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kristi made a front page post about this project. Glad you and others found it valuable.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 5:14 AM on January 24, 2024

Extremely cool. I utterly failed today but want to try it again tomorrow!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 6:53 PM on February 13, 2022

Neat! I took a quick look at the JavaScript and wasn't able to figure out how it worked -- I see the transcript(s) of sessions and I understand that your JS is parsing through it. But how does a user's input affect what is generated? I think I see that if a keyword the user says is explicitly mentioned by a patient in the transcripts, then you set a flag to 1, but then what does that flag do? I last touched JS many years ago so I am likely missing something obvious.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 11:20 AM on December 28, 2021

Tell Me No Lies, thank you for this project.

If it's easy for you to crunch the numbers on unique posters per week and say approximately where it's at now, I'd appreciate it.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 9:58 PM on September 17, 2021

Tell Me No Lies, I did mean unique posters (by which I mean: unique users making front-page posts), thanks. I have made an effort to make frequent posts to the blue and am curious about how rare I am.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 7:14 PM on September 18, 2021

Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 8:37 PM on September 19, 2021

WOW. I had never heard of this book before, I think. I am so grateful to you for making and posting this! I just gulped it down.

What a funny, edifying, and honestly inspiring HOWTO.

The bit about peppermint!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 9:37 AM on February 4, 2021

sammyo: in the release announcement, scroll down to the NEWS section, starting with "* Noteworthy changes in release 2.69b (2020-07-13) [beta]".

Thanks for testing.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 2:13 PM on July 18, 2020

I wrote an LWN article you can now read about the rejuvenation of Autoconf, what it entails, and what's next.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 10:13 AM on October 23, 2020

The 2.69d beta is now out for testing and the NEWS file has more updates.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 9:16 AM on November 12, 2020

2.69e (the release candidate) is now out and my colleague aims to make the 2.70 release on December 8th.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 8:30 AM on December 3, 2020

And 2.70 is now out!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 11:25 AM on December 8, 2020

I'm so happy about this! And oh wow, at least one download version has an index! So fancy!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 2:17 PM on November 2, 2020

There's great danger in imagining one's nation to be inevitably, every-justifiedly the future; there's a contrasting humanity in being able to imagine being the past, being history, and looking with care towards those who follow after.

THIS THIS THIS.

A great piece, a compelling writeup, thank you.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 5:32 AM on August 11, 2020

As a person who used to work in Wikimedia's tech department: happy to see the creative way you are using the API!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 12:54 PM on May 20, 2020

I liked this a lot -- thank you!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 1:22 PM on June 15, 2019

THANK YOU for making and sharing this. Sharing these experiences is so great. The hypnotic nature of "An Ode to the Modern Office", the resonance of "Remote", and the _conversation_ regarding why those two people left -- I appreciate these a lot.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 7:01 AM on February 7, 2019

Obscure Reference, my sympathies; ageism in the industry is awful and rife, and I'm probably going to get hit by it starting pretty soon.

I'm not one of the people in that conversation, but I can cite one specific related part of Brooks's writing. The last time I reread Mythical Man-Month I was struck by the sexism in:

A team of two, with one leader, is often the best use of minds. [Note God’s plan for marriage.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 8:09 AM on February 10, 2019

AWESOME! :)
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 3:37 PM on October 19, 2018

Yeah, the site seems down for me too.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 6:02 AM on September 13, 2017

Thank you for sharing that!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 2:11 PM on June 27, 2017

I know some people who stutter and I particularly appreciate how you illustrate that disability in your story.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 2:13 PM on June 27, 2017

IT IS SO GOOD. It feels like a specification for something that Nike or a similar brand could actually take up and run with. It's amazing.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 5:45 AM on February 23, 2017

Andrhia, can you talk about what, if anything, is particularly realistic or unrealistic in the whole pitching/client briefing process in this story?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 6:18 AM on February 23, 2017

Enjoyable. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by brainwane at 10:39 AM on April 21, 2011