Comment by pshc on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 · 2014-09-12T19:46:31.894Z · LW · GW

Just wanted to say: thanks for the ideas!

Comment by pshc on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 · 2014-09-12T19:31:35.457Z · LW · GW

Turns out AlienBlue did release their original version as open source, but the code is four years out of date! Hmmm.

Yeah, I would probably end up scraping the HTML. I filed a bug about .json being broken two years ago, but even if it were fixed, it seems that LW has quite a few customizations that the JSON output likely has not caught up to...

Comment by pshc on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 · 2014-09-12T08:50:23.840Z · LW · GW

Imagining:

• Easy to read layout (I find myself doing a lot of zooming and panning in Mobile Safari)
• Download articles and sequences for offline reading
• Comments that are easy to read, vote on, and reply to on mobile, similar to e.g. popular reddit apps
• Free as in beer and speech

Welcoming other features that would draw users, too. I have to wonder if there are open source Reddit clients I could adapt, given the forked codebase...

Comment by pshc on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 · 2014-09-12T04:57:26.728Z · LW · GW

Would there be any interest in an iPhone app for LessWrong? I was thinking it might be a fun side project for learning Swift, and I didn't see any search results on the App Store.

Comment by pshc on Meetup : Vancouver Big Monthly · 2012-07-11T18:18:52.090Z · LW · GW

I'll be there! Probably can't stay more than two hours.

Comment by pshc on Meetup : Need more people for Vancouver meetup · 2012-01-23T23:37:35.375Z · LW · GW

Sorry for missing the latest one. By the way, are you doing any more talks at the VHS? -Paul