If the entire body of this article isn't just an "LGTM" then I know they're lying.

I recently started playing through Braid for the first time. Fun to see this posted on the day Order of the Sinking Star comes out.

I don't generally like Sokoban games, but the Order of the Sinking Star demo was a lot of fun.

Probably not a coincidence. :)

Ha! It is actually _some_ funny serendipity. I just stumbled across this in my saved pile and thought it would be an interesting oldie to share, and did not realize that release was going to be today at all until I saw these comments here now.

It was actually submitted three days ago originally. I don't know if whoever second-chanced it had the timing with the new game in mind, so it may or may not be a complete coincidence that way.

I've been using the beta of Delta for a couple weeks and using it for review is a huge improvement over reviewing directly on the PR. Being able to jump into a team mates thread and see the context of how something got created and be able to ask questions about it very nice. There's some rough edges in the product, but the direction they are going is pretty interesting.

But what if your PR was created as half chat, then an agent, then some more chat planning, possibly in a new chat to clear the context? I think my teammates would find my inner monologue rather confusing at times.

The sequence of commits I present a purely optimized for reviewing, and not an actual record of what happened. I’m not going to read another person’s 100 turn slop factory, because they couldn’t express their change in one paragraph.

Yeah, my solution to this problem has been to get Claude to use jj to create a clean commit history. Each commit serves a single purpose and includes what drove the decisions we made. You lose the noise and still have the meaning.

So I'm a little unclear as to benefit of this. It sounds...wasteful?

What does jj specifically enable for that workflow?

It drastically simplifies the process.

Redescribe, reorder, split, squash, abandon commits is trivial.

Auto-rebasing is fantastic, fix a conflict once and not have to keep correcting.

You can rebase individual commits, ranges of commits, etc. You can also rebase trees I.e. forking branches with a common ancestor, with a single command.

The operation log also makes it feel super safe. You can always undo a jj operation or restore to a past state

I've been curious about using it but the fact it needs to upload everything makes it something I can't do with work and then don't see the immediate value of on projects by myself.

I've been waiting for this to get posted since he mentioned it on The Standup, excited to watch it today.

Why is a bank selling llm inference?

To juice their own valuation as an "AI Company"

A Tacoma is now the size of an F-150, they used to be the size of a Ford Ranger. It's ridiculous.

Thought the same thing, sounds like the apps are web apps based on the stack, which means all these apps could be build with Go, Datastar (or htmx), and sqlite and hosted for a fraction of the cost.

Hello fellow Anathem reader, there's doesn't seem to be many of us

Anathem is the best Stephenson book; The Algebraist is the best Iain Banks. There's enough of us to fill a good sized van!

Something is seriously wrong with an author when they think they need to invent an entire new language (and force the reader to learn half of it) just for a book. ENGLISH IS A PERFECTLY FINE LANGUAGE, AND EVERY GREAT WORK OF ENGLISH WAS WRITTEN USING IT!

Stephenson was my literally my favorite author, but when I got to Anathem I was like fuck this pompous asshat and his made up language BS: I'm sticking to authors who write in English.

I've done Julia Cameron's "morning pages" exercise off and on over the years, write three full pages of flow of consciousness by hand first thing in the morning, and it's shocking how good it is for unlocking ideas and working through problems when done consistently.

Totally agree.

To others: The book is called "The Artists Way", and is an excellent guide to become more creative and expressive.

Another recommendation for this.

I've done that for a time, then fell off for the past few years. Today, I'm getting out my journal right after I hit 'send' and I'm doing this. To whoever is reading this and may be in a similar situation, let's start the streak up again today!

EDIT: I did it and am glad I overcame the inertia - it was a little over a whole year since I pulled out the journal, so if whoever out there is still on the fence, give it a shot, it's worth the accomplished dopamine afterwards!

Do you keep a daily journal normally - and for the daily pages, do you have a separate notebook for them, or a folder full of pages, or what?

Thanks for inspiring us!

Not the GP, but my daily journal goes in a proper journal book (though I find the cheapest possible one that has semi-rigid covers) and my freewrites go in cheap wide-ruled composition books.

The only rationale I have for that is the journal form factor holds more words and is easier to pack on trips, when I tend to leave my freewrites behind.