Destiner's comments

On: Citations on the Anthropic API

[Destiner]

This is great for RAG, but Claude is generally hard to use for many cases due to lack of the built-in structured outputs.

You can try forcing it to output JSON, but that is not 100% reliable.

[maleldil → Destiner]

You can get JSON output with a JSON schema via tool use [1]. Is this not reliable like (e.g.) OpenAI's structured outputs?

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/blob/main/t...

On: WordPress Is in Trouble

[Destiner]

all this WP drama makes me really grateful about deciding to go with a static site generator.

Astro FTW!

On: Perplexity got ads

[Destiner]

perplexity is a great product, but it's a feature, not the app.

they are in the middle — not really a lab, not really a consumer product.

i expect them to get acquired in the next year or so.

On: I am rich and have no idea what to do

[Destiner]

> At that point, why not just send me a set of bullet points and the presentation or screenshots?

Because video works better for product demos.

Show, don't tell.

On: Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction

[Destiner]

you're not a target customer anymore.

they need $$$ from enterprise, everything else is a distraction.

On: Helping wikis move away from Fandom

[Destiner]

I love when somebody disrupts a hidden market like that. Fandom had terrible UXs for years, but nobody seemed to care enough to make an alternative. I'd assume most users are not engineers/founders, so the opportunity was hidden for a while.

In hindsight it makes total sense.

[starkparker → Destiner]

There have been several competitors formed in response to or predating Wikia/Fandom over the years, particularly Gamepedia/Curse Media (which Fandom acquired). Fandom also acquired other game-focused community knowledge resources, like GameFAQs and Giant Bomb.

There's also now wiki.gg, which focuses on official wikis run by game developers and was launched after the Gamepedia acquisition by Gamepedia's founder and a former Fandom president. Several wikis are on independent MediaWiki farms like Miraheze or ShoutWiki, and numerous others self-host entirely independently.

This Weird Gloop effort seems to be more like wiki.gg, but for community-run wikis rather than gamedev-run wikis — bespoke relationships with communities that want to migrate or relaunch, rather than open sign-ups to a platform like Miraheze or ShoutWiki.

[ogurechny → Destiner]

Ehm. This is nothing new.

https://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_Wiki:Departure_from_Wikia

https://www.niwanetwork.org/

etc.

On: CSS @property and the new style

[Destiner]

as somebody who spent many years writing "regular" css, this is magic

i wonder if we start to see the "css engineer" job posts sooner or later

[efields → Destiner]

It me. I write CSS. I also write javascript, html, vue code, react…

We just haven't needed a lot of pure CSS in the modern era. A lot is abstracted away in frameworks where you can simply set variables to customize the look and feel.

All websites also kind of look the same now, which isn't the worst thing, but it definitely means less need to mess with CSS.

[bastawhiz → Destiner]

We just call that "front end engineering"

On: Joining the Open Source Pledge

[Destiner]

great initiative, i wish larger companies would join

[elric → Destiner]

I suspect many larger companies simply pay developers to contribute features. This is orders of magnitude easier than trying to make a donation as a corporation without getting an invoice in return.

On: The Threat to OpenAI

[Destiner]

not a single word about anthropic/claude?

makes you wonder about the level of journalism at wsj et. al.

On: Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation,...

[Destiner]

i feel bad for kagi/ddg

they are still trying to fight the google by building pretty much the same product

while perplexity is obviously in the lead by being ai-first

[freediver → Destiner]

For many people (me included) being AI-first is a bug, not a feature :)