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joeriddles

Re:What even is an OS now? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:48AM (#49853582)
I look forward to following your and Kurt's new adventure. I love Fly in no small part to your writing for its blog. Wild to see what feels like a complete changing of the guard at Fly, at least from the outside. Your post resonates; reminiscent of the Ink&Switch talk from local first conf that I watched today.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:02PM (#49027259)
I disagree. I love buying used books and seeing what other people found interesting, whether it's by way of notes in the margins, highlights, etc. I also love it when people write their name in the front of the book and when they read it. I like the idea of a single copy of a book making its way among many people, all adding their own thoughts.
Re:Fable Converted Pylint to Rust on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:03PM (#48605631)
Do you have any favorite books or resources on how folks in the past adapted to changes in their industries?
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:34AM (#48118224)
Nice! It was pretty easy to take my extension[1] from a middling Health and Review score to in the green. The obsidian eslint extension is helpful.

[1] https://github.com/joeriddles/extended-task-lists

Re:The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:16PM (#46447847)
Great read. C# has the concept of nullable reference types[1] which requires you to be explicit if a variable can be null and the compiler is aware of this. I would love to see a similar feature in languages like TypeScript and Go.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-ref...

Re:Notion releases offline mode on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:13PM (#44955792)
I'm surprised Figma doesn't support offline mode given this blog post about how they built it.

https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Sunday May 25, 2025 @07:29PM (#44092294)
This looks really cool! OpenAPI for CLIs is a great idea.
Re:Quill v2 – Rich text editor on Friday April 19, 2024 @09:40PM (#40093836)
Sounds like an interesting system :)
I added my site and received the following response:

> josephriddle.com/ideas without update time

I looked into the source code to determine how it's finding the update time. Come to find out, it's using ChatGPT! [0] It appears to only be looking at the article contents for the date, not at any page metadata.

[0] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/blob/main/apps/a...

The audiobook version of The Goal is the best audiobook I have listened to! Each character is voiced by someone else, which sometimes doesn’t work well for audiobooks, but in this case I think they knocked it out of the park. The main voice actor in particular is phenomenal. I have tried to figure out who voiced Alex, but all credits for the audiobook simply say “ensemble cast” or “unknown”.
Re:58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:13PM (#32972819)
Perhaps this or this? Excuse the language.

[1] http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

[2] http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/