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Hi,

I'm Josh.

https://josh.ink

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ink··on The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
I wish this wasn’t true, but I live in the Mission and yeah, still not great
ink··on Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
TIL! Thank you
ink··on Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
On a Mac, it's alt-dash in case you weren't being facetious
ink··on A bike lane moved, and this San Francisco neighborhood erupted
Just curious, are you saying wealthy people _don't_ live in the city and those neighborhoods? Specifically around Valencia?
ink··on Hlava Franze Kafky (Franz Kafka's Head)
It's actually kind of hidden behind a shopping center. It's not on a main walkway, but it is right down town.
ink··on Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming
Boy this really doesn’t help SF’s image. Glad they’re okay, though. As a local, and like the article mentions, I feel embarrassed and somehow responsible for stuff like this. It’s so sad to me that they came here with an open mind to see what SF is really like and this happens.
ink··on Remove TypeScript
Fair enough if you have another way that works!
ink··on Remove TypeScript
I think dropping Typescript the way they did was silly, but you are absolutely correct that they should be able to do so, even if it’s unpopular.
ink··on Remove TypeScript
Do you have multiple people collaborating with you? If I’m writing code that only I need to understand then yes, typescript may be overkill (though I prefer types even then), but working on any meaningful codebase without types is… challenging. Types aren’t that hard are they?
ink··on Remove TypeScript
Well that’s certainly a hot take. I’d say TypeScript is the best thing to happen to JS, but that’s just my opinion. It’s not perfect, but it makes working on a large codebase tolerable. To each their own.
ink··on Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]
I believe you can do this in Python
ink··on Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision [video]
This has been my experience as well.
ink··on Swift Regrets
Honestly, I can't get my head around how anyone could prefer Objc over Swift. I suppose it's just years of writing Objc and not wanting the change?

Like Swift is not a perfect language and Apple's developer docs lack useful examples a lot of times, but Objective-C has to be the least approachable language in all of app development.

ink··on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
Wow... I forgot how much better reddit on desktop used to be.
ink··on As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
While your first statement is correct, you may want to acknowledge that "faith" in ideas can be seen as a continuum from completely subjective to mostly objective. For instance: believing in QAnon conspiracies isn't the same as believing in, say, climate change. Yes, both require your definition of "faith", but the former requires you to suspend your belief in reality while the latter is congruent with your observations of reality.
ink··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
I agree with you, but I also don't know what else these companies should do. What happened on Jan 6th was coordinated on a lot of these platforms (including Parler).

It seems like the answer to all these types of issues comes down to education at some point. Not that we all need to learn the same point of view, but that we should learn how to think critically. The people who took part in the insurrection on the capital honestly believe a lot of falsehoods propagated on networks like Parlor, FB, Twitter. They aren't all acting in bad faith.

Seems like these networks/platforms have been forced to take the actions they did because people – all of us to some degree or another – choose what we want to believe, wether there's any evidence or not.

ink··on Pinterest Has Reportedly Filed for an IPO
Seems like "term -site:pinterest.com" works.
ink··on Home Demo at Google VC's (Kevin Rose) House on Potrero Hill
Give us the 3 billion we deserve...
ink··on IE10 on Windows 7 available in November
The comments are classic.
ink··on Instagram Web Interface
I agree with both points. The only gotcha with liking the photo before drilling into it, has to do with the fact the their API returns a truncated result of all the likes on the media when using any endpoint other than /media/{id)/likes.

The reason that's a problem, is that there's no way for me to know for sure if you already liked something or not. I could A) Assume most people are only clicking on the heart to like something and not to unlike something they already liked, or B) Make a request to /media/{id}/likes for every image on the page. Given the two, I think it'd be safe to assume they just want to like something.

Leaving a comment should be pretty simple ;)

ink··on Instagram Web Interface
Unfortunately, Instagram hasn't released an API for accessing the news feed. Apparently they're making quite a bit of changes to it before they release it. I agree, though. That would be awesome!
ink··on Instagram Web Interface
I'd like to gather some feedback for http://instagram.joshink.com. It was built for the fun of it, but it's been gaining quite a bit of traction and I'd like to hear from the people using it:

what do you like, hate or want to see added?

I'm planning on rolling it out its own domain and I would like to add the top features requested here.