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New comment by ocimbote in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

ocimbote — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:51:25 +0000

Have we gone full circle? From the invention of HTML to the rebirth of plain text with MD to the rediscovery of HTML anbrhe age of LLM?

The facts that this article needs to list the pros of HTML over MD, like inreraction, visual density, etc, is weird to me. Maybe the ahdience is not tech-savvy people but I read it as an unnecessary word salad.

New comment by ocimbote in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

ocimbote — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:31:33 +0000

I've discovered typst in the last year and used to build a resume and cover letter template that feeds from a YAML file.

After a bit of tinkering and understanding the idiosyncracies of Typst, the joy of having reliable, consistent, beautiful, data-driven resumes and cover letters is not measurable. It basically lifted any barrier to applications, while whatever I had before I had always considered a burden.

On top of that, I can add hiring process data directly to the yaml file to run further analysis.

Can LaTeX do this? Most probably, but the learning curve is the difference.

New comment by ocimbote in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

ocimbote — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:37:43 +0000

You're absolutely right.

New comment by ocimbote in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

ocimbote — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:40:15 +0000

Minus the AI part, I agree. I'm 100% convinced many fax machines nowadays exist just for bureaucracy and are actually fax-to-pdf.

New comment by ocimbote in "Why I love NixOS"

ocimbote — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:25:09 +0000

I tried NixOS and failed miserably. I've pointed at to the Fedora Atomic distros, which are also immutable, and apparently incomparably easier to setup.

I'm tempted to give it a shot, with the extra bonus that I've never dabbed with a fedora-based distro.

New comment by ocimbote in "Chuck Norris dies at age 86"

ocimbote — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:07:36 +0000

Chuck Norris let death take him.

New comment by ocimbote in "The Om Programming Language"

ocimbote — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:11:33 +0000

Honestly, we can do better than LISPs.

Just use curly brackets and boom. LISP 3k.

You're welcome.

New comment by ocimbote in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

ocimbote — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:24:45 +0000

You criticize the initiative because you judge it doesn't have impact on the product or business. I would challenge the assumption with the claim that a sense of acconplishment, of decision-making and of completion are strong retention and productivity enhancers. Therefore, they're absolutely, albeit indirectly, impacting product and business.

New comment by ocimbote in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

ocimbote — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:14:40 +0000

I almost systematically use BLUF (Bottom Line Up-front) when I write docs, I think I'll make TABLUF a thing from now on (Target Audience and Bottom Line Upfront) :)

New comment by ocimbote in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

ocimbote — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:14:42 +0000

Any kind of documentation has a target audience. Your test is very valuable if and only if the target audience is a total beginner. Of course it's still very hard to write good documentation even if you have identified your target, but having someone totally illiterate on the subject matter review your documentation is as useful as if I'd have to review a PhD thesis in quantum physics. It just doesn't make sense (trust me :).

Writing documentation is hard. Start with: Who am I writing this for?

edit: I may have misunderstood OP's "with minimal expertise" for "total beginner". They're two different things, absolutely.

New comment by ocimbote in "Prompt engineering playbook for programmers"

ocimbote — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:34:14 +0000

Please be respectful to justice engineers.

For the uneducated, law engineers are members of the Congress / Parliament / Bundestag / [add for your own country]

New comment by ocimbote in "Open Source Distilling"

ocimbote — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:29:41 +0000

Distillation, when done improperly, can result in very toxic substances. It requires care and craft and since alcohol is not only a drug but a transformed product (like LSD or meth), it is perfectly fine that some state-level supervision apply: anything ranging from plain interdiction to controlled production. Note that the level of control usually depends on potential health issues and culture, it is not usually strictly bound to the product itself, since we can observe variations from region to region.

New comment by ocimbote in "Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf]"

ocimbote — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:46:31 +0000

I would disagree, but on,y considering I think this is not the right prompt to test against. Hence not the right question.

While you're asking to find creative ways to get rid of the player, I think what LLMs are unable to do (at this point?) is to come up with the idea of an aging mirror, let it sit for a while and only then get back to it when they met its attached character.

The dungeon master did not follow a track of events but rather picked interesting somewhat random contents and moments from the campaign and picked them up to create new story lines.

That doesn't seem like something an LLM would do easily.

New comment by ocimbote in "The Tsunami of Burnout Few See"

ocimbote — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:24:12 +0000

> The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

Who in 2025 does NOT see the "tsunami of burnout"? It seems to me that everybody is talking about it since at least the stabilization (not "end") of the COVID pandemic.

I've only skimmed through the article, so apologies if I missed some important bit of info.

New comment by ocimbote in "Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring"

ocimbote — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:41:56 +0000

The anecdote doesn't strike me because your friend the pastor said it, but because it's a rule as old as times that every high-schooler was taught.

- The introduction should announce the thesis and its development - walk your way towards your thesis - The conclusion should summarize your thesis (and hint at openings towards new grounds)

But somehow, everyone seems to forget it and is in awe whenever someone recaps it.

New comment by ocimbote in "Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets"

ocimbote — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 08:44:56 +0000

Excellent point. I do Platform Engineering in a B2C business, our budget is very thin despite demonstrated the economy of scale provided by proper use of the platform.

New comment by ocimbote in "Engineering Management Checklist (2021)"

ocimbote — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:34:32 +0000

I was hoping your link pointed to this picture.

New comment by ocimbote in "LeoLM: German-Language LLM Research"

ocimbote — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 06:18:26 +0000

That quote sounds like made up nonsense. I'll wait some evidence and ignore it in the meantime.

New comment by ocimbote in "Ash Framework"

ocimbote — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:00:53 +0000

Maybe also, the task of describing effectively is quite difficult.

New comment by ocimbote in "Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]"

ocimbote — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:46:35 +0000

100000 * 0.3/100 = 100000 * 3/1000 = 100 * 3 = 300

0.3% of 100k is 300.

Unless you meant "an income of 100k cents" but that would be quite unusual.