What tool makes these readme’s for new github repos that are bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?
maximevalette•7mo ago
Basically any LLM
yapyap•7mo ago
AI, I presume (but I’m not sure) that the code “agent” they are using creates it.
bravesoul2•7mo ago
Tool is an insult when applied to a human...
diggan•7mo ago
Not specifically about readmes/GitHub repos, but I've noticed some LLMs like Sonnet and GPT4.1 are really enthusiastic about doing emoji-prefixed lists for some reason.
dewey•7mo ago
Trained on too many JS libraries.
aritrogh•7mo ago
Not necessarily a helpful thing, In fact I think that we were to use this to create dynamic prompts then it increases exponentially
sunrunner•7mo ago
I think this trend has been around for a while now (it started to become more noticable for me at least a couple of years ago).
At first there seemed to be a correlation between how 'cool' the project was and the number of emoji, but now it seems like it's as expected as just having a README itself.
I've definitely seen _more_ decorated READMEs, and I can't help but feel like there's an inverse correlation between emoji count and readability.
username135•7mo ago
When ever I see tons of emojis in a list/faq/readme I first think of LLM output.
jdironman•7mo ago
I do as well when I see:
# Code Comments Every Few Lines
vanrohan•7mo ago
It's probably LLM generated. Adding a fun/cool factor to the project. I created a Chrome Extension where you can "emojify" any text with a right-click.
https://emoji-bot.com
basemi•7mo ago
If I read it right, it's built on Gmail API
Are there any other provider agnostic tools with similar capabilities?
szszrk•7mo ago
I guess JMAP was created to also deal with this. I'm not sure how far are we in implementation on clients side.
This just polls every x (default 30) seconds; if you use IMAP you can do better with IDLE (e.g. I pipe `fetchmail --check` to something that triggers a sync to immediately get new mails)
_flux•7mo ago
I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.
There are pub/sub notifications but it's a bit of a pain to get working. You need an HTTP endpoint the server can reach for push notifications, I think, not long polling.
kevincox•7mo ago
The GMail web client definitely doesn't create an HTTP endpoint to receive updates. But the API it uses is likely proprietary and private (even if it was built on top of the public API there would be a backend bridging the two)
dataflow•7mo ago
Sorry, yes, my comment was confusing. I was answering the "how do I get faster notifications in a supported manner" part rather than the "how does the Gmail web UI do this" part.
worldsayshi•7mo ago
Is there any good library or tool that let's me programmatically/easily or semi-automatically delete mail by query in gmail? The built in tools are not good enough. Does Thunderbird work with gmail nowadays?
love2read•7mo ago
maximevalette•7mo ago
yapyap•7mo ago
bravesoul2•7mo ago
diggan•7mo ago
dewey•7mo ago
aritrogh•7mo ago
sunrunner•7mo ago
At first there seemed to be a correlation between how 'cool' the project was and the number of emoji, but now it seems like it's as expected as just having a README itself.
I've definitely seen _more_ decorated READMEs, and I can't help but feel like there's an inverse correlation between emoji count and readability.
username135•7mo ago
jdironman•7mo ago
# Code Comments Every Few Lines
vanrohan•7mo ago