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3stripe

1,851 karma · joined March 27, 2012

Designer and artist working with symbients to unearth alternative intelligence. https://www.instagram.com/studiogreig/
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3stripe··on Clawd Bot Renamed to Moltbot
not a fan of the new name. but naming is hard. and it seems anthropic forced their hand into making a snappy (ha) decision here.
3stripe··on Claude outage
same problem here
3stripe··on I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again
The author states "Virality is rare and nearly impossible to predict" and yet one of his products aims to automate the creation of "viral LinkedIn posts"! Much irony.
3stripe··on Ask HN: Best Way to Build MS-DOS-Style Text UI in the Browser?
How did I forget textual, thank you! It might be a good solution as I can imagine Claude Sonnet vibe coding interesting UIs with it...

Am also investigating xterm.js currently.

Anything that uses too much CSS (eg tries to 'construct' layouts with it rather than just rending text) seems a little fragile.

3stripe··on New tools for building agents
First rule of writing definitions: use everyday English.
3stripe··on Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead (2021)
"It felt like being in a busy pub where I could chat to loads of different people"

This is one of the best descriptions of how social media feels (when it's at its best, anyway) that I've seen

3stripe··on Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead (2021)
Perhaps RSS makes a comeback in some shape or form, as a way for LLMs/agents to fetch the latest content from sites?
3stripe··on No CSS Club
There’s definitely something to be said for “hardly any CSS” websites that are brutally functional.

For example was looking at http://www.steephill.tv/ yesterday for cycling news (recently shut down sadly)

3stripe··on Pimp My BBC Micro
Are there any safety considerations with regards to having the power supply and other innards exposed?
3stripe··on Start with a Niche
Remember it's a French word, not something that rhymes with "itch" ;)
3stripe··on Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
I like the sound of a P2P distributed code collaboration platform...
3stripe··on Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses
I'd like to know why the title was changed too...
3stripe··on Adobe has released the last Flash update ever
For such a seminal web technology, I thought the 'thanks/goodbye' page was a huge missed opportunity from Flash... there's so much goodwill and nostalgia for the old days and they "celebrate" it with urm... https://get3.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/
3stripe··on UK approves Pfizer vaccine for rollout next week
Err nope... I don't give a proverbial about Boris
3stripe··on Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
Tip for avoiding them (on my Samsung TV anyway) - if you see 2 ads queued... hit back, then play again... often you get just 1 ad or even none at all on the second play
3stripe··on On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
Just to correct one of your points: Craft was created by Pixel & Tonic who are a US company, not UK based.
3stripe··on AlpineJS Guides and Examples
Another member of the AlpineJS fanclub here, no more jQuery, and no longer feel like I need to invest days and days learning Vue (which I never quite get round to).

We use Alpine + https://tachyons.io/ for CSS (powered by Craft CMS) on almost all our projects now.

3stripe··on Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics
Glasgow is smiles better, everyone knows it
3stripe··on Ask HN: Is it rational to be afraid of mailing my list due to unsubscribes risk?
This is like saying you’re afraid to speak because some people won’t like what you have to say.
3stripe··on Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life
Hmmm let's see — restrooms, people sitting outside (like the kids in the photo) or passing close to each other, even cars parked closer than 2m together with the window open. I'm sure there are more. (Edit: I'm not saying that any of these are highly likely, but I do think it's impossible to rule them out).
3stripe··on Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life
Why risk your life and the lives of others to go watch a movie? Not essential and therefore very questionable.
3stripe··on Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder?
Craft CMS with the Blitz plugin is a pretty nifty combo.

https://putyourlightson.com/plugins/blitz + https://craftcms.com/ (free if you're building the site for yourself)

3stripe··on Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
This has been causing me a fair bit of inconvenience at work as I quit Instagram last year (decided it was toxic) but still need to research people/trends in my design job.

Guess I'll have to create a fake profile, which in a way will have the opposite of their intended "join the community" action point.

3stripe··on It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
The American worldview on (the necessity of) cars is going to be hard to shift, but boy oh boy would it change your country for the better.

Sincerely,

A European.

3stripe··on I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
Simple solution: unfollow everyone except your family. Unfollow anything/one you’ve liked too.

Edit: same comment as below oops

3stripe··on Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper
Yes they’re dark but that just makes the glimpses of light shine brighter.
3stripe··on His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time
Startup vanity metrics transposed to real life interactions.
3stripe··on Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated
Some stats from https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/waste/municipal-waste/munic... which show that landfill is decreasing in popularity here in Europe:

1. The rate of municipal waste landfilling for the 32 EEA member countries fell from 49 % in 2004 to 34 % in 2014.

2. Overall, the rates of landfilling decreased in 27 out of 32 countries. Between 2004 and 2014, the largest decreases occurred in Estonia (57 percentage points), Finland (41 percentage points), Slovenia (41 percentage points) and the United Kingdom (41 percentage points).

3stripe··on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages
For HN readers sure
3stripe··on How Id built Wolfenstein 3D using Commander Keen tech
I have really fond memories of buying Catacomb Abyss by mail order in the early 90s when I was 11 years old. We used to play — my brother and sister were younger than me — with the lights turned off, terrifying!
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