I wonder if education/teaching is fundamentally inseparable from, at least to a serious degree, caring. Every single teacher who impacted my life seems to have cared for me. Maybe not. I have learned a lot on my own too. It would be interesting to see the minimum amount of care needed for a successful education; that would directly increase how scalable education can be.
I would
1. Make it more capable as a full GUI - currently I have trouble displaying jupyter notebooks with images/progress bars etc in it.
2. Make an 'emacs app store' where you can get paid plugins (I'm going for Cursor).
3. Make collaborative editing possible.
I'm so reminded of Seeing Like a State (James Scott) where the author describes how much of society as we observe it is a function of designing it for data collection. I feel like there's a whole pedagogy on the philosophy and practice of 'data', and I wasn't aware of it.
> I feel like there's a whole pedagogy on the philosophy and practice of 'data', and I wasn't aware of it.
I think this is an important insight (or two.)
I've got 'Seeing Like a State' and 'Data and Reality', Kent, on my to-read list, but I'm wondering what the appropriate bibliography here looks like. Anyone who sees this and has a suggestion, please add it!
Its interesting to me how you start with career maps. Maybe this is advertising, but I made a career mapping app here - https://www.moveup.ai/for-individuals - I wonder if you would find it interesting.
oh; thanks for trying it - our linkedin api provider is imperfect. If you could try to put in your resume that would be great. I'm happy to get on a call and talk about it but no pressure.
I ssh from a mac into linux servers for my everyday work.
I went from tmux + vim TO (doom) emacs + tramp + projectile. I think I outgrew vim, and emacs EVIL gave me VIM but also magit and org and projectile. I tried to work in the emacs shell for a while. I realised I need tmux persistence still. Emacs shell also just doesn't do well with EVIL mode. So now I just do all development on emacs and manage runs etc through my tmux, occasionally still using vim on the tmux to manage config files when I don't want to load them into emacs because its a one off.
I dk about kitty, but I'm a fan of Kovid Goyal's calibre. I can't imagine how I would live without a. multiplexing b.persistence c.returning me to my context. And I never have had any tmux problems.
Tailwind seems to just be the right level of abstraction, a bit like how its easier to do python than cpp. For most things, writing styles inline seems to be easiest, but doing that with css is like writing cpp but writing tailwind is more efficient. Further, tailwind ALSO gives the ability to write class names like @apply. So even if tailwind is deceptive and under the hood profits from vendor login, an abstraction at the level of tailwind seems necessary?
I am a grad student and I was going for something similar with converting papers to text which could then be used in an audio app like speechify with this - https://github.com/kanodiaayush/make-doc-listenable . I love the idea of this and will try it out, good luck!
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm looking at your repo and it looks really cool!
Our backend is an ensemble of a few different things, but I explored using `poppler`, `PyPDF2` and other libraries+services as well!
I'm really glad to see how accessible writing a service to extract text, meaningfully process it, and generate nice sounding audio is! I hope that Oration provides a nice enough UI/UX for users to enjoy - but it's been fantastic see a lot of open source work in this area.
PDF is certainly not an ideal format to use so ubiquitously but I don't see that changing all that soon - particularly in academic settings.
I'd love to chat more about this if you don't mind shooting me an email! support [at] trurecord.com
I don't know Winston (VoiceDream developer) personally, but there a bunch of things that impress me about both his product and himself.
On the product side - it's long been a well established app in the space. I think it's been out for 10+ years, offers a lot of voice options, handles a lot of input document formats, has good support for offline playback, and has been well featured in a bunch of publications.
I was also very impressed when I read this : https://www.voicedream.com/macos-reader-subscription/
I really admire Winston for bootstrapping VoiceDream for so long - his initial users bought the iOS app for $2 and he has held true to continuing to provide them with the feature set that grew considerably since the app's origins.
His blog post also details how he was on vacation when VoiceDream had a P0/downtime issue and he caught the first flight back to address this, motivated by many users who really depended on the app (such as students studying for exams).
There is a ton to admire here.
