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- Show HN: Learn to Read with SRS++ (letterspractice.com)
Hey everyone. The short story here is that I've made an early literacy app that you are encouraged to try with your pre-literate or only-sorta-literate kids. It's intended to be minimalist, friendly, and efficient. Its…
- The New Rule of Writing in the AI Age: Don't Be Too Good (aidanking.blog)
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Anders Ericsson argued that high-touch mastery - elite human capabilities - takes on the order of 10k hours of focused development. I personally started adopting LLMs into my workflow with Sonnet 3.5, which was released…
- Revisiting the Joys and Woes of the Craft in 2026 (paritybits.me)
- ClaunkedIn (paritybits.me)
- open source is distinct from Open Source (paritybits.me)
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Some recent events: LLMs happened, and then major providers offered API access and many SaaS were born as wrapper companies. Architecture: User <-> SaaS <-> LLM This is well and good. Now, many LLM providers are…
- Think Toggles Are Dumb (paritybits.me)
- LLM Drawing with Eyes Open (paritybits.me)
- Searching for Dyson Spheres (academic.oup.com)
- Bananas (paritybits.me)
- Generation Gap Inflation (paritybits.me)
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I almost never click a HN link to a tweet. Lately some alternative services have picked up in usage. Content posted to those services has made it onto HN, which is great. ... But because of the damned fediverse, I can't…
- Toward Disposable Software (paritybits.me)
- Has the Copilot SEO spam war begun? (paritybits.me)
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I'm a big fan of noprocrast. 20 minute visit time, 660 minute cool-down. My basic usage of the site is to scan the front page or two once a day, and pop whatever threads seem interesting to me into new tabs. I glance at…
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"Vendoring" is the practice of importing static versions of dependencies and building your application against those static dependencies rather than building against something managed and fetched by a dependency…
- Show HN: Tuido, a Terminal Todo List (github.com)
This is my personal todo app, which I made a while back after the original https://xit.jotaen.net/ post. tuido is written in go, with the bubbletea tui framework. My daily workflow involves creating YYYY-MM-DD.md and…
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Hypothetical: some software dev wants to pick a domain for their professional web presence, but this dev finds Google's stewardship of th .dev tld distasteful. Are there alternatives which communicate something similar,…
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Once every two months or so I need to look up or test in a console window whether javascript's Array.slice() method mutates the original array. Partly because I only occasionally program these days and partly because…
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I'm an educator with a CS / programming background. There's a possibility that I'll be moving into the 'Information and Communications Technology' role next year at my medium sized high school (grades 9-12, ~700…