wes-k's comments

On: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

[wes-k]

Same!

[ManuelKiessling → wes-k]

As per your request:

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-develop...

On: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

[wes-k]

Just installed Nuenki, really excited to give this a try. Amazing how it can hopefully iteratively help me learn Spanish while I don't change my behavior much.

On: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

[wes-k]

Been doing this the last 10 months. Lots of growth and self-discovery. Best wishes on your journey!

On: 4o Image Generation

[wes-k]

My images say "Created with DALLE" below them, and a little info icon tells me they are rolling out the new one soon.

On: 4o Image Generation

[wes-k]

The examples they show have little captions that say "best of #", like "best of 8" or "best of 4". Hopefully that truly represents the odds of generating the level of quality shown.

[aqme28 → wes-k]

Some of the prompts are pretty long. I'm curious how iterations it took to get to that prompt for them to take the top 8 out of.

[bb88 → wes-k]

I'm not doubting it's an improvement, because it looks like it is.

I guess here's an example of a prompt I would like to see:

A flying spaghetti monster with a metal colander on its head flying above New York City saving the world from and very very evil Pope.

I'm not anti/pro spaghetti monster or catholicism. But I can visualize it clearly in my head what that prompt might look like.

[M4v3R → bb88]

Here you go: https://chatgpt.com/share/67e3d3dc-b234-8004-b992-b559fc5038...

On: Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

[wes-k]

I like the framing of "defaults" too. Gives space for suggestion and change.

On: Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

[wes-k]

Our team currently relies on thingamajig's responsiveness and cannot tolerate a change in performance. We will setup a temporary replica of thingamajig. Can you please hold off until our thingamajig replica is stable. My team expects this to be done by March 8th.

If I don't hear back from you by lunchtime, I WILL eat your leftovers.

On: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

[wes-k]

DHTML! Gosh just hearing that term takes me back. I think AJAX killed DHTML. I'm not sure what killed AJAX. Async/await? React?

On: Always go to the funeral (2005)

[wes-k]

I literally just copied and pasted that exact part into my notes. Something about "versus doing nothing" really hits hard. I can do more than nothing! And also, sometimes, I need grace and time.

On: Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)

[wes-k]

I couldn't get into it. I wasn’t sure if it was the game itself, my movement away from being a gamer, or just missing the game I knew so well.