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Really great idea! I built something similar for myself but this is looks much much nicer than mine :)


Scratch your own itch always work! Then there is the extra mile of making it work for everyone else, and making it look great. My fiance helped me a lot on the former. She has a lovely taste in color picking!


You should do a Show HN!



While X hasn't been dying just yet, I think this would probably kill it. The value of X comes from both the creators and the free users and lurkers. If it's just full of creators and die-hard lurkers, the value decreases a lot for both.


Incremental improvements add up to big things over time.


I barely use Bard, but I do use the Search Generative Experience and the Bard-in-Google Docs quite a lot. I find both quite useful as they integrate quite well into my daily workflow.


Sorry you didn’t like it dude.

If you have any constructive feedback, that’d be more helpful.


Author here. Comments like this make my day, so thank you!

I’m trying to find old software engineering gems and explain them as simply as possible, so I’m glad you found it simple to understand.

Also, it’s definitely possible to make a clone, but the hard part is getting the users :)


Of course, I do not envision getting users. Only for fun and training - I think having examples of simple solutions to seemingly hard problems in mind makes it easier to come up with one in the future.


Do you have a link to Fabric? My Google Fu is failing me, looks like it might be dead?



Fabric is still an option but nowadays Ansible is probably the closest popular choice for things like that.


I was wrong thruflo pasted the correct link

You are probably right. The Instagram Engineering blog [0] points to the Fabric documentation on Read the Docs [1] which is empty.

"Read the docs" links to the GitHub repo [2] but it's 404 and even the GitHub organization zwsyff888 is gone.

[0] https://instagram-engineering.com/what-powers-instagram-hund...

[1] https://fabric.readthedocs.io

[2] https://github.com/zwsyff888/fabric


Author here. No ChatGPT was used.

Just my own brain reading through old talks and articles from Instagram engineering and Excalidraw for the diagrams.

I did my best to put together all the info I learned from them into a comprehensive and simple manner.


Sources are linked at the bottom of the article!


Any TLDR for those of us who don’t have a subscription?


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