Comment by simonw
5 days ago
Tell Claude or whatever to read https://tinylittleoffice.com/llms.txt and it will then be able to generate URLs that render documents.
Here's a deck I had it generate about how the URL format works: https://bit.ly/4yRBc1v
thank you, this explains much better, so it's kinda like https://bento.page/
As seen on HN about three months ago, with +1000pts and +230cmnts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008211
Why not just get your agent to write LaTeX? Use the beamer template and get a much more professional, customisable, git-commitable and transferable presentation.
You inspired me to knock together a LaTeX version of the same pattern - lets you drop LaTeX in the URL so you can link to the rendered version.
https://tools.simonwillison.net/latex
Looks cool. I can see this being useful for sharing a single, tiny url rather than a full bulky pdf.
Personally I like to keep my LaTeX tooling local so it can integrate with everything I already use, and I own simple plaintext files.
There is an issue with clipping off the context menu:
https://postimg.cc/0r4jrF59
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Then why not typst? Much faster to render and far more ergonomic/human-understandable when you eventually have to touch something inside.
I prefer to get bleeding edge LLMs to use old, time-hardened technologies. They are more stable, I trust they're not going to change out from under me, and it is more transferable. The ergonomics of the actual markup don't matter to me, since I'm not writing it, so I'd rather the more powerful, more training data option.
Just one example: Every university and academic publication in the world give LaTeX formatting templates, examples courses etc.
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typst is VC-funded, and its longevity is in doubt.
Or typst, did that with my CV.
This was super useful. Thanks.
That last slide with a QR code that purports to embed the entire document/deck is intriguing.
I presume there are practical limits to the file size here?
And images inside slides must be impossible to fit it right away?