escot's comments

On: Ask HN: Would you want to join a Slack instance fo...

[escot]

If youre a job seeker and would be interested to join a slack, drop a comment here or email me: scott@scottantipa.com

On: Ask HN: Would you want to join a Slack instance fo...

[escot]

I was thinking one server and just for job seekers. Like a support group for people looking for tech jobs.

Maybe there could be channels per role/level, like #backend-senior, #ml-junior. So you could discuss hiring process and get tips from people looking for similar roles.

On: Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Pla...

[escot]

Very cool. It would be great to have auto complete across cells.

[mceoin → escot]

Yes we don't yet have the full auto-suggest magic that Sheets offers, but you can click-drag for auto-complete the same way Excel offers.

We released Sourcetable today with the AI chatbot & AI data analysis features, but a very limited cell-based AI (only "summarize" and "fix formula"). We'll be releasing a big AI-based magic-autofill solution in the coming weeks.

On: What UI density means and how to design for it

[escot]

Interesting, do you have a source?

[gmiller123456 → escot]

There's a lot out there, it is considered one of the worst US marine disasters in modern times.

This seems to be a good overview: https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-storms-only-o...

Wikipedia is a good place to dig deeper, the article has over 60 references. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_El_Faro

The NTSB report is over 300 pages, I have not read it: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

There have also been several HN discussions, this has the most votes (477): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757343

On: Ask HN: Whats your favorite book on API design?

[escot]

Thanks. Im interested in a book that explored more advanced design patterns. Like, supporting copying a resource. Or supporting —dry-run type functionality for requests that have side effects.

On: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for deve...

[escot]

I’ve always wanted something like this but integrated into the terminal or vim. Like you could have a hotkey that sends a json object from your debug session over to this scratch pad to save for later.

[jon-wood → escot]

If you’re on macOS:

pbpaste >> ~/Scratchfile

You can probably hook that up to Alfred or whatever to have a hotkey for it.

On: You don't need JavaScript for that

[escot]

Are you aware of any frameworks that take this approach? For example, if I could import their Datalist and use it, but at build or maybe runtime it decides what to use based on the target environment? We of course have this for tons of things like language features.

On: Everyday uses for PVC water pipe

[escot]

Another “do anything” material is 80/20 which is aluminum bars you can bolt together to make tons of different structures.

https://8020.net/

On: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivi...

[escot]

+1 for use of the term “Diamond Anvil Cell”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell

On: macOS command-line tools you might not know about

[escot]

I use the following to edit contents of my clipboard:

    pbpaste | vipe | pbcopy

Where vipe is a util for inserting your editor (vim) in the middle of a pipe. From: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

[rasen58 → escot]

This is great utility I didn't know about! Thanks!

But do you know why it doesn't seem to work with the `pbfilter` function?

If I do directly `pbpaste | vipe | pbcopy`, then it opens vim and the clipboard text is pasted there. But if I run `pbfilter | vipe`, then vim opens with a blank buffer.

   function pbfilter() {
      if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
          pbpaste | "$@" | pbcopy
      else
          pbpaste | pbcopy
      fi
   }      

It seems that the number of args is 0 for some reason

[nneonneo → rasen58]

I think you have to use `pbfilter vipe`, as the argument to pbfilter is inserted into the middle of the pipe.