yes! just tried to post this here. amazing.

this one hit me hard! why do i work in technology

Quiet desperation?

nah, i live a very fulfilling life outside of work. i just found programming enjoyable to do, instead of freelance copywriting which legitimately made me wanna die and never write again. decided that programming was a good source of income that wouldn't starve my writing life

need something better than the .env honeypot in this AI age. but idk what that might be

You can use ephemeral filesystem mounts[1]

[1]: https://forcesunseen.com/blog/stop-storing-secrets-in-enviro...

hell yeah excited to do stuff with this

Let us know how it goes! This is very new for us so feedback is key

i just use track changes for that + a "trash" doc, or an entirely new story if it needs more space, but go off.

i also made an app for my writing process and quickly realized it was a distraction from the actual work of writing

Saw your edit. Yeah I had that too. But I wanted something more ai driven because I'm not a trash writer. I want that lowtech holodeck feel where I tell the model to take the story and it writes a chapter for me. Plus wanted to keep branching trees of different versions

sorry i'm a writer who edits... this project is genuinely interesting and i'm curious to see where it goes. i would try to market it as ML instead of AI, given the current temperature of AI in publishing and writing circles. if somebody can improve upon track changes in a git-like, narrative-tree way, then that might be super useful tool!

I think we're both looking for the same improvements and I haven't found them in a writing tool yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331036

Yeah many are trying to solve this. It's really not easy to get the UX right. Git changes can get deep and wide

I wanted to have a simple way to navigate my story in a tree form but cli is really not great in displaying those. Lazygit is the best imo but still not great. WebUIs are not really better

Looms seem to work a bit better, which is also what 1667 is based on. But still I don't know needs work

https://cyborgism.wiki/hypha/loom

Yeah I noticed that my god. I regret even posting it. I'm suddenly getting a lot of weird mail I'm not used to hate like that.

What type of hate are you getting if you don't mind me asking?

I like your tool by the way, I don't understand what sort of person would have such visceral hate towards someone's creation.

They don't have to use it but it is nice for you to share your creation.

Don't be put off by them, they actually secretly use LLMs for their own work and they are embarrassed of putting it out there to protect their own 'programmer' ego.

Keep going!

Got 4 emails in my email inbox. I suspect all from the same guy. Weird rants about how ai is going to eat peoples brains how I'm going to hell and calling me a bunch of nasty names. Probably not wrong but you know he could have said it nicer.

Removed the email address from the homepage just in case.

Appreciate your reply thank you.

fwiw, we get bad hurricanes more than that and also the mid-south is the new tornado alley. there was a very bad ice storm this past winter. natural disasters happen everywhere. and it's hot AF in july and august, like so hot that you stay inside all day.

Tell that to someone from Oklahoma and be prepared to run. Also, AC is cheap and available everywhere.

PS We had bad ice storms where I live (certainly far worse than MS) 2 winters ago. I wouldn't call it a natural disaster.

PPS Remember we are comparing the weather to the UK, not Hawaii or San Diego.

you are correct that we need to increase supply, and socialized housing creates more supply. great idea

Socialized housing is a management technique. It does not inherently create housing. Read about Stockholm's situation if you are interested in learning about the topic.

It is indisputable that there have been successful socialized housing schemes. It is also indisputable there are successful free-market housing systems; for example, Minneapolis.

also indisputable that market forces cause developers to not build because the ROI is not there or it's too risky

the writing style is so bad. cryptic sorta smart sentences that beat around the bush. say what you are trying to say!

no talk about the only american writer with the guts to try to be like homer? the battlefield where the moon says i love you by frank stanford. obscure just like homer was in his time.

also, no mention in these comments about william faulkner?

though, i would bet money that "the american homer" will be somebody most readers have never heard of.

it's definitely not twain or hemingway, like everybody is saying. if you think it's twain, then it is faulkner, who was the first white writer to not write a one dimensional black character.

and no talk about toni morrison?? zora neale hurston??? do y'all read american literature?