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I call it "outside in", but sometimes like to de-risk a lower level component before investing in the UI.

As a creative writer, "plot" and "story" have always eluded me. There's something mechanical—pushing, pulling—I just can't seem to construct, but I know when it's missing in books.

Yeah, I am tempted to rig up a "generic" webpage MCP injected via greasemonkey just so I can use this UI for navigating the web.

Am I going to start to choose products based on their compatibility with WebMCP?

Some may. If it allows you to skip learning how to navigate a complex web app because the AI experience will help navigate for you, you may be drawn to it.

> Is this the index action of the widgets resource or the show action of the widget-list resource? is a question you will never have to ask yourself or your team. The widgets page is called WidgetsPage and available at /widgets.

Hm, uh, seems like now we will be forever asking ourselves this question about /widgets.

That being said, it looks good! Might get me back into ruby if I can come up with a project for it.


Well, yeah, then what's the point?

You can use a static analysis tool to check Ruby types ahead of time (still not a compiler) or provide information for tooling.

Alternatively you use them at runtime to check the correctness of data, which I don't think you can usually do with say Typescript where the typing information is for the most part compiled away[1].

1. I may be out of date on this but when I last looked at runtimes that could take Typescript directly they just threw the typing away. You just didn't need to use the tsc compiler first.


> use a static analysis tool to check Ruby types ahead of time (still not a compiler)

I'll have to check out typeprof and sorbet.


I'm OK not using a compiler. Used one for years and am good on that for now. I like writing Ruby.

For many years I've used Pocket to give myself permission to get back to work.

Me too! I kind of wish I didn't know it was shutting down, and they just replaced the button with something that saves it to /dev/null without ever telling me.

Wallabag.it did a good job of importing my links. I think I singed up for $4 per month.

You mean "4€ for 3 months" ;-) (nicolas from wallabag.it here) Welcome on board.

Yes, beware the Barnum/Forer effect!

> a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a broad range of people. [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect


Maybe we need some kind of "node coverage tool" to reassure us that each node or chunk of the embedding context has been attended to.

"Field" is a less mysterious term because it's not polysemous with a supernatural being (ghost) or a distilled alcoholic beverage (soluble liquid).

Sure, it's polysemous with "a cultivated expanse of land", but AFAIK there is no popular, problematic pseudoscientific quackery about suggesting our bodies possess rows of oats.


Fields give breath to the math that perfectly describes reality but which isn’t found anywhere in reality. Kind of mysterious:)

> Wenn wir das Wesen des Baumes suchen, müssen wir gewahr werden, daß jenes, was jeden Baum als Baum durch waltet, nicht selber ein Baum ist, der sich zwischen den übrigen Bäumen antreffen läßt.

— Martin Heidegger, Die Frage Nach Der Technik


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