You can do the same thing with any install script you might come across today.

True, that's a fair point. Do you think there's any merit to the idea that the UX of asking about a markdown file is more natural than a bash script?

No. Absolutely not. The opposite in fact. Your bash script is deterministic. You can send it to 20 AIs or have someone fluent read it. Then you can be confident it’s safe.

An LLM will run the probabilistically likely command each time. This is like using Excel’s ridiculous feature to have a cell be populated by copilot rather than having the AI generate a deterministic formula.

I would think that the common bash scripts we already have would provide an agent better context for installation than a markdown file, and even better, they already work without an LLM.

This is a "solution" looking for a problem.

I can definitely see where you're coming from and agree to a large extent. I was asking myself that question a lot when thinking about this.

What pushed me over the edge was actually feeding bash install scripts into agents and seeing them not perform well. It does work, but a lot worse than this install.md thing.

In the docs for the proposal I wrote the following:

>install.md files are direct commands, not just documentation. The format is structured to trigger immediate autonomous execution.[1]

[1]: https://www.installmd.org/

Yes, please do!

Google open source the implementation of them which any other browser is free to use.

The Scooter King*.

Mopeds have pedals.

In NYC it's hard enough to get people not to call them e-bikes (even when they are gas powered), I've given up on the scooter distinction (which then also becomes ambiguous with what I can only call "kick-scooters", most of which are not kick-powered these days).

fwiw, Google kills a small part of me every time their captcha asks me to identify the motorcycle but shows me scooters and/or mopeds.

Looks like the answer was 18 minutes.

See, it was a technology topic after all.

This is a hardware reveal trailer. Nintendo likely released this because of all of the recent leaks, which have put their 3rd party accessory vendors in a weird position. More details will be revealed at the Nintendo Direct on the 2nd.

Yes

All of the products you described are just tools that build HTML/CSS for you.

> just tools that build HTML/CSS for you

1. not Figma or Flash: it's not practical or performant to manipulate HTML/CSS to achieve the creative freedom of a vector design tool[0]

2. the rest of these that build on HTML: not a single one of them exposes that code for manual editing, so they're not developer tools and their "alternate layouts" are proprietary + locked away.

The root issue: HTML was not designed to be a substrate for design.

[0] I don't claim this casually; I spent several years seeking to do exactly this with github.com/famous/famous and https://www.haikuanimator.com/

That button conversation is way too real. Front end dev here, and I've probably spent at least 20 hours this year just in meetings about fonts.

I hope you find what you're looking for.