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reposted @techconnectify.bsky.social: Btw, I remember there being some anxieties around folks expressing their opinions during primaries.
Besides being nowhere near a presidential primary at the moment, now is in fact the time for people to express certain lines they expect candidates not to cross.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: A little tool like this is probably an ideal situation for LLM output. It's a small tool (<1kloc) that will be run maybe a few dozen times, so worth building, but not really worth building well. Mostly understand the approach but not the specifics of each library.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I've also never used Python's type hints and I doubt I ever will. Just like if a Bash program suddenly needs arithmetic, I am just going to switch to Python, if a Python program needs types I am just going to switch to Go. But this was an interesting way to get familiar with them...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The last time I wrote CSS it did not have variables or macros/functions, so it took me a while to wrap my head around that. I also knew about the python fontTools package but had no idea how to use it. Those parts felt like they went faster than learning + implementation would ha...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This tool takes a spec file and produces a minimal CSS and font output for the OFL version of the fontawesome icon font. This lets me build & deliver a very small font file and still use icons for UI and socials.
@jmoiron.bsky.social I've put Claude code through another pass, a simpler goal this time, but a more successful outcome. The code, full Claude log, and a brief explanation of the project are here:
github.com/jmoiron/mone...
jmoiron/monet 2806634 Merge pull request #12 from jmoiron/dependabot/go_modules/golang.org/x/net-0.38.0
jmoiron/monet 95696bf Merge pull request #13 from jmoiron/dependabot/go_modules/github.com/go-chi/chi/v5-5.2.2
@jmoiron.bsky.social I watched my father's VHS of Venus Wars when I was a kid and thought it was amazing that the main character was named Hiro. It's not so unusual of a name, but this was a few years before Snowcrash and I've always wondered if there is any connection there.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The fact that they relegated Isono's art for the sequel (unreleased in the US until 2017) to the instructional booklet is a real miss in my opinion, but at least we have it in some capacity.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Isono's art was retained despite the Japanese box being sold and designed in portrait, like VHS boxes. North American SNES boxes were always landscape, so they cropped a beautiful close up that arguably leaves more to mystery and the imagination.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Was just admiring Hiro Isono's work on this instagram gallery yesterday:
www.instagram.com/awe_of_cold_...
His hauntingly beautiful art adorned the box and instruction booklet for Secret of Mana (聖剣伝説2) in an era when Squaresoft games tended to commission westernized art for it...
@jmoiron.bsky.social After an IDF sniper shot and killed Shireen Abu Akleh through the back of her blue press helmet, officials blamed it on Palestinian militants before claiming it was an accident. Israeli police raided her funeral procession and beat mourners with batons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1...
jmoiron/monet 0d8f8a6 update post edit with grow/shrink icons to allow control over the width of the editing environment
jmoiron/monet 569949a make content textarea only vertical resize and make the preview pane grow/shrink with it to allow more flexibility in backend editing