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red_hare
103 days ago
This is beautiful and highly readable but, still, I yearn for a detailed line-by-line explainer like the backbone.js source:
https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
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tomjakubowski
103 days ago
I believe that Backbone's annotated source is generated with Docco, another project from the creator of CoffeeScript.
https://ashkenas.com/docco/
It's really neat. I wish I published more of my code this way.
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ashish01
103 days ago
That is really beautiful literate program. Seeing it after a long time. Here is a opus generate version of this code -
https://ashish01.github.io/microgpt.html
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subset
103 days ago
Andrej Karpathy has a walkthrough blog post here:
https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/
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OJFord
103 days ago
That is the article being discussed.
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subset
103 days ago
Gosh, tired brain moment apologies. I thought it'd linked to the original code gist.
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easygenes
103 days ago
It did before, link was changed.
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altcognito
103 days ago
ask a high end LLM to do it
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https://ashkenas.com/docco/
It's really neat. I wish I published more of my code this way.