bikeshaving
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Comment · 1 day ago
Windows has a builtin keyboard shortcut to open LinkedIn. This is just how they do things.
Comment · 5 days ago
None of the “decompiled” projects you’re alluding are legitimately open-source. Just because you turn the gaze of your plagiarism machine onto strictly licensed software doesn’t mean the result is a “clean room” implementation or even something that you yourself could copyright.
Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 2 months ago
If you care about web standards, please for the love of god do not participate in this challenge. “WebMCP” is an extension to the `document` global under `document.modelContext`. The `document` object exists to represent the visual and structural node tree of an application. The `modelContext` extension is essentially an API gateway, and this proposal staples a global RPC registry with structured JSON payloads onto the DOM. It ignores the standard Request/Response API, and it does all of its work on the main thread. It forces developers into manual state-synchronization hell just to maintain a facade for a screen-scraping LLM, meeting them halfway so increasingly capable bots can “book flights on your website.” The API makes no considerations for API versioning, so any WebMCP tools you write are carved in stone.
I have no idea who at Google is advocating for this, but it’s a half-baked idea that goes against 20 years of web standard work. At least put this under the `window` or `navigator` global, goddamn.
Comment · 2 months ago
TermDOM: A terminal renderer which used real DOM nodes, so you can write TUIs like web apps with HTML, CSS, and whatever framework you want. I didn’t really write this, more like spent intense weeks of effort where I product manage (yell at) Claude and did visual testing.
Comment · 3 months ago
As someone who does not know what k4, qSQL, or q are, reading through the landing page of this website was giving me mild schizophrenia. And then I tried to search for these things in the old way, and received incredibly dry technical sites that still don’t tell me what it is, and all these names are wildly SEO unfriendly. So I had Claude give me context and it’s apparently the database Wall Street uses for tick data. Sounds cool but, jeez.
Comment · 4 months ago
My favorite example of liminalism is Everything Empty Always Alone, a man on YouTube in his 40s who claims to be a time traveler and films himself walking and driving around empty metropolitan areas. He claims he’s recording from some sort of alternate universe, but it’s likely he’s just at these locations at odd hours. In any case, it’s fun outsider art. Or maybe it’s all true you never know.
Comment · 5 months ago
I’ve tried to create the minimalist version of this with Revise.js. The main surface area is a custom element called a `<content-area>`. The OverType library you linked to uses a time-old technique where you essentially put a duplicate copy of the content over a `<textarea>` to highlight it but this doesn’t really work in mobile and it messes with the selection. I’ve tried to grapple with `contenteditable` directly with my solution, but it does try to use less JavaScript and it does try to be more minimal.
https://github.com/bikeshaving/revise https://revise.js.org https://revise.js.org/blog/introducing-revise/
Comment · 7 months ago
Manual refresh(). This is something Crank does, and other frameworks like the new Remix one is picking it up as well. Being explicit has its advantages.
Comment · 7 months ago
I’ve written about how Svelte, Vue, and Solid are all reactive and share common pitfalls due to their reactive solutions. My theory is that they all cause worse bugs than they prevent.