If you had a blog or YouTube channel where you just went around to open source projects optimizing them down, I’d be very interested.

Objectively the best podcast. https://www.acquired.fm/

Previous discussion from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262251

Recent discussion on the follow-up, "The Fifth Kind of Optimisation": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555311

Fairly small change, just some changes to the initial piece placement.

“All Kings, Rooks, Pawns are in their original locations as chess but other pieces are placed randomly in their first and last ranks, with no symmetry requirement between two sides, with the only restriction for bishops of each side must be on different colored squares.”

so the knights and bishops can swap places?

I've been trying to get approval from Google for the sensitive scopes to use IMAP, and they classified us as needing "CASA Tier 3 Security Assessment". It looks like it is going to be a long, tedious, opaque, and expensive process.

What are you building?

An email client for Gmail.

Interesting. I take it you've seen Notion's new product?

Are you aiming to directly compete with Notion/Superhuman?

Edit: I see you're an academic, perhaps my questions are irrelevant

Oh, do I agree…

Don’t trap me in a chat window https://austinhenley.com/blog/trappedchat.html

Natural language is the lazy interface https://austinhenley.com/blog/naturallanguageui.html

My blog is both #142 and #274, nice! (Used to use a university domain.)

The combined score puts me at #71 all time or #31 since 2019 when I started writing. Very cool.

Ah, I didn't realize that your blog had moved. I've merged them, so now you're #74 of all time.

Haskell is listed.

Downloading it now. I didn't know about it. Looks like there are a lot of big names!