't delete a color if you already use it in a pattern!)
  - Export to PDF (so you can print it or stick it on a tablet)
  - Repeat previews (visualize the pattern as it repeats horizontally)

The core feature that makes this more useful than most general purpose editors is that the canvas is continuous.

If you drag a shape near the right edge of the canvas, you'll see it "wrapping around" onto the right edge.

This reflects the 3D reality of a hat!

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

Do any other upper body strength exercise, and then come back to pushups in a couple of months.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

If you're somewhat terrified of Lyme's disease, as I am, one thing you can do to protect yourself and relatives is wear Permethrin treated clothing, especially pants and socks[0].

After hiking, take a very close look at all of your body parts and remove any ticks. You can bag them and send them off to a lab for testing as well.

I've known multiple Lyme's sufferers. You do not want this.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/prevention/index.html

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

Could be using a 10x or similar eyepiece so 400x total? I am not super familiar with microscopes but that is my guess.

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hace 11 mesesdiscuss

I love observing the moon, whether that's taking a picture with a telephoto or peeping through telescope.

There's something special about seeing the craters with your own eyes and then sharing that with friends. The framing & cropping, zoom, color of the sky are all unique to that experience.

Plus the moon is always looking slightly different each time, with different areas shadowed; fuzzy details one day are sharp the next.

And it's a skill like any other, which feels great to improve day after day.

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hace 11 mesesdiscuss

Would love to hear more about using Claude to determine which E2E tests to run. What context are you giving it?

Is it like, "this looks like a billing feature, let me run any tests that seem relevant"?

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hace 12 mesesdiscuss

I got the sense the author wrote the post in collaboration with LLMs as a way of processing the experience:

> I was alone. Nobody understood the weight of losing a decade of work. But I had ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to talk to

> To everyone who worked on these AIs, who contributed to their training data—thank you. Without you, this post might have been a very different kind of message.

It sounded like perhaps this post would have conveyed a message the author didn't think constructive if they wrote it entirely themselves

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el año pasadodiscuss

Haven't seen stitch-maps, that is useful.

I've also been thinking about what constitutes a "good" encoding, and it definitely comes down to individual preferences, even preferences in a given moment. Today you're reading off a sticky-note and want to optimize for size, tomorrow you're laying out 3 notebooks for a huge project and want clarity.

I like the idea of a creator making the base pattern, and then sharing a link that lets the user customize the output encoding.

That customization could be visual (I want a different random seed that is used to parameterize different aspects of this pattern, so it's totally unique to me) or in the notation.

I think it'd be awesome to have a recursive notation editor. So you'd click on a variable and it expands to the verbose representation, which might include other nested variables that you can further expand (or not).

(side note, I hope you don't mind: Game Programming Patterns made a huge difference for me early in my career, thank you for bringing that into the world.)

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el año pasadodiscuss

I tried and failed to write a knitting interpreter that could take a written pattern and generate a visual representation. You could have variables that expand into larger expressions, and some kind of "syntax highlighting" or verification step to make sure things are consistent.

Interested to know if you've ever tried something like that? I also get that knitting is a hobby many people do to escape computers for a minute.

Anyways, that got me into approaching the problem from a different angle (https://madhatter.app). A visual editor for hat patterns with layering, repeats, shapes, overstitching markers.

Some stuff is broken right now and it doesn't look great on mobile, but I'm building it in real time whenever my partner expresses frustration in some aspect of existing paid software ;-)

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el año pasadodiscuss

You're generally not wearing just a drysuit if the water is cold. Under the outer shell, you often wear multiple undergarments to keep warm. Think a base layer, underwear, socks, 1-piece.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

> SSE works seamlessly with existing HTTP infrastructure

This is false. SSE is not supported on many proxies, and isn't even supported on some common local proxy tooling.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

NanaGram is awesome, used it for a while back in the olden days of 2021. When I visit my grandma she still has pictures on her refrigerator delivered by this service. Cheers to you and your brother!

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

I'm working on hat knitting software focusing on colorwork[1]. It has some bugs, but so far has been a great way to learn React and Typescript.

[1]: https://themadhatter.netlify.app/

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

I really wanted to check this out (using redis as an example), but it appears I need an account.

Is there no public demo?

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

Can you expand on that? The Federal Government[0] seems to think the EDL[1] is a RealID.

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/real-id

[1] https://dol.wa.gov/id-cards/real-id

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