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I agree about clarity, so this is just an aside but that's what makes it a fun experience for me. It's unlike reading anyone else (although I haven't read many authors). I'd say no country for old men was still pretty straightforward, but I had to re-read sentences and whole paragraphs with blood meridian.

The work makes it worth it, makes it that much more rewarding to me personally. It's like choosing to play a difficult videogame, because you know once you overcome it, it'll be great.


I agree, his literary work is unique, and does take a bit more work to read, and with that it includes additional meaning behind it. For example, in The Road often times it doesn't even matter if its the boy or the man saying it.

However, I wouldn't take his advice on how to write for clarity. I too often found myself rereading paragraph, "wait is this description or dialogue", "who said that" - this is not what you want in scientific papers


About collaborative presentation, can't you click on the user icon (usually top right) for whoever's leading and figma will follow the screen to their cursor?

I distinctly remember that it's possible in Miro, and I'm pretty sure figma too. I think the problem you bring up has been pretty much solved.


I was referring to prototype viewing, not the design community


That makes a lot of sense, my bad. I didn't pick up on the presentation part, even after I included the term in my comment. "Present" directly took me to sharing your screen.


Yes you can.


there's a typo in the link, this is the correct link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/


I hate that MacOS hides scrollbars by default. First thing I do when I setup a MacBook is to set it to always show scrollbars.


It is not exactly what you're looking for but this might be a middle ground. It does let you delete things, but after a certain length, you can't do it anymore.

This is the web version of the app: https://write.sonnet.io/


Super clever idea, but ironically my biggest issue re: self-editing is often the first sentence of a draft haha



You might have a typo on the Ensō homepage.

>Ensō works perfectly fine even without internet connecton.

hah, editing to say that I really liked it. I'm stress a lot about how I phrase things and am very conscious about how concise am I when when I'm writing for an audience.


fixed, thank you sacred satan

> hah, editing to say that I really liked it. I'm stress a lot about how I phrase things and am very conscious about how concise am I when when I'm writing for an audience.

Same here. My fluency has improved quite a bit since I started writing daily, but things get much harder when I have to share my work. I'm trying to be more comfortable with sharing things when they're not perfect. Sit was an exercise in that. I wrote about it here: https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/



For me that site has been Lorem pixel. I thought of it as soon as I read the title. Haven't used it in a while so not sure if it is any good now.

https://lorempixel.com

Nevermind, it is down. I just thought that the name was pretty cool and always remembered it.


AFAIK they rebranded as https://picsum.photos/


It works for me here?


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