daretorant
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Comment · 11 months ago
Random but this is a very well written line:
> It's been great for them so far, but if there's an AI winter, Oracle will be the first to freeze.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Well said.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ah! The plot thickens. The Fables of La Fontaine are well known, but I hadn’t heard of Montaigne before. Apparently there is a link!
First there is this: https://www.jstor.org/stable/458505 “Montaigne as a Source of La Fontaine's Fable: La Mort et le Mourant” It notes major similarity and possible link between Montaigne’s philosophical essay and Fontaine’s fable.
But even more interesting is this: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1659-essays-michel-de... It’s two books—essays of Montaigne side by side with illustrated (by Hooghe) fables of Fontaine. Not a single book as you described, but interesting to see that there is clearly some connection between the two!
Comment · 4 years ago
Fascinating! Perhaps the woodcut illustrations of Mantegna, a renaissance Italian painter?
I did not find a book of fables of Mantegna’s illustrations, but I did find a painting of a fable (The Boy and the Filberts). It is possibly credited to Aesop, but not confirmed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Filberts
Also worth nothing: During the same period and area, another artist named Verona illustrated a book of Aesop’s fables: “It was also in Verona that the first illustrated edition of the fables of Aesop was published in 1479 (21.4.3), with woodcuts designed by Liberale da Verona, one of the city’s leading painters.” (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wifb/hd_wifb.htm)
Do you recall any of the stories or characters in the book you read? Or anything about the book that left an impact on you?
Comment · 4 years ago
This looks awesome. I do all my writing (creative writing, outlining, todos) in Bear and really love it. But this app seems like it would make outlining more fun and intuitive. Def gonna try it!
Great to see fresh, innovate apps like this that prioritize fast native experience.
Comment · 4 years ago
Nice! Give it a shot, you never know what might come of it :) I had been writing nonfiction essays when one day a story idea came and I shared it, got some good feedback, then just kept going with it.
They are not easy to write, but the key to the fable is the lesson, so I’m sure if you took one or two you wanted to share you could turn them into a story. Either way, you have some fun with it!
And thanks, I’m approaching the “last mile” with the book after many months of editing (working w an editor). I’m illustrating them too. If you like you can follow along via my newsletter, I share updates there: https://salman.io/newsletter
Comment · 4 years ago
Fables.
For the past year or so I’ve been writing a book of fables. I originally began the effort inspired by the book The Little Prince. Over time, I’ve begun reading book after book of fables. I love finding different ones—from the classics like Aesop to Buddhist koans, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Arabian fables.
The format is just so fun and I think the philosophical lessons can be really powerful. I think of it as different parts of different societies trying to gift us with wisdom…all we have to do is open a little book and give it a look!
That said, many of the books I’m reading are old and out of print, so alongside writing my own I want to share the best fables I find. I have a regular newsletter where I write about creativity, drawing, writing… and once I’m done the book I want to share fables through it.
Comment · 4 years ago
I recently did some optimizations on my personal website to make the images load “lazily.” In other words it only loads stuff once it hits the viewport. I think that’s what you’re looking for. I tried two techniques:
1. There is an HTML attribute to do just this and it seems to work for iframes too: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Laz...
2. There is a simple library called “lazy sizes” (https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes)
I tried to avoid the lib and use the native HTML… but for whatever reason the lib worked more reliably/effectively in manual tests as well as in my benchmarking via PageSpeed / Lighthouse. YMMV!
Comment · 4 years ago
Woah! I was gonna play with Astro for a new site test, but I wanted the prefetch fast-nav that I’ve seen in NextJS and Gatsby. This looks like exactly what I want to make Astro so the trick! Thanks for sharing
Comment · 4 years ago
Nice! I have a Hugo site I’ve tweaked over the years, and my workflow is similar to yours. I create/edit an MD file, then run a shell command which pushes changes to Github, which triggers a redeploy.
How do you handle images? That’s my main annoyance / biggest hurdle when publishing. I have to take each image, resize it for web, put it in static folder, and reference that pathname in the MD file. Not a big deal, but would love an easier way. I suppose I could write a simple shell script that does all of the resizing and prints out a path back for me to use.
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