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tripsnek.com - Europe Travel Itinerary Optimizer Software architect. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005. Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy 📍Atlanta

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · Sep 2

This weekend I released something I've wanted to open source for a while - a lightweight port of EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) for TypeScript. It lets you do model-driven dev in TypeScript, and even has its own VS Code extension (TMF Ecore Editor).

github.com/tripsnek/tmf

npm i @tripsnek/tmf

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 7h

They finally do have a headline on their front page and it reads like it was written by a middle schooler.

Headline: Crowds gather at anti-Trump "No Kings" rallies across the U.S., worldwide
More than 2,700 demonstrations were planned coast to coast, with at least one in every state and even near Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 8h

ai slop he posted on truthsocial

bsky.app/profile/soci...

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 8h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13h

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 17h

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 15h

CLOSE ENOUGH

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 15h

Saw an entire genre of signs today that clearly said "facism" initially and the person looked at it and thought "well i'm not making another one" and crammed thr other S in there.

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 19h

#NoKings #Atlanta

Sign reading "Masked Dipshits Tread On Us" with pictures of masked ICE agents

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 20h

Pfft, what are these people doing? Caring about stuff? Yikes.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 20h

After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.

Resistance Is Cringe

But it’s also effective.

www.theatlantic.com

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

same

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

Jesus christ just checked is that game like 1 WAR all by itself?

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

Those are mirrors that I provide as a public service at my own expense.

Which is fine, you can still block them, but that is what they are.

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

I am in the United States illegally and there is fuck all you can do about it.

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

I am merely offering testimonial evidence. Not truth.

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

this one from the ATL protest resonated w me

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

There is an epidemic vibe coded slop that sucks in all sorts of ways.

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 1d

This behavior needs to be associated with these people for the rest of their miserable lives. They should never again hold any position of privilege or authority, only jobs which literally no one else is willing to do.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

They nominated the task, not me. Python and TypeScript are not similar languages.

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

eh?

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

This was the best I could do in 300 characters bsky.app/profile/trip...

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

But ok, concrete:

I need a simulator. Node. It has X modules for X different elements <describe behavior of each>

Front end: Angular. Thin visualizations. It should have equivalent modules for managing each type of element.

The data model should be shared. REST API exposing necessary sim data.

tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

YES

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

That's the gist of it, anyway.

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

The point is: when you see the decomposition, you understand what the LLM needs to know. They are the same task. The LLM really does see the system the same way you do. So you can write a paragraph and - in code terms - express a novella.

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

Then add on top of that you understand all the tech stacks, design patterns and software libraries at your disposal. You can just refer to them by name, and its clear what they do and why you want to use them.

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

If you are experienced, it gets easier. You see the decompositions really quickly, and the funny thing about them is that they don't take very many words to describe. I tried to capture that in my simulation example earlier, but it's hard.

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tripsnek @tripsnek.com · 2d

What are the boundaries? What is the shape of the data? Every decision has consequences in terms of speed, reliability, testability, and so forth.

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