pastelsky

Author here - thanks for all the support (and bug reports)!

I built pretty.fish with the belief that Mermaid diagrams don’t have to look like they’re from the 80s and to avoid squinting at Mermaid diagrams that coding agents create in tiny windows.

Having them on canvas also makes it easier to keep a track of, and even visualize agent steps as and when they are are being taken (if you connect an MCP you get a pretty nice view of agent building its knowledge graph for eg for a problem).

Didn’t expect it to take off like this—there are still rough edges (pan/zoom, mobile), but I’m working on smoothing those out soon.

Thanks for sharing! I haven’t looked into that before but looks neat.

- Write Mermaid diagrams with a live preview. - Arrange multiple diagrams on an infinite canvas. - Group diagrams into multi-page projects. - Better themes

UPI is great in terms of UX, but I don’t think it’s super reliable – especially big public banks go down all the time. The UPI base service had multiple incidents in the last 1 month too.

Did not expect to see Emraan Hashmi in this post!

One would’ve thought that after looking at modern day computers that being able to run a wire through two computers being able to transfer data quickly, reliably, easily would be a 101 feature these boxes offer.

It’s 2024 and it doesn’t really work!

1. Track re-exports and cross-package references This should already be tracked — play around with the member visibility widget on the sidebar for e.g. For convenience, I've inlined the types from re-exports, but might be a good idea to indicate they were re-exported.

Pointing to the canonical source can also limit the usefulness in a few cases (e.g. d3 is just a bunch of re-exports), and users may not care about internal package organization.

2. consider supporting the @packageDocumentation tag Organizing by @category and @packageDocumentation should already be supported. e.g. See the functions in — https://tsdocs.dev/docs/lodash-es/4.17.21/index.html

3. Relative links to things like CONTRIBUTING.md currently break Yeah, this is known, thanks! https://github.com/pastelsky/tsdocs/issues/9

Author here:

I created this because I found myself peeping inside type declaration files too often, and the only way to do that was by installing the package first.

tsdocs.dev helps you check the API surface of a good number of JS libraries and their past versions — usually a quick search away.

There's something powerful about speed and being able to answer questions in seconds that usually take minutes.

edit: The server might be overloaded with requests as we prime up our caches, but do visit back after HN's done hugging us to death.

You can show your support and help cover a part of server costs if this (or bundlephobia.com) saved you time.

https://github.com/sponsors/pastelsky

tsdocs.dev helps browse reference typescript documentation for any package or version of a library.

So you don't have to rely on library authors to provide upto date reference docs for different versions of their library

If I understand correctly, the limited amount of "expressiveness" a quantum computer has restricts its ability to solve useful problems.

Couldn't you simply express useful problems as a function of problems that the quantum computer can already solve? Doing so might be extremely in-efficient, but give that there's so much performance leeway, it still might end up being similar to super computers of today?

On a related note – ‘networkIdleCallback’ : Preload assets and data whenever network is idle —

https://github.com/pastelsky/network-idle-callback

Helpful for progressively hydrating features in a page, or loading assets for next interaction

Something to do with processing an unusually large number of emojis?

I wonder if processing emoji characters has any different performance characteristics than other UTF characters.

1000s of modules in your browser Isn't very uncommon with large scale apps (1M LOC +)

Question: Is Vite really a serious tool built for production apps? The design decisions don't give me confidence.

As your app starts to grow, you'd definitely not want 1000s of modules loading in your browser.

Seems like something that gets you from 0-60 quickly, and becomes a pain after. Similarly, the different choice of bundlers in development and production would well lead to difference in behaviour / hard to catch bugs.

I really like the defaults Parcel comes with, it is very quick to get started with Parcel.

However, the promise of zero config is made possible in part by "magic" (strange conventions), and by having configuration spread across multiple files (package.json, . parcelrc, custom plugins which for some grave reason you can't use until you publish them to npm)

I really wish Parcel had sane configuration — I want to like it so much, but alas, it falls pray to the pendulum effect.

Occam's razor — create not conspiracy theories when things can be attributed to co-incidence :)

Because the hex for green (#00ff00) needs more letters than using the named color.

I wish Google had a toggle switch that isn't slowed you real user generated content... Like filter out all sites that are in Alexa top 10 for the category, and just show geniune niche blogs and forums with rich informed discussions.

It's impossible to get accurate information about travel, hotels, locations. Results are often filled with listicle crap that each copy each other and contain outdated pop content.

I've become so used to suffixing these queries with "forum" or "reddit" to get articles written by real humans.

Does this leap sound big enough to eat into the traditional windows pro laptop market?

ITs going to have a tough time justifying purchases.

This whole debate on tracing the origin of offensive messages misses an important point —

In some cases, actors that make such unscrupulous content viral can have as big or bigger part to play than the content creator themselves.

Content becomes more dangerous the more viral it becomes — the content creator usually has little control over virality, and is usually not the most "popular" figure in the chain.

Having worked in multiple platforms — web, native desktop and mobile, it still amazes me how far ahead CSS is as a styling paradigm in terms of expressiveness and power!

Infact, it's the best language for styling content ever created. Think about this the next time you have to create a couple of XML files just to get round corners and shadows in Android.

I wish so too! Being a UI/UX person who has an eye for good design, I'd love to contribute to OSS projects.

I think a lot more OSS projects should reach out for contributions in improving usability — it's almost always what separates OSS projects from paid alternatives.

Imagine if FPV augmented reality gaming became a thing...

I moved away from using the LastPass Chrome extension after realising that it makes page loads upto 50% slower.

https://twitter.com/_pastelsky/status/1180864405648502784

On the whole, every part of LastPass feels dated and unmaintained.

Thanks for writing this. I do agree that the idea of resources being constrained and the mentality to do the minimum required to meet bar is quite prevalent — and the educated & well-paid aren't immune at all.

I can't generalize it, but I see a subtler version of this in the corporate spaces as well – lack of care towards accessibility, missing attention to details in PRs, focus on "getting things done" with the current knowledge set, not worrying too much about the "commons" .

I do hope though that this is a just a phase a developing nation has to go through — because we've seen more than enough exceptional talent originate from here as well.

Micro frontends seems like a technology that's similar to Electron in a way. It gets criticised for its performance characteristics but there one can't ignore the problems it tries to solve for medium-large teams — there is a real need for it.

Once webpack 5 adds support for this, I see a lot more folks using it.

Like electron, the performance characteristics would continue to improve in the long term, but may never be as efficient as hand rolling bundles.

Have aliased micro to `mi`, so I don't have any excuse to use vi / nano over it. And frankly, it's just works — syntax highlighting, intuitive shortcuts, good input controls.

I don't think that was ever the argument. Increased testing has been recommended by the WHO, has noticeably helped prevent a bigger outbreak impact in South Korea & Germany and quick isolation makes a lot of sense for a disease that is asymptomatic in most patients.

Print's reporting has been a mixed bag.

For eg, the last video compares deaths vs testing in a poor country like Bolivia — situated many miles away from global hotspots to that of Belgium's — one of Europe's headquarters. It seems to suggest that increase in testing and quick isolation is somewhat of a "subjective" factor and doesn't help India.

This, completely disregarding factors like geography, demographics, Bolivia's first case landing a month after Belgium's, and Belgium being one of the few countries in Europe to actually count non-hospital deaths and more.

There's some confirmation bias here.