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45,954karma·5,134submissions·April 22, 2015
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https://taylor.town
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https://scrapscript.org
https://blogs.hn
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meet.hn/city/33.7506310,-117.8722311/Orange-County
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This is incredible feedback! Thank you for taking the time to write it out. My best friend gave me much of the same advice before I published the page, but I became too impatient. I've bookmarked…
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My latest iteration uses a bootstrapped compiler written in scrapscript :) The bootstrapper was written in Elm, because its parsing combinator library is by far the nicest to use. I wrote a rust boots…
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My next step is to release an airtight spec and roadmap to all the people that are interested in contributing. I'm receiving a ton of emails from devs who want to contribute but don't have e…
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I'm currently planning non-semantic versioning (next versions just increment by 1), but I'm open to changing if I can figure out how to make semver efficient. I mention it here[1], but secur…
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This is a great observation. By default, using a name like `janedoe91/fibonacci` pulls the latest version of that particular scrap from the scrapyard. But all of its references are baked-in unles…
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I'm still not sure about the exact license yet, but everything will definitely be free and open :)
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Wow, that's a great guide! I didn't read it in-depth yet, but I think I had a previous implementation that worked very similarly to theirs. The problem with variable names is that they actua…
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Yeah, I'm hoping to put out a more readable guide soon! I didn't have the time/energy to put much of the necessary explanations and groundwork in there. For this specific example, many …
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The font is Fira Code for anybody interested!
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Wow, you totally get my vision! This is pretty much my plan for the next few years, with some added surprises :) I really want to rekindle the days of geocities and flash. I call this "the cheap …
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This is one great question I've wrestled with over the years. Right now, all three programs would result in a different hash. I decided that the scrapyard publication process should do as little …
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Author here! It will be open sourced soon, but I’m embarrassed about my messy code :) Email me at hello@taylor.town if you’re interested in joining the team
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What product do you use? Is it toothpaste or mouthwash?
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Here's a userscript to block any arbitrary keywords: [1] https://gist.github.com/surprisetalk/462789361723211fcda71e1... …
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On iOS, there's a shortcuts app that enables you to automate things. I have a shortcut for the following: Receive Any input from Share Sheet, Quick Actions
If there's no input Ask Fo…
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I've been working on an essay about this topic! In short, my advice is to "make incompressible memories". Your brain collapses similar experiences into each other. Frequently change ev…
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I come up with 2-10 ideas a day. Most are not good. How I come up with lots of ideas: - I consume a lot of high-quality inputs from different fields (reading, podcasts, etc). If it's not difficul…
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Come to my tiny tech conference in Southern California! It's a celebration of outlandish ideas in software :) https://outland.sh …
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Bad commit messages feel like git's original sin: fixed
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• Confederacy of Dunces : An indescribable rube-goldberg story about a "neckbeard" and his mother in New Orleans. • Solaris : A novella that reads as a Lovecraftian space horror. • The S…
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Warren Buffet is credited with developing a clever system: 1. write down 25 goals 2. circle the top 5 items 3. the remaining 20 goals are your “avoid-at-all-costs list” --- I'm currently starting…
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Practicing musical instruments. I can still enjoy making music, but I've decided that I'm never going to be great at guitar or violin or piano. In a broader sense, I think letting go of drea…
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It's an AI company (unrelated to LLM or stable diffusion). I'm currently keeping the details secret because the tech is easy to weaponize...