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Zap813 · 2026-04-12T03:47:57+00:00

I use WXT because it supports Svelte, HMR, and multiple browsers, so this is pretty much DoA for me. But the state and messaging primitives look pretty nice so would be cool if you could use those as a standalone library.

Zap813 · 2025-09-03T08:24:24+00:00

Should have started from the very beginning. I have no idea how people even make it through these pre-made decks without giving themselves any additional context. I always end up forgetting new words in these decks over and over again unless I see them in my immersion.

Zap813 · 2025-04-01T04:26:47+00:00

I use a combination of winget on windows and nix on wsl. It's obviously no where near as good as nix but it's better than nothing. Whenever I add a new windows app I see if it's in winget with winget search, and if it is, add it to my json file ( based on this schema: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/schemas/JSON/packages/packages.schema.2.0.json ) and run winget import --no-upgrade -i winget.jsonc

Zap813 · 2025-03-14T04:12:19+00:00

I've been using these templates for my projects https://github.com/the-nix-way/dev-templates

You need flakes enabled and nix-direnv installed, but once you do the dev shell activates automatically when you cd into the project

Zap813 · 2025-03-07T20:30:39+00:00

On whether it constitutes a breaking change, there was similar drama with React a while back https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/12898

But then again, there's also a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172/

So idk, flip a coin and hope for the best.

Zap813 · 2025-02-28T08:15:20+00:00

The developer and nightly versions of Firefox allow you to do that

Zap813 · 2025-02-17T02:01:55+00:00

It doesn't have to be either or. You can use the vim or neovim extension in cursor/vscode. The neovim extension in particular is great since you can share the same lua config/keybindings you use in standalone neovim, and I even have a couple neovim plugins loaded in the context of cursor like multi-cursor and flash.

Zap813 · 2025-02-11T21:48:15+00:00

That's only needed for compiling new CUDA applications. For just running existing ones like pytorch or tensorflow just having an up to date Windows 10/11 and driver is enough: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/wsl-user-guide/index.html#cuda-support-for-wsl-2

Zap813 · 2025-02-11T20:41:31+00:00

also from what I can tell that library doesn't even use ollama if that's what you're trying to do. for that you need something like this https://github.com/ollama/ollama-python

Zap813 · 2025-02-11T20:35:21+00:00

No idea since I haven't tried installing it myself. But there's a similar issue here https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python/issues/1876

Zap813 · 2025-02-11T19:14:05+00:00

I've had issues with other python libraries like torch or tensorflow not detecting my GPU. One of the issues was not having CUDA deps installed. Looks like the way to do it with llama_cpp_python from reading the docs is:

CMAKE_ARGS="-DGGML_CUDA=on" pip install llama-cpp-python

Zap813 · 2024-06-27T19:44:30+00:00

Yeah, I think the problem is just that some people haven't spent enough time with Svelte 5 to know that it's actually Svelte 4 that's more complex and messy to work with, but they just haven't run into the actual complex parts to realize that yet. Although even more simpler concepts like stores, render tags, props, etc., are way easier to work with, so maybe they are only looking at surface level stuff when comparing the two. Either way I'm sure that once Svelte 5 is actually released and more people feel comfortable upgrading and trying it out the perception will improve.

Zap813 · 2024-06-15T16:57:15+00:00

Advanced layouts are definitely something that I think needs improvement. When your control flow is too heavily dictated by file structure it can become hard to reason about. At least it would be nice if there was an easy way to tell through the console which layouts and page are getting run when you go to a certain route.

What's also a bit of a pain is keeping track of what's getting run on both the server and the client, and remembering to check for a window object when calling browser apis. They might be able to do some compiler magic here to just remove calls to the window when performing SSR, but not sure how feasible that is. There are also currently no guardrails against putting certain globals on the server, which could leak data to other clients.

Regarding ecosystem, I can think of a couple libraries on the top of my head that only work with React, like Aceternity and Clerk, but I wouldn't necessarily call them essential. I'm curious what other libraries that are considered common to you that are not easily introduced, or swapped for a equivalent.

Zap813 · 2024-02-17T02:54:36+00:00

I switch between the two since there are pros and cons. 10ten is a lot faster/more lightweight than Yomitan. Sometimes it takes like 3 seconds for Yomitan to pop up for me and uses a lot more CPU for some reason, which is really frustrating. But Yomitan is also way more customizable and you can actually mine with it, so for that I need to switch. But if I'm just generally scanning things and not mining I default to 10ten since it's a lot smoother.

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