hecticjeff | 11 months ago | on: GPT-4.1 in the API
o4-mini, not to be confused with 4o-mini
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hecticjeff | 1 year ago | on: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
I don’t think this goes far enough. Kids see adverts for this stuff in so many other places, TV is just one small step. Take a kid into a supermarket and there’s junk food advertised everywhere.
hecticjeff | 3 years ago | on: Electrical stimulation can boost brain's willingness to engage in mental effort
Maybe this is why Apple still hasn’t properly grounded it’s MacBooks, that light buzz you get is a brain boost!
hecticjeff | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots
Sounds a lot like Simon Willison's open source project shot-scraper
hecticjeff | 11 years ago | on: Web scraping with Ruby
I agree that mechanize is an excellent scraping solution, but for something really basic like this where we're not clicking links or submitting forms it seemed like a bit of an overkill :)
hecticjeff | 11 years ago | on: Web scraping with Ruby
You can redirect the output of the script to a json file, so in this case something like:
$ ruby scraper.rb > showings.json
hecticjeff | 14 years ago | on: Write Unix manpages in Markdown with md2man
For gem man pages I recommend checking out http://defunkt.io/gem-man/
hecticjeff | 14 years ago | on: Shoreman - foreman(1) in shell
Annotated source code is available at http://hecticjeff.github.com/shoreman/
hecticjeff | 15 years ago | on: Instant 8-bit alpha PNG converter
Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/thingsinjars/8bitalpha
hecticjeff | 15 years ago | on: Test Driven Development Lifecycle
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've noticed this as well, there aren't enough articles that give a heuristic view of testing as a whole process.
Hopefully I'll get time to write "part 2" of this article soon, with a walk-though of testing the whole stack.
hecticjeff | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?
http://thechangelog.com/ is a great blog to follow for interesting GitHub projects, it also powers parts of the "Explore GitHub" page that @mojombo mentioned.
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