jazzido | 1 year ago | on: Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions
I built an extension for internal company use, using WXT. Fantastic dev experience, great docs, comprehensive examples. Exactly what a framework should do.
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jazzido | 2 years ago | on: A Coder in Courierland (2005)
Haven't thought of Kuro5hin for years. Man, the memories. What a great site.
jazzido | 2 years ago | on: A hyper-fast local vector database for use with LLM Agents
`def derridaean_similarity`
Instant classic.
jazzido | 3 years ago | on: Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
Scratch is part of the same lineage [0]. Seymour Papert (creator of Logo) was one of the doctoral advisors of Mitch Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that maintains Scratch.
[0] https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/histor...
jazzido | 3 years ago | on: Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
Reads exactly like an Onion article.
jazzido | 4 years ago | on: Alan Kay: A Conversation with CMU Faculty and Students (2007) [video]
I would add "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik.
jazzido | 4 years ago | on: Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997
Listening to phone calls was trivial back then (early to mid 90s).
Pretty much only rich people owned cellphones where I lived, and my unlocked Kenwood TH-78E handheld transceiver gave me access to their world :)
jazzido | 4 years ago | on: A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
I love Camo. Any ETA for the Android version?
jazzido | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
tabula-java [0], a library for extracting tables from PDF files. It started as a monolithic webapp written in JRuby, and we later extracted the table detection and segmentation logic into a Java library.
jazzido | 5 years ago | on: RIP Google Reader
Paraphrasing from a tweet that I saw a while ago: "You don't miss Google Reader. You miss your life as it was when you used Google Reader. You miss being young".
jazzido | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV
Hey, Tabula maintainer here. tabula-java only works with "vector" PDFs. That is, tables drawn with vector lines, squiggles and glyphs.
Integrating an OCR library is something we always wanted to do.
jazzido | 5 years ago | on: Webmention.io
IIRC, the first incarnation of this was proposed and implemented around 2002 by Six Apart. It was called "trackback".
jazzido | 5 years ago | on: Quitting Twitter
I could've written your same comment. As a (current) smoker, my experience of having quit twitter is exactly the same.
I recently blogged about that [1]. It's in spanish, but Google translate does an acceptable job with it.
[1] https://blog.jazzido.com/uncategorized/2021/02/12/mejore-su-...
jazzido | 6 years ago | on: AudioGridder – DSP servers using general purpose networks and computers
Reaper DAW comes bundled with Reamote, which has a similar scope
jazzido | 6 years ago | on: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
Author here.
1) No. 2) No. 3) Zero.
jazzido | 6 years ago | on: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
Not really. They import tabula_py, which is a Python wrapper around tabula-java (the library of which I'm a maintainer).
Still, I would have loved at least a heads up from the team that sells Tabula Pro. I know they're not required to do so, but hey, they're kinda piggybacking on Tabula's "reputation".
jazzido | 6 years ago | on: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
Hi, author and maintainer of Tabula (https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula). We've been trying to contact you about the "Tabula Pro" version that you are offering.
Feel free to reachme at manuel at jazzido dot com
jazzido | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?
I use Zapier (free plan) to post to the Facebook page associated to my side project.
I tried to do that through FB's Graph API and failed miserably. Too much red tape
jazzido | 6 years ago | on: Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data
There's also https://datachile.io, a sister site built by the same team
jazzido | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text while keeping the layout
Hi there. We try to make a tool that's as simple to use as possible (given the constraints of a volunteer-run project such as Tabula). What technical background do you think is required to use it? (disclaimer: I'm the main author of Tabula)
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