For a while, it felt like I could read everything on the Internet that I cared about, that I could follow every interesting blog, keep up with every interesting idea. It feels like that changed at some point since 2020. My guess is this is related to the cultural tremors rippling through the concrete of society outward from tumblr… something about the recent re/dis-aggregation of ideas that caused has suddenly meant there are a lot more ideas out there. Too many to keep up with.
A screenshot of a web page running in an in-app browser, talking to an in-app webserver, inside an Apache Cordova application running on the iOS simulator. The in-app browser is displaying a site built by Hugo running in-process by way of a Swift wrapper.
I kind of can’t believe I just plugged it all together. Getting the compiled languages to talk to each other was a little difficult, and going from zero to one in Cordova took a little while, but really the whole thing… works. It’s kind of a weird program in that all this functionality exists I just have to snap it together like Lego bricks.
I embedded Hugo in a Go library in a Swift library in a Cordova plugin in a Cordova app to see if it would work. Looks like it does. That’s Hugo logging to a <textarea> and generating a static HTML page on the iPhone simulator.
Had this idea that it would be neat to be able to make an iPhone blog client that could render a new post exactly the way it would be on the site. Not sure if I’ll take this anywhere yet.
Opening a project that has been only in zed inside other editors and it looks SO wrong. Not just Zed’s own font, but theme too, I guess. My eyes glaze over and I don’t want to read the code. Feels like one experience I had reading an ancient Python codebase that wrapped a C library. Weird.
Wishlist: good web UI for flipping through diffs. I’d like to be able to export a few commits to a set of diffs, which I can then show on a webpage in sequence.
Especially useful for explaining how to build something, or showing LLM changes and how I had to modify them, etc
I wish I could give o1 access to a regular Git repo and have it commit its changes in a branch, with my instructions in the commit message. Surely someone else has had this idea? Where can I buy this.
I think the funniest thing to me about the Apple privacy lawsuit which was just settled is the notion that guys wearing these things at this restaurant have tastes that could not possibly be predicted by a computer that wasn’t cheating.
[two Siri users] said their discussions about Air Jordan sneakers, Pit Viper sunglasses and “Olive Garden” caused them to receive ads for those products.
AI chatbot feature request: a button to summarize the current state of the conversation and any code or other artifacts into a single short message to send to a new chat conversation, to drop baggage of undesirable iterations and reduce token consumption rate.
