Posted by faza 5 hours ago
I skimmed various sections. I found the animations pleasant, the text readable, and the content clearly not slop.
The historical context of the telegraph was interesting, and the treatment of bandwidth vs. latency was thoughtful.
I think it’s too long; I don’t think many people who don’t already know most of this material will read it, but I enjoyed the parts I read. Nice work!
Put the visualization and a short explainer, then have additional content show up if the reader drills in.
I don't think there is anything wrong with the content being run through an LLM. Networking is crazy complicated.
https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/software/
That's 100+ pages of in-depth technical writing in a matter of days. Amazing, really amazing. Also, not something that a human can do.
And FWIW, Pangram classifies vast swathes of "your" article as entirely AI-generated. Yes, I know the tool is not perfect, but between your superhuman productivity, and all the subjective tells, and the output from that tool, it goes onto my mental "AI slop" pile.
What I can't understand is why people can't just own it that they used a chatbot and that it was more than just "for review".
At HN, there should be some tag explaining the project is vibe coded.
I have to control output everytime but after 25 years in magazine layout I know what has to be controlled.
Tailwindcss has typography plugin named prose. And shadcn/ui recently published typeset package as well.
Emilkowalski/skills is good too.
Just add something more specific into prompt and the result will be much better. Cheers.
The term itself seems to have lost its real meaning however.
- for a blog to qualify as stier, it must animations and visualizations to explain the idea in a way that even a 5 yr old can understand
- a tier is information heavy like authentic guides from betterstack
- everything else goes below b tier
- one day i ll share my list of 10000 blogs on hackernews, it ll blow the people s mind as i have been doing this for a while now