> Macros are a bag of worms. Sure, they can be a great source of protein, but will you really see me eating them? I might use worms when I'm fishing, but I don't see much use for them around the home. To express my opinion outside of a metaphor: macros have niche use cases, are good at what they do, but shouldn't be abused. One example of this abuse would be making a turing-complete domain-specific language inside of some macro-supporting programming language.
I’m excited about this book and appreciate your work!
One thing that was distracting was the large title font when I tried to view this site in portrait mode on mobile, as some of the letters are cut off. If that could be fixed, it would help ensure people stay engaged and read it.
You could also potentially use an LLM or something like Grammarly to help proofread it (not edit it).
This fundraiser is important to many at HN, and I think it would be good to consider having some new category of HN like “pinned” for important things that shouldn’t fall off quickly and allow users to suggest a moderator “pin” a post. Similarly pinned things would have “unpin” and a sufficient number of unpins would signal to moderator to unpin it. I’m worried that not everyone will see this because of the normal cycle of posts. You could argue that the current way works well for most things, but pinning is an important part of most forums.
