tqwhite · HackerTrans

il y a 9 joursdiscuss

In a related idea...

https://jslightning.com

Sort of a PHP-like, folder based web serving tool that executes Javascript. Very quick and fluid.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

At least, pay them for the inferior intelligence until Donald Trump says you can.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

Donald Trump cares about it and frequently uses our government to abuse people he does not like, to carry out grudges and vendettas.

There is no doubt in my mind that he is personally pissed because Anthropic stood up to him.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

Just use a Macintosh. You can simply tell it to be fn keys instead.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

So, you do without. Easy Peasy.

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If, like me, you specifically do not want third parties inside the Apple ecosystem, Apple has done a great job. I totally hate the EU's insistence of tearing down Apple's walled garden. That is a huge reason I like their products so much.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

AS we all have complained, Apple has been working on Apple Intelligence for, roughly speaking, forever. Their private compute cloud thing and the protocols that protect it have, I bet, been in place for years. That's what you are missing.

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The EU isn't asking for more privacy. This is about interoperability and competition. They don't like Apple controlling the AI interface and want a portal. They want Apple to put a backdoor into their system to allow third parties to access the data. This is insanely difficult to do while maintaining Apple's super-strict (yay!) privacy policy.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Another upgrade. Now the skill knows to create a containing folder with index.html if none exists and then to link any new docs to it.

Now I have a favorite in my bookmark bar for each project I am working on that shows me the docs.

I'm so happy.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

By "planning", I actually meant "thought of one time". So, I did it.

The endpoint verifies that the destination specified by the POST is in my project folder. If it points at an existing file, it creates a version. It does not overwrite.

I added a CLI, watchFile, that blocks Claude until the file shows up.

And made a skill that tells Claude to respond nicely to "Make an interactive document that...".

Claude Code has basically made software functionality, "Your wishes come true".

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

This makes me think of a thing I have been planning to do. Maybe one of you will do it and tell me some cool refinements.

I run a web server on my Mac. Consequently, I have an HTTP process available. I keep intending to make an endpoint that Claude can use. I would tell it to make a document for commenting (or put a list of options or whatever) and post it to, I guess, the planning folder we are working in. The endpoint would know how to do this because I wrote it.

When it gets there, I would, I wanted to keep it, tell Claude to integrate the results into the file as static HTML. Or, if I don't care about that, just read it and do whatever I said and leave it disconnected.. The goal isn't to make a website.

This supports interactive conversations with Claude via HTML.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I can edit html. Also, I don't bother with html editing. If it's a doc that needs editing, I just tell Claude to format it for ease of editing and then I just go through and type whatever crap I want to say. Then I ask Claude to clean it up.

BUT, I only do this as an easy way of referencing specific ideas and text in notes to instruct Claude. I say, "I have added notes. Read them and adjust the doc accordingly." Or, "Read the notes I added. Turn them into html."

It's an insanely productive pattern.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

YES YES YES and MORE YES

Generating markdown is faster so unlike our friend here, I still do use it for straightforward things.

BUT, in general, I tell Claude, "I think we should starting a project planning folder for this. Put (the stuff we just talked about) into an html doc. while you're at it, make an index.html and put relative link to the page with a little explanation of what we are up to."

Or, just yesterday Claude and I worked out the design for a substantial AI enabled database tool. I had it make an explanatory doc for my team. It was a single html file that navigated through forty scenes that demonstrated it. MAGIC.

If you aren't doing your collaboration with Claude in html, listen to this guy. Your life and work will be better.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

"in practice"? Disrespectful, of course, but also not true.

In practice, most designers know what they are doing as well as you know your job. If yours doesn't, you hired a quack.

Here. Try this, in practice, most business owners don't know what they are doing. In practice, most programmers write shit. It's easy to bitch at artists because most people don't understand what they do. Don't be one of those people.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

I don't see it as a misstep at all. The purpose of StackOVerflow is to share expertise.

I am 100% supportive of it being used for training... AI, you, everyone.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Tough call giving up a good job. Admiration.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Don't have it do things for you. Have it do things with you.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

I have had things like your React instead of Vue problem. I solved it by always having Claude write a full implementation spec/plan in markdown which I give to a fresh context Claude to implement. Typically, I have comments and make it revise until I am happy.

It has basically eliminated surprises like that.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Back then, also around May, I had Claude 3.old destroy a working app. Those were sad old days.

Hasn't happened in a long time. Opus 4.6 is a miracle improvement.

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

An advantage I have enjoyed is that I am insanely careful about my fundamental architecture and I have a project scaffold that works correctly.

It has examples of all the parts of a web app written, over many years, to be my own ideal structure. When the LLM era arrived, I added a ton of comments explaining what, why and how.

It turns out to serves as a sort of seed crystal for decent code. Though, if I do not remind it to mimic that architecture, it sometimes doesn't and that's very weird.

Still, that's a tip I suggest. Give it examples of good code that are commented to explain why its good.