I used this entire HN discussion as the input to a design/task SKILL.md. I asked Claude to prepare the design document and a task list. When it was done, I asked it to implement the task list.

I got this: https://github.com/hughdbrown/visualize-grid-layouts.git

You can follow how this all happened by looking in `docs/design/`.

The SKILL.md had this description:

``` Collaboratively designs a new software feature with the developer. Explores the existing codebase to ground all technical decisions in the project's actual architecture, conventions, and dependencies. Produces two deliverables:

1. *Product Requirements Document (PRD)* — what the feature does, technical decisions, how it operates, and ordered implementation stages.

2. *Detailed Task List* — within each stage, test-first scoped steps covering tests to write, code to implement, config changes, environment variables, dependencies, and documentation.

Both deliverables are written to files in the project for reference during implementation. ```

You can get Claude to produce the skill for you, too.

I am not understanding this.

Propane does not freeze anywhere near -60C. Wikipedia [1] says it freezes (liquid to solid) below -187C and boils (liquid to gas) above -42C.

Propane is probably unusable as a fuel below -42C because there is no vapor leaving the tank [not within my experience]. That is different from the propane being a solid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propane Melting point −187.7 °C Boiling point −42.25 to −42.04 °C

It freezes as pressure drops when you try to use it from the tank. Like how a can of air duster gets cold when you spray it.

I don’t know that it turns to a solid, but it very much doesn’t work past -35C.

Ask anyone that lives in Yukon/Alaska. They’ll tell you.

Ah, you have fallen for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4VJobPBr4

Wasn't the first reference to this joke in the office, also is it just me or do I remember this guy from either breaking bad or the office or (both??)

Was his name neil on breaking bad or the office, I think his name was neil in the office, one of the warehouse workers right?

2003 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/updog

Personally my favorite usage of the joke is from Kitboga:

https://www.facebook.com/Twitch/videos/watch-kitboga-on-twit...

Better Call Saul

This is really interesting, but I need the highlights reel. So I need a script to summarize Hacker News pages and/or arbitrary web pages. Maybe that's what I want for getting the juice out of Medium articles.

Your knowledge of the author of Pingoo makes you more likely to believe that he may have erred? This explanation gains strength for you given your knowledge of his character and personality and professional practices?

When I said I know the author, I meant I know his public internet existence.

https://kerkour.com/announcing-pingoo

He wrote different books about Rust, Cybersecurity, etc.

I just wonder if he may have used, I don't know, a VPN with blacklisted IPs and because he had many connections to his account from it, he was flagged.

I was about to call fake on this -- Americans from south Jersey are largely unfamiliar with the present perfect and would not say "[I] have never heard of" but "[I] never heard of" instead.

But it turns out this grammatical cue is an effective way to discover that the comment is not about an American south Jersey but a British one.

'Racoon', variant of 'raccoon'.

Of course, I prefer the double-c variant because of the orthographic anomaly of the person who tends to the raccoons' area at the zoo, the raccoon-nook-keeper.

I thought it was a peevish Kiwi joke about how people of other nations do not use words as they do.

Yeah, but there is a distinct advantage to using a standard.

Suppose you want your agent to use postgres or git or even file modification. You write your code to use MCP and your backend is already available. It's code you don't have to write.

Are we still writing code?

We write to fix the bullshits from ai.

Came here to understand exactly this point. It made no sense to me that a document created in 1215 would have a copy made in 1300 that was referred to as an original.