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RFC 1149.5 FTW
I see that in addition to the Adobe suite apps last week, they've also now done implementations of excel/spreadsheet (https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft), powerpoint/presentation (https://github.com/storytold/deckcraft), and also AutoCAD/3D modeling (https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft) as well.

What a time to be alive.

Re:Markdown in /src on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:26PM (#49811280)
Directionally similar discussion to the goals of Open Knowledge Format (OKF) markdown bundles, by the sound of it? See https://okf.md and https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blo...
Re:Can AI design circuit boards yet? on Saturday September 05, 2026 @09:51PM (#49582580)
Yes? Anyone else tried out https://quilter.ai (physics-driven AI PCB layout tool)?
Re:Iocaine: The deadliest poison known to AI on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:54PM (#44538339)
Viewing this incorrectly flags my primary browser into the infinite tarpit but not a different browser. Perhaps a little too aggressive or not discerning enough?
Why US-only?
Re:Unity shuts two offices because of credible threats on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:18PM (#37516980)
Perhaps you might be referring to something closer to Gamergaters?
Interesting when taken together with things like the story from the other day about emerging AI/ML-based acoustic keystroke attacks against, which mentioned being trainable via Zoom calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013704 / https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-...
Also Simplenote from the Automattic folks: https://simplenote.com/developers/
Kudos for building a thing! Forgive the terse feedback, but I figure you wouldn’t post here if you weren’t seeking it. Quick thoughts:

A) Without providing a viable option for mobile (or even via a web UI on mobile), my guess would be that a desktop-client-only solution (like this appears to be?) is going to be a non-starter for a significant number of your potential audience. To me, cross-platform doesn’t just mean cross-desktop-OS - If something says cross-platform my personal expectation is that means desktop/mobile/web.

B) If your top-level value proposition is a focus on privacy and security, people are naturally going to ask further questions about the details. For example: - What encryption is being used here, and how? - If data isn’t stored on external servers, how do “your notes sync effortlessly”? What mechanism makes it possible to “access your data from any device, anywhere”? - How do I get my data OUT of this thing, if I decide it isn’t right for me?

C) If you’re going to go down the “unlike other note-taking platforms” route, it might be valuable to explicitly help people make the comparison in terms of features/approaches/architecture/trade-offs etc. How should one compare this against [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md)? [Simplenote](https://simplenote.com)? [Logseq](https://logseq.com/)? [Zettlr](https://www.zettlr.com/)? [Standard Notes](https://standardnotes.com)? Notion/Google Keep/Evernote/Workflowy/Dynalist etc?

Re:DreamBerd; Perfect Programming Language on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:39PM (#36190227)
Needs a `really` operator for scale.
Underrated comment.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023) on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:54AM (#35435250)

  Location: London, UK / Auckland, NZ / Sydney, AU
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:
    Full-stack dev/product designer who is very comfortable with code - HTML/CSS optimisation/perf, JavaScript/TypeScript, product/system/visual/service/UX/interaction design, Figma/Sketch/etc, design systems, React + other frameworks, Ruby/Rails, Node, Python, Go, Rust, Zsh, Git, GitHub (built big parts of it!), Perl, Docker/Heroku etc, Chef/Puppet/Ansible, SQL/Postgres, R, security/cryptography/penetration testing, ML/AI/NLP Stuff™, Analytics/Data Science™, People Management™/coaching.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cobyism

Website: https://cobyism.com

GitHub: https://github.com/cobyism

Email: cobyism [at] pm [dot] me

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Quick TL;DR:

• Building products for the web for ~20 years — remember frames? spacer gifs? CGI? ActiveX/Flash? I do ^_^

• Product design at GitHub - My claim to fame is that while on the core team as an IC (~2012–2016), I was the 13th highest overall contributor to the github/github codebase by commit count.

• Product design at Intercom - First hire for London office, led major redesign of Messenger, led design of first ML-based chatbot product.

• Coach for Seth Godin’s altMBA

• Various adventures since pandemic/onset of apocalypse.

Seeking full-time roles, ideally focused on ML/AI space (although open to other areas, e.g. climate change, OSS/open data, web3, etc). Excited to help shape/design/build the infrastructure which will soon be at the core of how AI (and other high leverage tech) shapes the world. Especially keen to speak with anyone focused on AI safety/interfaces/governance.

Re:Clipboard.js: Modern Copy to Clipboard on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:18AM (#10304127)
Any repo’s browser’s address bar URL will work as a git clone URL too, if that’s easier for you.
Re:Stripe Dashboard for iPhone on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @12:53PM (#9686991)
Ditto here in the UK.

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