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prezjordan

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https://jordanscales.com

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prezjordan··on Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion
Looks good! Did you build your own text editor? The markup doesn't look familiar. (Would recommend grabbing one off-the-shelf that handles cross-paragraph selections and concurrent edits, will save you a world of pain)
prezjordan··on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
I just loaded Hacker News after a WaniKani session.

Any recs for moving this into Anki? I already use Anki for cards I created while going through Genki with my tutor, and world capitals.

prezjordan··on Plain Vanilla Web
As a framework-enjoyer, I'm finding this helpful to leaf through just to learn about modern web platform tech.
prezjordan··on Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
I should probably 1.0 it and call it a day, it's pretty much done. In the back of my mind I've thought of making the markup more amenable to LLMs like Sonnet (maybe with tailwind style utility classes)
prezjordan··on Understanding-j: An introduction to the J programming language that gets to the
To the author: you can add a .devcontainer directory with a Dockerfile, allowing folks to try this in their browser with GitHub Codespaces

Shameless plug, feel free to copy my setup! https://github.com/jdan/try-j

prezjordan··on Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
> In my experience, a fundamental part of spaced repetition's efficacy is in creating the flashcards yourself.

+1 to this, have found the same when going through the Genki Japanese-language textbook.

I'm assuming you're finding your workflow is just a little too annoying with Anki? I haven't yet strayed from it, but may check out your Obsidian setup.

prezjordan··on Collatz's Ant
Potentially useful to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture#As_a_parity...
prezjordan··on Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development
You're leaving out the most important bit of a component like InlineStack: the props [0]. Yes you can just apply `display: flex` to the div you're working on, but like any proper abstraction these guardrails make using flexbox correctly the easiest path forward (the "pit of a success").

[0]: https://github.com/Shopify/polaris/blob/eb6161f6b4e02679b5e8...

prezjordan··on Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy
Strangely enough the analogies that scale earth's orbit to ~centimeters and nearby stars to ~kilometers actually makes me think we're not that far from other stars! Once you scale it back up and start thinking about travel times measured in ~generations I'm humbled again.
prezjordan··on SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
Thank you :) A real labor of love [0] for me.

[0]: https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

prezjordan··on Open Heart Protocol
TIL Intl.Segmenter[0]. The ECMAScript standard library never ceases to amaze me.

[0]: https://github.com/dddddddddzzzz/api-oh/blob/312d490641c7ec7...

prezjordan··on 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
Phenomenal work
prezjordan··on 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
> also the dropdown menu, when opened, looks very different than the original 98 style

Sadly this is the dropdown provided by the host operating system. The tell is that it can extend beyond the browser chrome! 98.css doesn't ship with any JS, and I thought about hacking it with checkboxes and :after but.... no thanks.

prezjordan··on 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
Author here – happy to see this posted again!

This was my burnout recovery project and I wrote some thoughts on it recently https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

prezjordan··on Factor 0.100 Now Available
Had no idea it was in active development! I spent a weekend with Factor about two years ago and it was enlightening.
prezjordan··on Lapis: A Web Framework for Lua
I find Lua so dang pleasing to look at
prezjordan··on Ask HN: Fast/cheap epaper badge for real time speech to text with deaf friends?
No experience building exactly what you're describing, but the Adafruit MagTag may work for you https://www.adafruit.com/product/4800.

I've only done so much as display text on it (json response from a server). Unsure how difficult it would be to connect a microphone input to it.

prezjordan··on Krazam OS
Dan doesn't use 98.css (krazam does!). You can tell by the 45 degree angles on the button borders.
prezjordan··on A Combinatory Rosetta Stone
It includes J and K. One more than the Rosetta Stone!
prezjordan··on Tacit programming
I can't seem to figure out what you mean by inverse. Is the inversion of addition subtraction? Neither post seems to explain what it is (or maybe it assumes knowledge of ⊥ and ⊤?)
prezjordan··on Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle
Surprised how much I enjoyed this. Great work! If you made a mobile app with, say, 40 puzzles I could easily see myself throwing 5 bucks your way. Perfect subway game.
prezjordan··on Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1109

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (ChatGPT helped with the search)

prezjordan··on Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
Every time I sit down to write a toy language I get stuck on two conveniences: syntax highlighting and auto-formatting. I feel like they're table stakes for a programming language in 2024, but they're _just_ annoying enough that I lose interest. Any tips?
prezjordan··on Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video]
Your LinkedIn is the most impressive thing I've ever seen. Love the bit from Apple:

> I developed an electronic mail gateway for the Macintosh, featuring scriptability in a FORTH-based language.

(Also How to Lie with Statistics is my favorite book!)

prezjordan··on Is it fair to say "ls" is dead? No commits in 15 years
Sorry! https://twitter.com/jdan/status/1669144699595022338?s=46&t=P...
prezjordan··on A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp
Might be of use! https://quantum.country/
prezjordan··on Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?
Only one that reliably auto-fills and saves generated passwords for me.
prezjordan··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
This is a lie. We got a glimpse into how accounts like LibsOfTikTok regularly set off alarms only to get tags such as "Do not ban. Ask first."

The only thing selective and explicit was the information Musk allowed bought-and-paid-for "journalists" to access.

prezjordan··on Ask HN: Taking 6-12 months off work?
Did 12 months between jobs, 2020-2021. Highly recommend if you can. At the start of it I didn't think I'd ever want to be a programmer again. About 6 months of rest later I was good to go, but eased into it.
prezjordan··on What the hell is Forth? (2019)
Thank you for linking this! Went down a 2-hour rabbit hole and it's really scratching some sort of itch.
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