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5cott0on Perception: A back-port of Observable

As both a D3 enthusiast and an iOS dev I find this comment oddly compelling. In fact I have always felt SwiftUI to be reminiscent of D3 given they are both declarative frameworks — I always think about d3-selection every time I am chaining modifiers in a SwiftUI view.

I usually disambiguate the Observable website by referring to it as "ObservableHQ", also I thought they were more focused on the relatively new framework Plot than d3 but I agree trying to translate d3 examples from ObservabelHQ cells to plain ol javascript is a severe PITA.

5cott0on The Inner Ring (1944)

when a so-called flat-org/holacracy company says “you don’t have a boss” what they actually mean is you have an indeterminate # of bosses you just don’t who they are yet

5cott0on Show HN: Skatespot is the only app that lets you track your runs

Apple Watch already has a skateboarding workout that includes motion, HR, & location why would I use this instead?

5cott0on Ask HN: Who is doing the most interesting work in data analysis/viz today?

https://observablehq.com/

5cott0on How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like

"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." - Raylan Givens

"If you're gonna keep talkin I'm gonna put you in the trunk" - also Raylan Givens

5cott0on Let's Write a Malloc (2014)

this blog desperately needs a “let’s write some css” post

5cott0on Ask HN: Examples of clean design in personal blogs / digital portfolios?

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

5cott0on Ask HN: What will it realistically take to create an iOS app?

Do you mean besides the $99/year Apple Dev membership + a Mac?

Other than that the hardest part is convincing AppStore review that whatever you build and submit is useful/interesting enough to be published. There are a ton of little gotchas that don’t always get flagged in app review but can surprise you, no mention of “TestFlight” or Android allowed anywhere including screenshots.

Not difficult but something I always find tedious is all the marketing material required for the App Store, screenshots, icons, & copy. There are tools to automate asset workflows (fastlane snapshot + figma templates, etc) & generative ai is good enough at generating icons & marketing copy.

5cott0on The Pixel 8 Pro's Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud

On-device is already possible on mobile?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tarot-raven/id1539747669

5cott0on Peter Thiel was an FBI informant

he didn't say he didn't poop on the floor he said he didn't poop on the 7th floor

5cott0on Peter Thiel was an FBI informant

Almost forgot about Charles Johnson

>Deadspin floated an old college rumor that Johnson had once defecated on a dormitory floor at Claremont. When Johnson tweeted on Friday that he’s considering a run for Congress, the first reply suggested his campaign slogan could be “Outing rape victims and pooping on the floor since 2014. Vote for me.” Of course, I had to ask him about the allegations. “For the record, I did not shit on the seventh floor, but I wish I did,” he told me.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/charles-chuck-j...

5cott0on Frasier Fantasy

Who is actually credited with writing the Cheers pilot?

5cott0on Frasier Fantasy

Burrows wasn’t the writer, the Charles bros were.

5cott0on Frasier Fantasy

The only original thing in the Cheers pilot was Ted Danson’s wig.

5cott0on Frasier Fantasy

Not mentioned in that article but Part Street Under even had the mailman & the psychiatrist!

5cott0on Frasier Fantasy

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2016/03/25/where-everybody-...

Fun fact (or conspiracy), Cheers and by extension the character of Frasier Crane were plagiarized from a late 70s local Boston sitcom called Park Street Under.

5cott0on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

On-device LLM tarot card readings + AR

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tarot-raven/id1539747669?platf...

5cott0on Ask HN: How do you design a logo for your app?

Stable Diffusion XL

5cott0on Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness

The Mahayana (Tiantai school) version: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34460022

5cott0on Ask HN: How much to believe Glassdoor and Blind reviews of a company?

Look for trends, take with a grain of salt. In my experience if you see a clear trend of similar red flags in negative reviews then it's probably at least somewhat accurate.

5cott0on Tao Te Ching

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)

5cott0on Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS Apps

The over-proliferation of xplatform framework complexity has come full circle and now it’s easier and more productive to just ship SwiftUI & Jetpack Compose

5cott0on Cisco Acquires Splunk

apropos of nothing splunk is the most user hostile UI I have ever had the extreme displeasure of being forced to use

5cott0on When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)

It is a fun exercise to think of all the interesting ways the 2nd order effects of these feedback hacks can be weaponized in office politicks.

5cott0on The new science of meditation

Keep whipping that cart!

5cott0on The new science of meditation

Huairang asked [Mazu], "Why are you sitting in meditation?" [Mazu] replied, "Because I want to become a Buddha." Thereupon Hauirang took a brick and started to polish it in front of [Mazu]'s hermitage. [Mazu] asked him, "Why are you polishing that brick?" Huairang replied, "Because I want to make a mirror." [Mazu] asked, "How can you make a mirror by polishing a brick?" Huairang said, "If I cannot make a mirror by polishing a brick, how can you become a Buddha by sitting in meditation?" [Mazu] asked, "Then what shall I do?" Huairang asked, "When an ox-carriage stops moving, do you hit the carriage or the ox?" [Mazu] had no reply. Huairang continued, "Are you practicing to sit in meditation, or practicing to sit like a Buddha? As to sitting in meditation, meditation is neither sitting nor lying. As to sitting like a Buddha, the Buddha has no fixed form. In the non-abiding Dharma, one should neither grasp nor reject. If you try to sit like a Buddha, you are just killing the Buddha. If you attach to the form of sitting, you will never realize the principle." Upon hearing this [Mazu] felt as if he had tasted ghee.

5cott0on I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

parsing JSON in Flutter seems like A LOT

https://codewithandrea.com/articles/parse-json-dart/

5cott0on Show HN: PC Builder AI

great if you want to price pc parts for 2021

5cott0on Show HN: Tarot Arcana—AI tarot card readings

I've actually never had a tarot reading and only know about it from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pictorial_Key_to_the_Tarot

Waite's descriptions strikes me as densely arcane and potent sounding symbolism that can be used suggestively to try and provoke some kind of experience or insight in the querent. That's my take.

5cott0on Show HN: Tarot Arcana—AI tarot card readings

My own personal convenience so I don't have to maintain a third party api subscription and the user's privacy–maybe someone wants to ask it a personal question that they don't want transmitted to a 3rd party, used to train other llms, etc.