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by gklitt
534 days ago
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Creator of Wildcard here! Neat to see this pop up on HN after several years. As others have noted, this project isn't under active development anymore. One reason: while I still think there's great potential in browser extensions, I ultimately felt limited by scraping and fetching bits of data from a server, and grew more interested in a deeper overhaul of how we build applications in order to locate more data on the client. Eg: check out this demo [1] of a Wildcard-esque data manipulation but in an app that stores all its data in a client-side database. I'm still continuing this work today, exploring "local-first" architectures at the Ink & Switch research lab, in support of malleable customizable interfaces. It would be interesting to revisit Wildcard now that LLMs exist—I suspect that many of the scraping parts (building "site adapters" in Wildcard parlance) would be far more possible to automate now. A few years ago we explored some semi-automated programming-by-example interactions for scraping [2] but the friction was always really noticeable without any AI support. [1]: https://riffle.systems/essays/prelude/#data-centric-design-e... [2]: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/Joker-LIVE-2022.pdf |
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