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Neat, I'm also planning a lil newspaper hobby project. I'm curious:

- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?

- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?

- black and white, or color?

- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time

- do you recommend any printeries?

- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup

FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.

True, but have you ever sliced your LATKE with a POCKETKNIFE?

Seems like div is the only recommended wrapper element:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

EDIT everyone replied at once lol. I'm surprised too about div.

Also, screen reader support: https://a11ysupport.io/tech/html/dl_element

I too wish for better tooling for browsing repo histories.

I'm imagining a UI similar to 5-D chess (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Mul...) and maybe like debase (https://toaster.llc/debase/index.html)

Closest thing I know of is https://github.com/kristoff-it/superhtml#diagnostics

  SuperHTML validates not only syntax but also element nesting and attribute values. No other language server implements the full HTML spec in its validation code.

Good ideas. It's nice to hear a non-frontender's perspective.

For font sizing and spacing, I always recommend https://utopia.fyi. It generates CSS variables like:

  --step-0: clamp(1.125rem, 1.0739rem + 0.2273vw, 1.25rem);
  --step-1: clamp(1.35rem, 1.2631rem + 0.3864vw, 1.5625rem);
  --step-2: clamp(1.62rem, 1.4837rem + 0.6057vw, 1.9531rem);

  --space-s: clamp(1.125rem, 1.0739rem + 0.2273vw, 1.25rem);
  --space-m: clamp(1.6875rem, 1.6108rem + 0.3409vw, 1.875rem);
  --space-l: clamp(2.25rem, 2.1477rem + 0.4545vw, 2.5rem);

I do wonder about interpolating line heights, though. Does anyone who uses utopia.fyi have a good way to manage that?

Re organizing spacing and layout rules, I still struggle with that. One day I'd like to see what https://every-layout.dev/ recommends.

Very interesting idea! Adaptive UX seems under explored.

Have you ran into any issues with handling inputs? Like how vim Ctrl+P would maybe be intercepted by the browser Ctrl+P shortcut for print.

And have you run into any other issues, maybe like performance?

I feel like web-ified terminals get nerfed pretty hard and I'm not sure if/how people overcome that.

I like the idea of customizing multiplexed terminals with on-the-fly JavaScript, tho.

Maybe a fourth? https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#:~:text=Webrings

You can do both, because some people like having per-site color controls.

Like I prefer to read prose and literary website content in light mode while keeping my OS in dark mode.

Admittedly it's a niche use case.

A decent technical comparison: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/09/23/

Mostly about Atom requiring IDs and timestamps, and having an overall cleaner and less ambiguous spec

Not Lisp, but for those interested in editing programs that are running in production:

I read some Erlang article saying that hot swapping is not actually very useful in production because of some reasons, and instead a blue-green deployment is preferred. Can't find the link atm. This was close: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/relups

Compare to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405168 Hot swaps for small patches and bugfixes, and hard restarts for changing data structures and supervisor tree.

https://github.com/ertdfgcvb/play.core

And don't miss the about page either: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/abc.html

Yeah, I've been grappling with the definition of creativity too. There's a gamedev talk [0] on creativity that gave me useful perspective. Here's what I wrote elsewhere:

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i've been thinking about raph's definition of creativity [0]: permuting one set of ideas with another set of ideas

(or trying an idea in new contexts)

this is a systematic process, doable even by machine once enough pattern libraries have been catalogued.

on a small scale, there's sprint.cards [1] or oblique strats [2]. on a large scale, there's llms...

it's freeing to approach creativity as a deliberate practice rather than waiting on some fickle muse. yet it's a bit disappointing to see idea generation so mechanical and dehumanized.

i am comforted by the value of mushy human abilities surrounding the creative process:

mostly 1) taste, the ability to recognize pleasing output,

...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTxGpEO30

[1] https://sprint.cards/

[2] https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

This stack overflow thread had a pretty good list of terminal plotting tools:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123378/command-line-unix...

gnuplot, feedgnuplot, eplot, asciichart, bashplotlib, ervy, ttyplot, youplot, visidata

And there's a lovely ASCII plot in the AWK book: https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...

Yes, and and it might help to have a second stream for those smaller things -- a microblog, notes, or TIL section of your site (I call mine nuggets).

It helps relieve the pressure from full-length blog posts. A place to let yourself drop below a certain level of quality/polish/length. Anything to move beyond a stagnant blog / writer's block!

I liked this person's writeup of a string art algorithm: https://michael-crum.com/string_art_generator/

Ah my bad! Didn't scroll down far enough. Shame. Maybe the fi ligature messed up their spacing.

You're probably seeing an Android bug. The default Android monospace font borks the spacing of box-drawing characters. It's been like that for several years. EDIT the same thing might happen on some niche Linux distros

Before AI, I got a lot of interviews. Companies would talk to anyone with a reel. Today a beginner can send out fifty applications and not even get a first call. The thing that saved me may not be available to people starting out now. I do not have a clean answer for what to do about that. I only know that interviews were the best school I ever had, and I feel for anyone who is being shut out of that classroom.

Yes mostly in between jobs: https://www.recurse.com/who

Unless you can swing a six week sabbatical and return to your current job

I like the AAA WCAG recommendation. I'd also recommend from my casual experience listening to lots of old people...

- a large font size by default, and maybe a font size slider on the homepage. Test everything at 200-300% scale as WCAG recommends

- don't change the UI! Or change as little as possible, at least for existing users. Which kinda upturns the whole always-updating nature of web SaaS but I think it can be done

- hire a good designer who can streamline your UX and screens and keep only the bare minimum features

- maybe offer human support? Like a phone number? Probably unreasonable for you tho

Wish I had ideas for simpler login and auth.

Have you found any successful design strategies in your 10 years? Any insights from user testing?

Kudos for a well-executed project and for a tight-knit community.

Funny coincidence -- I know someone else working on porting a local card game to software. Seems like niche traditional card games are more a European thing?

I think I watched some educational TV program like 15 years ago that did a poor job explaining quantum physics, or overhyped it and set off my BS detectors. Idk. A weird mix of poor memory and miscommunication and outdated information I think. EDIT oh and Schrodinger's cat! Doesn't make sense to me.

The latter points were things I gathered from skimming recent headlines and articles. I should read more thoroughly.

Any takeways from streaming? I hear it's eye-opening to look back at your workflows and bottlenecks. Like to see how long you take on certain things that you didn't realize were pain points. Not sure if you experienced that along with any other dev benefits, or if it's just purely fun.

Awesome! Anywhere we can look for updates, like a website?

FWIW, my shallow understanding of quantum computing as a programmer, in case you wanted perspectives from your potential audience:

- I thought quantum physics was a sham? Like on par with string theory. But apparently that's not true

- I hear QC only breaks certain kinds of cryptography algorithms (involving factoring big primes?), and that we can upgrade to more foolproof algorithms.

- I hear that one of the main challenges is improving error bounds? I'm not sure how error is involved and how it can be wrangled to get a deterministic or useful result

- Idk what a qubit is or how you make one or how you put several together

https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000235911-How...

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For those looking to manage their indoor CO2 levels, I found videos by this HVAC expert pretty helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGDN85I29U

There are caveats like:

- opening windows and doors may not change much if the air is not moving i.e. with fans

- and it may not be the worth the tradeoff of introducing outdoor irritants e.g. pollen

- indoor plants unfortunately do not make a big difference in CO2 levels

- consider focusing on more important facets of indoor air quality, like VOCs

FWIW hackr.news has a smallweb filter: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true

But kudos for different people working on similar good ideas

Happy to hear! Some of my thoughts when building it:

- I haven't implemented audio support yet, but it would be nice

- I like --dry-run

- I didn't use a TUI widget library, but now it's at the point where it's tedious to refactor the UI / make it prettier

- I like OP's timeline widget

- Wanted to focus on static binaries. I got chafa static linking working for Linux, but haven't bundled ffmpeg yet

- which reminds me of licenses -- chafa and ffmpeg are LGPL iirc

- a couple other notes from early on: https://wonger.dev/posts/chafa-ffmpeg-progress