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New comment by msradam in "Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)"

msradam — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:16:34 +0000

This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole and today I've learned of the ⎘ symbol. I feel like there has been a bit of a terminal / TUI renaissance and I'm now on the huntdown for more aesthetic looking non-emoji Unicode symbols to use in my projects.

New comment by msradam in "Datatype – variable font that turns text into charts"

msradam — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:47:57 +0000

This is awesome! I had no idea you could do this sort of thing, thanks for sharing. I've incorporated into my design system because of how well it fits: https://msradam.github.io/lokta/

New comment by msradam in "Running Claude Code Offline on an M3 Pro with Qwen3.6"

msradam — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:22:13 +0000

The inertia of switching. At least for me, being able to maintain the same UX and configuration for agentic coding is a benefit. I have access to internal models at work where I use a LiteLLM proxy with Claude Code, so no Anthropic models, but I can maintain the same .claude between personal and work machines. Though I'm definitely open to a non-Anthropic harness if it's a clear win.

New comment by msradam in "The First 100 Wikipedia Pages"

msradam — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:02:45 +0000

Very fitting that philosophy is one of the top 5. All roads really do lead back.

New comment by msradam in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

msradam — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:19:49 +0000

I have enjoyed using this framework in my personal and work projects, having a reliable stateful workflow for AI models while getting free observability. I stitched a tool that allows mounting a Burr state machine as an MCP, giving agents a rail to follow, and no matter how complex the state machine gets the MCP tools are constrained to state machine navigation: https://github.com/msradam/theodosia

I am currently working on skills-to-state-machine conversions, since a lot of popular skills out there are already written as phases for an AI model to follow, so it would be great to leverage the explicit functionality of Burr to make that more reliable. Thank you for this amazing project.

New comment by msradam in "Show HN: Documenting an Obscure Japanese Wii Game – and-Kensaku"

msradam — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:47:29 +0000

I love lost art, I feel like this would be really fun to port to DS.

New comment by msradam in "A Brief History of Reviewing Things on the Internet, Vol. I"

msradam — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:42:56 +0000

At least BZPower, the Bionicle / Lego review fansite, is still going strong. Same exact site layout too. I really needed their consult before a Toys R Us visit.

New comment by msradam in "Why Do Asian Brands Pretend to Be Japanese?"

msradam — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:38:34 +0000

The line "Miniso publicly apologized for pretending to be Japanese" made me giggle. It reminds me of how Häagen-Dazs is not even any particular Danish / Scandinavian word, just completely made up to sound exotic and premium. It worked though, had no clue it was made up til very recently.