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sarreph
4,026karma·903submissions·July 21, 2013
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I make software, images (sometimes moving), and music.
Today, my focus is on personalizing the internet at Kenobi.ai (YC W22)
Reach me at my name (Rory) and my company’s domain.
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I convinced myself to hate App Router before even trying it because of all the negative sentiment on HN. After using it in three production-scale projects now, I think it's a great isomorphic JS …
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Yeah, do not disagree with either of those statements.
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Smart move by Mitchell to omit (in his opinion) _why_ you have to feel it, as evidenced by the spread interpretation in the comments. In my opinion, you have to “feel it” in order to do your best work…
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Funny timing. On the weekend I built something that provides screenshots only (no KBAM controls) from Chrome to Claude Code, so that it has visual context on what you're building. Keen to see how…
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Hm. It seems as though the author is misrepresenting their interviewee here, in the title of the article, no less! Shame. Obviously, claiming that "hype" is _the_ product of AI is categorica…
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> He persisted anyway, before finding that Replit could not guarantee to run a unit test without deleting a database, and concluding that the service isn’t ready for prime time – and especially not…
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I agree that contempt arises in both cultures. My point about the UK was more around the phenomenon that the class "obsession" stems from the notion that somebody's class in the UK is o…
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This is a salient observation that I don’t think has been presented bluntly enough by the media or popular culture (such as Mr Bates Vs The Post Office). The UK is class-obsessed, which is not as imme…
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Perhaps contrarian (here anyway) but I think Liquid Glass looks neat, and represents the next evolution of the "backdrop-filter: blur;" effect that we've been seeing on the web a _lot_ …
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Why didn’t they name it os.eu?
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I find that an uncharitable take to assume lack of usefulness. It’s more likely literally what the author says - getting engineers onboard for something they themselves didn’t choose is difficult. I’v…
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> isn’t it pretty easy for things to go wrong if someone forgets? What do you imagine going wrong? In my mind, if I had a digital address code, one of the first things I would do after moving would…
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On your second point - I don’t agree that humans in general will plateau. I think instead the _gap_ between humans who crave to create and learn, and those who are ostensibly potatoes, will be magnifi…
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I’m pretty sure by the time we decode what they’re saying it’ll be “so long, and thanks for all the fish”
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> Probably people have felt this way throughout all of history but this time seems different. In my 30s and I make a habit of asking people in the generations above me if they felt the same when th…
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> Although a significant portion of packages still use CJS, the trend clearly shows a good shift towards ESM. Does it? The chart being used in the opening argument is far from compelling. When I ho…
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This kinda reminds me of Funklet[0] that Jack Stratton (Vulfpeck) + Rob Stenson made a long time ago... A true gem if you're into funk + like midi drums. [0] - https://goodhertz.com…
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The UK train system is a dire, expensive mess. Attempting to avoid getting directly political here, but I strongly believe it’s one of the lowest hanging fruit a political party could act on to curry …
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Nice initiative. Unfortunately, words alone don't carry much weight these days: > [...] hereby affirms our intent to [...] A pledge like that is like a promise — it can be broken with no con…
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That is not absolute pitch - it’s pitch memory, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonal_memory I too have experienced the same phenomenon of being able to recall a particular …
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If the later trials succeed and this gets turned into a commercially-viable product, the amount of money this will generate is going to be nuts.
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I have had production differences show up that were not present or even reproducible in test mode on a major e-commerce platform payment system.