Alexis King
@lexi-lambda.bsky.social
computers can be understood • she/her, ⚢ • Chicago
I agree! I think the default HTML renderer is not very helpful. I think it would be reasonable to ship a stripped-down HTML renderer (similar to (blog-render-mixin base-render%) in my blog code) in Scribble itself. It would also be nice to make a custom renderer easier to actually render with.
August 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I agree! I think the default HTML renderer is not very helpful. I think it would be reasonable to ship a stripped-down HTML renderer (similar to (blog-render-mixin base-render%) in my blog code) in Scribble itself. It would also be nice to make a custom renderer easier to actually render with.
In my blog, I don’t just render posts to xexprs. Rather, I render posts to a data structure that includes the post date, tags, and the top part for index pages and RSS feeds. Links to both other posts and external Scribbled docs are stable. Footnotes are automatically collected out of the main flow.
August 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In my blog, I don’t just render posts to xexprs. Rather, I render posts to a data structure that includes the post date, tags, and the top part for index pages and RSS feeds. Links to both other posts and external Scribbled docs are stable. Footnotes are automatically collected out of the main flow.
In practice, it does seem like “@-expressions as a templating language for xexprs” is really what plenty of people want, which is fine. But Scribble is much more than that, and I find a lot of what Scribble provides to be tremendously useful.
August 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In practice, it does seem like “@-expressions as a templating language for xexprs” is really what plenty of people want, which is fine. But Scribble is much more than that, and I find a lot of what Scribble provides to be tremendously useful.
I do not think Pollen is “all the good bits with minimal hoops”. Pollen is essentially just @-expressions as a templating language for xexprs. Scribble is an extensible document model with a multi-pass rendering process that supports cross-references and other cross-document information flow.
August 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I do not think Pollen is “all the good bits with minimal hoops”. Pollen is essentially just @-expressions as a templating language for xexprs. Scribble is an extensible document model with a multi-pass rendering process that supports cross-references and other cross-document information flow.
You can make Scribble output almost anything, but it requires a decent amount of code, and it’s not well documented. My blog is generated with Scribble, and it doesn’t look anything like default Scribble output. My renderer is here: github.com/lexi-lambda/...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
You can make Scribble output almost anything, but it requires a decent amount of code, and it’s not well documented. My blog is generated with Scribble, and it doesn’t look anything like default Scribble output. My renderer is here: github.com/lexi-lambda/...
“soundtrack is way better than the soundtrack to an extremely mid video game ought to be” is a shockingly common phenomenon
July 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“soundtrack is way better than the soundtrack to an extremely mid video game ought to be” is a shockingly common phenomenon
he’s not even really anonymous; his bio references his other account which contains his full name and links to his personal website
June 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
he’s not even really anonymous; his bio references his other account which contains his full name and links to his personal website
Yeah, that’s sort of what I meant by “the UI has value”; it’s useful to have an interactive dialogue of some kind. But there are lots of other ways we have tools provide interactive dialogues (one of them being literally called dialog boxes) and I would like to see more exploration there.
May 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Yeah, that’s sort of what I meant by “the UI has value”; it’s useful to have an interactive dialogue of some kind. But there are lots of other ways we have tools provide interactive dialogues (one of them being literally called dialog boxes) and I would like to see more exploration there.
The UI is like that, but a lot of that is set dressing doing everything possible to create the illusion of working that way, which is why I’m not super fond of the framing. I do think that obviously the UI has value, but I’m not at all convinced there aren’t other UIs that would be more helpful.
May 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The UI is like that, but a lot of that is set dressing doing everything possible to create the illusion of working that way, which is why I’m not super fond of the framing. I do think that obviously the UI has value, but I’m not at all convinced there aren’t other UIs that would be more helpful.
Right, that’s what I mean by “synthesize examples from knowledge in the corpus”. I guess you could say it’s more like asking a question on Stack Overflow and then copying the code in the answer you get, but I actually like that framing less. I find “generative search” more illustrative.
May 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Right, that’s what I mean by “synthesize examples from knowledge in the corpus”. I guess you could say it’s more like asking a question on Stack Overflow and then copying the code in the answer you get, but I actually like that framing less. I find “generative search” more illustrative.
I think AI coding tools are obviously a major innovation in that category because they use a much more sophisticated notion of “search” that can synthesize examples from knowledge contained in the corpus rather than only being able to return examples from the corpus. But it’s the same type of tool.
May 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I think AI coding tools are obviously a major innovation in that category because they use a much more sophisticated notion of “search” that can synthesize examples from knowledge contained in the corpus rather than only being able to return examples from the corpus. But it’s the same type of tool.
I think you’re correct, and I think the quoted post is making a category error. AI coding tools aren’t in quite the same category as PL innovations. They’re in the same category as “copying code off Stack Overflow”. This is not really a disparagement; that category is obviously extremely useful.
May 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I think you’re correct, and I think the quoted post is making a category error. AI coding tools aren’t in quite the same category as PL innovations. They’re in the same category as “copying code off Stack Overflow”. This is not really a disparagement; that category is obviously extremely useful.
honestly I have no idea what joke you’re making here but I’m scared
May 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
honestly I have no idea what joke you’re making here but I’m scared
didn’t I fire you from your position as my pr manager like four years ago
May 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
didn’t I fire you from your position as my pr manager like four years ago
This sounds an awful lot like an admission that you don’t actually know of any concrete examples yourself. Believe me, I don’t have any problems reading papers, but I’m not the one making the claim here! I don’t feel the need to go scrounging for evidence for someone else’s assertion.
May 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This sounds an awful lot like an admission that you don’t actually know of any concrete examples yourself. Believe me, I don’t have any problems reading papers, but I’m not the one making the claim here! I don’t feel the need to go scrounging for evidence for someone else’s assertion.
That glyphosate is harmful to human health in quantities that commonly appear in US food.
May 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
That glyphosate is harmful to human health in quantities that commonly appear in US food.
Do you have any evidence to offer for that claim, seeing as the person I was replying to did not provide any?
May 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Do you have any evidence to offer for that claim, seeing as the person I was replying to did not provide any?
I do not really expect this will convince you. I find most people who buy into this stuff have already made up their minds. Either way, I’m afraid to say you’ve been had. Which is a pity, really: it would be lovely if the cause of so many stubborn health problems turned out to be so simple!
May 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I do not really expect this will convince you. I find most people who buy into this stuff have already made up their minds. Either way, I’m afraid to say you’ve been had. Which is a pity, really: it would be lovely if the cause of so many stubborn health problems turned out to be so simple!
It was only at this point that I bothered to look at the authors’ credentials. The rebuttal was written by members of the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King’s College. Meanwhile, Samsel and Seneff are an “independent scientist and consultant” and a COMPUTER SCIENTIST, respectively!
May 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
It was only at this point that I bothered to look at the authors’ credentials. The rebuttal was written by members of the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King’s College. Meanwhile, Samsel and Seneff are an “independent scientist and consultant” and a COMPUTER SCIENTIST, respectively!
That said, I am not in the business of trusting my hunches on matters I lack expertise in, so I went looking for the opinions of those more informed than me. I quickly discovered a very extensive expert rebuttal that I find quite convincing. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
Frontiers | Facts and Fallacies in the Debate on Glyphosate Toxicity
The safety profile of the herbicide glyphosate and its commercial formulations is controversial. Reviews have been published by individuals who are consultan...
www.frontiersin.org
May 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
That said, I am not in the business of trusting my hunches on matters I lack expertise in, so I went looking for the opinions of those more informed than me. I quickly discovered a very extensive expert rebuttal that I find quite convincing. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
I am not a biologist, but I do have a hobby fascination with crank researchers. This paper ticks a lot of the usual boxes: a grandiose theory that explains many ills, plus some loose connections that suggest at a mechanism while nevertheless lacking the specificity to derive a testable hypothesis.
May 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I am not a biologist, but I do have a hobby fascination with crank researchers. This paper ticks a lot of the usual boxes: a grandiose theory that explains many ills, plus some loose connections that suggest at a mechanism while nevertheless lacking the specificity to derive a testable hypothesis.