In this snippet I introduce a work-in-progress comment system I'm calling "Ask Me Anywhere". Ask Me Anywhere lets you ask a question at any point in the post.

Give it a try. Simply click between two paragraphs or double click on a paragraph to open a comment box.

I put this together in Jan 2020. Since then, I've actually introduced a second comment system on my website: Discord!

You can give that one a try too. Scroll to the bottom of the post, and click Discussion. That will open a topic-specific Discord channel inline on the post. You can use it to discuss the snippets or any of my other snippets on the same topic.

I think it's surprising and cool that you can embed Discord discussions in a website like this. And as a bonus, you can leave comments anonymously / without logging it. If someone replies to your comment, it's updated immediately (like chat), rather than requiring a refresh (like a naive comments implementation.)

The "Ask Me Anywhere" comments are private, whereas the Discord comment section is public, as is more typical of web comments.

My goal with these comments threads is just to make it super easy to get discussions started. I suppose part of me prefers 1:1 discussions, but the private vs public distinction isn't so critical. Just looking to connect!