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There are tools you can buy that let you do this kind of inspection manually, but they are designed for humans.

You should try my SnipCSS Claude Code plugin. It still uses MCP as skill (haven't converted to CLI yet), but it does exactly what you want for reproducing designs in Tailwind/CSS at AI speeds.

https://snipcss.com/claude_plugin

How can you avoid the guy doing PR?

Saw retweets of him saying Codex is way better than Claude Code on X. Then saw those retweets in ads on Reddit. This was 3 days before the announcement he was joining OpenAI. Whole series of events including the podcast tour seems contrived and setup by OpenAI.

Everything should be Tailwind because all code is written by LLMs these days.

If you need a converter for a normal HTML/CSS component, my free extension SnipCSS is the best Tailwind converter. I haven't seen anything else come close.

https://www.snipcss.com

It’s additional features that are related.

For example making a computer use agent… Made the plan, implementation was good, now I want to add a new tool for the agent, but I want to discuss best way to implement this tool first.

Clearing context means Claude forgets everything about what was just built.

Asking to discuss this new tool in plan mode makes Claude rewrite entire spec for some reason.

As workaround, I tell Claude “looks good, delete the plan” before doing anything. I liked the old way where once you exit plan mode the plan is done, and next plan mode is new plan with existing context.

This is great, but I wouldn't consider a food to be "clean" just from this testing.

At a minimum it needs glyphosate testing. I suspect the avocado oil has no plastics but high glyphosate, it's one of the many reasons I only use high-quality olive oil and coconut oil in cooking.

Before everyone caught up:

    We are in a race to make a new God, and the company that wins the race will have omnipotent power beyond our comprehension. 
After everyone else caught up:
    The models come and go, some are SOTA in evals and some not.  What matters is our platform and market share.

You didn't list the most important reason:

- Assume LLMs will be more intelligent and cheaper, and the cost of switching to a new LLM model is non-existent. How does improving the custom/heuristic compare in that future?

I'd try it out if you allowed paying $50 for some credits instead of requiring subscription.

Even if that version is limited to only editing public Github repos. $500 to see how well it works is too much.

I am the maker of SnipCSS. https://www.snipcss.com

Just like with other tools such as yt-dlp, the user is required to use it responsibly. As long as you don't copy text/images/svg, the only issue is going to be "trade dress" infringement since CSS styles are not copyrightable. (not a lawyer so this isn't legal advice)

Strange that this post made it to HN because I'm also releasing a Tailwind conversion this week. https://x.com/SnipCSS/status/1853586090164420639 I believe mine will be much better based on the blog post about this tool.

I must be an outlier - I'm in my 40s and haven't listened to former favorites like Radiohead forever.

Darkwave, Phonk, Witchhouse, Glitch Hop, KPop, and a lot of electronic music that crosses genres are what I listen to now.

That's extremely disappointing. They have time to build a Visual Studio Extension that competes with Cursor, but don't have time to release an API that would enable hundreds of new extensions/workflows.

Only reason I pay for ChatGPT Plus is because they have an API and I'm building products off of their API. I use Phind more for work, but I'm not going to pay anything unless they have an API.

jQuery v4.0 Beta 2 years ago

Solo or small team devs who hate modern tooling. Good example is levelsio guy: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1750175827197567165

I'm also in that camp and still use jQuery.

My current SaaS is an extension that doesn't have much UI code https://www.snipcss.com, and my next SaaS will be a chatgpt powered web automation extension that has a good amount of UI. Both use jQuery.

Edit: I didn't say why I don't just use vanilla with querySelectorAll - majn reasons are I like how I can attach events (attaching to parent while targeting dynamically added subelements), chaining functions, and it's just less code than vanilla

I'm in Chicago - I pay for a personal office at a coworking space ($500 / mon)

To justify doing that I live in a dorm-type situation where I have shared bathroom and kitchen and only my large bedroom is private. ($800 / mon)

It's in Chinatown and because Chinese people generally keep to themselves, and I work 80 hour weeks (40 dayjob, 40 startup), it works out. When I was paying $1600 for a studio, I'd get annoyed when neighbors were regularly smoking weed. That's not a problem in Chinatown. No one smokes weed.

It's probably not for everyone - but doing both my dayjob and business from home wasn't working out. For a lot of people there's a mental switch if you have to travel and go to an office to do work. I'm one of those people. I just get more work done this way.

If you've been over there lately, it's more like they're converting a zombie-apocalypse mall into a Googler campus.

It was already dirty and decaying pre-pandemic, but now it looks exactly like something out of 'The Last of Us'.

I'm at $500/month for my side hustle Chrome extension SnipCSS: https://www.snipcss.com

I should do marketing, but instead I'm building another product - an AI (ChatGPT wrapper) to help automate marketing.

"If I force myself to do something I hate while having a full-time job, I'll just burn out" is what I say to myself. We'll see if procrastinating essential business tasks works out for me in the long run, lol.

The OpenAI Keynote 3 years ago

Not exciting enough for a new consumer device.

OpenAI needs to leapfrog into robotics, that’s the only hardware that makes sense.

It just intercepts any files of "text/css" mime types appends them all together while also including the content of <style> tags.

If anyone wants something more specific that gets a section's CSS and all associated styles, I built an extension for that called SnipCSS.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma...

My extension doesn't download or parse CSS stylesheets to get styles, I use the Devtools protocol https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/CSS/

Oh man, this comment hits too close to home.

Spent 2+ years building my developer tool extension SnipCSS as a side project and I still only make $1K MRR.

You want to write 100k lines of code and make $1k / month? Sell a developer tool. You want $45k / mon, and travel the world? Sell shovels to influencers that exploit some trend.