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New comment by thingsilearned in "An SVG is all you need"

thingsilearned — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:52:07 +0000

Yeah, my use case would have required a heavy node or playwright import to convert the SVGs to other formats or show them correctly outside of browsers. This keeps it all SVG and it looks and feels good and lighter.

New comment by thingsilearned in "An SVG is all you need"

thingsilearned — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:38:25 +0000

I love SVG! Recently I needed to render markdown in SVG and found no library existed for that yet so I released one:

github: https://github.com/davefowler/markdown-svg playground: https://markdown-svg-production.up.railway.app

New comment by thingsilearned in "Gemini 3"

thingsilearned — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:57:48 +0000

I love that the recipe example is still being used as one of the main promising use cases for computers and now AGI. One day hopefully computers will solve that pressing problem...

New comment by thingsilearned in "Every visual workflow tool is just Excel for developers who gave up"

thingsilearned — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:47:58 +0000

Yeah, isn't the main user of those tools non-developers? It's not that developers are getting lazy, it's that people who aren't developers also have technical needs (and some chops).

New comment by thingsilearned in "Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot"

thingsilearned — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:21:11 +0000

I've used a similar smart outlet on a timer to just shut my wifi off at 9pm. I then put an alarm on my computer to give me a 15 minute wrap-up warning.

New comment by thingsilearned in "Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot"

thingsilearned — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:19:43 +0000

I liked one-sec but now prefer https://www.getclearspace.com

Show HN: A tagged template literal utility for clean LLM prompt generation

thingsilearned — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:30:35 +0000

Making prompts for llms with conditional context gets really messy. I've not seen a library that does this in a clean way and made a fairly elegant solution with template literals.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131383

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by thingsilearned in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

thingsilearned — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:55:01 +0000

I recently released suggestion-mode functionality for prosemirror

https://github.com/davefowler/prosemirror-suggestion-mode

and now I'm building it into my reading and note taking app for a better interaction of AI giving assisted edits, most similar to the Patchwork project from ink and switch https://www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/notebook/07/

New comment by thingsilearned in "Getting AI to write good SQL"

thingsilearned — Sat, 17 May 2025 00:30:00 +0000

companion or replacement?

New comment by thingsilearned in "More Everything Forever"

thingsilearned — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:42:09 +0000

Did this get removed from the home page? As I write this it was posted 2 hours ago with 48 points and 73 comments. Should definitely be on the home page. Why are we filtering content like this?

Show HN: After Intelligence – a prompt game for your future

thingsilearned — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:14:32 +0000

Article URL: https://thingsilearned.com/things/after-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323715

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by thingsilearned in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

thingsilearned — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:45:00 +0000

Regulating is very hard at the software level but not hard at the hardware level. The US and allies control all major chip manufacturing. Open AI and others have done work showing that regulating compute should be significantly easier to do than other regulations we've done such as nuclear https://www.cser.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Computing-Power-a...

New comment by thingsilearned in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

thingsilearned — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:50:10 +0000

Stargate = Skynet?

New comment by thingsilearned in "The Origins of Wokeness"

thingsilearned — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:10:53 +0000

@malcomgreaves I'm not sure you caught the intended target of @cle's comment. I believe he was talking about your comment being the thing he thought may be intentionally ironic, not PG's essay.

One of the main points in the essay: "The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so"

And your comment is a classic example of that behavior.

New comment by thingsilearned in "The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024"

thingsilearned — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:03:33 +0000

I try to get around with just an apple watch. The most frustrating part is needing (or worrying I'll need) to take an uber or a lyft (my main modes of transport). They discontinued their watch apps and their api's are very locked down.

Doomer.ai

thingsilearned — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:09:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.doomer.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42325422

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Doomer.ai

thingsilearned — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:38:56 +0000

Article URL: https://doc.doomer.ai/docs/intro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41796516

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thingsilearned in "TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel"

thingsilearned — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:20:01 +0000

I've tried this several times too and still do phone less days quite often thanks to the watch, but my big obstacle has been the lack of Uber/Lyft which I use instead of having a car. They used to have those apps on the watch but unfortunately they don't.

If I could use Uber/Lyft on the watch I would mostly leave my phone on the charger.

New comment by thingsilearned in "Ask HN: Should I stay at my default dead startup or go and do something else?"

thingsilearned — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:58:37 +0000

Perhaps more importantly than a mental model for thinking about this you might need the right mental state. You're tired and not seeing a path forward. That leads to burnout fast and isn't a great space to make big decisions from.

I'd talk to your co-founder and start by taking some time off. I bet for the past 3 years of grinding on the startup you haven't done a good job with vacations. If you went and fully unplugged for a month (or more) you might be in a place for a better perspective.

You might feel like you can't get away - that you're too essential to some work right now - but in my experience a top role of co-founders is to keep the passion and vision strong. Where you sound like you're at mentally you may be doing more team harm than good and your co-founder may be surprisingly supportive of you taking some time to get rest.

New comment by thingsilearned in "Repairing my mug with Kintsugi"

thingsilearned — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 19:46:20 +0000

For those of you in the Bay Area there’s a great Kintsugi workshop that’s run out of the SF zen center almost weekly https://stonegoldcrafts.com/

I got into Kintsugi when my toilet needed repair. It’s a rewarding craft https://thingsilearned.com/things/my-kintsugi-toilet/