jumpalongjim

I recognise your point entirely and I will have to take it onboard for the future of my business. Please do, however, make good use of the website which is completely free, private, needs no signup, a…

Right. Mermaid syntax for basic flowcharting is straightforward. But it's even easier to get your AI to produce Mermaid, which they do very readily. May I suggest you try the Line9 CLI, which let…

Delighted that you saw improvements.

Thanks, very kind offer. When people paid real money for this, were they paying to make diagrams look good, or for convenient source-editing and rendering in the page? Line9 is built around the first …

Ok, I've investigated Confluence some more. Publishing a diagram from Line9 Pro gives you a stable URL that serves a pre-rendered SVG and which updates when you modify the Mermaid. This can easil…

I'd separate Mermaid the language from the tooling around it. The language has real strengths, like Markdown for diagrams, and not least in being ubiquitous so that both humans and AIs can use it…

Oh dear, sorry that didn't work out well for you. If you’re pasting flowcharts that don’t work then I really want to try to address them. Can you say what happened? Nothing rendered at all, or so…

Thanks. I haven't yet got to looking into Confluence. I used to use a Confluence plugin for Lucid charts and I guess something like that for Line9 would be useful if it gets much traction. I don&…

Mermaid does indeed provide alternative layout engines. Please do try ELK before Line9. My experience is 1) hand-tuning the layout of Mermaid, having to try alternative engines or parameters, is not w…

Neither, really — it's closer to hand-rolled local search. My first three phases are based on Sugiyama to produce a seed layout (which is broadly what Dagre does). Then I've added my new pha…

Recipe websites are about the worst in packing adverts and junk around their recipes, so this is brilliant. But I think you're having difficulty in listing available recipes from the search, some…

I like this. I have manually operated blinds and the automated kits were expensive, but not more than about £60 each from memory. Anyway I've occasionally thought of doing something like this. I …

There are no barriers to creating software. There are no barriers to copying software. But there are still moats around some software businesses: non-technical which AI does not directly impact. Nonet…

This might be useful for my son! But he has Android, not iOS. Is Android on the way?

This is a well-presented website and looks like a good set of features. I always thought of creating one of these for myself, but I don't think it's a very easy market to make money in. Good…

What would a new social media platform offer that existing ones don't? Important to me: my time and the value I get from spending it. To move off X to a new platform the signal-to-noise ratio wou…

It's increasingly common to have fascinating discussions with LLMs, and they do come out with some good insight. (It would be nice if they could vary the ubiquitous stock terminology, such as &#x…

My goto approach would be to ask an AI to investigate. They can get a surprisingly long way in troubleshooting networking, doing web research, etc. and will even decompile Claude Code to work out what…

No, certainly not necessary in all cases. It's a marketing approach: companies want to find an edge and a way to indicate they're progressing and leading, so they find a way to attach AI to …

I no longer write code. In fact I develop in languages I'm not very familiar with. I use Claude Code, Grok Build and Pi as AI coding agents. I use Linear for issue / task management. I use G…

I'd suggest MCP agent mail https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail I haven't tried it on a raspberry pi at all, but I have used it on my PC and Mac and it e…

Whether or not your analysis is correct (I'd say not), the root problem is Chinese manufacturing dominance and unfair competitive advantage when it comes to EVs. It saddens me to say it, but the …

Agree! But there are almost none on the roads in Europe so must have been costly for Honda. Price was too high.

I love the Honda E and it's not mentioned in the article for some reason. However it must certainly have been a costly flop; they are so rare on the roads in the UK,

Often suggested by optimistic podcast guests these days: the as-yet-unknown new careers that will replace the familiar old ones and thus give employment in the AI era. I think your story is more a com…

Claude not playing, so resorted to watching television with my wife. Turned out well, actually - history of Henry II and Thomas Beckett :)

I've enjoyed SW engineering always. It started as a hobby and I'm fortunate to do what I enjoy as a profession. Do I still enjoy it? I find the rise of AI mesmerising. It's delightful t…