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Tangled is pretty cool. I'm not particularly into atproto, and I think the connection kind of distracts from the reality of what it is and can do.

You can host your git repo on their servers, or your own. You can host issues/pull requests/runners/etc on their servers, or your own. Regardless of where a repo is hosted, you can interact with it from a single account, and with that same account interact with others' repos connected to tangled. Plus it has native jujutsu support, though you can use plain ol' git if you want to, too.

Do I think a forge with those features necessarily needs to use atproto to exist, or that atproto is the ideal version of itself? No, not really. But the site is there, and it has some pretty neat features I want; I don't need to love the stack to use it, any more than I do Github's.


It's okay -- usable but definitely a downgrade from Cursor. Basic pattern matching completion works pretty well, but you won't be zipping around the codebase in the same way as with Cursor, which always seems to be thinking a few steps ahead.

Also check out http://frogfind.com/, it automatically converts results into basic HTML.

Nitpick: the photos are labeled as "Colorized images of the surface of Venus taken by a Soviet Venera lander in 1981", but

1. those photos are from Venera 13 and 14, which were taken in color

2. the photos were taken in 1982 (though the probes launched in 1981)

and 3. those aren't the original photos, they're 'enhanced' ones that have been upscaled and extended to show more of the horizon and sky than the originals. The bottom 1/4 or so is the actual original, give or take a few details that have been changed/added in the upscale process, but the rest is artistic interpretation

You can look at the actual photos here: https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-...


This site suggests it's just a remap:

The Venera panoramas are spherical projections. They can be remapped to perspective projections and overlayed (using Adobe Photoshop CS2) to produce views that give a better subjective impression of the Venusian surface

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm


That does seem to be what the page is implying at first glance; though the images clearly show features not visible in the raw photos, so it can't be the case. I'm guessing that paragraph is actually referring to the 'overhead' image [0] next to the one in question, since it mentions how the remapped perspective makes the uniform shadows apparent.

[0] http://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera13_Overview.jpg


Same with my parents! It's the only one they use. I think the simple and stable web interface goes a long way; the ChatGPT site (for example) bombards you with popups, new buttons, and opaque daily limits, while DeepSeek's is pretty consistent and straightforward.

DeepSeek also tends to follow prompts more closely IME, plus the thinking is shown, so I think it's able to register as a 'tool' more easily for the non-tech-inclined for whom that appeals.


I hadn't heard of this my entire life, but now three times in the past week I've seen it randomly pop up. Did I miss something, or is it just the frequency illusion at work?

edit - interesting, Google trends shows it spiking over the past few months: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0m_7t&date=all&ge...

(also a huge spike in 2014, I wonder what that was about?)


The first season of True Detective on HBO would be responsible for the 2014 spike.

ecode [0] is ridiculously fast -- makes Zed feel like molasses -- and quite customizable. It's still early in development and mostly just made by one guy (who is also developing the GUI framework used), so progress is slow and there are some rough edges, but it has all the important stuff and quite a few niceties too. Really cool project, reminds me of Sublime.

[0] https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode/


thanks for sharing. I'm looking for the next Sublime and this might be it.

Semi off-topic, but does anyone know of good resources for jj that don't assume git knowledge? Steve's and others are high quality, but often things are explained in terms of git equivalents or describe workflows that I struggle to fully understand the purpose of, as someone who knows only the barest basics of git necessary to work on personal projects.

If none exist, I think there's a great opportunity there, for anyone with the knowledge and motivation to make some absolute beginner guides. Already jj is infinitely more user-friendly, and as the tool matures, it isn't far fetched to think a new generation of programmers could go straight to jj without knowing their way around git first.



> This is a tutorial for the Jujutsu version control system. It requires no previous experience with Git or any other version control system.

> At the time of writing, most Jujutsu tutorials are targeted at experienced Git users, teaching them how to transfer their existing Git skills over to Jujutsu. This tutorial is my attempt to fill the void of beginner learning material for Jujutsu.

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!


I'm not immediately aware. There's a certain amount of git-ness embedded in it with it being a DAG, having commits, and being compatible with git remotes. And, since the industry still runs on git, most people will need to learn it somewhat, anyway.


Honestly, until JJ is 1.0, I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. There's significant changes happening to the interface still.


I've been using it in relatively the same way for a while now. The only meaningful changes were native support for `tug` and `absorb`, neither of which significantly changed my workflow.


eh, there have been a good amount of breaking changes. `-d`/`--destination` → `-o`/`--onto` (the former isn't yet deprecated though); deprecated `--allow-new` on push (or, forcibly making it the default for `--bookmark`); deprecated `jj bookmark track foo@bar` (and `jj bookmark track foo` having a really-weird system (I personally just call it broken, even though the behavior is intentional) of sometimes tracking the bookmark on all remotes; really I'd call jj's entire system of bookmark tracking/pulling/pushing quite incomplete outside of the trivial cases); various changed revset functions over time that break configs; and a really-annoying thing of `jj git fetch` sometimes abandoning ascendants of `@` leaving you in a confusing state (if not one with conflicts), with the solution being a future `jj git sync`.

It's certainly very usable despite all that, and the changes are simple enough to adapt to, but it's a pretty new thing.


I think for a real neophyte jj will be fine especially when used with the git backend.

Someone who "knows enough to be dangerous" may be better served by sticking with the git happy-path.

Of course, if working with others you should use what they do until you're confident that you can switch without impacting them.


Man, same here, those early days of Cursor were mindblowing; but since then autocomplete has stagnated, and even the new Cursor version is veering agentic like everything else.

I hope if/when diffusion models get a little more traction down the line it'll put some new life into autocomplete(-adjacent) workflows. The virtually instantaneous responses of Inception's Mercury models [0] still feel a little like magic; all it's missing is the refinement and deep editor integration of Cursor.

On the subject of diffusion models, it's a shame there aren't any significant open-weight models out there, because it seems like such a perfect fit for local use.

[0] https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/


We didn't find evidence of life on the asteroid; rather, we found the necessary building blocks for it, which, in the right environment (e.g. earth), could become life.

If anything it slightly moves the scales toward abiogenesis, since it implies the necessary precursors to life were common in the early solar system, though it's certainly not conclusive either way.


> moves the scales toward abiogenesis

Or the warm early universe hypothesis. In its early life, the entire universe was at a temperature that could sustain liquid water literally anywhere. The idea being, in this hypothesis, life was literally everywhere and then went dormant.


I thought that temperature era predates the availability of oxygen with which to form water?


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