swidi | 6 months ago | on: Ghost kitchens are dying
So you can talk shit with zero consequences? How wonderful for you, and how terrible for everyone around you.
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swidi | 2 years ago
As someone who actually writes haiku, I hate the "write a haiku" ChatGPT example as it produces these stilted, lifeless eighth grade poems that people nevertheless copy-paste into their work.
swidi | 3 years ago | on: New insights into why aspirin works so well
Yes, and everybody here thinks you're a brave little boy. Have a lollipop.
swidi | 3 years ago | on: Why am I not terrified of AI?
schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb
swidi | 3 years ago | on: Why am I not terrified of AI?
Why is it that in the gutter of every HN post there's some schlorby shlub desperately trying to seem cool?
swidi | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Would you want to buy direct, fractional ownership of a solar farm?
Hell no. I can smell the scam from here.
swidi | 3 years ago | on: Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus
Those dozen different services are servers, that you chose from.
swidi | 3 years ago | on: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform
I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go.
These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.
swidi | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Sonse, a note-taking CLI for plaintext enthusiasts
True, but (a) it's a fun project, and (b) I wanted something just for my notes, so I can add note-specific commands and generally treat my notes directory as a database I can use Sonse to work with.
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: A note-taking CLI for zipfile enthusiasts
Thanks, I'll figure out some screenshots. The list command would display all notes, but maybe I could add some kind of pagination feature. If you have specific ideas, consider adding them to the tracker! [1]
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM running a server?
I prefer Mercurial, and as a hobbyist I can afford to stay with it. I know Git has GitHub and all the connectivity of that, but I just truly dislike Git.
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM running a server?
This is my exact method. Render Markdown into HTML, rsync up to the Caddy server.
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM running a server?
Free services never truly are, and I don't want to build something on a foundation I don't pay for. Corporate generosity always runs out eventually.
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM running a server?
How are any of these simpler than "Get VM, install server, rsync files"? Why is the solution always "sign up for a proprietary service that might not exist next year and rig up a bunch of fragile webhooks"?
Also, I don't use Git or Github.
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Share your personal site
I blog about Avatar The Last Airbender, using a (very simple) custom static site generator:
[1] Site: https://rattlerake.com
[2] Code: https://hg.sr.ht/~rattlerake/rattlerake
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: wst.rocks, an ultra-minimalist JSON hosting service
It's actually one GET per second, ten POSTs per hour.
swidi | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: wst.rocks, an ultra-minimalist JSON hosting service
Thanks!
swidi | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Posce, a note-taking toolkit for your command-line
Can you give me a concrete example? I'd like to implement this capability, but I'm not sure what you're asking.
swidi | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Posce, a note-taking toolkit for your command-line
This isn't one note, it's dozens at least. I wanted a centralised way to organise them, and I wanted to try making something myself. Working on all these files by hand would be tedious and error-prone.
swidi | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Posce, a note-taking toolkit for your command-line
I'm a Windows user, which means dotfiles are even uglier for me. For an app that just needs two tiny variables, environs are the much cleaner solution.
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