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xamde··on .name Termination
Also, someone managed to run all this 20 years ago. Has technology gotten so much worse? Is RAM now THAT expensive?
xamde··on Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
And also an amazing page on Béziers https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
xamde··on Markdown Database Pattern
Or just embed structured data in any text file document, not limited to Markdown.

https://ddot.it

Disclaimer: My project

xamde··on The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
This is one a level that would be deemed too absurd for a sci-fi movie. But it's the reality. Putting also words like "climate mitigation" on the list can only imply the list makers are true climate change deniers. Not just "we want to make more money with oil".
xamde··on Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs
Consider to let the user export the graph itself and convert/use it elsewhere.
xamde··on Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs
I think you found a very good prompt/technique to extract mostly the high level stuff without making the diagrams too complicated. And then elk.js seems to do the layout.

Deepwiki.com also has some usable autogenerated architecture diagrams worth a look.

xamde··on Google proposes Open Knowledge Format based on Markdown
Thanks, it is based on an unreleased 50-page complex syntax speec with over 40 different kind of arrows. Luckily, I simplified BEFORE release :-)
xamde··on Google proposes Open Knowledge Format based on Markdown
OKF seems OK, but bound to Markdown. A Markdown document can be turned into an OKF document by adding a 'type' to the frontmatter YAML.

What about a knowledge graph language, which can be stated in Markdown prose, in Markdown code blocks, but also everywhere a text field is waiting for you? In the minimalistic language https://ddot.it you can link outside the Markdown world, to files, URLs or even just labels. Like OKF it's just a format.

Disclaimer: I wrote that (short) spec.

xamde··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I am working on a simplistic syntax for mixing any text with structured knowledge (links, triples, property graph)

Syntax..has name..ddot.it

The spec is ready at https://ddot.it, now working on tool support.

xamde··on Google Releases CodeWiki
Check out deepwiki.com, which is quite similar and works well
xamde··on Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
Looks like org mode for the masses
xamde··on Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
I believe it uses an cross compiled version of dot in js
xamde··on Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context
Reading all these comments, it seems we as a community don't yet have an idea how to write effectively for LLMs. E.g., I guess markdown tables are harder to process, since the row-column-value mapping first needs to be decoded. Or is this irrelevant?
xamde··on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
There will be companies founded on executing this idea.
xamde··on Redditors Trying to Poison Google's AI to Keep Tourists Out of Good Restaurants
I love how you make sure not to mention the city name, so that not too many people will suddenly show up
xamde··on Anatomy of an internet argument
> it all comes down to whether you view the internet as the greek agora or the roman circus.

The best summary I've ever read about the internet

xamde··on Asciidoctor: A fast text processor and publishing toolchain
A shout out to the intellij plugin developer. The Asciidoc plugin has so many nice little Features. E.g. consistent file renames, or paste as screenshot which auto creates a file and embeds it.
xamde··on Kids Should Be Taught to Think Logically
Also, Basic statistical reasoning is required. And some core facts about our physical world. What about an open curriculum listing the most important things in a teachable order?
xamde··on FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)
There is also the base band processor, which is completely locked away from user access. Running a wireless network would be much harder, if users could access it. So I guess freedom and working tech are trade-offs in this case.
xamde··on What if null was an Object in Java?
There is also the "Void" type.

> The {@code Void} class is an uninstantiable placeholder class to hold a reference to the {@code Class} object representing the Java keyword void.

When Java introduced Generics they re-used "Void" type. Method calls need to use "null" when "Void" is the type. So in a way, "type of null" is "Void".

xamde··on Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
Wasm might make that a reality rather soon
xamde··on JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data
From my Analysis, GraphML, although specified in XML, seems to be one of the most widely used exchange formats, especially with the yWorks extensions for yEd.
xamde··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
I am a Netlify Pro customer. I was not aware of this unlimited spending concept. This is simply unacceptable from a risk-perspective.
xamde··on Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)
Unless there is an issue with either the light source or the power source. Muted/unmuted is also a pair where unmuted often does not equal "we can hear you"
xamde··on W3C Invites Implementations of RDF Dataset Canonicalization
> The document is primarily intended for the following audiences:

    Software developers that want to implement an RDF dataset canonicalization algorithm.
    Masochists.

Pick your side.
xamde··on Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts
The IntelliJ AsciiDoc plugin is a little juwel with all bells and whistles, Syntax highlight, Preview, structure view, even refactoring of references. We use it together with Antora.
xamde··on MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
This ist really a succint description: "Sometimes it seems to me that AI people have begun hallucinating as much as the models they’re training."
xamde··on Docs as Code at Linode (2020)
OK, here is a true code approach to generate wiki pages with embedded Mermaid sequence diagramms. https://github.com/Calpano/featdoc Feedback welcome.
xamde··on Support for Nest Secure Ending
As a counterpoint, our even older Chromecast Audio devices keep on trucking just fine.
xamde··on The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee
The ROK is a nice way to make Espresso. Manual pressure. Try it .
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