poetril

Joined 8 years ago

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Member since
Nov 15
climber, hacker, maker of questionably useful things
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Comment · 1 month ago
After far too many hours using react, Svelte has become my favorite frontend framework. I’m seeing a lot of comments about how it stacks up in the LLM age. Prior to Opus 4.6-8 (and that era of model releases) they often struggled to get Svelte 4/5 code straight and mixed it up quite a bit.

But having used it A LOT this year for personal projects, large work initiatives, and one-off web tools. I’m happy to say all the modern llms seem to do just fine with it. They even handle the experimental features, like remote functions, very well. It’s mostly preference but I find reading Svelte code much more pleasant than React/Vue.

Comment · 2 months ago
I understand that making a game engine is often at odds with actually making a game, but does anyone know of good literature on building one from scratch? Ideally something like crafting interpreters but for an engine. It’s been on my list for quite a while.
Comment · 2 months ago
I’m a very active climber, and record a lot of my climbs. I think at a glance there are two things that would make me hesitant to start using this. Firstly, my gym rotates sets weekly and re-recording each wall each week seems repetitive. Secondly and more importantly, I’m not sure how valuable information this would be. Maybe for outdoor problems, or system boards? It’s inarguably really cool, but I’m not sure how I’d actually incorporate into my sessions.
Comment · 3 months ago
I feel like half of what I do on HN is talk about Kagi. I switch to Kagi in 2023, and haven't looked back. Between vim keybinds for navigating search, explicit AI opt-in, the ability to curate search (block sites, increase others), and more. It really lets me feel like I can control my search tool, and at least so far its felt like our interests are aligned, I give them money and they make sure search is as good as possible for me.
Comment · 3 months ago
I've tried a handful of smartwatches, and own a Pebble 2 Duo. While I'm interested in picking up a newer Pebble device (hopefully with a bit nicer build quality), I've found my sweetspot to be a Garmin. I bought a Forerunner 165, have never needed to pair it to my phone so I can be happy in the data privacy department. Additionally the battery life is fantastic and it gives me all the data I need for my health and fitness goals.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is completely unusable on mobile.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Kagi has been one of my all time favorite products. It has enriched my search experience drastically. One of my favorite features I don't see talked about enough is the keybindings. Using vim keys for navigating search results is such a fantastic user experience, and much like normal vim I'm not sure I could go back to navigating search any other way. I also really appreciate their AI quick-search feature is explicitly opt in and trigger by adding a "?" to the end of search. Their selection of widgets is also quite nice and I find my self reaching for them quite a bit.
Comment · 6 months ago
I'll second climbing gyms. My entire core group of friends in my city (that weren't already friends prior to my moving here) are people I met from the climbing gym or yoga classes at the climbing gym.

Its a great space to meet new people, there are inherent breaks in the activity, shared problems to work on, and its a non-competitive space. Everyone just wants everyone else to send hard.

Comment · 6 months ago
I quite like Zed, I've consistently driven it for months at a time. But there are two things that add enough friction that over that month or so I end up bailing back to one of my other editors (vscode/neovim). The search experience being a new tab with no sidebar option and the diff viewer being a multibuffer view with no option to see the entire contents of a file you are diffing.

That being said, I love the software and will continue to check back on it with the hopes that it sticks one day. Congrats on the 1.0!!

Comment · 6 months ago
I’ve got nearly 10 months left on my yearly subscription, I wonder what that means for my access.
Comment · 8 months ago
I grew up playing the games, and still have my copy of Yellow and Red. I fell of the wagon somewhere around Gen VI, the games just got to easy. It became clear to me that Gamefreak was just throwing in the towel and gave up making interesting games.

That being said, recently I started getting into the world of Romhacks and they have sparked new joy in me. The games are hard, fun, and have a lot of love poured into them. I'm going through Radical Red right now, and its been an incredible time.

Comment · 11 months ago
I went down the same path last week, and found Zigbook to be a very poor resource for learning. +1 for ziglings, that's been my favorite so far
Comment · 11 months ago
How does bun compare? Does it have similar features as well?
Comment · 1 year ago
That's been my attitude as well. I'm not convinced they'll stay cheaper for long, and when I say "cheaper" its marginal. Cost of the ride is the similar, but it seems there is no tip built into the price yet.

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