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samcgraw··on A Trampoline
Reminds me think of this youth, bouncing on one[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampoline

samcgraw··on Public Domain Image Archive
This is just the kind of thing I love about the open internet: the insane amount of art available in archives, (e.g. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en, the Met, etc).

Adding this to the list for one of my side projects[0].

[0] https://flaneur.ink

samcgraw··on Stop Ruining It
Aha, once you start seeing via negativa[0] you’ll likely see it everywhere.

[0] https://www.wealest.com/articles/via-negativa (or Antifragile)

samcgraw··on The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map
Those interested may find Dominion[0] an excellent read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Christian-Revolution-Remade-...

samcgraw··on The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects
So cool!

It recently dawned on me how we have a staggering amount of art available in these archives (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en, the Met, etc). It's truly staggering. Can't wait to use these images for my side project[0].

[0] https://flaneur.ink

samcgraw··on Show HN: Fieldnotes
Appreciate it :)

At its heart, this was borne out of a desire to fashion technology to help integrate us, enabling a tiny bit more proximity and place amongst our fellows, rather than "uproot" it (as we can all too easily disintegrate, and treat ourselves as purely online beings in incorporeal cyberspace).

Think "Small Is Beautiful" (or really anything by Wendell Berry).

samcgraw··on Show HN: Fieldnotes
Done! https://fieldnote.ink/about

Appreciate you looking & for the candid feedback-- this is a rough "first draft".

samcgraw··on Show HN: Fieldnotes
Apologies for the confusion-- just added a short "about" section: https://fieldnote.ink/about.

I appreciate you taking a look and for your feedback!

samcgraw··on Show HN: Fieldnotes
You can now! Just added-- this is a very rough first cut :)

Thank you taking a look and for dropping feedback!

samcgraw··on Flaneur; A handful of beautiful things
Oh I didn't realize-- sorry about that!
samcgraw··on Flaneur; A handful of beautiful things
Hi HN!

I've come to think that in the future, the bottlenecks in the development lifecycle will mostly be related to the decisions of Product. In other words, if nearly everything is cloneable by Claude, CRUD is no longer a moat.

So: in the "efficient cloning market" hypothesis, everything able to be eaten by mimesis, who pushes the limits of "craft and beauty"?

Therefore, I've been wanting to grow in my sense of taste: having a palate for beautiful things and letting more of my life be characterized by their presence.

To that end, I built Flâneur; it's a simple site / newsletter that delivers a handful of beautiful things from museum archives across the world. It's very simple, but I found it to be a delight to work on and use.

Do have a look and send me your thoughts. Cheers! sm

samcgraw··on OpenAI is building a social network?
I'm sorry to say this exists: https://socialai.co
samcgraw··on 1-800-ChatGPT
You, yes, you, can still do anything at https://zombo.com.
samcgraw··on Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani's Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855)
Have been going through The Divine Comedy this year as a part of https://100daysofdante.com, cannot recommend enough!
samcgraw··on The world of Dante's Divine Comedy
Have been going through The Divine Comedy this year as a part of https://100daysofdante.com, cannot recommend enough!
samcgraw··on Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
One of my first memories is of my dad showing me how Oscar the Grouch was in his Mac trash can, and sang, “I love trash!” when he put something in there. Haven’t thought of that in many years, but it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.
samcgraw··on Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
Congrats Tiptap folks!

I was just playing around with Tiptap last week and build a (very dumb) AI rephrasing app here: https://authored.co. Took a bit to get used to the ProseMirror API, but was a fun experience!

samcgraw··on On the State of the Web
> You can still set up your tiny quiet corner on the web, do your own things, and connect slowly with other people

This is exactly what I've been after with my side projects. Thanks for the encouragement to continue even when things are slow-going, makes me remember it's a feature not a bug.

samcgraw··on Science fiction inspired by an HN thread (5 min read)
Awesome read! You should write on Storylocks :)
samcgraw··on Confirming the exact location of the invention of the web (2010)
Lovely article. As an aside (and I'll say this until I'm blue in the face), it always jars me when a site hijacks default browser scrolling functionality.
samcgraw··on The enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books
This is awesome! I had a similar thought with my own site I got started on at the beginning of Covid: Storylocks [https://storylocks.com]. It has nowhere near the level of intricacy that your site has it seems, but really cool to see other folks experiment in a similar way!
samcgraw··on The enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books
Ha! Two fiction-based posts on HN in two days? Love to see it :)

Shameless plug, but: I've been working on a site that was inspired by CYOA (although not exactly the same): Storylocks.com [https://www.storylocks.com/]. It's a simple way for multiple people to write stories together. Fiction writers unite!

samcgraw··on Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
Neat! I don't see many fiction-based apps on HN and I love it when I do :)

Shameless plug, but: I've been working on a site with similar aims (although not exactly the same): Storylocks.com [https://www.storylocks.com/]. It's not exactly IF, but a simple way for multiple people to write stories together. Fiction writers unite!

samcgraw··on Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?
> I fear my house will be filled with unread books before long.

Umberto Eco[1] would call that a success :)

[1] http://gregorianstorage.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-justify-...

samcgraw··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
> The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time.

This is spot on in my experience.

As I grow in my career as a software engineer, it's funny how much more often I notice that the things that set one apart in the field is a level-headed understanding of the fundamentals and a calm resolve to take into consideration what's worked in the past, much more than one's ability to "chase the shiny".

Honorable mention of the Lindy Effect [1] here - one of my favorite ideas from Antifragile [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect [2] https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...

samcgraw··on Show HN: I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible
Ironically this page is experiencing HN's hug of death and 502ing - so still working as expected?
samcgraw··on The Greedy Doctor Problem
Very interesting read!

I suppose another such solution, for a patient with a given medical condition X, is to have a very large pool of doctors and see if any of them have condition X (with similar age, background, etc).

Then one could compare how treatment varies when doctors treat themselves with the same issue.

"Physician, heal thyself."

samcgraw··on GitHub Advisory Database now powers NPM audit
Dan Abramov has an interesting take on npm audit (https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design).

Scanning through the vulns on GitHub Advisory Database, it looks like it still contains many that DA brought up as unhelpful at best (e.g. “Regular Expression Denial of Service”).

samcgraw··on Stripe Payment Links
Hey there Patrick, congrats on this launch and Stripe's success thus far.

As to your reflections, I'm wondering how Stripe ingests these various emerging patterns around the world (especially as you expand to unfamiliar territory) and prioritize bringing them into your products?

IOW: if N trends at various stages of the adoption cycle are happening 7K miles away, how do you think about placing different bets on each, especially when the cultural moments may be wildly different than, as yet, Stripe understands?

Cheers! SM

samcgraw··on Common Crawl
Love to see this.

As an aside, it always jars me when a site hijacks default browser scrolling functionality. In my experience, making it as fast as possible is a _far_ better use of dev resources than figuring out how to make scrolling unique (no matter what the marketing department says).

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