Hacker News: arxpoetica

New comment by arxpoetica in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

arxpoetica — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:57:38 +0000

Interesting to see how many things Gary got wrong.

New comment by arxpoetica in "Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol"

arxpoetica — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:21:58 +0000

Can you give an indication of what "next iteration" means in terms of timeline (even just ballpark)?

New comment by arxpoetica in "Tenets"

arxpoetica — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:37:28 +0000

Svelte does not make any opinions about HTML attributes or tags, unlike JSX which contorts language standards such as `className` or disallowing style="..." without JS in CSS.

New comment by arxpoetica in "Tenets"

arxpoetica — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 17:08:50 +0000

> The web matters

nuff said

New comment by arxpoetica in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

arxpoetica — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:48:45 +0000

Valid point I hadn't considered. Maybe the day isn't as soon as we think—perhaps both will exist...

...until we have speech muffler envelopes built into our devices.

New comment by arxpoetica in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

arxpoetica — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:39:47 +0000

There will come a day (with the advent of AI speech recognition) where keyboards will be obsolete.

That day is sooner than we think.

New comment by arxpoetica in "The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement"

arxpoetica — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:04:57 +0000

We may well look back on these lawsuits and laugh.

AI will likely steamroll current copyright considerations. If we live in a world where anything can be generated at whim, copyright considerations will seem less and less relevant or even possible.

Wishful thinking, but maybe we'll all turn away from obsession with ownership, and instead turn to feeding the poor, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and afflicted.

New comment by arxpoetica in ""Et Tu, Ilya?""

arxpoetica — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:29:13 +0000

How often do you think about the Roman Empire[1]?

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-roman-empire-tiktok-trend-w...

New comment by arxpoetica in "Prophetic Perfect Tense"

arxpoetica — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:54:33 +0000

"The article was read, and lo, the examples clarified nothing! Names of protagonists were unknown, prophets recognized by only one. The main body of the text illuminated not the tense's usage. A synthetic, kitchen-sink example was sorely missed and yet never appeared."

New comment by arxpoetica in "Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind"

arxpoetica — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:59:24 +0000

tl;dr: noobs often like tailwind; veterans often dislike it. Both are right and both are wrong. Context is everything. Tailwind serves a function, but it will never fully replace native CSS APIs. "Can't we all just get along."

New comment by arxpoetica in "Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind"

arxpoetica — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:56:56 +0000

The default REM scaling is one of my main gripes about Tailwind.

New comment by arxpoetica in "An Internet Canvas"

arxpoetica — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:35:21 +0000

I had an epiphany recently that as the tooling for WASM matures, we'll likely return to a visual programming model. I know Microsoft has doubled down on this front (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...) but I'm ideally this is still a universe of HTML/JS/CSS that's easy to pick apart under the surface.

This Internet Canvas seems like a step in that direction.

New comment by arxpoetica in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

arxpoetica — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:40:21 +0000

Move to Utah.

Lots of software growth, but much of that is hardware related.

New comment by arxpoetica in "This Word Does Not Exist"

arxpoetica — Mon, 15 May 2023 18:03:09 +0000

Many of these words ought to exist, ha. (As in, this is fun and clever.)

New comment by arxpoetica in "How and why we acquired our .com domain"

arxpoetica — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:26:27 +0000

Lucked out and got the domain I want: https://www.cinemodal.com/

New comment by arxpoetica in "Boustrophedon"

arxpoetica — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:01:01 +0000

Philo Farnsworth, an early television Pioneer, drew from this idea.

> A farm boy, his inspiration for scanning an image as a series of lines came from the back-and-forth motion used to plow a field.[1]

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Philo_Farnsworth

New comment by arxpoetica in "Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit"

arxpoetica — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:42:09 +0000

For anyone wishing for a VS Code fix, comment on this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/41909#issuecommen...

New comment by arxpoetica in "Show HN: Generate startup ideas based on HN comments"

arxpoetica — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:02:38 +0000

> Create an AI-powered platform that helps users discover and curate the most relevant and interesting articles from Hacker News and other tech news sources, with a focus on personalized recommendations based on user preferences and behavior. The platform should also allow users to rate and categorize articles, and provide a social element for sharing and discussing articles with other users.

New comment by arxpoetica in "SvelteKit 1.0"

arxpoetica — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:28:44 +0000

You can start here: https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/welcome-to-svelte

New comment by arxpoetica in "SvelteKit 1.0"

arxpoetica — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:27:12 +0000

Unlike React/JSX, Svelte uses ASTs that adhere to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (non-JSX) format. Yes, there is a minimal Svelte-only API footprint, but the native AST parsers means that parsing is much more respectful of correct code validation, versus JSX's own idiomatic set of ThingsYouCannotDo™.