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2mm mechanical pencils are more versatile that way, but also generally heavier, unless it's something like a Faber-Castell TK9400 or Kitaboshi Otona no Enpitsu.

Comment · 2 months ago

I use pencil/paper extensively for notes/planning while I'm in front of the computer. I prefer softer grades because of speed and low effort. I avoided buying the Blackwing for a long time because of the hype surrounding it, but eventually caved in. Their Blackwing Matte is an excellent pencil, similar to the others I like - Musgrave News 600, General's Layout 555, Golden Sword, Eyeball Cedar Calligraphy, Mitsubishi Kohitsu Shosha, and those Triangle pencils sold at Daiso.

I'm not sure where the Blackwings are made. Definitely not the Kitaboshi factory. Probably Eyeball in Tokyo?

Comment · 1 year ago

it depends on the codebase.

if there's adequate test coverage, and the tests emit informative failures, coding agents can be used as constraint-solvers to iterate and make changes, provided you stage your prompts properly, much like staging PRs.

claude code is really good at this.

Comment · 3 years ago

Agreed. Vrioon is my favorite -an exceptional album. The frequency range on those compositions is insane. Needs subs to truly appreciate it.

Comment · 3 years ago

Nitro has no events or callbacks. To display a page, you call a function, and the return value of the function is a tuple of inputs entered by the user. You then deal with those inputs, and display another page, and so on. There’s no ceremony. Like the readme shows, a seven page app is just seven statements one after the other. This paradigm makes it possible to write incredibly compact code.

As an example, here is a macOS calculator clone in ~50 lines of Python: https://twitter.com/crunchingdata/status/1563300652918325249...

Comment · 3 years ago

Looks similar to Nitro https://nitro.h2o.ai/ and Wave https://wave.h2o.ai/ - both open source. Nitro already works with WebAssembly via Pyodide. (Author here)

Comment · 4 years ago

Phonetic number systems like this are commonly used by memory athletes, like the Major System[1]

The usable range can be expanded further using color, smell, taste, and so on.

https://artofmemory.com/wiki/Major_System/

Comment · 4 years ago

I love this!

I've achieved something very similar, but for Python[1].

I believe this approach will become the dominant paradigm in the future, precisely because of what of what you can't see - no API and no client/server separation - eliminates a whole bunch of accidental complexity.

My first startup a decade ago used a similar approach to build a exploratory visual analytics environment - lisps rock at this.

It's neat that Hyperfiddle subsumes data access, too. I have a similar compiler-driven approach that will ship later this year for desktop/mobile apps.

[1] https://github.com/h2oai/nitro

Comment · 4 years ago

I understand that, but it's not much of an abstraction:

  const
   pyodide = await loadPyodide(),
   input = document.getElementById('#input').textContent,
   output = await pyodide.runPythonAsync(input);
  document.getElementById('#output').textContent = output;

I can see there are other tags (py-env, etc.) that provide some yaml to fetch additional assets, but again, nothing significant that warrants the hype.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Comment · 4 years ago

Does PyScript offer anything of significance over and above what Pyodide already offers, other than several py-* tags?

In my experience, it's trivial accomplish this with Pyodide.

Here's a web worker that hosts Pyodide and loads packages, PyPI wheels, external modules, etc. and launches type=text/python script tags in-browser:

https://github.com/h2oai/nitro/blob/main/web/public/nitride....

About ~100 lines of code.

Comment · 4 years ago

I also contribute to Wave[2], which provides a wide variety of widgets that can be snapped together quickly to build realtime dashboards/apps.

Both help non-front-end folks build web apps, and require no knowledge of HTML/JS/CSS.

[1] https://github.com/h2oai/nitro

[2] https://github.com/h2oai/wave