agrafix
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Building Stripe Billing during the day, supportpage.io at night.
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Comment · 4 years ago
you can type check this in static languages too if the type system supports structural typing [0]
Comment · 4 years ago
This is really cool, the missing functionality that I haven't added to https://supportpage.io/ yet :p
Comment · 4 years ago
Usually I’ve seen it defined as that the intended effect happens at most once. e.g. see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Idempotent
Comment · 5 years ago
I wrote something similar a while ago https://github.com/agrafix/grabcite — I was surprised how far you could get with just heuristics. The nice thing is that many academic papers are also available with their LaTeX source which avoids a lot of the structure guessing from PDFs.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hmm did they release their April 1 joke too early by mistake?
Comment · 5 years ago
Shameless plug: I’ve built https://board.new to help with ad-hoc collaborative whiteboarding. One thing I’ve found using more sophisticated tools was that folks spent too much time making it look nice vs discussing the content. Hence this tool that doesn’t distract with that.
That said, mermaid looks pretty nice —- going to try that out for my design documents once settled on an approach.
Comment · 6 years ago
That’s cool — I’ve built something similar in the past: https://github.com/typed-wire/typed-wire
Comment · 6 years ago
Shameless plug: we built https://board.new with “hold shift to draw” which makes drawing with a mouse much easier.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's certainly related -- not sure what kinds if specialisation the new ruby JIT does.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think it's possible, mostly didn't go down that route to keep things as simple as possible at first.