Hacker News: csmeyer

Originators of Information

csmeyer — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:14:34 +0000

Article URL: https://csmeyer.substack.com/p/originators-of-information

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975176

Points: 1

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Please Please Please Let Me Code How I Want

csmeyer — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://csmeyer.substack.com/p/please-please-please-let-me-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708477

Points: 1

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Code Doesn't Happen to You

csmeyer — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:34:22 +0000

Article URL: https://csmeyer.substack.com/p/code-doesnt-happen-to-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682287

Points: 1

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Replit's Existential Problem

csmeyer — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:29:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.charliemeyer.co/replits-existential-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527421

Points: 2

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New comment by csmeyer in "LLMs are the ultimate demoware"

csmeyer — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:27:40 +0000

(OP) In my post, I actually ask the question of whether a student would _want_ to interact with the tutor, not if the tutor is capable of providing good instruction. These are drastically different critiques.

LLMs are the ultimate demoware

csmeyer — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:54:37 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.charliemeyer.co/llms-are-the-ultimate-demoware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437113

Points: 55

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The Trillion Dollar Chart

csmeyer — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:41:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.charliemeyer.co/the-trillion-dollar-chart/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127846

Points: 2

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The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning

csmeyer — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:33:02 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.charliemeyer.co/the-gpt-5-launch-was-concerning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44835827

Points: 86

# Comments: 94

Sometimes It's More Fun to Write the Code Yourself

csmeyer — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:38:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pickcode.io/sometimes-its-more-fun-to-write-the-code-yourself/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796838

Points: 4

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Orchestra Conductors Are Prompt Engineers

csmeyer — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:38:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.charliemeyer.co/orchestra-conductors-are-prompt-engineers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745523

Points: 4

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The FC/FC Chasm: Why Teaching Programming Still Matters

csmeyer — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.charliemeyer.co/the-fcfc-chasm-why-teaching-programming-still-matters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44571920

Points: 2

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Show HN: Chessophone – Generate music from chess games

csmeyer — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:07:30 +0000

Chessophone takes a PGN string representation of a chess game and generates music - Notes from the C major scale are added for each piece in each row of the board for each move in the game. Games played with the same opening will sound the same until they deviate from book moves. The perceived tempo of the music speeds up as pieces are captured. Enjoy!

Created with python-chess and tone.js.

Source code here: https://github.com/charliemeyer/chessophone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755347

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Chessophone – Listen to Chess Games

csmeyer — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:58:44 +0000

Chessophone takes a PGN string representation of a chess game and generates music - Notes from the C major scale are added for each piece in each row of the board for each move in the game.

Games played with the same opening will sound the same until they deviate from book moves. The perceived tempo of the music speeds up as pieces are captured. Enjoy!

The Web Audio API is a bit annoying and this would be better if it used an actual tag but alas Saturday mornings are only so long.

Created with python-chess and tone.js.

Source code here: https://github.com/charliemeyer/chessophone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43737260

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by csmeyer in "Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves"

csmeyer — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:08:46 +0000

I’ve been in the habit of emailing myself a lot, I’m excited to give this a try! I had thought of building this myself, so I’m glad I don’t have to :-)

Why We Build Simple Software

csmeyer — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:17:34 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pickcode.io/why-we-build-simple-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926063

Points: 18

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New comment by csmeyer in "MicroPython Smartwatch"

csmeyer — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:30:14 +0000

I loved programming for Pebble back in the day. They actually had a pretty nice in browser IDE and IIRC their APIs were fairly well documented.

I remember making watch face bitmaps with paint!

New comment by csmeyer in "Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids"

csmeyer — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:32:24 +0000

Our customers are split between the US and Europe. There are a lot of decision makers in the process who need to approve a purchase at school, so things are pretty time consuming.

New comment by csmeyer in "Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids"

csmeyer — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:30:06 +0000

If you go to https://app.pickcode.io/lessons you can do some free Pickcode VL lessons without an account. Later this year we’ll probably add some Python or Javascript to that page too. URI storage would be neat!

New comment by csmeyer in "Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids"

csmeyer — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:09:44 +0000

Basically just a lot simpler. Replit has a million features (and AI ghostwriter) that in my experience are distracting for kids (I used to be a teacher and still tutor kids 1:1)

Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids

csmeyer — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:56:51 +0000

Hi HN! I've posted Pickcode a few times (most recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365638), but we've improved things quite a bit so I thought it was worth posting again. This is a bit of 1.0 release after a long year of working on the company full time!

Pickcode is basically Replit-lite, for kids. The editor is simple: text editor + output console + big green button to run your code. We support Python, HTML/CSS/JS, Java, and our block/text hybrid language, Pickcode VL. We're partners on code.org's Hour of Code, and hundreds of thousands of students have tried our free stuff through them.

An account for individual kids is totally free, and we offer some free Python and Pickcode VL lessons to get them started. We make money by selling licenses to schools for better customer support and roster/lesson management features.

You can use this demo account I made to try out the editor:

  email: demo@student.pickcode.io
  pw: Demo1234

(Don't clobber other people's work, and what you put in the demo account is public so be nice)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40831904

Points: 86

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