zephraph

Joined 10 years ago

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Software engineer. Formerly Oxide, Artsy. Interested in making technology more humane and beneficial to society. Co-host of the devtools.fm podcast.

Reach out to me at [email protected]

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Comment · 20 days ago
Where are you based? There's a lot of legal tech in NYC (I work at one such place).
Comment · 24 days ago
I absolutely love this and hope it takes off. I've worked on several products with embedded terminals and reliably understanding when they were waiting for human input was such a pain.
Comment · 5 months ago
here, here.
Comment · 11 months ago
The SVG adder is art. Love it.
Comment · 1 year ago
So excited for this. I talked to the ERSC folks last year about joining but it was a little early for me. Still incredibly excited about what they're building and glad to see one of my favorite people joining the effort.

Steve, if you come to NYC hit me up!

Comment · 1 year ago
Pretty cool! While I was at Recurse I took a stab at building a library like webview client mentioned in the post. https://github.com/zephraph/webview. Deno was my first target. I really enjoy deno's tooling overall, it's nice to be able to just import a server script as a URL and limit its permissions.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm really bullish on mise as a tool. It's quickly become one of my goto tools when starting a new project. Being able to have one config file to manage tools (node, python, rust, go, etc) as well as a simple makefile replacement makes it incredibly convenient. I pretty much always setup a `postinstall` hook so all someone has to do is `mise install` one of my projects and they'll get all the correct tool versions as well as having dependencies installed (like running `npm install`) automatically.

I feel it's significantly more practical than something like nix which feels like it has a steep learning curve.

Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, yeah, this is a fun idea. I built a little toy llm-tdd loop as a Saturday morning side project a little while back: https://github.com/zephraph/llm-tdd.

This doesn't actually work out that well in practice though because the implementations the llm tended to generate were highly specific to pass the tests. There were several times it would cheat and just return hard coded strings that matched the expects of the tests. I'm sure better prompt engineering could help, but it was a fairly funny outcome.

Something I've found more valuable is generating the tests themselves. Obviously you don't wholesale rely on what's generated. Tests can have a certain activation energy just to figure out how to set up correctly (especially if you're in a new project). Having an LLM take a first pass at it and then ensuring it's well structured and testing important codepaths instead of implementation details makes it a lot faster to write tests.

Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, cool, that’s essentially what I’m doing too. Rust binary does the system interactions. I’m just using a pretty simple json RPC over stdio though.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is awesome! I built a similar tool as an experiment while at Recurse: https://github.com/zephraph/webview. Didn’t really do any heavy lifting though, just reused some of Tauri’s crates. Does Bun run on the same process as the GUI binding? OSX steals the main thread when rendering a native window which made me lean towards separating the processes. Still wonder if there’s a better way.
Comment · 2 years ago
The calendar is available in the sidebar (on desktop) which I tend to use quite often. On mobile if you swipe down it should hide the keyboard and you can switch to the calendar while keeping your draft open on the email tab.

I generally agree that the workflow could be improved though.

Comment · 2 years ago
The RFD site is open source: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/rfd-site. Only some RFDs are public though (I used to work at Oxide)
Comment · 2 years ago
Ha, mine too! 2014
Comment · 2 years ago
I've been wondering the same! Haven't really had the time to dig into stable content addressing (and I assume the loose semantics of something like JavaScript would make that exceedingly hard).

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