Hacker News: prezjordan

New comment by prezjordan in "Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion"

prezjordan — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:53:51 +0000

Looks good! Did you build your own text editor? The markup doesn't look familiar. (Would recommend grabbing one off-the-shelf that handles cross-paragraph selections and concurrent edits, will save you a world of pain)

New comment by prezjordan in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

prezjordan — Sun, 18 May 2025 16:26:26 +0000

I just loaded Hacker News after a WaniKani session.

Any recs for moving this into Anki? I already use Anki for cards I created while going through Genki with my tutor, and world capitals.

New comment by prezjordan in "Plain Vanilla Web"

prezjordan — Sun, 11 May 2025 17:23:09 +0000

As a framework-enjoyer, I'm finding this helpful to leaf through just to learn about modern web platform tech.

New comment by prezjordan in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

prezjordan — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:23:24 +0000

I should probably 1.0 it and call it a day, it's pretty much done. In the back of my mind I've thought of making the markup more amenable to LLMs like Sonnet (maybe with tailwind style utility classes)

New comment by prezjordan in "Understanding-j: An introduction to the J programming language that gets to the"

prezjordan — Sat, 03 May 2025 23:49:03 +0000

To the author: you can add a .devcontainer directory with a Dockerfile, allowing folks to try this in their browser with GitHub Codespaces

Shameless plug, feel free to copy my setup! https://github.com/jdan/try-j

New comment by prezjordan in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

prezjordan — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:19:53 +0000

> In my experience, a fundamental part of spaced repetition's efficacy is in creating the flashcards yourself.

+1 to this, have found the same when going through the Genki Japanese-language textbook.

I'm assuming you're finding your workflow is just a little too annoying with Anki? I haven't yet strayed from it, but may check out your Obsidian setup.

New comment by prezjordan in "Collatz's Ant"

prezjordan — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:26:37 +0000

Potentially useful to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture#As_a_parity...

New comment by prezjordan in "Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development"

prezjordan — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:18:55 +0000

You're leaving out the most important bit of a component like InlineStack: the props [0]. Yes you can just apply `display: flex` to the div you're working on, but like any proper abstraction these guardrails make using flexbox correctly the easiest path forward (the "pit of a success").

[0]: https://github.com/Shopify/polaris/blob/eb6161f6b4e02679b5e8...

New comment by prezjordan in "Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy"

prezjordan — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:12:49 +0000

Strangely enough the analogies that scale earth's orbit to ~centimeters and nearby stars to ~kilometers actually makes me think we're not that far from other stars! Once you scale it back up and start thinking about travel times measured in ~generations I'm humbled again.

New comment by prezjordan in "SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface"

prezjordan — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:10:07 +0000

Thank you :) A real labor of love [0] for me.

[0]: https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

New comment by prezjordan in "Open Heart Protocol"

prezjordan — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:37:54 +0000

TIL Intl.Segmenter[0]. The ECMAScript standard library never ceases to amaze me.

[0]: https://github.com/dddddddddzzzz/api-oh/blob/312d490641c7ec7...

Show HN: Element

prezjordan — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://notes.jordanscales.com/element

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749230

Points: 1

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New comment by prezjordan in "98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs"

prezjordan — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:33:30 +0000

Phenomenal work

New comment by prezjordan in "98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs"

prezjordan — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:12:12 +0000

> also the dropdown menu, when opened, looks very different than the original 98 style

Sadly this is the dropdown provided by the host operating system. The tell is that it can extend beyond the browser chrome! 98.css doesn't ship with any JS, and I thought about hacking it with checkboxes and :after but.... no thanks.

New comment by prezjordan in "98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs"

prezjordan — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:34:57 +0000

Author here – happy to see this posted again!

This was my burnout recovery project and I wrote some thoughts on it recently https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

New comment by prezjordan in "Factor 0.100 Now Available"

prezjordan — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:37:10 +0000

Had no idea it was in active development! I spent a weekend with Factor about two years ago and it was enlightening.

New comment by prezjordan in "Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next"

prezjordan — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:20:18 +0000

A lot to admire in this post about passion and long-term thinking but this is too egregious.

> Back in 1979, for example, I’d invented the idea of transformations for symbolic expressions as a foundation for computational language.

I hope at 65 to have the energy to work this hard, but I also hope at 65 I'm surrounded by people who will kindly correct me when I take credit for ideas that aren't mine, and that I will listen to them.

Opinion: Will this California bill to regulate AI protect consumers or gut tech?

prezjordan — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:34:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-08/california-artificial-intelligence-regulation-bill-wiener

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209028

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by prezjordan in "Lapis: A Web Framework for Lua"

prezjordan — Sat, 25 May 2024 12:08:07 +0000

I find Lua so dang pleasing to look at

New comment by prezjordan in "Ask HN: Fast/cheap epaper badge for real time speech to text with deaf friends?"

prezjordan — Sun, 12 May 2024 13:27:20 +0000

No experience building exactly what you're describing, but the Adafruit MagTag may work for you https://www.adafruit.com/product/4800.

I've only done so much as display text on it (json response from a server). Unsure how difficult it would be to connect a microphone input to it.