(See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132906 for a bit of recent context)
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Made it with React, Vite, firebase via Typescript. It’s a really different world for sure.
Right now making improvements based on the feedback.
I tried it a while back, and wasn’t too thrilled with the way Apple has structured their ML stuff (they basically only afford very specific applications, which didn’t match my workflow).
It was suggested that I revisit it, so I am.
First time writing C and the task has been both daunting and rewarding, I am mostly working hls enc/dec and learning about av has been a ton of fun!
The most recent site is https://computerdisplayprices.com
When I’m done, I’m probably going to make a blog post or two just talking through the automation I figured out so far. LLMs are amazing force multipliers.
https://chip8.dotslashdan.com/
I added the ability to import/export ROMs and finally added some of documentation.
...Plenty bugs left to fix
To help Londoners find their perfect home by filtering for proximity to parks, river, PoIs, commute time, etc.
The website is not optimized for mobile and customers have to pay to access the functional filters/properties.
Goal is to automate or reduce the grunt work oncall engineers have to do.
Code is here: https://github.com/opslane/opslane
And I took my new quadcopter drone out and did some flying last night for the first time. As in, my first time flying a drone, ever. The results were... predictable. Let's just say, I bought a cheap (< $100) drone for a reason. This thing will wind up destroyed. In less than an hour I managed to crash it into fences, walls, bushes, cars, dumpsters, the ground, an armadillo, Elvis Presley, a 1974 AMC Gremlin, and Nickelback. Well, more or less.
It brought to mind this famous scene[3] from the movie Days of Thunder:
Harry: I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car.
Cole: Hit the pace car?
Harry: Hit the pace car!
Cole: What for?
Harry: Because you hit every other god-damned thing out there and I want you to be perfect.
[1]: https://jacamo-lang.github.io/
It has 90% of the features that I wanted, and now I am working on what my users want.
I wanted a way to define new Arbitraries that's easier than working with .map(), .chain(), .oneOf(), and other combinators that require you to think in terms of sets. It has those combinators, but you can also write code to randomly generate one value at a time. It uses an approach to shrinking that's inspired by Hypothesis.
Along the way, I ended up adding a Domain subclass, which also does validation like Zod. Not sure where I'm going with that, but it's also useful for generating unique keys.
(The documentation isn't done and doesn't explain what's interesting about it. Caveat: it's Deno-only, and will probably stay that way unless someone wants to help.)
Regardless, keep up the good work!
Writing and editing SQL queries on the phone can get tedious. Rather than just giving users a tiny textfield, I am exploring if there are better ways to build SQL queries on a touchscreen
Here's the makeshift landing page: https://getselectable.com/
I’d love to get feedback on what can be done to improve the website to feature prominantly for local search when people need rubble removal near them.
I'm still contemplating what I want the final form to look like, but currently it's a 5 kg load cell and a floating idler and an rp2040 reading values via hx711.
I released the first playtest of the alpha a few days ago, which you can try directly in your browser:
It's an incident management platform, similar to Pagerduty, Rootly or FireHydrant.
It's the first side project I've open sourced, and I've been hacking on it weekends and nights. Hoping to get a few companies to start using it to get some early feedback.
I'm knee deep into coding 6 days per week as I'm building a startup and working right now on an "easy" solution for merging xls (yes xls) from some external company with our internal json, and I needed to let my keyboard rest for a day.
It's convincing me that our company should allocate a yearly budget to donate to OSS for stuff like the xlsx package.
We’re selling it to developer teams to help with QA
Very early stage right now but I hope to release alpha soon. I'm already using it privately right now but there's a lot to do to make it user friendly.
Main use-case right now is shoppable live streams. Getting about 20,000 shoppers a month currently.
Demo: https://www.sneakinpeace.com/ Repo: https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream
I understand it's very reductive and simplified, but for every task there are alternative ways to reach the goal, and from my historical experience, everyone does everything differently. Some things can be optimized significantly, if others just knew about the possibilities.
Working as a consultant, but no extra energy or will to create anything outside of work.
Kids are getting bigger, and I have time.... but no will, or maybe it's just fear, to start anything.
A delightfully simple blogging-by-email app, Pagecord (https://pagecord.com). $20/yr.
A delightfully simple, all-in-one RSS reader (web and PWA), Feedgrab (https://feedgrab.net). FREE!
Very early days (built quickly!) but both products are fully functional with customers.
I have a lot of ideas around content discovery for Feedgrab.
Give them a spin, I’d love to know what people think.
We're continuing to develop and refine our core offerings at Elefunc:
RTCode.io is our real-time web development playground for HTML, CSS, and JS. It provides instant feedback - as you code, you see the results immediately. A key feature is our support for in-editor Workers, allowing developers to write and test backend code directly in the playground.
These Workers integrate seamlessly with RTEdge.net, our global, multi-cloud edge network. RTEdge.net offers distributed hosting with auto-scaling capabilities, giving developers a powerful platform to deploy and scale their applications worldwide.
We're also running rt.ht, which we tout as the world's shortest SaaS eTLD.
Our focus remains on providing developers with robust tools for real-time web development and edge computing. We're always looking to improve the integration between RTCode.io and RTEdge.net to streamline the development and deployment process.
If you're interested in real-time web technologies or edge computing, we'd love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions about our platform.
I think the biggest issue is that when an user makes a chargeback they don't pay you. Which makes the 20% cut they take a bit too much in my opinion.
Also the marketplace is getting full of people abusing free APIs for money.
Just today, I finished first working version of the new compiler (https://github.com/ubavic/mint). It is written in Go, and there are lot of things on the TODO list, but it works :)
This is actually the second compiler for the atex. The first one was written in Haskell and compiled fixed document schema. I used it for writing a book on Haskell (https://github.com/ubavic/programming-in-haskell).
I’m using it personally as a transcribed voice-note system.
https://athens.winterdelta.com/playlist/536a9778-cd9d-4491-8...
I think your work was mentioned on our team channel this week.
I found these papers to be pretty interesting:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10638 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02357
Anything else I should be reading?
(Source code at https://bgammon.org/code)
"This team member, and this other team member are both filing a particular kind of report but are doing so in very different ways, is one of them more effecient?"
I like it. Seems like there could be lots of ways to automate the creation of SOP for many businesses. I do wonder how high level of tasks it could pick up on. Though maybe that gets better with a bigger context window.
I read the abstract a while ago and I was fascinated by the methodology.
Essentially combining the softness of fine count cotton with the weight and durability of a heavier garment.
Also a lot of ERP, warehouse, UI work and fun with Cursor.
About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc.
The other 50% I’m writing code and building out the tech stack for this business. I’ve written the whole backend for the retail site myself, which includes my own inventory management system, sync with eBay and other marketplaces, etc.
I’ve also built out a research tool which includes an ML price prediction engine engine (which sounds fancy but is really just a tabular regression model).
Backend is written in Crystal because I love the language and there’s nobody stopping me from using it :) Frontend is all Svelte and they’re glued together using a mini framework I wrote:
https://github.com/noahlh/celestite
I probably have 5 years worth of ideas I still want to build and I wish I could spend even more time building it all, but it’s super fun actually using it in the real live marketplace so I’d never give that up.
Happy to chat about this stuff with anyone who’s interested or vaguely interested in numismatics.
Starting with emails, calendars and attachments. Integrations for Slack, LinkedIn, Stripe, databases, even web crawl are coming...
This branch has updated readme:
https://github.com/brainless/dwata/tree/feature/prepare_mvp_...
It'd be a basic guide that says do a,b,c,d,e,f,g to give me 10 cents, where a-g is
a) create a Coinbase account
b) fund it
c) buy some crypto
d) install a wallet
e) move the crypto to the wallet
f) connect the wallet to my website,
g) send 10 cents my way
it's not going to offer any choices of crypto and wallet, just a proof of concept to document that the rails do exist today.
The primary feature that I'm implementing p2p synchronization (similar to syncthing, although the prototype use tailscale); append-only storage for easy backup and an "api" for easy integration/synchronization with external sources like RSS feed for example, all working offline.
Right now I'm using various software to manage my digital life (Zotero, Keepass, Syncthing) but i want to consolidate since I'm having trouble keeping all properly synced and backed)
I wish you luck because there are a lot of good ideas in here. Running locally and remote debugger are the most exciting to me.
* Analyzes candidate information
* Examines job descriptions
* Generates unique CVs and cover letters for each job
* Answers specific questions that recruiters ask
* Automatically applies to jobs
https://teamsays.com — Team-Changing Anonymous Feedback where you can set up a private channel for understanding what’s going on in your teams.
https://usemanor.com — AI concierge for real estate brokers.
https://joinsymbol.com — Manipulate text with translations, JSONs, and other revisions with AI. Provides an API for using in your apps, etc. CMS on top AI basically.
https://fullmoonchat.com – AI esoterics.
My current strategy is to go inch deep, mile wide. I don’t want all of my eggs in one basket any more. Basically doing a VC model using my portfolio of products.
Holler at me if you want to chat about these products or if you have any ideas you want to build.
Just returned from a trip that I planned using the extension and can't imagine planning it as fast any other way!
I recently released version 1.0 in July, which allows you to voice chat (TTS and STT) with almost any chatbot site (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude).
Next, I'm thinking of building a 3D talking avatar to make it feel like a personal companion is chatting with you.
On the side (with very little spare time), a set of Scrabble-related apps: for studying, AI, and playing. (See https://github.com/domino14 for more info)
I just love code too much.
https://github.com/AmberSahdev/Open-Interface
Working on testing local LLMs right now.
As an experienced drone pilot - if you can, DJI is unbelievable at stopping you from crashing. Start there to get the feel of it (and more importantly not get frustrated and give up)
If you want to learn more freestyle without assistance, i can't recommend enough getting a simulator on your computer and crashing a digital drone a million times first. It's much cheaper. I think there is a lot out there now but i used Liftoff for many hours before i tried to fly a proper drone
Posts in draft:
- "The next evolution of my product studio"
- "With AI, data isn't evil any more"
- "The AI mullet strategy"
- "COGS analysis on AI products"
- "Two-tier tech companies"
Happy to talk more about this with anyone. If you're at all interested in "software to make your team run better" I'd really love to hear what you're having trouble with and how your team runs, maybe I can figure out a way to help you, even if it's not at all related to what I've built already.
Next, I will try to build something using RL next but try not to use the Gym/Farama stuff to force myself to learn this from scratch.
EDIT: is there any way I could set up an alert for when you add some non-US currency into stock?
An automated dubbed translation service. Supports translation into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. The other options on the market often have jarring audio artifacts and glitches, which Audiomatic avoids.
My friends and I are currently working on improving the voice quality and adding new features.
Outside of that, I've been blogging a lot more (https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/ - August looks so full, ha) and now I'm writing about things I'm reading too (https://www.jacky.wtf/links/). Been doing this to try to ween off social media and rely on places like this to share stuff.
Been working on this for nearly 2 years now and it’s been cool seeing people use it daily, some definitely a lot more than I do. I still feel like it’s not even close to its full potential; infinite more things to add but most often a joy for me to work on.
One thing I like a lot about Buck Mason is that their T-shirts are made in America from American-grown cotton, are any of your T-shirts made in America?
EDIT: just ordered a variety of your shirts, looking forward to trying them out. Very easy checkout experience!
Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that ensures the place you're in is the best fit for you.
Enter your preferences, narrow down locations, and compare them:
You can even buy the app itself on it. It’s going to be my starter for all other projects too, so I’m adding all the common CRUD app features. Also it aims to be lowest cost possible, which is free for now. I try not to tie it to specific technologies when possible to make it as easy as possible to switch providers in the future.
It's fairly a simple implementation but I am looking forward to thinking about monetization.
Right now I have ALMOST 10k user installs. It's called Gemini Sidepanel [1] if you're interested in checking it out.
Scams usually start with messages. Predominantly SMS/email sent with links.
ML models exist to determine this, but we are prototyping using Gemma2 2b to utilise its natural language understanding to see if a better firewall could be built, one which users can talk to.
It has been surprisingly easy to get started on this project: https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/genai/llm_inf...
We want to subsequently build a firewall for Calls, too; but that's a more challenging problem given its dynamic and online / realtime nature.
Hope to integrate these two features in our existing network firewall open source app.
I’m using this precious expanded free time to compose music, my primary form of artistic expression.
Software-wise, I’m on a platform team for a large company. I’m making some performance enhancements to our http client, and a plug-n-play library for app devs to easily integrate LLMs in their products.
(supports desktop only for now)
Spec generation from request logs, automatic schema generation and validation, test generation (eventually), totally offline, no accounts or cloud sync necessary!
Been taking longer than I hoped but should be released soon (next week or two)
An example of it in action: https://streamable.com/2mxktc
Source code: https://github.com/beef331/potato
This is essentially an IDE with LLM support to help design CSS and HTML. Currently Tailwind only but I may add other frameworks and Vanilla support.
The editor itself isn't available yet, but I've got a Github readme that explains the concept a bit more: https://github.com/matry/editor
Eventually I'll do a ShowHN, once I get a stable version that I feel comfortable demoing.
It's built using C# and WPF, and a related project I work on is an open source MVVM framework called UpbeatUI for making WPF apps that behave vaguely like mobile apps. It's for apps that have a main bottom layer and modal popups that float above and can be closed by clicking/touching the background. Pulselyre uses UpbeatUI, and I actually originally extracted UpbeatUI from a much older version of Pulselyre.
Finished a feature to convert Markdown's fenced divs nested within blockquotes into the following XHTML:
<blockquote>
<div class="name"> ... </div>
</blockquote>
> ::: simul
> Simultaneous section 1.
> :::
>
> ::: simul
> Simultaneous section 2.
> :::
So this weekend, I'm building some processes and marketing materials and doing some outreach.
I decided to build a multiplatform app with SwiftUI to test out the waters. So far, learning SwiftUI and building an app is somehow both easier and harder than expected, but I'm glad to see something new.
I'm planning to write a series of apps in the next 6 months, so that I build confidence shipping apps with SwiftUI and maybe find a smaller contract with it.
It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from scratch.
I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look harder than it actually is. In its essence, the syntax is very simple, and the vocabulary is quite basic. There are only a few things you need to know to be able to code an attractive and flexible responsive web page. For comparison, I find programming backends much more difficult.
Even though I've been working on this project for almost a year, I decided that next month will be the day I finally launch it.
It lets you view and edit plasmid sequences, features, and primers, and has some tools like automatic primer creation for cloning, primer QC, protein sequence viewing, and interop with common file formats.
- Most teams that I'd sell to use Github PRs to write code.
- Looking at PRs, the "common unit of change" of most teams, lets Devlog work for teams regardless of how they end up merging in changes (merge commits vs squash vs rebase... doesn't matter because the PR is what is reviewed and submitted)
- I believe that part of being a great engineer is learning how to describe (a) what your code does, (b) why you're making the change, and the PR title+description is where we as an industry expect you to communicate this information.
- A commit history filled with great PR titles+descriptions is extremely valuable for your team and only becomes more valuable over time, so building tools that analyze this and incentivize you to do a better job of writing good titles+descriptions is good for your whole team.
I'm extremely open to looking at different sources of information (Linear/Jira/Github tickets; the diff itself; ???) if it improves the product. What were you thinking it should look at?
Together Gift It solves the problem just the way you’d think: with AI.
Just kidding. It solves the problem by keeping everything in one place. No more group texts! You can have private or shared gift lists, and there are some AI features like gift idea collaboration and product search. But the AI stuff is still a work in progress.
I’m grateful for any constructive feedback.
It's been fun to work on as I can throw in whatever neat ideas I want since I'm not trying to fit it into a neat category. For instance, I was experimenting with a multi-column browsing experience after I saw a post here [2] for inspiration. The UI could work like TweetDeck but for your notes. Not 100% sure yet if it works, but I'll be doing more prototyping.
Right now I'm revamping the sync system and other runtime parts as I'm realizing that once you start amassing lots of posts, it gets bogged down a bit. I probably could've architected some of it a bit better at the start, but I tend to try to release stuff as early as I can to force myself to ship and to see what people think.
1. https://minders.ussherpress.com/ 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203
https://github.com/jonroig/usBabyNames.js
We're engineers, we want to make data-driven decisions about what we name our children. My app won't necessarily help you choose a name, per se, but it can assist in eliminating a lot of possible names, giving you a much smaller set of choose from, each of which you can research more. So... like filter by name origin, length, popularity, etc..
Why not Nix? I just don’t like the Nix language. Plus, it seems like they ended up reinventing part of Lisp with their Flakes, which made me even more convinced in using GUIX. The GUIX folks didn't disappoint me, as they utilized the full power of Scheme to design a (internal) DSL that is clean and almost reads like JSON/YAML. I feel quite confident that it’s a better language for building devenvs for most people. The only downside is that it can get really verbose, but, hey, at least you have full control.
I basically want that to be open and free. I'll have an app to easily create albums, and have the ability to connect to any storage or montage service you like. You could even make your own app connect to your own storage and montage service, so it can be completely diy. I have a few write-ups but I'm transferring it to notion at the moment so I won't link it just yet.
My other idea is a "bill hamper / consolidation" service, that I'm doing for my sister. She pays me a flat fee each week and I pay all of her bills for her. Gives her peace of mind and allows her to save some money without stressing on paying random bills
Keeping key bits of the idea to myself. If this admittedly vague idea excites you let's find some time to talk.
[0] https://soapbox.host/ [1] https://wednesdayatninepm.com/
the goal is to be a lightweight alternative to pgadmin/dbeaver. it has vim-like keybindings, shortcuts to preview tables, and session history.
it only supports postgres at the moment, but sqlite and mysql support are on the roadmap.
You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”
The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
“The poorest service is repaid with thanks.”
The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
Pretty funny!
I am trying to build so that there is little vendor lock-in (you can export your users to other auth providers, billing is integrated directly into your stripe account, etc) so that you still have the choice to migrate if you ever feel unhappy with the service
I am almost done with the landing page and don't think I'll put much more into it, and will continue working on the API itself. But I still plan on adding a playable game into the 3D scene just for the sake of it and to learn. But so far I'm struggling at projecting a 3D camera render to a texture inside an already existing 3D context.
[0] https://the-project-e609e.web.app/ (temporary domain for development)
2. An edtech app to learn coding efficiently. AI will certainly enable 100x developers, but we must first train 1x devs.
Features: structured learning, a curriculum designed by humans, AI assistance for when stdents get stuck, code samples and project based learning, covers different languages (we start with Ruby, Rust and JS, with more to be added), and technologies (CL, Nushell, SQL - again more to be added), numerous exercises. Think of it as an improved version of w3schools and the like.
One reason I am disclosing this online is to hold myself accountable.The other is in hope of finding an angel investor.
It's a demo of an idea. It could be an app too, but I'd much rather it be a CoreOS service that is user controlled.
Looking for organizational and privacy first support soon.
We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.
Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service
It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basics of it working now, need to polish the UI and add the commenting and highlighting features.
I’m using Next.js and Supabase, neither of which I’ve used before so it’s been a fun but often frustrating process. Claude has been an amazing assistance, fixing my mistakes and countless type errors.
[0]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-feature... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494
Besides building the ideas I have in mind around how UAT could be improved for both devs and clients (users). My other goal is to encourage more Malawians to consider Go as a programming language for shipping solutions in, my Go evangelism has been working slowly but I think people need to see something they can appreciate to get more people onboard.
Also working on a personal finance app in Flutter for young Africans, but that's not public yet :)
Buck Mason makes great tees. Our flagship tees use 100% American-grown Supima Cotton and are similar in weight to their classic Pima ones.
The Heavy Crew is closer to their Field Tee— ours is likely not as heavy but softer and more durable due to twisting two fine cotton yarns into one before knitting. They’re made in our own facility in Southern India.
I’ve been refining our fabrics for nearly ten years to get the best fit and feel, sticking with cotton for its comfort. More on our fabrics here: https://www.marchtee.com/us/difference
Thanks for commenting on the checkout! We’re gradually rolling out stateside, so any feedback is welcome—just reply to the order email anytime.
I based it off of an old win32 application that is no longer receiving updates. Release cadence has been about once per month.
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
Think: Encrypted DMs for Mastodon. I wrote several blog posts about the project and why it matters.
https://soatok.blog/2024/08/21/federated-key-transparency-pr...
https://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transpa...
https://soatok.blog/2022/11/22/towards-end-to-end-encryption...
Eventually I plan on doing a "Show HN" post when it's built and close to feature-complete.
The key idea is that I'll try explain UI/UX by redesigning a big application (with old UI and poor UX), combining theory with real-world practice.
I'm trying to position my app less like a traditional journal and more of a "jot down quick thoughts" place, hence the social media-like interface. But I also want to add more zettelkasten-like features as well, so it's kind of a shoebox app for whatever you want to keep track of for later.
Recently I’ve been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql against this data, and this past week I’ve been working with d3 to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey
I'm a CEO of a small consulting company, and I love working with startups ( or hate working with huge companies, matter of perspective ), and I always thought that to be better at that we have to be able to launch our own stuff.
Also, I never launched anything solo, working alone is hard for me so this was a challenge. I want to continue working on it on the side for a while.
The main audience for now would be basketball players that want to dunk, or anyone that wants a good leg workout and track the progress.
Embracing the solitude and the mindset that no one is coming to save me has sparked a bunch of motivation (out of spite) to improve myself. Started to workout regularly which has been a huge help for my mind and body. Starting to peel back layers of things that happened during childhood now.
Wish you the best of luck on your journey.
I'm currently thinking about how to robustly Integrate different edit sources like iCloud, obsidian sync, git, and yjs updates. I think it could be cool to create a crdt persistence format that can live alongside markdown files (like note.md + note.md.crdt) to support edit history tracking from multiple users and their devices.
More plausible scenario is them becoming an abandonware, but even in those cases the community can carry the torch.
$ sqlite3 x.db 'create table foo(a,b,c)'
$ time for year in {1880..2023}; do
sqlite3 x.db '.import yob'$year'.txt foo --csv';
done
real 0m1.359s
user 0m1.013s
sys 0m0.323s
$ sqlite3 x.db 'select count(*) from foo'
2117219
Obviously that needs tweaked to store the year in a column, but it shouldn't run for more than a few seconds. Those csv files are the furthest thing from "big data".
Dunno if it helps, but just know most of us are at least a bit of a mess. Life is messy. I once took two years off of regular work (we were fortunate to have enough savings to do it) and made two music albums, the first album based exclusively on hard things that either I or people very close to me went through. The process of fleshing out the songs and lyrics was incredibly therapeutic for me.
Here’s a link to it in case you’re interested. I had a fraud issue with Spotify, but the album is up everywhere else. https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/boudwin/ccCe/
I've been working on and off on building an app for learning chest x-ray interpretation, but that's shelved until I finish applications.
It uses QuickJS compiled to WASM in the backend to sandbox JavaScript execution.
I recently left a startup I had cofounded after a few years because we were a remote team and I came to the conclusion that we weren't going to be successful without working together in person. I wanted to make this site to help people like me use location as an early filter to find good companies and teams to work with. Let me know if you have any feedback!
I got lazy during COVID but stuff seemed hard to get done and I wasn't really in the mood to try harder.
Using a lot of off the shelf AI and pushing the limits of what’s possible.
Really fun.
Fair. I'm sure there are waaaay more efficient ways to load that into the db. That said, it's one of those things - like, where do I wanna spend my time -- sorting that out, something I only gotta do once a year and I can basically push "go" and walk away -- or something else. It's not like I gotta keep turning the crank.
... and, of course, PRs are welcome :)
I am building reading clubs for my custom library - on top of crypto tech, and in the process, I have experimented with several book reader tech. pdf.js, muPDF and some other tools, which one did you settle on?
My lib: https://datapond.earth
I thought zsh parsed man pages to get available options/subcommands.
The only difference here is that the program will switch on the fly between different algorithms depending on which one that can compress file smaller.
It can compress 1 GB file (enwik9) down to around 230 MB. Pretty good I guess for something that I worked in my spare time.
I'm not publishing it yet, since I'm still experimenting with it a lot.
My quests (goals) with this digital garden are:
1. Publish more than I did when I just had space for essays, which hopefully leads to…
2. Getting more input from people on my ideas
3. And have fun futzing with my digital garden technically
So far, so good!
(my goal with mininext is to provide index.php like productivity but with all of npm and typescript at your fingertips)
currently busy using it to build things. will document everything in detail soon.
Our purpose is modeled to give sales and marketing skills to non-sales people. Just like how Canva gave design powers to non-design people.
We believe everyone has to have the skill to sell and market themselves or their product. Yet the only trend that does not change is understanding your customer/prospect.
AI agents help with this.
Check us out: godmodehq.com
Insnare: https://www.insnare.net/
A head-hunting/recruitment application to search companies and people based on their skills and experience. Currently focused on Australian market.
It's also for people who are looking for jobs. The goal there is to help to find good companies which have high (or low) concentrations of people with certain skills/attributes.
Saasufy: https://saasufy.com/
A no-code/low-code platform for building apps without code. Insnare is built with and runs on Saasufy. This freed me up from having to write back end code for Insnare and made the front end code very small.
It is an experiment for the exploration of the free aspect of blockchain storage, where the book library is now permanently hosted on the blockchain, and it's content voted upon by its members.
The licence is based on creative commons, and enforces that the data is decentralized and doesn't need any account, or wallet, to use.
There is also the creation of a new label, the D-Safe label, for a safe experience across generations.
A fun side project - which I have been working on for several years now - rewriting it fully already 10 times - and been restructuring my mental health around it.
A way to follow creators and not specific podcasts
seems like you guys also have grading services
So lately I've been working on a "v2" that exposes a full superset of GLSL, so you can write arbitrary shaders -- even foregoing SDFs altogether -- in a high-level lisp language. The core "default" raymarcher is still there, but you can choose to ignore it and implement, say, volumetric rendering, while still using the provided SDF combinators if you want.
The new implementation is much more general and flexible, and it now supports things like 2D extrusions, mesh export for 3D printing, user-defined procedural noise functions... anything you can do in Shadertoy, you can now do in Bauble. One upcoming feature that I'm very excited about is custom uniforms and embedding in other webpages -- so you can write a blog post with interactive 3D visualizations, for example.
(Also as a fun coincidence: my first cast bronze Bauble arrived today! https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883)
You can see some of my world-noodling about aliens that don't need to breathe at: https://rznicolet.com
I've been plotting a series of hard sci-fi novels entirely from the point of view of very not-humanoid aliens. In this case, hard SF = all real physics except for FTL. First manuscript complete. Humans not included in the main series, except as passing footnotes. Let's just say that when I originally started, the pandemic had me feeling a touch misanthropic. We'll see when/how I actually publish these.
I write fantasy stuff, too, though since the blog is relatively new, I haven't started adding that in yet. I'm currently wrapping a sequel to a finished fantasy work (again, publication approach TBD) before switching back to relatively hard sci-fi.
Think Omegle, but only text, and based around common interests.
Since I'm just one guy with 100 ideas, I have to try to apply my skills where they can have the most impact. My current project is converting existing circuits from Fritzing format (which is usually displayed graphically) into a textual format. I wrote about it in these three blog posts:
1. Premise, ways to represent circuits: https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-1/
2. Why Fritzing? https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-2/
3. Actual output examples: https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-3/
I'm also working on a 3D printed single character Braille cell that can be added to any Arduino project, and has only 3 simple parts to assemble. Unfortunately I haven't posted about that yet.
It's a ton of fun, especially writing Fusion 360 scripts to do all the parametric modeling of decks and molds. Then 3D printing molds with different parameters, pressing decks with veneer, making art for the decks, packaging, etc. It's an incredibly niche hobby but I've always found fingerboarding and making fingerboards to be infinitely creative.
It's a sneaky way for me to limit his time tearing around the countryside with friends, because all his money will go towards parts and (if I get my way and put in a much larger engine) gas.
- https://formlick.com : A typeform alternative with lifetime deal
- https://aye.so : Create your link in bio in bento style using the widgets
Looking back, there wasn't any material to actually build a useful chat agent that resolved real-world problems. So I'm writing the guide that I wish I had when getting started.
I'll publish it on github and post here as more progress is made. I've created three parts. Part One is a non dev focused which explains how each of the moving parts work, what is Ai and what isn't. Part two gets technical and explains the tech stack. Part three is a bonus section that looks at how Ai assistants like google and Siri work and can be improved.
The working title is Automated Agents.
Edit: adding a link for those who want to follow along.
We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.
It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.
It's very alpha at this point with no styling. I'm also working on getting addresses, websites, and instagram links gathered and added. Plus collapsing down the entries, so a place with multiple awards only shows up once, with all of its awards. Right now it's just 1 results per award.
I'm currently road-tripping through New England and it helped find the amazing bakery Norimoto.
https://github.com/willswire/checkd
This project has been an exciting way to explore better securing my iOS apps. I'm looking forward to refining it further and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions from the community!
Currently trying to get new apps for Apple platform published and going through App Store review process..
Existing apps are open source here: https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app
I need to update my website at some point its been a while.
For work I'm working on AI implementation. Because the vendor does all the technical goodness I'm kinda bored. It's also quite a crap solution IMO and we're kinda forced to be all positive about it because the vendor is closely watching and they have a lot of buyin from the top.
I set up a local LLM server too just to feel like I'm actually doing something.
On other things, I've been playing with rustlang. Looking to build something with it.
It started out as just a prototype asking what happens if you task an LLM with generating crafting recipes for every combination of items in a game (which was already super fun), but it's exploded into all kinds of crafting, harvesting, and item manipulation systems that literally weren't possible in games just 5-10 years ago.
Now we're working on NPC simulations based on last year's Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior [1] paper. Dialogue and persistent memory are obvious, but we're also using the ReAct pattern [2] to give NPCs an influenceable decision loop that dictates what actions they take throughout each game day. And there's some other fun stuff like quest generation and using LLMs as a decision engine to determine if certain player actions complete these dynamic quests.
There's still a lot of work to do to make it feel more like a polished game, but we've been focused on the underlying systems and getting them feeling great and I'm really excited to see the game come to life.
[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3039840/Elixir_Emporium/
I'll look into the simulator thing. I didn't even realize that drone simulators were a "thing" so I had not gone looking for anything like that.
My point is, i'm sure he would have mentioned how great or how awful such a debug console was, at least once, in the decade i've known him.
* GasBuddy's gas price heatmap: https://www.gasbuddy.com/gaspricemap?lat=LAT&lng=LNG&z=8
* iNaturalist to find what species are found in a radius near you: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=LAT&lng=LNG&pla...
* A map of all co-op grocery stores: https://grocerystory.coop/food-co-op-directory
* NYTimes extremely detailed precinct by precinct political map of the 2016 election: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-201...
* Windy.com for really detailed weather: https://www.windy.com/?LAT,LNG,5
* ProPublica's extremely detailed map of long term production of cancer-causing air pollution chemicals: https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/#location/LNG/LAT
* EatWellGuide fills a similar niche you do: https://www.eatwellguide.org/listings?myLat=LAT&myLon=LNG
* National Wild and Scenic River System's map of rivers: https://www.rivers.gov/apps/map
Ofc there's a lot more and many more I haven't added to the site yet, but hopefully you get the idea. I have a very large collection of maps/sites that can maybe possibly be useful or interesting and would like to have a single directory to easily access all of them from.
I hope they open back up, that place was a treasure.
Do you fish your lures, or is making them just a hobby unto itself? If the former, what species are you targeting? I consider myself a bass angler, but I honestly haven't a. had much time to fish lately or b. had much luck catching bass when I do find time to fish.
I've spent a lot of time in analysis paralysis and this has given me the kick in the pants to get me going again.
As far as new ideas go, I've already spent time learning Verilog, and hope to get a chip design through the TinyTapeout[3] before too long.
Also, I found out that it only takes a few lines of Python and a lot of time to have an AI rate all my photos locally. That's a work in progress, should be less than 100 lines all told with niceties.[4]
[1] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html
If HN supported images in replies, I'd totally be posting that "shut up and take my money" meme right now. As it is, I'll just say "that sounds awesome, and I hope it sees the light of day eventually."
Another reason I would want git history included is because I think it would make your product more valuable quicker. I see your tool as a way to improve the dev culture by promoting the points you mentioned, but it's not clear how long it takes it to start to pay off and be able to answer some of the more historical questions you've suggested. I question, if my team had poor/nonexistent PRs in the past, when would I be able to get any use out of it, and would there always be blindspots around code that didn't have a good PR.
It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement development, food managment, espionage, diplomacy etc - these all need to play together well. And then you've got to add in the storyline, graphics, marketing -but I think I'm making pretty good progress.
I'm still using Unreal Engine 4 because I started work on that version and I haven't needed to upgrade to 5 since it's been released. I've got a free prologue that I'm releasing on October 1, so now until then is a lot of polishing to make it work well.
I have another project lined up for my truck that I'm going to get into soon. I'm going to add a secondary high-current power distribution bus with a couple of bus-bar distribution blocks at convenient points, to make it easier to add accessories. I've already replaced one of the battery terminal screws with an aftermarket one that adds an extended stud and a nut, where you can attach a cable with a ring terminal. And I've got heavy duty copper lugs, some #2 welding cable, a hydraulic crimping tool, and the distribution blocks waiting on a shelf.
Once that's in place, It'll be very convenient for adding ham radio gear, an air compressor, a power inverter and some other things I've been chewing on.
It's the first solo project I've done in many years and I'm having a great time learning. I've also been able to get some great recommendations for myself and it's fun to use!
[1] In fact, I just published a blog post about it! Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...
Clace already supports most python based apps (wsgi or asgi), any other language works with a custom Dockerfile. Plan to add support for automatically shutting down idle containers, allowing for scaling down to zero for each app.
Lots of AI engineerers are doing vibes-based engineering, just eyeballing the LLM output and saying "LGTM!". This is a good place to start, as we all should look at our data more. But it's best to move on from vibes to system evals.
The first issue is on how to design and build system evals for a systematic way to gauge how well your LLM app is doing. That way, no matter if there are new models, new users, or new queries, you can be sure you're continuously improving, rather than allowing regressions.
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I started it a couple of months ago, I was tired of reading the same story posted across different news outlets.
Over time I added new features like summarization, the ability to hide articles that have specific words in titles, etc.
Currently working on adding custom themes and fonts for the reader mode and various customization options.
It's a fun little side project, still much to do to improve it, I'll be busy for a while!
My main barriers are 1) writing discipline and 2) some obsessive need to link/cite every claim I make. This results in me taking months to write an article, be it due to laziness or constant rabbitholes/google scholar searches about an idea.
Any clue on dedicated disciplined writing time or even considering "reducing" the rigor of writing?
Keeping myself marginally sane by building a custom browsing experience for my “graphic design reconstructed from dreams” project: https://dreambrief.presteign.com/
It's basically like ShaderToy but for WebGPU instead of WebGL. I started it as I have been doing some Rust + wgpu development for art projects and I need a easy way to play around with shaders.
It's very early in development - you can go and just use it right now. But soon I want to support creating an account, saving / sharing shaders, and eventually go beyond the featureset of ShaderToy by allowing for custom input images / textures.
Code is on github: https://github.com/sdedovic/wgsltoy
No microtransactions, no advertisements. No networking! The game is meant to function completely off line. The game will start with a mobile release in probably October and should be available on Steam shortly after.
I’ve been using Flame, Flutter’s game engine to develop my app. My artists are amazing and have been providing fully animated sprites using Spine. I’ve used Flutter before but this is my first time getting into Flame.
If you’re curious how it’s going, hop on the mailing list at https://danger.world to learn more. I’ll be looking for my initial playtesters here in the next few weeks.
I love Chicago and the incredible wealth of free festivals, museums, public art, music, parks, workshops, and so many more activities available to appreciate. I've found there isn't a good way to discover them though so I'm building the tool that I've always wanted. Right now I have a landing page up, have done some work on sourcing data, and I'm working towards defining a discovery interface.
I need help finding a full time job in Boston so I can move there.. Facing a catch 22 with apartment applications. I have a tooth brush and will scrub makefiles for a living wage, I'm not picky! (resume in profile)
My app is called Project&Cut and can be found at https://projectandcut.com.
Most of my days are spent reading the news and working on LLMs, which has been a blast. As an example, here's a dashboard that tracks major supply and demand shocks to various commodities around the world: https://emergingtrajectories.com/c/commodities
(ha ha) no really, an app that aims to help out older, lonely, but good people. It's a desperately underserved market. These people are often overlooked and we're trying to empathize with them via software.
If Git/Github are interfering, just drop the folder in dropbox (or suchlike) and version control like it's 1990 (ssg_2, ssg_3, ... ssg_final_final :). Nobody can fire the officially retired developer for doing this in 2024.
https://github.com/mseravalli/grizol
The idea was to leverage the syncthing ecosystem while expanding some of the capabilities.
It's till quote rough around the edges and needs some polish, but the core functionality should be there.
Is anyone doing this? It's an interesting business model as the product is money so you'd only stand to make a profit never a loss.
We do a few things under the hood to make hallucinations significantly less likely. First, we make sure every single statement made by the LLM has a fact ID associated with it... Then we've fine-tuned "verification" LLMs that review all statements to make sure that assertions being made are backed up by facts, and that the facts are actually aligned with the assertion.
It's still possible for the LLM to hallucinate in this process, but the likelihood is much lower.
The cool thing is, you can fingerboard on almost anything. Get a stack of books and you can make a stair case. Get a piece of a granite counter top sample and you can make a ledge. You can use a bathroom sink as a skate bowl. There are also lots of companies making fun obstacles with different materials. The possibilities are endless.
We proposed and implemented the MVP for OP-Stack rollups (https://bit.ly/op-rfc). The work is based on the idea described in this blog post: https://bit.ly/forkless-rollup.
I recently released a major update involving presigned s3 urls, and typically after a big update I pick my favorite issues (always fun) for the next big update while I go bug hunting. Sometimes I feel like this project is code therapy where, unlike at work, I get to do everything the right way and/or my way.
I've also just started strength training at a gym for the first time which is already helping enormously with my neck and back pain.
The rating criteria was designed to consider legal facators, like license terms and CLA, so concerns like Mozilla buying an ad company aren't factored in. Those concerns feel more subjective to me, but are certainly valid.
TestFlight for now - try it out here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wKY4eYV8
In short, if you want a person with Language A experience, but Language B is close enough, my software will provide the signal that the candidate is good enough for a closer look.
Example: PHP and Go devs are likely to have similar approaches to how software should be built. Ruby and Go, perhaps not so much.
There’s more nuance to it, but this is the idea.
Edit: Two from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
But you might get the reverse, parent frustrated kid bored
> I question, if my team had poor/nonexistent PRs in the past, when would I be able to get any use out of it, and would there always be blindspots around code that didn't have a good PR.
This is a great question and the answer is that with poor/nonexistent PRs and documentation, Devlog cannot help you other than by incentivizing you to do a better job so that it can be useful — so not that helpful. I'd love to find a way to make it better in this kind of "cold start" case, that's part of why I appreciate your feedback about other potential uses. Thank you again.
The goal is to eliminate the massive chasm that exists in design-to-engineering hand-off by having a single source of truth.
Engineered Angler Lures is another YouTube creator worth checking out.
Also, I try not to be precious about them. Give them away to friends. Don’t stress if they break off. Just make another one.
https://x.com/seanw_org/status/1815442179361317022
There's lots of tools in this space, but the key features of this is it lets you easily check the contrast of any color pair (not just against white, so you can check e.g. your text colors will contrast on off-white shades), it's for creating a full palette of colors vs a handful of brand colors (you always end up needing lighter/darker variants for things like borders and backgrounds), and you can alter how the hue/saturation/lightness varies across a whole swatch of colors with a few clicks (being able to visualise these curves also makes picking new colors really easy).
Feel free to reach out if you think this might be useful to you!
(If this is just a personal project, disregard! But "quit my job" makes me think you're thinking of this as a business.)
I have decided to shelve my work on architectures that are biologically inspired for now. I was getting reasonable results with spiking neural networks and evolutionary training, but there are so many hyper parameters to think about and how they behave over time is really hard to predict. I was also struggling deeply with how to manage topological concerns like network growth over time.
With interpreted evolutionary programs, the memory access patterns are so much more ideal with the program counter stepping through (mostly) contiguous bytes vs totally insane recurrent spiking neural access patterns. You get so many more generations & candidates evaluated per unit time that it can make previously apparent "dead ends" viable, simply because you don't need to have extreme patience to find out anymore. I am discovering that iteration speed is the most important thing in this arena. The faster you find out how bad a certain parameter adjustment is, the sooner you can get to the good ones.
I am also working on an unrelated contract to integrate some back office banking systems. Not much worth discussing there.
I'm hunting for names that had resurgence in popularity because of TV shows/movies. The name that inspired the project is Mabel. It disappeared in the 1960s, then reappeared the year after Gravity Falls came out and it's still climbing. https://www.behindthename.com/name/mabel/top
I want to find as many examples of that as I can.
If you know a mortgage loan officer, tell them to email tyler at lightningestimates dot com and mention HN. I'm just trying to fix an industry problem at a reasonable price.
I built a bunch of consultant led tools (Jupyter notebooks mostly) using LLMs to help with this, and saw how customers reacted to what they could do. So I decided a few months ago to bundle them together into a SaaS app.
I’m just about to release the beta of https://www.portage.so to my waitlist in the next couple of weeks.
The main use case is using a virtual whiteboard (ReactFlow) to string together a series of nodes that do a different task through the strategy development process. For example, you can generate scenarios, then analyse the impacts, then create courses of action in response to potential disruptions and so on.
I do a fortnightly dev diary as well, the latest one shows off creating the final output: https://youtu.be/nD_FhWkREhE?si=JK60fVlT7wmmONW3
Lot of fun ideas, and hopefully will get used by a large variety of volunteers.
Still tweaking it, and it could use some better instructions. But the thread's here now so why not.
If you see confetti, you answered correctly. Otherwise the points are added or subtracted in a "hot or cold" fashion based on your answer's distance from the actual pitch.
Besides that our team is always working on cool stuff for our clients. Lots of interesting work these days “in” AI, plenty of cool stuff going on in health tech.
Got something cool you need devs for? Always happy to talk shop — wyatt at apsis dot io.
Years ago, I tried to quit my job because I was feeling terrible about how I was doing. My boss gave me one of the best pieces of advice anyone's ever given me:
"You know, Rachel, the suicide rate among founders is..."
This probably sounds like one of the most unhelpful things someone could say in that situation, but it was EXACTLY what I needed to hear. I didn't need someone to say "oh, it's ok to feel bad". I needed someone to say "feeling bad doesn't mean you're not strong enough to be great". I needed to hear that ambitious people who are trying with all their might to be better are still constantly struggling with the idea that they aren't good enough.
YC's own founder school doesn't quite put it in those terms, but there's a LOT in there about the importance of human factors. Arguably more than there is business advice, actually. They explicitly say, for example, "don't pick a co-founder who has complementary skills, pick one that won't drive you insane, because breakups and not lack of skill are a more common failure mode". And there's like half a dozen videos on how to keep it together when you're stressed beyond breaking. It's pretty reassuring.
To really make the point: my company became profitable for the first time yesterday afternoon, and I spent a good chunk of the 24 hours since then ruminating on how now we might fail because I'm not sure where the next bit of revenue comes from. Never mind that the things I was worried about one, two, three, or four months ago have all gone better than I feared - anxiety doesn't care about that. It'll just glom on to whatever excuse it can get - see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40191179
The impact of developer good will is difficult to measure, so I don't attempt it. Redis burned community good will so badly with their relicensing that several forks rapidly emerged. Seemed like a predictably poor decision to me.
I also don't want to pick favorite companies, because it's subjective, companies can change strategies or even sell projects off. What if Meta decided to sell React to a patent-troll-like company instead of just abandoning it?
[1] https://alexsci.com/relicensing-monitor/projects/kubernetes/
If you ever need someone to talk to (who is also firmly on the spectrum + has dealt with severe mental illness in the past + is mostly on the other side of it), hit me up anytime. Email is in my bio (it's my work email but it'll do).
This our first experience in infrastructure SaaS (we opted for Azure) - way harder than we planned for, but seems to work!
I really appreciate Apple Music links being listed instead of just Spotify.
You add a photo of your outfit and get some feedback along with ways to improve it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-ai-outfit-analysis/id647...
Currently re-writing a bunch of the bundler stuff and how UI takes data in for performance improvements, before shifting gears to building the Windows version!
It's a lot of experiments. On the frontend, I'm dispensing with any design systems or styling libraries, and have opted for vanilla CSS and hand-rolled animations. I'm using React for now, just to get it scaffolded faster with tools I know already, but I've been eyeing a few others, for reasons that range from a standing curiosity about Web Components to new ones about signals. The backend stack is all Deno-based: it includes Astral for any scraping needs you might have, uses Oak for routing, and leverages kvdex for storage. (I also contributed `model.getOne` and `model.updateOne` to the latter as part of initially getting duplicate detection working.) My goal is to keep the whole thing light on external dependencies, outside of a few pragmatic options, and generally work more directly with platform or runtime (or in Deno's case stdlib) functionality where feasible.
I otherwise rebuilt my website over the last few months, using Lume for static site generation with similar aims about shipping something generally lighter (the content there is all Markdown, and so far, everything but the syntax highlighting and the ToC generation are built by hand). Additionally, I've been using it as a home for writing[3][4][5] and not just code, so that I have some other things I can show off. (The last one made the front page a couple weeks ago!)
[1] https://github.com/chaosharmonic/escapeHatch
[2] https://bhmt.dev/blog/scraping
[3] https://bhmt.dev/blog/markdown
The open source project: https://github.com/memfreeme/memfree
An Open Source Hybrid AI Search Engine: Instantly get accurate answers from the internet, bookmarks, notes, and documents. Obtain the most precise answers in the shortest time. With one click, AI indexes your personal knowledge base, eliminating the need to remember or manage it.
I'm developing a tool using GPT-4o to help draft outlines for small-business and institutional grant applications.
I'm also working on a solution to fix prior authorizations in the insurance industry, fix scheduling surgeries due to insurance network database inconsistencies.
There was a girl in the valley who make a recruiting service based on preferences like environmental/social factors. blanking on the name.
As an example, with the system I am building you only need to input what action the player has taken, and all the NPC's actions and dialogues will be generated.
Idea: make an email opt-in and then new releases based on old preferences. My use case is always to go to DVDs/netflix releases, filter for sci fi and then high IMDB.
I also noticed your game has been up on Steam since January 2022 and by the looks of it, you've done about zero marketing (steamdb.info). Hope that's on the horizon, it's a pretty darn important part of game development now!
Love the concept of your game. Reminds me of my favorite roman emperor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian
- Fellow game developer
http://github.com/leftmove/facebook.js
I was working with the Facebook API for another project, but I was surprised that a website as popular as Facebook had exclusively old API wrappers for it, that all required too much setup, and were cumbersome to write code with.
I wanted a better approach using the standards I have come to appreciate with modern API wrappers, and so I decided to start work on a more intuitive, faster approach for the Facebook API.
My initial launch goal is to allow for programmatic authentication, posting, and commenting, all with one setup command through a CLI.
If you think about games, there is handful of them for blind and visually impaired players. But things got more interesting when keyboard is your screen.
Then, I started working on an interactive TUI app for Python beginner exercises. I've previously written such apps for CLI tools (grep, sed, awk, coreutils, etc): https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps
Personally, I'm building a website which lets you quickly setup personal online dashboards, because I wanted to have an overview of all the sites I refresh often on one page: https://frankendash.com/
I’m writing the backend in Go, with a standard API layer to allow custom frontends. I will also be building “official” frontends for mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.
The main reason I’m doing this is because I don’t like the UI of other self-hosted password managers, and I hate relying on the security of cloud options.
Seeing as I just started work on it today, I don’t have much (not even a real name). If you want to follow along, heres the Github, https://github.com/dickeyy/passwords
My goal for this project is to provide teams and individuals with the ability to secure their passwords while also providing a clean and elegant experience.
LMK what you think!
Rediscovering an old love for writing that I thought had left me after highschool, now applied in the field I work in! Recommend starting your own blog if you're on the fence + being consistent about posting, it's extremely worth it
We’ve been hand coding full-service integration workflows for 2+ years on a large B2B agency model, and in parallel have been building a platform using what we’ve learned to build better abstractions.
We’re at an interesting point where almost all new workflows are being built on the platform, and we’re serving over 100 clients.
We’re prepping for public release in the next few months.
I googled it and the first result was an official help page about the cluster that says it'll show the diagnostic codes.
https://www.polaris.com/en-us/off-road/owner-resources/help-...
Although some people say the SEO is dead and does not work anymore, I am still spending effort on it and building BMW VIN Decoder https://bmwvindecode.com/ to learn by doing.
Been playing with RAG on my co-founder's medical expertise.
For the last decade or longer, I have been using pinboard.io, and I wanted to add a few more features. I just launched the landing page, and that's a start!
I wish your dependency semantics yaml could be converted to Azure pipeline task, job, and stage similar to how typescript converts to javascript.
I am saying this because there are very complicated infrastructural problems that hundreds of people work on at big companies when creating a ci/cd I see you are not focusing on them yet but that DAG logic could be applied to existing azure pipeline yaml.
Right now we are only targetting podcasts to Notion as the vertical slice for the MVP, but in the future we're looking to support "connectors" that can take in other forms of content such as audiobooks, videos, etc. and share it to other popular note-taking forms.
It's been an exciting journey so far and we're looking to launch soon!
I'll do it anyway, as I need to learn to own where I'm at and have a backbone. :)
I'm learning the Zola static site generator and using to to build my blog at https://jeff-mitchell.dev. The focus is my mis-adventures learning the Rust language.
I've found it a challenge to get off my feet with Zola, but I'm slowly figuring things out. Little victory this evening, finally figured out how to get images linked in posts to render properly.
I've been spending a lot of time in México over the last year and have been working on a photography project surrounding the VW Beetles (Vochos as they call them) you'll find all over the country. I'm inspired by the range of character of the Vochos and how they've become ingrained in the country's cultural landscape.
I realized I had a sort of hyper-niche problem where I was locating Vochos I'd like to shoot when I wasn't carrying my camera. I was getting annoyed with using Google Maps to list locations I'd like to return and shoot so I spent a weekend putting the app together and turning it into a game.
After using the app for a few weeks I've realized the spotting or hunting of the cars is the part I enjoy the most about my project and when I have the time I'd like to publicize it so others who find themselves in Vocho dense area can check it out if they'd like!
I'm a designer, and this is my first Vue project. Super happy and proud of it. This is a way for me to learn coding. I'm working on improving the project by adding a simple website builder where people can edit the components and templates directly.
It's turning into a full time side gig that's paid off in handful of batches (~$25K and running)
I'm trying to become a loyalty vendor API.
Would really like to work on my own interconnected systems of blogging tools and social media. Kinda a blend between having your own site and myspace? Not really targeting a market or anything like that, just think it would be cool to do for personal use and sharing with family and friends
Worked as a software dev/manager for a decade, went through workaholism, burnout, then alcoholism, depression, all that. Doing a ton better now, and taking some time off to write about what I went through and hopefully help out others going through the same thing some: https://depthsofrepair.com/
Tube and Chill - https://tubeandchill.com
It's something like IMDB for YouTube with recommendations and browsability without algoritms.
Test Driving Rails - https://testdrivingrails.com
My new book on testing Rails with the default stack - Minitest and fixtures.
Business Class 2.0 - https://businessclasskit.com
A starter kit for Rails apps. I am now slowly working on 2.0.
If you have some comments, especially on Tube and Chill, I would appreciate them.
I have a small amount of experience building iOS apps but have never done anything with a backend before. This project is fairly backend heavy, so it's been quite a journey learning how to do everything from setting up a database to deciphering elasticsearch.
It’s probably the most complicated product I've ever worked on. The team is incredible & I’m lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people. Our head of engineering is a fantastic person too, so it makes working here so easy!
In my spare time I’m working on an AI assistant. I thought I would try sell it first, but given the ramp uptake I’ll probably open source it.
Basically a pretty+easy editor! I'm really enjoying building the small features https://owri.netlify.app/share/25a7d985-7cd5-4217-9766-f5296...
Feel free to tell me if there's anything you want!!
New idea: So currently I'm trying to learn leetcodes, but thinking of alternative/structured ways to do it. What if there's an AI-powered book that's basically like your personal Wikipedia into anything?
You start with a topic, it generates you outlines/courses -- and what'd be great is if this was social, like you can see what everyone else is learning about, what nodes they're expanding...
and make notes on topics and ask questions
I'm working on adding some more probes checking for package hallucination in ruby gems and npm packages
I'm also starting my final year of engineering at the University of Waterloo :)
I'm sort of a map geek and know how to do old USGS stuff.
For redis this is two steps: `ZRANGE leaderb 1 100` + `GET x1 x2 x3 x4 ... x100`.
It's mostly a refresher for deep C++ doodling, but maybe I'll use it in production for kicks.
One of my favorite design elements is the Guilloche patterning on currency, along with the history behind the use of Guilloche as a form of anti-counterfeiting.
Your site is very simply visually appealing.
Also - I like to order $2 bills from the bank. You can order then, mine delivers them on tuesdays - and they give you a stack of brand new $2 sequentially serialized bills. They are great for tips and gifts.
Working on adding many small features such as webhook, email parser.
I assume its some sort of ML? Are you using an external LLM? Any insights into building recommendation systems would be awesome!
I'm trying to get my hands on a larger display, but man does the e-ink public documentation suck. Still looking for some actual complete documentation and sample driver schematics for the 13" and larger models.
Currently I've built a call/response RPC abstraction with it to use it for another project that I'm working on. Eventually I'd want to add a streaming message system beyond the basic call/response pattern. I also might like to ship some easy setup to bridge between these protocol abstractions and ZMQ, JSON-RPC, be able to behave like inetd, etc.
It's functional enough to use in non-production environments but not completely seriously yet. I'm working out the kinks and improving the DX by using it for that other project. There's still some easy improvements around the byte encoding that I still haven't gotten to yet.
It would be nice to know more about how I would interface with your product. It's not clear if it's a daily report, if it's a text box where I ask "What did Intern #3 work on last week?", if it's a chronological page, or something else.
Do different people get different answers? Would a CEO get a different answer than an engineer if they asked what the devops team worked on? Basically do you offer different levels of granularity for different user profiles.
Love the project and looking forward to watching it grow!
https://github.com/thebigG/Gunner
It's got long ways to go before being "complete", but I'm enjoying the heck out of working on this. I like working on things that aren't tied to money/serious job because they remind myself of the joy in programming :)
The claim is, that pijul's merge of code is much better and simpler than git. Merges are idempotent and associative if i remember correctly. It cannot get much better than that.
I'm currently working on an app that provides a step-by-step guide to drawing from a reference photo. My goal is to make the sketching process more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
My part has been to generate news headlines and weather maps using current news and weather information. The most interesting part for me has been deciphering the 1980's era graphics format, NAPLPS, which Prodigy uses and making a library to write files in the format. I treat the file format as a data transformation, taking the NAPLPS file generated so far and appending more commands to the end of it. The commands naturally pipe into each other in an idiomatic way in Elixir.
Not a sexy idea, of course. However, I couldn't find any solution that fit my needs for my SSG blog. Services like Cloudinary, and Imagekit are too developer-focused, and popular image sharing websites like Imgur don't allow backlinking.
[1]: https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...
[2]: https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...
Most of the people I know who do bank roll hunting and doing it because it's just kinda fun and there's a thrill when you find a silver quarter from 1964 (worth about $5) hiding in a roll of otherwise-normal quarters. But so much of the good stuff has already been plucked from circulation.
Having said that, nothing should stop a good hacker from doing something just for the hell of it :)
Go/Alpine/HTMX/Postgres, Modulith
The first video is here: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks (the second is coming out tomorrow)
And it's on GitHub here: https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee
I also recently left the Big Tech world after 11 years at Google, so I'm trying to figure out what comes next. (I don't think I can make professional YouTuber pay the bills). If it's not inappropriate to mention here, my resume is at https://hire.masto.me/
It allows querying multiple resource kinds via their relationships (i.e. replicaset owns pod, service exposes deployment…) and easily crafting custom response payloads.
Lately I’ve introduced aggregation functions and the ability to visualize query results using ascii art.
This is a daily driver for me and I’m now mostly focused around features that will make it a complete kubectl alternative.
I found a way to add code to NFTs. The simplest way to understand it is that it is similar to Adobe flash.
I know that NFTs are down, but I have invented a way to add actual utility. I call them xNFTS - executable non fungible tokens. Imagine the famous Ape or Penguin NFTs - by adding my technology, the NFTs can change images, play music, or play games without installing anything.
I got a patent on the process and they work on any blockchain- or even off. the market is down, but I am very excited about tying web2 with web3.
If anyone wants to join or learn more, let me know
Try the demo and let me know what you think!
V.01 close to ready.
It's meant to be a scripting language to be embedded in another program, generating HTML. Eventually I hope to make a CMS and this be my solution for easy templating.
Technical details: Written in C, the language has an x86_64 JIT compiler, but falls back to a bytecode VM so it should work on any architecture. The language itself is dynamically typed and garbage collected. Currently at 20K LOC (not counting blank lines or comments), with good test coverage and checking for memory leaks. It's been quite enjoyable!
>product is money so you'd only stand to make a profit never a loss
you're grabbing the expense part of the business that everybody else is trying to shed. Let's talk also about time value of money. All the money that you've invested in cash is not making money passively as other investments do. Compared to putting the money in the stock market, you're losing 7% a year on this scheme, plus the expenses of running your business, and opportunity cost of not doing something else that generates income.
It's a fun challenge, because I need to figure out how to reliably determine the matching game for files like /pub/johnny/midi/games/sc2kmenu.mid, and also to show them in a way that fits nicely in the UI.
The set of puzzles is really tickling my fancy at the moment, for some reason.
— I’m working on a second newsletter that’s more discovery oriented but still focused on the personal web space
— I’m setting up a private, invite only discourse forum to create a space where people can hang out and connect in a more meaningful way
— I’m working on a new studio site in collaboration with a friend
I'm doing so by making it easier to mint certificates for your pods in k8s (https://gitlab.com/gauntletwizard_net/kubetls/-/tree/master), by writing documentation on how to create good root certs with cheap HSM backed keys, updating cfssl to work with name constraints (https://github.com/GauntletWizard/cfssl/tree/ted/constraints), and building tools to issue short-lived certificates to developers.
The one zone that's in the game is looking more polished than ever, but it's not going to be much of a game if there are only 4 levels. Next month is all about stage art, enemy design, and items to flesh out the new economy systems. Hopefully it all comes together, we'll see. It's a ton of pixel art, and I'm still learning my way around that craft.
- TheFile.Ninja, which is a file manager with the Everything indexer built-in for extremely fast information retrieval. This allows you to quickly run file queries, and these queries can then be saved or even added as folders in the file system. When you open the folder, it automatically fills with the contents from the query. I have also created a service with LLM/AI that translates plain text into Everything's query language. This enables you to build very complex queries directly from plain text. For example, you can ask if any directories contain a certain file, and if this file is found and contains specific text, it will be displayed. You can learn more about the project at: https://thefile.ninja or watch https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk. This summer, I also built three smaller games (not fully finished but almost):
- ThrustMe!, a space/underwater cave exploration game (https://youtu.be/M0d7CSpEJ1E). It works on Android, Web, Windows, and possibly soon on iOS.
- MergeQuanta, a Tetris-like game where you merge matching blocks (color + shape) to make them disappear, taking surrounding blocks with the same shape along with them. There are also cement blocks and bombs. The game works well with touch and stylus but also on regular computers (https://youtu.be/VXvpzhi8ySE).
- Flip the Maze, a simple multi-dimensional maze game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVRB0uAPIE).
What do you think about them?
It comes with a set of tool for your IDE (currently only VSCode) where you can draw sprites, compose music, make SFX right next to your code.
It's still not in v1, it's also my first "serious" C++ project, and life got in the way lately -- I haven't made significant progress in the last month or so
Marketing isn’t my strong point, if I ever had the money to make another the first person I’d hire would be marketing. My boss owns a PR agency and she said she can help in getting it out to journalists but that’s about it. I tried CPC and it came in at about $1/wishlist.
Are there any methods of marketing you recommend?
it's a free CSV Viewer with charts that supports viewing data in both table and chart formats. It includes features like sorting, searching, filtering, and pagination in table view.
Recently did show hn which didn't go anywhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311629
Trying to move into doing virtual assistance for micropreneurs and sideprojects from now on exclusively. Task by task basis or regular contracts. Essentially the pitch is assign everything that is not sales and product. I think it is a good pitch targetted to folks who enjoy building stuff and considers making money out of it as a bonus. The moment they start answering support emails, and posting product updates they start to get burnt out. Trying to specialize in "burn out prevention" tasks mainly.
I am trying to figure out a way to get clients. Virtual Assistance is cheap and the competition is huge. The services are identical which essentially says, I will do what you will need me to do.
I am documenting my learning here - https://github.com/hsnice16/golang_learning
My first task was to write a GitHub action to build and push the docker image on AWS ECR. While working on it, I went through a good number of blogs, and also used ChatGPT, and finally raised a PR. So I thought to write a blog on that, you can read it here - https://hsnice16.medium.com/build-and-push-the-docker-image-...
Designers can push changes in Figma similar to a merge request, which can then be approved by product managers / developers and the apps UI updates on every device.
Devs don't have to touch UI anymore but can focus on pure logic.
Any app developed with this doesn't have to go through the usual release cycle for UI changes anymore.
This will decrease the time lag of mobile to web and makes it easier for us to implement and distribute campaigns.
We're in Alpha and two mobile apps with our technology are going to go live next months. A credit card app and a competitive player versus player mental arithmetic game.
If there's any country in particular you're looking for, shoot me an email. I know a ton of other dealers in the business and I'd be happy to point you to someone who might have something he'd enjoy.
I built a SDF-based rendering system (2D) for my game, and one of the big hurdles was how to have them be data-driven, rather than needing a new shader for each scene or object.
Would be curious if/how you tackled that problem (:
In the short term, the easiest way is to find someone who does this (eg me) and just email me some pictures. I'd be happy to tell you if you've got anything good. The old school neural net between my ears can assist.
(See profile for email).
I actually built it for my girlfriend who was writing a systematic review paper. She had to compare 7.500 papers against inclusion and exclusion criterias. She obviously did this manually because she cares about scientific integrity, but it sparked the idea to make an AI tool to automate repetitive tasks for people like her who would rather avoid programming. Now I just find it useful myself for a lot of ad-hoc analysis tasks like prompt engineering, rag tuning, and comparing model outputs from anthropic, openai, and google.
It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike?
We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they own, and we should fight against planned obsolescence!
Here are a few videos about our founder on the battery itself, why we built it, and how to assemble it:
- What is the Gouach Battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsuW1NPkvNk
- Presentation of the pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLoCihE0eIA
- Presentation of the fireproof and waterproof casing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDJpt7RDbRM
Here are the juicy bits: https://docs.gouach.com
We'd love some feedback from the e-bike DIY builder community
Oh, and it's launching as a Kickstarter in September and there is an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a 25% discount on the battery!
You can follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gouach.batteries to get the latest news!
Infra: I was hosted on Google Cloud for a while -- literally a single VM running Docker Compose, but I decided I wanted something a bit more flexible and interesting, so last month I switched everything over to Fly.io and I am incredibly happy with them. It's just so easy and fun to manage.
The retail site (rarity7.com) is just a small VM running a Crystal server process to handle web requests. Image hosting is all done on Cloudinary. My backend / inventory management / trading + research engine is a separate Crystal process in a separate VM. Both connect to a Fly Postgres DB. There's one other service which is a small python process on another VM which is doing inference on my regression model. That's super lightweight and I don't need any GPUs to do the inference (tabular data is nice like that).
Overall it's really nothing fancy and it works quite well. A few web-serving VMs and an inference service for my pricing model. I train/retrain the model a few times a year on a local box (my repurposed gaming rig running a 2080Ti).
How to find "Military science fiction series" that are "Complex and Strategic" and includes "Space battles and tactics", "Action-packed sequences", "Strategic dialogue", "Multiple book series expansions", "Futuristic space environment", "Spaceships and battle fleets"? Use yogurrt. Never found it so easy to narrow down my interests and find new books. Thanks!
The goal is to streamline the design-to-code process.
Would love to hear thoughts from anyone who’s tackled similar challenges or has insights on optimizing cross-platform handoffs!
Maybe announce a unique competition with a paid prize (if steam allows this).
So now I’m working on learning Golang and loving it! Going to build a backend with it
[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-copilot/hgaldpfd...
I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants, they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am hoping to design game play systems which focus on mental health, self-care, addiction, motivation, and personal growth and to use the gameplay as a means of encouraging awareness in the player.
https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
I haven't added any features in a while, unfortunately, but it's on my mind. For a while I was just adding whatever popped into my head, as a means of learning Rust, and I naively thought the full idea would crystallize with time, but it hasn't. So, I'm trying to take a step back and figure out how to actually make a coherent game that does justice to the mechanics I want to see in my simulation. I've spent a lot of time thinking rather than coding, but I'm optimistic that I'll get through this phase sooner or later. I will admit, though, that trying to take a novel approach with game design is overwhelming at times. That's okay, though! I'm enjoying the process of tinkering with the project and will likely continue tinkering on it for many years to come as a creative outlet for self-actualization.
my bet is that most companies and solo devs only need a single process and sqlite to drive revenue.
i’m considering switching from tsx to bun, but i’m hesitating because of some missing node 20 api.
However, I gave it "Jane Eyre" (a mid-19th century novel by Charlotte Bronte; it's a classic) with the expectation that it will return "Wuthering Heights" – another a classic novel written in mid-19th century by Emily Bronte (yes the authors are related) – among other things. People who like Jane Eyre tend to like Wuthering Heights, and vice versa.
But everything it returned were new works – published in the last 20 years – of stories that are set in the 19th century.
The only filters applied were: "Preferred: Gothic romance novel, Victorian literature, Highly influential classic literature, Early 19th-century England ".
So, something seems amiss for now. Nevertheless, it's a very cool idea.
(Edited to fix my grammar; English is not my first language, so pardon me for any mistakes.)
But to answer...
Main reason, I'd like to ship software that isn't only good, but great. To create great apps, it needs to integrate into the OS/browser, and my experience with Flutter has been not great in this regard. The apps always look and feel a bit foreign. I'd rather write 3 separate apps (web, ios, android) that feel great, than ship something faster (if even...) that is so bad, sometimes I feel it's a spit in the face of our customers.
The mobile alternatives became much better: when they started, they were (as I remember) significantly better than the alternatives. Since then, RN became much better, Swift and Kotlin became mainstream, SwiftUI, Jetpack Computer came out, and in a couple of years KMP will also offer a pretty compelling alternative.
Flutter is spread too thin: I understand why they did it, it's great for marketing, and I know people who use it on web, desktop and embedded and are happy... To me, however, it feels like they added platforms before making iOS and Android work and feel great. I hate that I had to debug and pin dependencies that broke due to web incompatibility on an a mobile only app. IMO, it's so shjt on web it's laughable.
Working on verifiable correctness for programs written in LM or anything that generates annotated assembly. Basically low-level proofs that accessed memory is valid and live or that function pre/post-conditions are met.
The goal is that these proofs are compiler agnostic, so more people can use them.
Qr Grid: The Ultimate Customizable QR Code JavaScript Library
Making an OpenSource Library for developers to easily generate and customize QR codes across multiple platforms.
It feels great to create something physical after over 10 years of working on CRUD web apps.
My work is open source and available at https://github.com/ziolko/eink-calendar-display.
I would love feedback on the new site's direction - https://www.getflowcode.io/ (still WIP) Here's the old one, for reference https://flyde.app/
Eventual goal before I return to work next year is to have a robot I can take on walks with me that will pick up trash.
I’ll eventually open source the single binary agent that’ll bootstrap a host into a K8s node. Just run it rootless with a join URL and voilà!
Also in the pipeline is a global load balancer service (for your clusters).
What do y’all reckon? Interesting? Yay/nay?
The open tooling is quite lacking in the sense that one has to create a lot of stuff manually. Especially for the evaluations, even though most of them are quite common in the actuarial realm.
Also I wanted to tinker with Jax. So I am basing all on Jax, polars, seaborn/matplotlib and scipy.
I already have lift plots and Poisson regression in Jax. I’ll keep adding to it over the next months as time allows.
Most funny thing is that the toughest part related to the project had nothing to do with coding or tech. But finding a free domain. I had no idea 99% of the .com domains are just squatters.
Have spent the last few months working on the current release.
It uses rust and Tauri under the hood.
I used to work for a media monitoring company but was instantly struck by how old fashion everything was. And the total reliance on boolean searches meant only experts could find relevant information. This still appears to be the case for most players in the industry.
So I'm building a platform that finds what is important before you look for it. Novel entity linking, and sentiment analysis plus speaker tracking. It has come a long way from the proof of concept. Focused on audio media at the moment as it is the hardest to index compared to news articles in my opinion. And the hypothesis is audio media such as podcasts can contain so many juicy insights.
Next steps are converting pilot customers to paying customers, testing more markets (based in a tiny market now), raise a small pre-seed (bootstrapped at the moment), and quickly evolve the product based on feedback.
It has all the same features plus many more: advanced conditional branching, webhooks, thorough design customisation, better question types (e.g. address autocomplete), etc.
I've bootstrapped it into a (very) small startup. The idea is to maintain an ethics- and privacy-driven form builder that people don't have to trust, since nobody can see your responses. It also makes GDPR way easier for you!
You can try it for free: https://palform.app
As a founder, I really needed a simple place to centralize all those business metrics. Couldn’t find anything that suited my needs (everything was way overkill) and so I ended up building Polynomial.
Hashtags can be used to split the text into sheets and columns, if so desired. Besides jotting down quick thoughts, this is very handy for short-form journaling such as tracking expenses, workouts, mood, period, weight, diet, etc., with the added bonus of easy charting and summarization from within the spreadsheet. It also supports pictures and other attachments that are uploaded automatically to Google Drive and linked into the spreadsheet.
Feel free to check it out, all feedback is appreciated: https://t.me/gsheet_notes_bot
Comes from my own desire for something like that. Right now I’m using a hacked together solution using blackhole and a random vst. It was a pain to set up initially, trying to make it easier for other people.
I know there’s loopback but it costs too much for what i need and has a lot of extra features i don’t care about, plus i’d still need to bring my own vst to it
We’re 100% bootstrapped by way of a previous acquisition and just very-soft launched after talking to a lot of folks at companies of all sizes. Seems like most people end up cobbling this stuff together with various levels of sophistication, which is basically what we did a few times over at previous companies with varying levels of success.
You can check out our solution at https://planship.io.
You run a risk of building something that seems to "work" and falls apart for non-obvious, head-scratching reasons for many or most users.
Also continuing to build FastComments [1] and hoping to continue to grow that.
There's a gap for email monitoring. How many times did you have to awkwardly explain why the notification emails in your app stopped sending a month ago? Or that time when the weekly summary report did no go out on Friday, and on Monday you were chewed out by the boss? Or when Jerry went on vacation and neglected to send the weekly marketing campaign email.With
[I'm building https://wasitsent.com - you get an alert when your emails *stop* sending. It's like an uptime monitor for email sending. If something breaks your email sending process, we'll let you know.
If you would like to see such a service, or have feedback (positive AND negative) about it, please let me know. If you heard of other companies offering something like this, I'd love to know as well.
The way position used to be stored in the search engine was approximate, using something like a bloom filter. With this change, they'll be stored in an exact fashion using a gamma coded positions list instead.
In the phase of dotting t:s and dashing i:s at this point. Hope to have it in production in September.
Some key features we're working on: - AI-powered analysis of in-match player actions to detect anomalies - Customizable rules engine for automated responses to toxic behavior - Visual replay system for reviewing flagged matches
Check out our website at https://www.getgud.io and watch our detection video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhTpfEzh1M to see Getgud.io in action.
We support server-side integration for popular platforms like Unreal Engine and Unity. For integration guides and SDK references, visit our docs at https://github.com/getgud-io/getgud-docs.
Happy to chat more about game analytics and cheat detection if anyone's interested!
It's been sitting there for years, and I finally found health, time, and dedication to withdraw it.
On cs.money I had $35k and on Steam balance I had $12k.
The only way to get money from cs.money trade mode is to buy skins and sell them somewhere else.
On Steam, on the other hand, I buy Steam Decks via Steam balance and sell them locally.
I have sold 3 in the last 2 days.
Last 2 days I've been taking a short break from coding a bot for cs.money to recover some health back (I have RSI).
Btw, I just noticed that Bignum Bakeoff has the same acronym as Busy Beaver. How appropriate!
[1] https://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt
[2] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-a-n...
It also got used to validate enquires@/hello@/contact forms were delivering, especially to set small business owners minds at rest.
It's basically a website for tracking the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example see https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures/star-wars for a list of the most valuable LEGO Star Wars minifigures.
You can also catalogue your own collection and track it's value at https://brickranker.com/collections
also see fframes https://fframes.studio/ - not mine but similar "declarative code to video" framework
I've gotten quite carried away with a web interface and custom on-disk (on-sd card?) storage format based on Facebook's Gorilla paper.
I've realised that where it'll be deployed it will only have access to a public guest WiFi, so a remote server hosting the dashboard makes sense. So now it sends the compressed time-series over a TCP connection to a server component, hoping to bypass WiFi captive portals. Might need to use UDP to make it look like DNS or perhaps NTP. I haven't tested it on-site yet.
It has been a very fun and rewarding project so far. Looking forward to deploying it and getting remote updates working if I can get it to work with Tailscale on the guest WiFi. If anyone has any tips on circumventing captive portals and sending really small amounts of data through, I'd love to hear it!
https://stonks.aeonax.com Only for India tho
It’s like Apify but my goal is to make it easier to use
Currently, I have APIs and scrapers that work with platforms like Google Maps, Yelp and Amazon. The APIs are useful to get data immediately and scrapers to extract information from many URLs.
The plan is to add more general purpose APIs like an HTML API, Markdown API and eventually features to build your own api and scrapers with AI.
There’s a lot of tools in the space nowadays but imo they are all flaky. My intention with unwrangle is to offer a way to scrape any site that just works without the need for any config or complicated pricing. The project is at a little over $1000 MRR. Marketing it has been and continues to be a big challenge. I’m bootstrapping solo and hoping to reach 5-10k MRR in the following months. Plan for that is to consistently improve offering and conduct marketing experiments.
What I find interesting about it: I’m offering easy ways to scrape sites on which antibot is really hard to bypass like Twitter, paywalled sites, LinkedIn, etc. The ability to build crawlers without writing any code is kinda cool. User who would normally not have used web data are scheduling scraping jobs and using the data for analysis. For the HTML API I’m thinking of doing an interesting spin on what others like ScrapingBee are doing and abstracting the needless config like premium proxy etc. and just effectively offering a higher # of requests. Also for the build your own scraper, offering users a way to create a parser with a prompt and use it in a single browser session to collect data from many pages saves hassle compared to a synchronous API approach
The motivation behind this was twofold. Firstly, we're both the type of people who often edit our Slack messages (or any other messages like WhatsApp) to correct mistakes. Secondly, my wife is a PMM at a tech company, but she can't code. I've been telling her that anyone can create a decent product with the help of LLMs and tools like Replit, but she usually just rolls her eyes. So, on a flight from London to SF, I suggested we build Spruce. The idea was that she would take the lead and rely on LLMs (ChatGPT + Ollama for when the wonderful Delta internet wasn't working), and she could also treat me as a [more intelligent] LLM. After ~12 hours and a few small arguments, Spruce was born. :)
Some random learnings, top of mind:
1. A non-technical person, even with current LLMs (GPT 4.5), can't go from idea to shipped product without at least some help from a technical person.
2. I now make even more typos because my habit is to type as fast as possible, often without even pressing the space bar. Spruce autocorrects everything in Slack, but when I'm using other products, I feel incomplete.
3. Although I'm practically a native English speaker, it's still my second language. I've added a feature to Spruce, just for myself for now, that DMs me if I make really obvious grammar/English mistakes in my messages. I decided to do this after one of my colleagues, who is very English, said "for prosperity" instead of "for posterity" in several messages, and another said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes." It's been a very cool development, at least for me! It's fun because a) it has a nice tone, and b) it's not verbose and only nudges you on major mistakes, and only up to twice a day. Anyway, feel free to give it a try: https://spruce.so/
P.S. This Slack app necessarily needs the permissions it has because it needs to be able to read and edit your messages everywhere (e.g., public channels, private channels, DMs, etc.). Don't install it if that freaks you out. However, it's easy to remove Slack apps, so there's no harm in giving it a try.
The quality of the generated content is surprisingly good, but there are many stereotypes and mistakes that I'm fixing in the next mass generation pass.
My race yesterday: https://app.see-sailing.com/b/nmea/2024-8-24-11-34-21
This is an open-source alternative to paid services like:
AssemblyAI Deepgram Gladia Google Cloud Microsoft Azure RevAI
With trintAI you can build your own custom workflows & integration for speech-to-text transcription.
The main features are:
- Speech-to-Text Transcription: Converts audio files into accurate, readable text in real-time.
- Summarization: Provides concise summaries of long audio files or transcripts. This feature extracts the most important information and key points from the text, allowing you to quickly understand the main takeaways from meetings, calls, or any extended audio content.
- Sentiment Analysis: Detects emotions within the transcribed text.
- Language Identification: Detects the language spoken in the audio file and can transcribe in multiple languages.
- Diarization: Identify and distinguish between different speakers within an audio recording.
Give it a try! it is open-source. Your feedback is very appreciated!
Cheers
I'm working on my Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap DevTools browser extensions.
- Here is a short video explainer of WHAT we do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXwUpBp_Kc
- And here's WHY we do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37CA6-m1Yk&list=PLVJfpLOJQj...
Our first campaign to fund Ethan Perlstein's research to find cures for rare diseases officially starts on Sep 9, but we already opened a pre-campaign. This one is a one-time commitment and it's heavily leaning on the charity side.
- Here's a landing page of campaign https://marabou.pro/perlara/
- And a video where we talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlO8IBQDMBY&t=9s
So my days are now filled with talks with rare disease foundations and influencers as well as usual people who may be willing to support us.
Happy to chat with anyone who is interested either in Marabou or the campaign itself!
I created a Google my Business listing.
Will that suffice or is there a specific step required to make it available in Google Maps?
A Fireproof Casing which REALLY Works!
Scared of battery fires? I know that we are!
This is why our Infinite Battery comes with a casing that we designed to resist the heat of a fire, thanks to it's thick aluminum casing, and a design which dissipates heat quickly.
And YES THIS WORKS! We have put a massive effort in making our casing sustain the battery fire, and extensively tested it (videos coming soon), so you can sleep safely (and us too!!). See our complete fireproof testing on our documentation/FAQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D2dOTHpzo
Watch my blog https://tunn3l.pro for the full project release!
Cheers!
I'm working on trying to make code reviews easier, faster, and more powerful. Adding rule based automation to check for common errors.
Self Host Blocks https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks is a modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices. The manual can be found here https://shb.skarabox.com/
Compared to others, its goal is to make best practices easy, be declarative, robust and fully featured.
I’m a self hosting and data sovereignty advocate and this project is my contribution to this space.
Best practices easy is made by adding a layer on top of the stock nixpkgs modules that make for example Vaultwarden easy to secure (/admin behind SSO with Authelia) and easy to backup. One doesn’t need to understand how to setup Authelia nor what folders to backup. That is taken care for you. https://shb.skarabox.com/services-vaultwarden.html
Declarative is taken care by NixOS but it goes further than the stock nixpkgs modules. For example it installs the needed Nextcloud apps for LDAP and SSO fully unattended. https://shb.skarabox.com/services-nextcloud.html#services-ne...
Robust thanks NixOS being a declarative OS, for example by adding a grub menu for every new deployment, making rollbacks easy. But also thanks to extensive tests that for example validates that the SSO integrations do not break on upgrades.
Fully featured because for every service it provides, it makes setting up the reverse proxy, backup, LDAP, SSO, etc. easy and importantly in a standardized way thanks to contracts I’m adding https://shb.skarabox.com/contracts.html
All of this is not meant to stay in this project though. I’m slowly working towards upstreaming everything into nixpkgs. I’m starting with upstreaming a feature that allows out of band secrets to be interpolated into config files easily https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/328472 I make extensive use of this is Self Host Blocks already.
Finally, I’m using this project for my home server and one in my parent’s place. So I’m using it in “prod” already.
I think CSS has historically been a lot harder than it was supposed to be, because browser support was shit. They were slow in adopting new CSS features, and existing features (even simple features!) weren't correctly implemented in all browsers (looking at you, Internet Explorer!).
Things are better now, for the most part, but everyone seems to have migrated to web frameworks, and writing HTML and CSS from scratch has become something of a dying skill.
There are some players in this space already, but we have repurposed some OEM grade hardware that we usually reserve for the big players and so we can offer differentiating features such as DC fast charging, bidirectional/V2X, and things like this to the retrofit market.
B2B to start with.
Stripe has a "developer friendly" and "easy to use" reputation. But, since 2019 the EU regulation has stepped in and made things more complex with 2nd factor authentication for payments (3DS/SCA). This made payment integrations way more complex. Integrating Stripe subscriptions now easily takes 6 man-months (I'm being very optimistic here).
Also, there are some basic scenarios that are hard to get right:
- Creating a paid subscription and ensure a customer always has a card on file (this one is almost impossible). - Upgrading a free ($0) plan to a paid one. - Upgrading paid plans, eg $10 to $100/month and ensuring immediate payment. - Guarantee customer Tax location, keep the flow simple.
I made a video analyzing Stripe integration of a successful SaaS company (+$100M valuation). I first paid $30, then upgraded to their highest $2000/month plan - for free!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXp7V4nanU
The gem I'm working on is intended to be used with Ruby on Rails apps. It covers all the above mentioned hard cases, and irons out many more Stripe API kinks. And yes, it handles the basic-but-impossible "ensure customer always has card on file if they start paid subscription".
After buying the gem you can hand-off the task to the junior developer (it's that simple). They follow the integration tutorial: follow the steps for Stripe dashboard config, do the local env config, done.
The product (Ruby gem itself) is ready. I'm now working on the web app, tutorials etc. If anyone wants an early, guided access, please email me - contact is in the profile.
It ultimately got shut down because no one wanted to pay for it, and people started posting spam instead of activities.
I am going to expand it to provide a health dashboard of connected sockets, supported domains, and traffic analytics as a web service.
I pull the data every hour with a GitHub action and redeploy the site nightly. The duckdb is regenerated every time and I can flexibly change its structure as required. So far I didn’t change much (eg. no normalization) since it’s not really needed. It also turns out to be surprisingly small, with compression a few megabytes. I haven’t written much SQL in some time and duckdb is very powerful.
Most of the texts are AI generated as I’m usually very bad coming up with this. I really gotta learn that one day. Webdesign is the other weakness, but with all these UI libraries these days it’s less of a problem.
I guess it’s pretty niche, but maybe interesting for some.
It’s a fun little project.
Our kid’s nursery school posts a lot of photos to Facebook, and we’ve asked them not to post photos of him. They’re (mostly) respecting our wishes, but we still have a bit of FOMO over the pictures of kids having fun, and wish we could see pictures of our son having fun too.
The goal is that the nursery would be able to upload photos and parents can see only their own child’s face, other children are pixelated.
Still early stages but got a working prototype, and I’m enjoying the building process.
About QuantaMerge, this game is actually using a Physics engine for the falling blocks, it is not a regular Tetris clone..
Do you mind explaining your sentence here?
>It could never be commercially viable so released something similar.
I noticed that sometimes, I book accommodations in a new city without realizing I'm very far from the nearest vegan restaurant, having to walk for a really long time to get food, and sometimes getting there after the kitchen is already closed.
The planner helps me find hotels/airbnbs that are within 15 minute walk of at least 3 different vegan restaurants - makes my life so much easier!
* No need to invent a new language, use Python! * Use JIT to compile a SynthDef to a proces function! * Eliminate block_size at runtime by compiling a version of each primitive for every 2^n block size. * Watch the compiler do unrolling, vectorisation and merging loops.
Besides, its fun! https://github.com/mlang/mc1 (Nothing to see yet)
I enjoy finding out the actual best-case performance of various technical analysis indicators, and popular "systems", by optimising the indicator's parameters to find the best long term performance. I also design my own indicators and systems in the same way.
To this end I have a C++ ImGUI desktop app with charting capabilities, and optimisation using differential evolution. The app has its operation driven by a c++ class that controls all aspects of its running, by means of various callbacks.
This enables me to test lots of strategies quickly, exploring the parameter space with the optimisation functions.
I've considered open sourcing the app, though I'm not sure there would be any interest. The codebase would need cleaning up first anyway! :-)
In all seriousness, there’s a constant nagging in TW community for more historical games. Pharaoh didn’t cut it for the wast majority of players. You could capitalize on that, the genre would benefit from that.
The backend is a web socket server written in go and the frontend is solidjs. Two technologies I've been wanting to use properly in a project for a while. Would recommend this to anyone wanting to improve their understanding of go's concurrency model. I've really enjoyed working on it, if anyone can think of any improvements please let me know!
So when you open the app it asks you to choose five (?) friends you trust (who don’t know each other) from your contacts and it’ll ask them to install the app to help you store your secrets.
Then if you ever lose your phone or whatever when you reinstall the app you just have to remember at least three (?) of the five people you trusted and then will be able to restore your keys!
It would also ping the other contacts when open to make sure they still have your shards and redistribute them as you add/change/delete them.
This is a personal project for my house only without any commercial aspirations, so features I do not need are not included.
After it's done I hope to add a demo to my blog.
Cheers for all the interesting work going on here!
It's not targeted at the 'cloud native' crowd, but rather more at traditional on-prem infra.
It is all manageable via an API and provides a Kafka API for streaming data (RedPanda under the hood).
Name: Morio Documentation: https://morio.it/ Code: https://github.com/certeu/morio
Note: here is no commercial angle here. This is an open source project of (the CERT of) the EU (license: EUPL).
They're driven by what problems I see at work and while playing with other weekend projects so coverage may be asymmetric (some parts are well covered, others that should be are absent <<ie. documentation>>).
I find definition of success as just "working on it" very pleasant.
Overall I find it a pretty cool tool - though I don't quite understand the red/green lines on the chart (is there a legend?).
Infrastructure goes offline > Didn't get the email alerts > Because email altering system was on the same infrastructure.
First indication tended to be a call from the ISP saying they lost contact with their equipment.
this is all in super early non-peer-tested alpha (if anything), so feel free to try it out and give feedback :)
Test management tools are nothing new, but I’m focused on making this one fast and easy to use, without the bloat. The goal is to help smaller teams adopt solid QA practices without the hassle.
It's pretty good for List and Lead extraction. https://pandaextract.com/
Trying to get some reps with Llms and image gen models.
Works great with physical maps, screenshots of maps or downloaded pictures of maps. NavigateAnyMap.eu (Android only, sorry!)
Free as in beer, will tell you is uses ads, but have not added them yet (and will make a paid, non-ads version first).
All that to say I "worked" on a chrome extension to let you browse a hacker news post via arrow keys: https://github.com/humishum/hacker_news_keys.
(While typing this I found that the arrow key actions are still active while in the textbox, time for claude to provide me a fix!)
Custom 3d engine, opengl / webgl, Lua scripting, voice chat. Mostly in C++.
My first job was in a FinTech and the way production access was managed scared me. This is my approach at streamlining the process. Basically a PR review flow for SQL queries, enforcing the 4-eyes principle so you never accidentally can do a Delete * form users, forgetting the where clause.
In the best case, the developers of e-commerce website create unit-, integration-, and functional tests to make sure, they do not break existing functionality.
But a website is not only code. Its also data and configuration.
Since these types of configuration (e.g. prices, legal texts, bonusses) can change quite often and can get quite complex from the business perspective, it does not make sense to have developers create automatically executable tests to make sure, the website is configured as it should be.
And its often not the developers who change the configuration. Maybe its a product manager, a marketeer or the ceo.
These people often do not know if they configured something correctly. In additiom, they often don't get any notification, if an process, that is important for them, breaks due to a misconfiguration or some bug in the code (not every code base has a test coverage of 100%).
So, I am creating a No-Code Black Box E2E Monitoring Tool, that the process owners/configurators can use to regularly check, if everything is working fine.
I'm very proud of the way the architecture turned out - with most notably a components-driven architecture [1].
There's just a major performance roadblock in posts with many comments that I should be able to clear with some more multithreading. Then I just need to make it available in brew and other distribution solutions.
[0]: https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli [1]: https://www.newstackwhodis.com/blog/hncli-2-architecture
That being said, I am a bit skeptical about your claims to be fireproof. Did you try to start a battery fire inside your enclosure? Aluminum melts at about 600C, while lithium burns much hotter than that.
I am releasing everything for free and the first "instrument" and sample pack with previews/videos is already available here: https://neuromorph.gumroad.com/l/alien_vocalization_study_1
Local-first task manager/bug tracker within git repository which can import issues from GitHub and sync task statuses.
Pretty much work in progress, made for fun and to help while programming on a plane.
The setting is like retrofuturistic version of 1998 with survivalist elements.
I’ve been enjoying flutter, and Have found it easier than other cross platform GUI technologies I’ve used. Dart is pretty easy to learn too and I’m considering it for other non flutter based tools as well
This is my latest article, just published 2 days ago:
https://www.saintbeluga.org/follow-the-evidence-wherever-it-...
Mostly just bored waiting for my Tungsten sample shipment to try in a new metal 3D printing process (at $90/in^3 you figure people would just air mail it, but nope cause it is a fire hazard.) Container rail transport work stoppage means I may get time to entertain low priority vanity projects.
Also working on a physics inertia puzzle so embarrassingly stupid... I refuse to post it lest it wastes 1 minute of someones time.
Kind of like this ear worm... these kind of problems are annoying... lol =3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM
( don't click this link, seriously )
My ultimate goal is to bring brain signals to the browser and develop neuro-apps, all in public. I share updates weekly on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/mind-tether
I've always found adding custom metrics and monitoring to applications to be a big hassle, so I'm experimenting with one that uses the log stream instead of agents/daemons.
Yep, and that's why I'm designing this to provision control planes as close to the user's workloads as possible (sub ~100ms latency, which is plenty acceptable for reliability; the likes of Scaleway do similar).
> Pod-to-pod communication, where pods run in regions on opposite sides of the globe, supposedly on the same pod network CIDR, is also going to be flaky
Certainly, but this is not something that I as control plane provider care about -- it's a design decision the user has to account for, and I consider this freedom of choice a nice one to have.
I suppose the main sell here (and the few folks I've spoken to seem to agree) is the flexibility a decoupled control plane offers. Being able to migrate your bare metal setup to "managed" K8s; running a homelab cluster without dealing with the ops (upgrades, cert rotations, etc.); or simply being able to use VMs from cheaper cloud providers.
But yeah, it's definitely a hard problem but solvable within the right constraints.
latest success seems to be probiotic for oxolate-digestion, which now helps me digest green salad. For a test I tried green onions, but got anxiety back. Being able to digest onions and garlic would enrich my food choices a lot.
I doubt there's money to be made from all this material, except I could offer some coaching, but pretty much everything I know is in this little repo
It also helps you discover new recipes that other users have saved.
If they were doing per-cell protection, fair enough (cheap 18650's don't have cell protection usually), but I think they are still connecting 4 cells in parallel, with only serial-bank MOSFET's like in usual sealed packs.
There is also more generally Mention, Brand24, Meltwater, etc, in the media monitoring space. But all are generally weak in the audio media space.
When we stop looking at audio media like a newspaper article, things get more interesting.
And my long-time project. A Dungeons & Dragons utility to use Thermal Printer for handy Printouts: https://github.com/BigJk/snd
From the research I’ve done, it seems that most ebook reader libraries are old and not very well supported. Haven’t considered PDF readers yet.
In particular, I've been building functionality for status pages to make it more useful for software teams.
Then I saw the space was crowded with entrants like https://www.newsminimalist.com/ and https://myst.news/
Somewhat ironically after giving up smoking I take too few breaks and get blurry/dry eyes after long days. The app is a bit overengineered and comes with an api in case you ever wanted to start controlling stuff with blinks. Currently Windows only.
For a skinny guy who never did any resistance training, this transformed my body to a lean, muscular type in what it seems to me like overnight. I cannot emphasize enough how good that was (and is) for the body. The body at first doesn't like it, but giving it a bit of consistency it learns and yearns for it.
The back pains I had are gone and even if they come back here and there they are much less intense and more manageable. Doing some impromptu exercises for couple of minutes fixes that too.
One of the biggest wtfs I had was when I decided to drill some holes in the wall because I was unable to for months after last surgery. I've grabbed my battery powered drill from the shed and was open mouthed how suddenly light that tool was. I literally checked if I've put the battery on. You don't notice the strength gain that much during normal work in the house, but do something which you know was heavy before and be amazed.
I definitely credit good people on this site for sharing their experiences. At first I thought that only weirdos and meatheads do resistance training and always had a mental image of steroid laden walking muscles. Then I've read that article where was the graph of expected life expectancy for a person taking on training in their forties vs not training and it really did concern me. As a guy in early forties I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with very poor quality of life/mobility. I didn't want to be glued to my computer all day long as it would virtually be the death of me.
I wanted to write a blog post about this journey (which is still short, but memory is fresh;) maybe to help geeks like us to see that being in front of the computer all day long is terrible. It works when you're young, but it absolutely doesn't as you get older. And everyone will get older whatever the younger people think. If I knew stuff I know now about fitness 20 years ago, I'm sure I would be 5 times more healthier, and I wouldn't need any spinal surgeries. But nobody told me anything and I thought "doing stuff" on the computer all day long is fine. "I'll be mobile and skinny even when much older, what else would I need?". Oh boy how wrong was I.
There are already a lot of services to right-size servers, but I want to focus on small teams that might not have a full-time devops yet and lack the time to check every server manually.
The app will be simple with an educational part, it should be like having access to continuous audits on our infrastructure, just like the CI/CD tools we use on our codebase.
It already helped me at home to reduce the load on my oldest Raspberry Pi by shifting some services to a newer one that was mostly idle and right-sizing some VMs in the Proxmox cluster of the rack in my homelab. Having a green check next to each server name is a good motivation!
Another thing that is scratching my own itch is server discovery (especially in a multi-cloud environment) and integrations because it's just so easy to forget some servers in a cloud when you do a lot of experiments and keep paying for them for months.
The MVP is getting ready to launch, I'm making the landing page right now, and then I hope to find some early adopters to iterate on the app and make it useful to other devs. I'm also thinking about open-sourcing it.
I'm interested in having conversations to discover the pain points of other people in that space, so feel free to reach out to me!
However for this months work, I'm adding new stuff to the library - specifically some new OKLAB/OKLCH filters: something I don't think other canvas libraries have yet got around to considering[1]. And this weekend (a 3 day weekend in the UK) I'm spending time fixing the horror-show code for the reduce-palette (dither) filter[2] to see if I can get it to work just a little bit faster ...
(Fans of small PRs should definitely not click on these links)
Yesterday, I've built a minimalist solution to let you host Markdown files, while rendering it as html in the browser.
No preprocessing needed (like Hugo, Jekyll, Astro...).
- You just write plain markdown
- Add a script import at the top
- Upload
Check it out > https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/
As a dev, I always want to tell users about our latest updates, but making front-end updates requires a whole production deploy, and a backend notification service is a lot to set up. UpdateMaker makes it easy to manage updates without an engineering cycle.
UpdateMaker lets you copy-paste our widget into your website, and then you can push update notifications to your users. You can customize the look and feel, schedule updates, track user engagement, and make it conditional on pages the user might visit. We manage all the cookie-handling so the user only sees updates they haven't seen before. It's been super useful for us!
From there, UpdateMaker also automatically exports all your updates as a changelog that you can publish for your users or SEO :)
[0] This build for example: https://danielbuettner.medium.com/building-a-custom-e-cargo-...
- a fact management tool based on a timeline. I have a complex legal situation, so I created a tool to store information about events. I can prioritize and tag the events, attach files to them, and have small workflow on them, and then filter the timeline based on the tags/priorities/workflow states. It is very helpful, because the amount of events and data was too much to handle mentally. I am using Django/HTMX/AlpineJS.
- a dance event calendar for dance events in Finland, where both artists and venues can add events. The data is stuctured, which allows me to make views for each performer, venue etc. Mostly Django, but some HTMX/AlpineJS as well for complex screens
- for the dance event calendar, I have created a support site that uses ChatGPT to handle two first steps for incoming support emails/questions. First it categorizes the question, and then tries to answer it based on FAQ. If it fails, it summarizes the issue (and possibly asks few basic questions related to it) and forwards it to me.
Simplistic thesaurus and synonym finder.
Built with Flask and bit of jQuery
Evy is an app for collectors, both professional and casual, to help them keep track of their items and share it with the world. Currently there are either overly complex inventory management systems, which are overkill for casual collectors, or generic social platforms, which are "fine" for everything, but great for nothing. My goal with Evy is to fill this gap by offering an easy way for any collector to manage their items.
In short, it is an asset management system tailored specifically for collectors.
Thinking a free and paid version.
Free is everything, but runs on the existing system tables; so it's slow, and so a six day history only.
Paid has a system table archiving mechanism, so you have before-and-after when something goes wrong, and where the tables are in Redshift proper, not the leader node, it's fast.
I estimate burned calories on the minute-to-minute level for all activities, which is a fun challenge.
For the steps to calories conversion, I require time and distance walked. Unfortunately it's surprisingly difficult to get some kind of distance information from Android. Google Fit API provides this data, but will be killed soon. The RecordingAPI will hopefully provide this in the future, but not yet...
https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion),
https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up),
https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it),
https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a text),
https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a text),
https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),
https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),
https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),
https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and unescaper) https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).
https://www.notationer.com/ (a tool to switch across (code) notations, like camelCase, PascalCase, snake-case).
Frontend is mostly in React/Next.js (Some older projects have frontend still in the old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)). Where the backend is needed, it is written in .Net/C# and running on Azure.
- Micro SaaS https://yasl.at, link shortening with custom meta data for link previews on messengers/social media, see my blog post for more details: https://yasl.at/dKpNnZ
- A web game called Wizencraft (https://wizencraft.com) which is a logic puzzle to guess the right order of items as quickly as possible which lets you compete with other players, solve daily challenges in groups and let’s you grind thousands of items, it's a very early alpha and I'm building it in public very iteratively and not polished at first, see more details here: https://yasl.at/XnoDtY
- And last but not least I started to build a not yet published simple dashboard for analytics where I can plugin my self-hosted database very easily. You can just write SQL queries for MongoDB, Clickhouse, Postgresql in a single YAML which defines the query and how a chart looks like on the dashboard.
The idea came from the fact that using other dashboard/analytic tools always is a hassle, existing analytics dashboards I used for products are not easy to copy, replicate or adjust and it's mostly doable solely via clicking in a complex frontend instead of defining it simply via a configuration and the available offerings are charging large.
I'm planning to have the chart definition editable via web interface and is stored locally as files which can be versioned and managed by git and can connected to the web interface with a simple docker container (this brings the analytics dashboard to the product source code itself and can be easily copied/adjusted again for new products). Happy to share more and once the first version of the dashboard is ready to use (in the coming weeks...).
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Would love your thoughts on all of this and especially the analytics dashboard. Did you you face similar issues/problems with existing solutions (or if i can stop and actually use an existing solution which does what I'd like to have).
https://www.instagram.com/doggable.app/
We have over a 100 places now, and are getting ready for closed beta in September. You can sign up by emailing hello@doggable.app or DM-ing us on Instagram @doggable.app.
The app is developed live over at Twitch.
I’m currently polishing the logs and reports as much as possible, and then I’ll add support for more tools (Kafka, Rabbit, Nats, etc.). I have tons of features in mind to improve UX, speed, and bring more value to the tests.
Down the line, I want to find a business model for this tool and sell it, but I need to do a lot of thinking on this side since I’ve never done this before.
Lunni essentially takes docker-compose.yml and deploys it on a server. Currently we're using Portainer as the backend, which in turn just runs `docker stack deploy`. I'm reimplementing the stack deployment code from scratch which will allow us to support latest Compose spec and extend it as we need (and perhaps support orchestrators other than Swarm in the future).
I've cobbled together this tool which hides nextjs build system and allows to work with just single file.
It works great for fast prototyping or building an internal/local apps.
edit: repo: https://github.com/rybarix/snaptail
> It could never be commercially viable, so released something similar.
Apparel is about scale. You can make a great tee, but fewer people will pay $100 versus $30, so finding a balance is necessary. Cotton can age well, but the trade-offs (fiber blends, uneven yarn, spirality resistance, no ribbed neck) often show in tees under $50.
You can try here without signup: https://admin.minform.io/try
Site: https://minform.io
Personally, I hit the gym for 4 months, mostly to fix the lack of sleep that came with the restlessness and lack of mental exercise.
See: https://conze.pt - this is an encyclopedic showcase, but could be used for any other information system, eg. a cultural archive.
Development news: https://x.com/conzept__
Docs: https://conze.pt/guide/user_manual
Feedback welcome! I'm aware that the mobile experience needs work.
On the technical side, it's a desktop application coded entirely in java with a javaFX interface. No AI or online data uploads, just the Lucene search engine and PDFium for PDF rendering.
Here is a very short demo : https://youtu.be/CGo9JRUByGA
I built a domain hunter (with availability checks) for .com domains based on idea prompts and while I see people purchase domains all the time through it, they won’t even shell out $3 to get any extras or a list of more than three domain ideas or so. Zero willingness to pay anything, but high success rates on search and result conversion.
On my side, I'm working on https://flatcal.com that aims at simplifying sharing multiple calendars from different sources as one ical link. Like combining work, freelance, and personal calendars to display my busy time for easier scheduling etc. I'm finishing handling time zones which are messy as each provider has its own approach, but manageable. Expect it soon :) A have a huge list of usages for it so not short on ideas right now. But first things first, I need to focus on releasing the basics now. I'm having way to much fun with this one
Right now, it's Ruth, a companion you can WhatsApp with. She will take your history and record your symptoms, then you can ask her to summarise it before your appointment.
Try out the prototype on WhatsApp: +1 (516) 734-6593
(It's not HIPAA compliant and shares data with LLM providers currently, so best to use a fake patient profile if you're interested)
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
This has been in development for 3 years, and I've got an immigration law firm using it, with about 1/3rd of the LLM agents being immigration law specialist agents of some type.
I'm just wrapping up transforming the system from being immigration law specific to being generic, capable of operating in any industry. I previously made a "do it yourself: build your own home solar energy system" as a proof of concept that this framework could be modified in such a way, which I put online for a few months and then took down, having proved what I wanted.
I've got multiple creative writing 'bots: legal, technical documentation, creative writing, and code authoring. I've got multiple spreadsheet 'bots: create any standard spreadsheet form on demand, reverse engineer and explain complex spreadsheets, and co-author spreadsheets interactively with the human user, guiding them through the understanding of the spreadsheet being built. I've got foreign language translation agents that allow people without a common language to speak to one another through the voice transcription interfaces.
And the users are never copying and pasting LLM outputs from one place to another, that integration is built in to the business logic of the software: ask a chatbot to write a document, the output does directly to the word processor and the document is created, likewise for spreadsheets, likewise for talking to the "projectBot" and asking "what's the state of this project?" and a detailed report is generated.
I've also been making the app itself multi-lingual, and multi-skinned so it can be refaced for different cultures, demographics, and industries. I've been calling it "AI CMS" but that is meaningless to far too many. I'm considering calling it "Midom Office AI" because that sounds like "my dumb AI" and I'm generally sarcastic, considering an anti-gushing sarcastic marketing angle on the software. Rather than everyone's else's over praising, I'll have just some confident smuck referencing how he's got an entire team of AI experts helping him, enabling him to be calm and cool in the face of all the deadline pressures, he sips lemonade while his AI team works for him, and not him for it. We'll see what my "marketingBot" says...
Things I'm thinking about...I had an idea for a centralised local DB where I collected all kinds of stats on my life, all in one place. They're already being collected on various platforms, I thought 'why not make them my own, and maybe there's something to gain by pulling them together?'.
FHIR is a data standard for sharing healthcare data. It's in use all around the world by healthcare, health insurance and medtech companies as well as researchers working with healthcare data.
Vanya grew out of my own frustrations as a developer working with FHIR. I wanted an easier way to see the data behind the APIs. To say Postman is not ideal for working with this data is a major understatement.
We're a few months away from a commercial release, and have an MVP available for download right now. We're very much building in public and have a strong user base already all around the world.
Just finished a Sunday morning release of the latest version. Looking forward to the next 6 months!
This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge.
It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree.
This is all generated on-the-fly with Claude 3.5. There is no limit to what knowledge you might explore.
The killer feature is that it is totally free and does not require to login. Just click the link and have fun. I'll keep it free like that, as long as I can.
I hope you like it guys because it is the best project that I have up my sleeve.
Enjoy!,
Pierre
The last few months I've been trying to get the real-time upload speed to display nicely, which proved to be harder than anticipated. But I think I've got a good solution now and might roll a new release today.
My goal is to have a few thousands downloads by the end of the year. Marketing is hard, also because it's less rewarding than programming features, so I tend to pick a new feature instead of writing a blog post or polishing the website.
I have a background in marketing and HR in large company, this is my first venture into programming after learning to code on my own (VBA -> Automate the boring stuff -> coursera -> React & a lot of help debugging from a very generous friend.)
Releasing a full working product was a great milestone, but so far market fit is still quite unclear.
It’s an open source tool for declaratively managing your feature flags, a/b tests, and remote configuration for your applications and services.
Has SDKs for JavaScript, Swift, and Kotlin already.
A stock screener. Plan to have lots more features soon.
Are the extras worth $3? I think this may be an interesting article...too cheap to be of value. Of course, without knowing more, it's hard to judge: more info needed.
It's a simple site for streaming local radios from my city, Mendoza (Argentina): https://www.radiosdemendoza.com.ar
It was built with WordPress, and the new theme is using Tailwind and AlpineJS. I hadn’t used AlpineJS before, so this project was a great way to experiment with it.
I don't have any monetization on it, and I'm not sure if I'll pursue that for this site.
Next up, I plan to build a Chrome extension. I have limited experience with that, so it should be a fun challenge.
I'll email you as soon as the website is launched!
Why SynthQL? My experience working for +10 years on enterprise SaaS is that a quite often you just want a database and a way to fetch data from it. Backends will quite often get in the way adding abstractions and layers upon layers of transformation between DB objects to domain objects to DTOs.
If you ever feel like you just want to talk to the database directly, give SynthQL a try :)
If you implement something, then add SCA/3DS "payment confirmations" later on, I think it's impossible to fix that.
As a marketing spin for this - consider packaging it into Nvidia NIM format and make it generate 3D graph as 3D OpenUSD scene. From where I'm standing this route has a lot of potential.
Also if you never looked into it there is a project called wikidata. There each object contains a unique ID and hierarchy, which helps build semantic web. Exploring their data using your interface might be effective. (please check similar projects though as an idea seems straightforward and someone might have already done that for them)
One early achievement was buying voop.com - a very nice man in Arizona had held it since the 90s, and despite being retracted on whois, i worked out how to contact him via his custom ssl certificate on the empty holding site parked at the root domain. After a few emails and follow ups to get a response, I bought it for a not-cheap-but-not-bank-breaking amount.
Science is not a standalone category. In fact science is directly connected to mathematics which is directly connected to philosophy (through logic for example)
We might argue that also art is an extension of philosophy (e.g. finding objective or subjective beauty).
Probably Claude doesn't agree with this definition.
E.g. someone says the delivery didn't come through. Or that the coin is not authentic.
Those are some expensive coins! So was curious.
Bungee is unique in its quality, performance and controllability. Every media player, DAW, video editor should use something like Bungee for smooth scrubbing and audio slomo.
Try it with one click: https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/bungee-web-demo
So far we have several licensees of the Pro edition with more on the way.
It's a tool to scratch my own itch, which is converting all kinds of web content into ebooks and send them to my ereader.
Currently focusing on web pages/Atom/RSS feeds but I may extend it later e.g. into transcribing videos + extracting image highlights.
Feedback/ideas are already appreciated. :)
I'm also studying electronics and trying to learn circuit and PCB design. I want to buy an uconsole and make boards for it. I contacted the uconsole's power management IC manufacturer and they actually sent me some GPLv2 Linux drivers! I intend to clean it up and port the features to the existing kernel driver so I can upstream it.
Kind of struggling to wrap my mind around how we can avoid having EBS-style network disks as part of our product offering. We are convinced that it's a operational nightmare to maintain and it's better to provide other tools to achieve the same results. For example, instead of running Postgres on EBS or local disks, we use Neon to run it on top of S3!
Link: https://camprompter.app
The insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're talking to the camera.
Boom! Easy Eye Contact With Camera.
I scrunched up the Notion app and placed it as well as I could in the safe area to test it out for a couple of videos, but then I just wrote a web app because it seemed like the next logical step.
Once you paste the script and hit play... you can only see the text in the safe area so your eyes don't wander.
Fire up PhotoBooth and try it out!
PS: Press F for fullscreen.
Very excited.
for audiobooks the ability to skip forward and backwards a few seconds. the best way to do that i found is to swipe left and right. short swipe is a short skip, swipe across the whole screen is maybe a minute. also the ability to quickly jump to a certain manually chosen timestamp.
also for audiobooks, the ability to bookmark positions. not all audio books have chapter markers.
for audiobooks and podcasts: list files by their names in storage sorted by timestamp or name. many podcasts and chapterized audiobooks don't set chapter or episode titles correctly. i have seen players where the title was always the title of the book or the name of the podcast, making it impossible to identify which file was which episode or chapter. also author names and even podcast titles are sometimes inconsistent, because spelling errors, different authors or multiple names for a podcast.
do not assume that the file metadata is consistent or correct and make it easy for the user to work around inconsistencies.
So I'm now doing it a bit as a side project but I hope to at some point also offer a paid version to fund development long term.
I've recently taken a new job working closely with some data scientists so wanted to skill up a little. So far I've got an elixir library which can calculate Attainment 8 and Progress 8. They're formulas provided by the DfE to understand individual student progress, and the schools ability to progress students.
It's just a bit of fun, and is letting me experiment with some of the various elixir data libraries and livebook. At the end of it, his trust is going to plug in some anonymous data and see if they can get more insights than this mega spreadsheet.
It's also nice to be doing a side project which isn't aimed at being a business.
A demo should be available very soon, meanwhile you can wishlist it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/Dice_n_Goblins/
concurrent disk-backed cache supporting efficient direct file I/O, transactions, and snapshots using file cloning and sparse files
I've tried many things but still none fit exactly my needs (I deploy many static websites so I want that to be effortless but I still want to be able to do continuous deployment on git+docker based projects). I know about Dokku and is probably what I should have learned to use but this way I can also challenge myself on a medium Go project
I'd be pretty worried about an abstraction ceiling on the caching here relative to something like Bazel, though. Like would Mint get mad if I generated 4000 dynamic tasks?
They gave everyone half their money back, this free upgrade, new factions, bigger map and a ton of changes. Overall its been a big push from their side to keep the player base happy.
But yeah, there's obviously a big market for historical games, from city builders, combat, etc. and I'm here for them all.
Do you know if there's a way to get info about programming (show names and schedule) from the streams?
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Currently experimenting with a game build around the old classroom method of Total Physical Response — you can see a very early prototype here: https://kolja-sam.itch.io/the-tpr-game-gala
It analyzes the social situation of a person, or group of people that live together, and forecasts those benefits that they could access. It is an old base code that uses OpenFisca for the back, and React for the front. However, it's quite fun though. Currently I'm working on make it more stable as there are still some parts that could break the process.
Some of the features:
* OpenID Connect based Identity Provider
* OpenLDAP synchronization - currently supporting users and groups synchronization
* MFA with TOTP, email, WebAuthn / FIDO2, crypto wallets
* wireguard client GUI integrated with OIDC, supporting multiple locations (https://defguard.net/client)
* secure enrollment & onboarding
* yubikey provisioning
Our github: https://github.com/DefGuard
(edit: formatting, github link)
An Image Tool for web developers.
With ImageTool, you can: - Search multiple stock photo sites with one tool - Generate 500 images with AI - Edit images - Compress and convert images to .webp
It also helps you bulk edit images.
The goal is to help web developers speeding up their workflow.
During university, I spent some time working on an AI agent to play Dominion, but a very large part of the work was building a way to simulate the game.
The goals are:
- Develop an engine that's efficient enough to use in simulations (for training AI agents or analyzing the game). - Still emit events that can be used to visualize the current state of the game when real people are playing. - Create primitives that are easy to distribute across a network for remote players/agents.
AnyStack Pages is aimed at making it easier and simpler to host static websites with free SSL protection and CDN. Websites can be hosted by uploading a zip file of the site contents or a single html file. It's currently in closed-beta for limited users every week.
Next Steps: Full launch with support for adding custom domains and premium features.
Happy to chat about this if you are interested in getting early access or for any questions and suggestions.
It’s a powered 55-seater auto gyro - an electric helicopter during take-off and landing and a conventional turboprop regional “plane” during flight. We are at a “works on paper, let’s start prototyping” phase: basic assumptions are verified by people from industry, a development plan is in place.
My co-founder is an experienced high-power electric propulsion engineer and he’s currently developing our power train. I am in charge of the business/operations/relationships side. We are currently looking for a third co-founder to lead aircraft design.
Surely this would make it significantly heavier? Wouldn't traditional fuel do better in terms of weight (and reliability)?
> high speed door-to-door transportation, without train/airport infrastructure.
Is this meant for rural transport? Looking around my urban landscape, there isn't really a place to land something like this.
Our approach is a bit different since unlike making a better copilot or a chat experience we are building workflows which encourage engineers to work alongside AI and not just offload tasks to AI.
(Probably there's also a complicated chemical reason for current limiting that I don't fully grasp)
Should be ready for early adoption in a month or so.
It was one of those shower thoughts along the lines of "I wonder if it's possible to drag and drop host .net projects..." :)
There is still a lot to do and learn (especially in the marketing department), but we have plans for a new product in the privacy space. I don't want to say too much about it until we've started working on it, but it's in the compliance space and fits quite well with our existing product. I think it's always a good starting point to solve your own problems.
If anyone’s looking to share their story, I’d recommend IndieHackers, but for hardware-focused startups/projects, check out howtoware.co. (I’m not affiliated with the site’s owner in any way, but I really like the concept and want to help spread the word to my fellow hardwarers).
AI over email.
Had some vacation. Now lots of new ideas. Think I will enable email forwarding (not yet possible)
Mailto:gpt@franzai.com
Hey, please send example@example.com a friendly email inviting them to a google meeting next Thursday. Keep me cc.
Will only implement minimal spam protection and a simple opt out and see what happens.
After years of having the New Year’s resolution, “make a personal site.” I finally got past my procrastination and did it! It’s live and I’m filling it out with things I’ve done over the years.
Playing with toy LLM models to see if there’s a way to identify gaps in knowledge and guide training.
Thinking to do a kaggle challenge soon. (Is there a way to join a team?)
Maybe do a chose-your-own-adventure style interactive story to teach python to beginners.
Ideally a way to let people lay out strategies and see them executed by a team, go on - prove you're the best IGL!
It's slow going between a full time job and family life but really great to expand my mind into something that isn't "web dev".
And now, because I have a problem, I’ve completely pivoted and I’m rewriting it from scratch as a SPA because I wanted to try using Pocketbase for the backend and extend it so I could learn Go. https://github.com/brendanv/lynx-v2
Still got a big list of improvements to make but I'm quite happy with how it's coming together.
I am using the Godot engine: https://godotengine.org/
The playable demo is already available today on Github: https://github.com/Eccentric-Anomalies/Tungsten-Moon-Demo-Re...
We're releasing the demo on Steam for the first time in a few days, followed by an early access version probably in October: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3104900/Tungsten_Moon/
Working on the open source alternative to Heroku - https://ptah.sh (https://github.com/ptah-sh/ptah-server)
Already have some success: we use it for our other 3 projects, thus saving us some cash. :)
I have the 1-click apps marketplace, backups and, soon, monitoring.
Some of our current users use it to find Wordpress websites with specific versions of Wordpress, others to find websites that use niche-market tools, ones that are not covered by incumbents such as Wappalyzer or BuiltWith. We're currently focused on the French market.
Curious to hear your thoughts, if you are looking for new ways to find prospects.
I wrote a post explaining the reasons for building this when we already have multiple third-party SaaS providers: https://crbelaus.com/2024/07/31/built-in-elixir-error-report...
It boils down to simplicity. While error reporting is extremely valuable for most projects, it is absent from many. The most common reason is that this requires entering SaaS territory. Most solutions are provided by third-parties that require you to subscribe and pay for the privilege of tracking your errors. Cost is the main noticeable downside. Data protection (GDPR, HIPAA, etc) is another.
The Elixir community is providing great feedback and it was covered both in a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/TNmSVjGyZx0?si=yd6kOwa2ZpxUyFad) and a Podcast (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/215).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.evergreenl... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/3po/id6503194251
The next wave of interesting hardware development will be focused on form factor. Devices of the future could be any shape or size.
The first version of this device I have completed but not fully documented is an 8 unit mixed use apartment building. I converted each of the 7 classrooms into studio apartment the 8th unit is my development studio.
How can a building be a computer? My perspective holds that a building is a machine that needs a differential engine to optimize the resource usage of the occupants. This perspective with the idea that some circuits should larger not smaller to aid operational understanding.
The building is done enough and I need a break so I think my next form factor will be mobile sensor network and focused on individuals and small groups.
I think developing for a sailboat will be a good complement to the building. The both serve the same purpose but one is extremely resource constrained and in a harsh environment.
Currently identifying all the current sailboat tech for a refit. The devices I’m looking at range from RADAR to sine wave inverters. A very rich tech environment. Looking forward the fall.
Talent teams face the challenging task of handling high-volume inbound channels, while maintaining an excellent candidate experience, and dedicating time to high-value recruiting activities.
So I'm working on Hirevire(https://hirevire.com/) to help automate the screening rounds so that talent teams can spend time interviewing only the best candidates.
I get the vibe of a "become a 10x developer from scratch and land a rock star job in a month" bootcamp. 2/3 of your audience are likely to have seen enough of this already to be turned off. Meanwhile, perhaps some more junior will be intimidated and say "not yet" by the supposed advanced level (the material is also targeting people 10-20 years ahead in their careers after all...)
If you write another book in the future, I'd suggest splitting it into a couple more focused ones, rather than trying to cover all these dimensions for all seniority levels at the same time.
One of the tricky parts when working with ~100 colors is how you can easily tell the tool which pairs should always contrast so it can check them automatically, instead of you having to keep selecting pairs to check.
It's simple right now though to make all colors of the same grade have the same lightness so you get easy to remember contrast guarantees e.g. green-700 will have WCAG AA contrast on grey-100, and the same for any 700 (or above) vs 100 (or below) pairing.
But lately I took a break and worked on running (GPX run file analysis) and habit tracking. The eventual goal is to package it all together into one integrated PWA / mobile app.
what about transfer fees?
all in all this is way to complex for the average person and inaccessible for many.
in some countries mobile money accounts come with every phone number, and you can transfer micropayments from one number to another even across networks and even internationally. and you don't even need a smartphone. any feature phone that can send USSD codes will work. that is a working micropayment system accessible to anyone who can afford at least a feature phone.
Will probably try to self-host because why not.
Also doing my first Java based project since school; surprised how okay it's been going so far.
feature idea- you can see the reading progress of everyone in the group to sort of apply some passive social pressure to catch up if you're behind
then again, not everyone might be willing to do this since the book club might not all be about actually reading the book for them
Rich text editor, run PHP and NodeJS on device, manage Git repos, and view your projects in a built-in browser that includes dev tools.
Where get?
There is a guy that rides the trail near me thats riding an ebike with a triangular battery pack that looks identical to one some HNer built here - He's too fast and I havent been able to stop him.
Another question for the DIY e-bik crowd, is what kind of OTS motor could one harvest, like a motor from an electric lawm mower, or edger, weed-wacker? Are there power tools where the electric motor is useable? (like how people originally used mower engines in goKarts and such?
Also, for fireproofing - mix Powdered Aerogel into a Silicon Slurry and dip the battery in that - the silicon and aerogel will make a heat sleeve thats quite fire resistant.
I decided it was time to have a personal website as a software contractor and brand myself online as the state of IT is still uncertain.
The idea is that a user would handwrite or type the first sentence of a story they want to write. This sentence would be used by llama 3.1 as a prompt to make a short story. Then the story is fed to stable diffusion to create image illustrations. Finally, all of it is combined into a slide deck that users can see in the app and also download if they want.
I am using Shiny and Quarto for this project.
I've got the API ready, which requires 2 main values: - The original file ( which can be sent as a file, or hosted internally and requested using an ID ) - The data that needs to be printed into the audio file.
The API will return a watermarked version of the audio file that you can use later to extract the same data you sent before.
It's currently being tested on a production website, will wait for feedback, improve, and create an actual service out of the API.
We built a radar-based device for (gamified & fun) agility testing and training with accurate measurements, for top athletes. Works without wearables or expensive and complex/location-restricted setups like you have with timegates or LPS sytems.
If anyone here is into sports science & tech, feel free to get in touch! (laurens@ the domain above) We're looking for a sports scientist / product manager to strengthen the team, a marketeer with affinity for sportstech, resellers & partnerships, and of course, more customers :-)
Not sure if I caught the train but still. My name is Max, a software developer based in Central Europe, and I'm working on my course "Building Command-Line Interface App from Scratch in Go" (this is a working title).
In this course I want to teach how to write CLI application from scratch in Go without any external dependencies (exception: driver for DB).
This is not another one course about how to write CLI app using Cobra or any other command-line builder library. Instead, in my course you're gonna write your own Cobra-like command-line builder library (package) to build command-line interface application from scratch.
Thus, you will know how to build an API for building CLI like Cobra and you can use it later on for your future projects. I will also talk about Command-Line Interface Guidelines showing how to make powerful, useful and easy-to-use command-line application which you can use every day in your workflow.
The course is still work in progress and I don't even have a web page for it. But I do have my newsletter where I share best resources about Go. By subscribing to this newsletter you will be notified once course is ready to launch. Also, everyone who's subscribed to my newsletter and will be in first batch to buy a course gets a 50% discount.
So, if you are interested in this kind of stuff join the waitlist for course in my newsletter on https://kovalevsky.io
P.S. I also have daily base newsletter about Go - Daily Golang. If you subscribe to this newsletter you will also be notified once course is ready to launch you and will get 50% discount to buy the course - https://kovalevsky.io/daily-golang.
book-filter.com
I have a $7,000 Orbea E-bike and I have an Airtag hidden in it. Its a great feature.
Not sure if I could redo the Orbead Battery this way because its internal to the frame - but it does have an extended battery pack option - perhaps this could be wired to use that connector as your interface allows for any ebike it seems?
The post recently on HN about the flipper zero being able to emulate the airtag is pretty nifty, and you could use these guys effort:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287031
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I LOVE this project.
I want.
Actually, Can I ask that you add a LORA transceiver network in the build since you have the ESP32 (maybe update it to the ESP3250?) :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40llxjrIG3w
Imagine being able to lora talk back from your bike to the trailhead, or your campsite.
And do you have a better version of Shimano's E-Tube iOs crapware?
EDIT: Since you have THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQHZFRHiUdg
The Goauche BMS Tesrt Bench needs its own video/HN post - and this is exactly what would be great info to get via a LORA messaging for all the telemetries from the pack?
WOW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEuBDA_xb8
I want to open a Goache Plant in California. Seriously.
- velocity tracking with your camera
- automatic video trimming
- workout tracking
Currently working on an LLM for chatting with your lifting data :)
I thought it would be absolutely terrifying to be in front of a bunch of strangers and try to make them laugh, but it turns out if you're prepared, it's not that hard. Open mic crowds are benevolent and don't expect you to be the next Richard Pryor or George Carlin anyway, and I don't "engage" the public at all; I just tell my jokes.
I try to come up with new material each time so there's some work to do, but it's fun.
Any ideas to implement?
A million ways to do this, of course, but I'm focused on using wireguard so that eg only my wireguard peers can get access to my local service, and for internal traffic (ie vpn).
At the moment I'm settling on having a simple script that I can run on a host alongside wireguard. The script will function like `wg-quick`, parsing a wireguard config file and handilng the routing stuff behind the scenes, and returning a cleaned up config to be passed to `wg`.
Ideally, the wireguard configs could be generated by some other tool or service, like https://wirehub.org, and automatically fetched and applied to the running wg interface.
So, a one liner on a server with a public IP and the services exposed by your wireguard peers can be accessed via a custom domain name while still respecting internal wireguard routing rules (based on AllowedIPs).
If anyone finds this interesting and wants to chat about it, I would love to! My contact info is in my profile.
Nice work!
Founded by Lynne Tye.
This is happening because I intentionally added a strong bias for more recent books. I thought that's what most people would be looking for - at least for fiction - and I also assumed there were other good ways to discover older books (lists, collections etc).
You're absolutely right though, it should give you some Victorian lit given your preferences! I'll work on addressing this.
ok, i get it, it lets me avoid having to address the person directly, especially for people who are insecure or just overthink what to write, but is this really healthy?
where will it end? using AI to write love letters?
on the other hand, you could leave out the email sending feature (and this avoid any spam problems) and just send the generated text as a reply that i can then forward.
a generic email interface to send AI prompts sounds useful. encouraging people to write personal emails using AI not so much.
As such, I’ve been working on the software to bring this vision to life, which is called Your Commonbase (a portmanteau of Commonplace Book and Vector Database).
In short, the purpose of the work is to create a data structure that works the way humans store, retrieve, and share information. By making these three elements as close to zero stress as possible, you catalyze creativity through remixing and augmentation of memories. My hypothesis is a lifetime building a Commonbase creates an idiosyncratic system, filled with the interpretations of an individual or a group. This individualized structure then creates demand that others want. I.e, a curation of all of the books you have read, organized by the marginalia you have added to them. This is a system people would pay for, and also a system that becomes more valuable over time.
I’ve been “working in public” by posting updates on my site [2], and am just beginning a small waitlist alpha testing phase (email me if you want in!)
It would make a ton of sense to have a third party rating and review site with some kind of dependable reputation for posters. You could still affiliate link to books for site revenue.
Raspberry Pi5 + RFID reader, touchscreen, and some 3d printed enclosures. Going to get a lightweight LLM to run on the Pi5 and some custom interactive software.
I just started this project about two weeks ago, but I've been tinkering with the hardware side of electronics lately and this is the culmination of about 18 months of various hobby projects.
For $100 we ship a vending mechanism for you to put on your own custom vending box.
We then provide online marketplace and payment services (Shopify for vending machines) so your customers can use their phones to buy products from your vending machines.
Great alternative for products that don’t justify big $10k vending machines.
$1/WL is good (not great or bad), depending on how much your game is going to cost and the projected WL->Sale conversion.
I recommend you read through most of the articles and blog posts here: www.howtomarketagame.com
It's a good starting place.
Yeah, many ways to do it, one is running your own DNS server and have wireguard connections use that DNS server.
I want to avoid having DNS issues, so I'm thinking more like this:
1. DNS CNAME *.internal.example.com 123.23.45.67
2. On 123.23.45.67, run wg.
3. On 123.23.45.67 , run nginx. nginx must be in the same network to do geo blocking on Wireguard peer addressess.
4. Create one nginx server config per service to map domain names to upstream servers. Use variables for upstream servers, allow nginx to start even if upstreams unreachable. Add internal locations for custom errors (Forbidden, Unreachable, etc).
5. When connecting to 123.23.45.67 via Wireguard (ie, Peer Endpoint = 123.23.45.67), ensure 123.23.45.67 is in the range defined by Peer AllowedIPs.
Using PHP Slim Framework, MySQL, and vanilla Swift/Java. Prioritizing reliability and efficient sync between local storage and server. Currently finalizing API endpoints and feature matching the web app. Next up is adding a subscription model.
It's challenging as:
- Users want to use the app offline which means we need to sync
- We have to match our existing features on [2] in the first version and evolve the API and database to support reliable sync
- Users want to also track their cardio too e.g. Running Level [3] and Rowing Level [4] but that will have to come out in a future version
[1] https://strengthlevel.com/
Something to keep in mind if you do build that: have a one time purchase or month long purchase option. When my wife's grandma died, we had to go through her coins looking for good ones. I would've killed for something like this but for a month.
BigOnX.com
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
big things are reading:
_Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason_ by David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften
and
_A Philosophy of Software Design_ by John Ousterhout
and getting the code to an actually useful state and then creating CNC joinery which isn't possible with other tools.
for example react is listed as high risk, but at the same time i would consider the risk to be very low in the sense that if it is relicensed then it will be forked immediately backed by a community that is strong enough to sustain such a fork.
i'd go as far as saying that for react relicensing would kill the project because the majority of users would go with the fork.
for other projects the risk is higher because they don't have a strong FOSS userbase that could sustain a fork, and because most current users would not care.
As a genuine question, I'm very surprised that many people don't seem concerned that AirTags alert thieves to their presence. If your bike is stolen the thief will get the notification, even if they are on Android (with the new shared platform rogue tag detection).
I'm trying to understand the user psychology here - not pitch our own products.
Do you have any specific features you would like to prevent theft?
Long-term vision is to build-out a network connecting large metropolitan centers to smaller places, unlocking swaths of real estate. You can live in Albany and fly to Manhattan/Boston/Syracuse in 30 minutes whenever you need to report to office/go to a concert/visit a non-emergency doctor’s appointment. Vertiport can be located on a floating pier, on the roof of an existing transportation hub, on a plot adjacent to a bus/tram terminal e.t.c.
On the other hand, if each repost consists of just a link to the original post, or a link plus a few words, that would prevent the unpleasantness in search results.
It’s a sweet spot. Large enough to be useful, small enough to have reasonable refuelling times.
I didn't like web dev very much but now I'm enjoying Django a little so I intend to swallow Django and pull off some products maybe as I don't intend to have a regular job for the rest of my life and build what interests me.
So yeah, I've been pushing some Django projects and getting better at it.
If you wanna follow along or learn Django, here lies my journey
The front end CMS is a combination of Notion and Super.so. The backend will be Lucee and MySQL.
I have many thousands of ads I want to catalog just to start. There are so many print ads, cataloging just a fraction will take a lifetime.
I'm developing a custom cataloging system that will allow me to process them more quickly and automate aspects of the management of the collection. I have in mind to eventually make the database available to other collectors.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
Latest commit is on this little nim project to find text, similar to ripgrep
https://github.com/madprops/goldie
Last game is this thing where you get to see ants talk and react in different ways.
https://github.com/madprops/cromulant
Last big thing I made is this powerful python/tk client to chat with language models. Lots of features and my own markdown parser.
I get to lead a team of 175 doctors and students across premed, medical, and dental education. I am the first doctor + full stack technologist in the country. It's super rewarding. No funding, just off our immensely low price point that things are still growing quickly. All software written in house.
For shipping, that’s just pretty standard across most industries - I have shipping insurance and if USPS fails, they’ll pay for it. But losses happen and it’s just a matter of business (thankfully they’re rare).
People keep bringing up Dynasties, but it’s obvious CA doesn’t know how to make successful historical titles anymore. They dropped the ball even on 3k which had some kind of potential.
My interests are many, maybe too many.
In tech, I'm interested in native systems programming, at the moment with C++.
Outside of tech, I do quite a bit of "long" distance running, swimming and e-biking.
When out on a run, it leaves lot of time available for listening on podcasts, mainly technical podcasts.
At the same time, when exercising, I want to publish tidbits I've learned, do projects with raspberry pies, arduinos, make statistics over time series (power consumption, electricity price, internet usage++).
When I'm home, I'm thinking I'll do it later :).
What I'm most curious about, is how people, and I, can stay organized. All information feels like a mess :)
Really really early days but progress can be followed at https://github.com/ayinke-llc/malak
It has been a wild ride. Often frustrating but rewarding. Some days I may spend 10 hours solving an API for which app is frontmost at a given second. Sure, there's a system API for that, but it doesn't even remotely cover edge cases that exist. And many times with no answers out there on how to do something, it feels like I'm the first, so finally solving it is a great endorphin rush.
Part of the complexity is I wanted the app to be completely pluggable, kind of like Obsidian. The app communicates events to a local socket server in full duplex, which enables cross-plugin communication (but also cross-app!). Plugins access the app's JavaScript system bridge API for pubsub and system calls through a Webkit interface. Edits are hot reloaded and instant, no compile time necessary. The first time I could change my "Start" menu in real time through JavaScript/CSS was quite a feeling.
Sadly, I couldn't leverage existing tools like Tauri or Electron. They don't have adequate system bridge APIs available, and would be more work to leverage instead of less. They are too general, whereas this project only builds to macos. Therefore it can be much more complicated (and useful) by design.
I originally set out to be more productive in macos. But I've also spent time making prototypes for fun. A desktop widget system, real-time system color theme set from Spotify album art, live video desktop backgrounds from Twitch/YT, a Destiny 2 macos system theme, etc.
I plan to open source it and build a community around it one day.
other tags such as "UPDATE" or "MAJOR UPDATE" could also be considered.
maybe something like this:
Please tag your posts as NEW, REPOST or UPDATE. For reposts and updates try not to repost the whole description but keep it short and link to the previous post instead
Outside of that I am also building a gym up for myself which I could use without glasses (all apps I tried have tiny buttons or controls that I cant see in the gym)
If you steal a bike with a tracker on it you’ll probably leave it right there for the real owner to find.
I'll probably make a full blog soon for added convenience. (it'll be about AI products & production)
If you want a bite of some of my other work here is a AI game I made & which got totally ignored: https://lywald.itch.io/the-fall-of-mankind I tried to monetize it, that was a bit lame, but in the next few days I'll release it as free.
Great to meet you. I have a ton of thoughts on this matter, but not well threaded for quick reply: so forgive the stream-of-thought nature of the following.
There is no real secret answer to stopping bike thieves, because the primary problem is both cultural and infrastructure.
We dont have bike culture that allows for safe bike leaving-about, and we dont have bike infrastructure for safe bike locking-about. (Bike Hack SF: Take your nice bike into a nice hotel and tip the DoorMan $5 to check your bike into luggage check rather than lock it up)
So, my airtag is in a case with security bolts under the bottle cage - and its more a check that I can know where it was last seen. Though I didnt remove the chirper.
What if you could have a TILE that is the fob for this battery. Where the battery wont go unless the paired Tile Fob is present?
A Lora Tile would be killer If you had a Lora network on this battery, with a TILE app infra on top of it and all the batteries talked to eachother - you built an anti-theft-mesh so all the bikes tiles all tell eachother about themselves.
Tile integration with Shimano Motors and e-tube iso app to stop the motor from running unless Tile fob/phone app present. A magnetic Solonoid crank-shaft-blocker.
And above all else pushing for better bike policies in municipalities.
Currently working on adding manga and YouTube support, and figuring out how to expand it to all languages
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Also, Should be a messier version of this as a monthly post where people like you and me post "hey I dont have a project in mind per se, but wanna throw some things out there and maybe hit on a collaboration? Or at minimum idea path validation?
It's a way to share messages, files, code snippets, links, without worrying about distracting others, or quitting the app yourself to avoid notifications. It uses around 10x less RAM than Slack/Discord/Teams and prioritizes fast moving teams over enterprises. High quality software over features. Features that work rather than half-backed list of smart/AI/notes/wiki/etc bloat.
Currently focusing on building native apps using React Native. Finding limitations with the platform and considering dropping the whole thing and start building with Swift and Kotlin instead.
By themselves or independent 3rd parties with deep experience in battery safety testing?
What do you think that I implement BYOK (bring your own key), does that interest anyone so that it is never down for them but they have to pay Claude on the side? Is anyone interested?
Decided on a GPL/AGPL/ODBL license for the scraper/website/dataset. https://blr.today/license
My Core-thesis[0] on why I think this is worth building:
1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-quality, and often filled with spam. The aggregators make money by listing lots of events.
2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize them on the aggregator platforms.
3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.
4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not captured.
I've been wanting to build this for almost 6 years now, finally getting around to it.
I updated my ideas repo last week with some more of my ideas.
https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas
If any of these sounds like fun, take a look:
* A physical variable fuzzy clock
* A curl impersonation proxy
* A Whisper UX Design Pattern
* Mobile App Traffic RE Platform
* One-Page (RSVP|EventHosting) Platform on Edge Compute
* Price Index for Indian Grocery Websites
I am surprised that people think the benefits of AirTags outweigh the downsides given the alternatives, of which we are one. I'm mainly just trying to learn.
I also think you probably are overestimating the deterrent value. Thieves are not necessarily thoughtful and the alerts aren't real time. Once they get the alert they might ditch the bike, but if it is back at their garage they will probably disable or remove it.
I also am a bit triggered by this line "Honestly, you as the CEO should know this." which is on the edge of being an ad hominem. Why did you choose to include this? And wouldn't you know that I know these things? Like I am asking questions to get nuanced user feedback. Do you think someone who runs a consumer product company (I started Life360, Tile's owner), isn't deeply aware of how customers think?
It's an online development platform similar to other things like Replit, but it's mainly for static site hosting. You can create projects and make custom subdomains for them. You can add libraries to your project in a click of a button, so you don't have to add scripts or CSS files to every single file of yours. I've recently been doing a lot of work on it and I hope to launch it pretty soon.
I properly animated a model with blender, and am able to move the parts I want accordingly. It was not easy but I made it.
I also managed to implement the recoil algorithm I want.
I modeled guns.
I will probably struggle to implement server reconciliation to mitigate lag, I found 2 modules that does it, one in C++, one in gdscript.
Obviously the gdscript one is slower, but it's hard to know how much slower, since obviously a game like counter strike is very fast paced.
I also want to implement a panini/wide angle camera, also found a module for it.
Moving slow with bad mental health and anxiety, but having fun.
Coming from Hyprland and even KDE, Windows seems to be lacking a bit out of the box, but maybe I'm missing something deeper about how it all works.
- Analyzing grocery pricing patterns for 7 Canadian grocers. I took care of the data acquisition. Now it is time to speak with economists / data analysts who can make sense of it. Are you interested? Please get in touch!
- Gathering and archiving all graphical material from the "Printers International Specimen Exchange". The gathering is done, now working on a writeup.
- ... various side quests from the above. Incl. a tutorial on making mobile-friendly imagemaps
For a counterexample, imagine you have a ton of items that have a weight of 10^-20 and value of 1, and a single item that has the weight of whatever is the capacity of the knapsack (so it’s only thing that fits if it’s inserted to the knapsack) and the value of +infinity.
All items have their cost ≈ 0, so whether you fit all of the “light but valueless” items or the single “heavy but extremely valuable” item depends on how you sort when costs are equal.
An improved heuristic would take the value into account more than just having it as a factor, but it’s not easy to design.
I would recommend finding an open course on algorithm design and analysis and going through the lessons while trying to extrapolate approaches to problems instead of just solutions to them.
i like knives
I'll come back to it once I'm farther along in my language learning journey and want to take my foot off the gas pedal a bit.
I found it amazing the importance of the small details in old woodworking tools and how toolmakers solve problems and improve tools. Particularly in very simple tools.
I've been working on an exciting project called DataSignal, where I'm developing a sophisticated Named Entity Recognition (NER) and enrichment system. This system is designed to identify and extract key entities from blocks of text, such as names, locations, or organizations, and then provide rich contextual information about them. The goal is to transform raw text into meaningful data that users can easily understand and leverage in various applications.
The real magic of DataSignal lies in how it delivers this contextual information. It can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow through a browser plugin, which instantly highlights and explains entities as you browse the web. For developers, DataSignal can be embedded directly into a webpage via JavaScript, enhancing the content on the page with dynamic insights. Additionally, it offers a REST API, allowing for flexible and customizable integration into other software systems.
Whether you're a developer looking to enhance your application with smart text analysis or someone who wants to streamline research and data gathering, DataSignal is poised to bring a new level of insight and efficiency to text analysis. This project aims to make complex data more accessible and actionable, transforming how we interact with and interpret information.
A huge sports LED ticker screen. It’s been an interesting experience. Hardware is hard. But people love it when they see it and seem to be really excited for it.
It is a layer on top of the qtile window manager that allows for more advanced window arrangements - especially subtabs. It was an itch to scratch and I use it myself.
I am now diddling about with Rust and thinking of trying my hand at a PDF parser library. It's sort of nice when there's an established specs document - like all the requirements are clearly laid out and you don't have to spend time thinking about the scope and product design.
I can implement as much as I want to, have tests, and come back another time when I feel like it.
Working in local-first turns out to be really nice for making the app feel super snappy. The responsiveness you see in the demo is the performance you can expect in day to day usage.
I was a Tile wallet user until I stopped carrying a wallet completely. There are 2 types of thieves: the professional and the opportunistic. Opportunistic, the majority, aren't doing more than they have to and if the bike has a tracker they know about it makes it less appealing. And if you can get the casual thief to give up immediately then the device has already payed for itself.
The professional will chop it immediately. I see kids in my neighborhood with $2000+ Trek Marlins, with all the expensive mountain bike parts removed. They simply wanted a bike to freestyle on. And doing all that probably took hours if not days. The professional is not going to spend anymore time than they have to disable a tracker when there are better options all around.
been my main side project since like 2008. working on goodreads import right now. Always working on improving the algorithm. would love to collab with a data scientist on ways to improve my algorithm. https://github.com/ssherman/weighted_list_rank
Happy to elaborate if anyone is interested, I will also write about it on my blog (https://watwa.re) at some point
I'm naturally biased then to early Windows and MATE-esque environments. And, it's worth noting that I despise Win11 overall, so a better comparison is indeed Linux Mint MATE[1]. Part of the project inspiration is to never use Windows 11 again, actually!
Before I started the project I wrote down what I consider productivity boosters for me:
1. Fast context switching between open apps and windows, natively. All open apps are in front of me by way of the taskbar, always, and never hidden. I never have to think about where to find my immediate work. I can group apps, pin them, and create custom behavior for them.
2. System tray apps for things that you interact with often, but aren't necessarily immediately working on. Macos has something similar but it isn't really pluggable or widely used yet, and nowhere near as customizable. With Win10 I can add, remove, or hide system tray apps based on how I use my workstation best.
3. Optimized Start Menu. I press a button, I get access to things I've favorited, recent apps/files, and categories of apps I use often. It is highly customizable in Win10, while I struggle to have something as efficient in macos (even though macos global search is wonderful!).
I feel like the old UX rule of "don't make me think" applies heavily here. The macos app dock is a great example of this. You're forced to think about what you want to do with 10-20+ options glaring at you. Disabling the dock is the first thing I do on a new Mac ;)
Lastly, Win10 lets me customize my system to a high degree as my needs change. I just don't get that with macos, nor have I found apps that hit the mark for me.
I'm curious about your own experiences if you care to share :-)
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[1] Linux Mint MATE: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_vanessa_mate_whatsnew.php
I'm planning to have pluggable backends but the primary one will be a append-only log structure within a single file, however it should be relatively easy to add a git based backend. The reason for using a custom file format is that i want add support for a couple of feature to make it easier to recover data in case of corruption of both the data and the filesystem that host the file.
Uses the scenedetect Python library to locate scene breaks and then uses perceptual hashing to find points for alignment. Also will include a small webapp to debug and adjust things manually in difficult cases.
-Uses WASM under the hood (blazingly fast) -Exportable into a simple format for desktop, mobile or web use - @htmx_org integration included -Pluggable into any existing front-end or back-end (React or Laravel, etc...)
For now, the work of re-creating the layout lies on programming but I will start building plugins so that it lessens or removes that need.
Website soon!
Ideallly I'd like to see something like a personal basket where you can add your recurring stuff (eggs, milk, etc) and compare the subtotal among local grocers. Bonus points if you add in value of store points + credit card bonuses (which might be significant, like 5% for Amex cobalt at a market coded as a grocer VS 1% for non grocer code like Walmart).
Previously used Reclaim but found $10 a month to keep 2 calendars in sync was excessive and the software was increasingly becoming more team oriented, no longer for individuals. Felt like I was paying for a product and also the product. I just needed to keep 2 calendars in sync, not smart meetings, analytics, integrations, etc. ideally I set it up and forget about it.
I really needed a way to sync my calendars privately, without all the extras. Now that Dropbox has purchased Reclaim, it's even more important I feel like my calendars are not spied on. I knew I could provide a similar service.
Here’s what makes me excited about it as a user:
Affordable: Just $20/year with a 7-day free trial. Cancel at any time for a pro-rated refund.
Privacy First: No need to store events on a servers enabling unlimited calendar syncs.
Working Hours: Adaptive feature that adjusts if an event falls outside your specified working hours.
Round Event Times: Opt to round event start and end times to the nearest 15 or 30 minutes for cleaner scheduling.
Invitations: Block time between calendars when you receive a meeting invitation that you haven't responded to yet. Decline it? The time block on your other calendar is removed.
My plan is to keep it small and focused, while also listening to user feedback for how you'd like to manage your personal and work calendars more efficiently.
Thanks for checking out my new project.
Not that it’s necessary for all styles, but when I’ve been to comedy shows in the past the people who are able to deal with the crowd really well are always the most impressive to me :)
It doesn't save anything to the cloud. It supports markdown. It currently doesn't using an LLM but I'm sure that will sneak in at some point. One day, I'd like to have it generate wireframes using AI.
Doint a lot of exploratory work for my day job and trying to establish practice of good documentation so i hope being able to ramble as i work will make this easier.
At this point it's simple macos flutter app that toggles recording on global keyboard shortcut.
This sort of thing is _very_ interesting to me, and I rather desperately want something like to this tied to listings of books.
I would like to read more diversely --- at one time I was trying to read one book from each LoC division, starting at the top/broadest (so A--Z), then iterating down, but this got to be exhausting because it was difficult to determine which book to read.
A later effort was to read biographies of famous people to my children in chronological order as they were growing up --- dry run was the very simple set of U.S. Presidents --- but again researching and ordering was a big problem.
So, my hopes for this are that it includes footnotes/references/links to supporting material (perhaps affiliate links on Amazon would be one way to fund things?) and that it is possible to click through to find information on specific technical topics as well as general explanations.
I tried to build this after leaving Lockheed in 2007 where we built the RFID tracking for .mil as Savi Networks..
All the cell integrations (pre IoT) were cost prohibitive.
Its wonderful to see how much has taken place in this area since a bunch of us tried and failed to get funding back then :-)
It is implemented in Go, Python and JS, with support from Postgres, TimescaleDB and Kubernetes.
A search of your site doesn't have a match for "Literate Programming" --- I've found it a benison when developing, esp. in that it allows me to review code which already exists, and to create a structural index while writing which allows a quick/easy check if a given module already exists in a context where it should --- managed to make a system for this w/ a bit of help from generous folks on tex.stackexchange:
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/literati...
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre...
and as the readme shows, I am fascinated by the idea of visualization of code:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/mai...
(probably because of reading Herman Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_ (originally published as _Magister Ludi_)
I'd give a lot to have a programming system for METAPOST/FONT (or some other graphical language) which both allowed drawing in the view and then editing the textual representation of the code causing the view to update (yes, I should use http://tikzedt.org/ )
It's been a breath of fresh air to work on something that I have no plans to monetize. I just want to build something useful for the community to use and that has allowed me to be relaxed with building it.
Anyways, if you play Lorcana I encourage you to check it out! The game is lots of fun.
A while back I made something similar in the form of an incremental "clicker" game where you split things ad infinitum: https://lantto.github.io/hypersplit/
Most Inuit in Canada speak Inuktitut, which is a language with long words and two different writing systems: the latin alphabet, and syllabics. Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a pain to input on a computer, so often times the more cumbersome latin alphabet is used in casual writing.
Tom Scott has an awesome video about how syllabics work[1], but breifly, the shape of the character determined its inital consonant spund, and the rotation determines its vowel sound. So ᐱ = pi, ᐳ = pu, ᐸ = pa, ᑎ = ti, ᑐ = tu, ᑕ = ta, etc. The word "Inuktitut" becomes ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in syllabics.
Transliterating between the two is fairly simple, but there are edge-cases around dialects and whatnot. The more interesting problem from a technical perspective is having a web extension that can detect Inuktitut on a web page (in wither writing system), and transliterate that into whatever writing system the user desires, whilst never accidentally transliterating the other text on the page ("inhabitants" could be picked up and transliterated as "ᐃᓐᕼᐊᖯᐃᑕᓐᑦᔅ", for example, even though that makes no sense).
The project is mostly using Rust via WebAssembly, which has been a lot of fun to work with and has let me do some awesome things, like avoiding heap allocation and using compile-time hashmaps to do conversions on the text. The build system has to do a lot and I eventually settled on python. Right now I'm trying to wrangle JS and the DOM (there's a lot of edge cases to deal with), and that's been difficult as it's not my wheelhouse.
1) You find podcasts about topics you care about
2) You listen and read and try to understand the meaning with the help of translations and the definitions in context of the words in the sentence. (You can click each word to get a definition in context)
3) Over time you mark words as known
That's basically it. You learn with context using content you are interested in. I'm working on adding a SRS to the app and a feature to improve your pronunciation using the language shadowing technique.
And as mentioned, building native iOS and Android apps.
Crowd work almost always comes down to race or profession of the audience. It can be funny only in so many ways.
can point me to where to find more about this.
> For a counterexample, imagine you have a ton of items that have a weight of 10^-20 and value of 1, and a single item that has the weight of whatever is the capacity of the knapsack (so it’s only thing that fits if it’s inserted to the knapsack) and the value of +infinity.
that is rather an extreme example. i do not see the how it affects the validity of the solution in most cases.
> I would recommend finding an open course on algorithm design and analysis and going through the lessons while trying to extrapolate approaches to problems instead of just solutions to them.
implementing solutions is the concrete result of extrapolating approaches and choosing the best one to implement. and that is the pragmatic approach.
You can talk to it over a e2e encrypted reverse proxy (using Signals double ratchet protocol) so you can access it on the go safely and privately.
Starting with cities and AI generated guides is a way I want to bootstrap this project. I strongly believe the best guides will be those created by people who are passionate. Your work here is proof of this :)
If you are local to Palo alto still I would love to chat with you about the idea. In any case thanks for sharing here :)
The data was posted publicly online on the merchants' websites.
It's mental gymnastics to transform different data sources (e.g. a spreadsheet) into a SQL database with write support, but I do enjoy the journey and learn a lot from it.
So I spent some time trying to make an app that allows you to do that, but can't shake the thought that such an app would work better as a Blender addon/plugin rather a standalone app. And I also am trying to figure out how people work with 3D currently, to see if such a tool would even be an improvement over existing tools.
Sometimes I feel I'm loosing the time, because nowadays there is a lot of AI generated content and even more competence in self-published books.
After a long walk against myself, of about 10 months, it's nearly finished (in my native language, Spanish). It still needs a few more reviews and retouching.
I got recently unemployed after +20 years as Linux sysadmin, and my wife is now unemployed too (after +20 years in HHRR), fortunately we have still a few savings.
I dream that it will (economically) work, but most of the time I intuit there will be less than a few sales from family and friends.
Depending on how it goes, I've already the script for the second and third parts.
In parallel I'm researching different ways to generate cash flow without working for another person. I would like to avoid going to search for a job in the current market of cloud, docker and kubernetes, as I'm more a hardware/colocation guy, and 99,9% of job offers request for docker/kubernetes.
- A "vibe shift" has occurred at work. Separately, my own thoughts have been more unkind/uncharitable towards others. Recently I realized that the two are connected. Isn't it funny how the vibe-shift trickled down to affect my own mindset without me even noticing?
- I think that Google is going to fall apart soon. Before they do, they'll cut money-losing boondoggles like, oh, Google Maps, Google Books, Google Groups... Who will step in to save all that data? And what does a post-Google world look like in general, anyways?
- AI is incapable of the kind of impact that is being promised. But we are still going to have a period of ~2 years until corporations realize it (it sounds like AI companies will run out of cash at that point). Until then, we're going to have a lot of layoffs because Mike-the-MBA thinks AI can do people's jobs. What should normal people do? Sit tight and sit out the game for 2 years until things stabilize?
- All of the above is part of a crisis of meaning that people - and esp. tech workers - are having. There's an enormous opportunity for Government jobs to become prestigious again. It used to be a mark of pride to work for the Government. You don't need to burn out and become a woodworker to "do real things": your local city government has plenty of "real things" for you to do in a real community.
It's meant to be used with virtual reality headsets, I'm not sure if their pen can be made to work outside VR.
Do you need help with integrating your app into blender as a plugin? If so, please do reach out. I'd love to help. mail@laura.fm
65 Words is an anonymous challenge to write 65+ words daily in the language you're learning.
The real focus isn't just on improving your writing but on having the opportunity to think about how you'd express something without the pressure of the moment.
There's no hidden science behind choosing 65 words. I found it’s achievable even on a very busy day.
The goal is to help learners practice daily and build confidence through consistent effort.
If anyone wants to help out a n00b, I will be forever grateful.
I have apps that pay my rent such as YOU-TLDR - Transcribe and Summarize YouTube videos you-tldr.com
Shorts Generator - Text to Automated Shorts In Minutes shortsgenerator.com
Snoop Hawk - Automated Web adn Reddit Marketing snoophawk.com
You can find all my projects here hackyexperiments.com
Currently I am exploring the idea of chatting with more than one AI. My assumption is it makes the interaction more life like and less lonely and I think in the future everyone will hav a group of AI friends. I made a quick loom about it here: https://x.com/deepwhitman/status/1826831221554643324
I’ve worked with several teams now who wanted to adopt Go for the backend, but the team’s only extensive type system experience is in TypeScript. They tended to hit very similar pitfalls and want to coerce the type system to behave like what they’re familiar with, and inevitably they wound up with inflexible and error-prone architecture.
They also failed to accomplish any kind of holistic, 30,000ft view architecture because implementations were too often sent off the rails by not understanding the language deeply enough. That was often in part due to type system confusion inherent to how Go implements certain data structures (particularly slices), which leads to the sprawling repetitive Go code people dislike so much.
I did all of this too, so I feel like my insight and experience would be valuable to share. I actually wrote 90% of it last year and felt like a goof, like, ahhh what am I doing obviously everyone else figured out Go faster than I did and this writing is just telling people how incompetent I am. Haha. But then I worked on another project and the situation was exactly the same. I actually used my draft content to help the team understand how I see the problem, and how to get past the mental traps that they were in.
Fundamentally it comes down to “learn the type system/language properly”, but it’s not quite so blatant or unhelpful. One of the problems with TypeScript methodologies is that they’re so ridiculously flexible, but go is not at all in the same ways, yet they have just enough superficially in common to trick you into thinking otherwise.
So, my series essentially elucidates the similarities, differences, and what’s totally absent in Go from the bottom to the top. It’s interesting because they really are remarkably similar in some ways, which is precisely why it can trip newcomers up. Knowing why that’s a trap makes you a far, far better Go developer. Along the way it also reveals details about TypeScript that some people might not be fully aware of (at least several in the team I shared the drafts with said so), which could be helpful.
I mostly need to muster the courage to hit publish now. My confidence has taken a beating in the last year or so!
Mainly I use vim. But yes, sometimes I also use a traditional notepad with a soft ink pen. To avoid myself some screen time, because I'm out of home, or just to make some use of it.
I think the output flow is about the same using pen and paper than using vim, at least for me.
The original "By hand" did mean "without AI help/inspiration".
I'm actually a Cambridge/Bostonite though live about an hour West. Peel free to ping me about local stuff. Some local Boston movies (e.g. Good Will Hunting) are pretty weel documented, others are in areas I probably wouldn't go out of my way to visit, but lots of good routes.
My motivation has been some recent jobs/roles in which no-pipeline-feature-gets-denied YAML scripts have grown unmanageably large.
I'd be interested to hear of any pitfalls that any of you might foresee. Other than this is a pretty hefty undertaking - that much I can already see on my own. :-)
Also you can supply content which doesn't exist and it will automatically infer genre and such (another strong indication of LLM). I.e. you can imagine the aesthetics of the kind of content you might want by title and then use the UI to explore real recs related to that.
PS to the creator: I love the simplicity of the design and the execution is inspiring. Sent a dollar for my searches :-)
You might be thinking of jacquesm and this bike:
Basically it is an AI computer. It is nothing like we have seen before.
May open source it soon. With working zero hallucination (need additional evaluations).
Works with all devices. Created a MVP, air-gapped for military use, but it can be used for anyone including businesses/consumers who need an on-prem AI computer.
It has zero lag or zero second delay in responding your questions, and does not use any third party AI cloud platform. This is critical, because some of our customers have restrictive requirements for their data and they can't have anything of their customers to be placed on these cloud platforms. (eg. OpenAI, Google, Apple).
Adding additional features including Self-Teach, Cloned Personality, the holographic UI Wear, makes calls on behalf of the user, uses voice imprinting, edit videos, autonomously, for content creators and remembers 100 years of your life. And, more.
The UI Wear uses the exotic sensors I used in military to make it light and performant unlike Apple Vision Pro. Imagine interacting with something like "Jarvis" from Ironman. Quiet similiar but much more grounded in a sense that it's simpler and logical. Also, you can take it with you to play fast action sports or play games like Dragon-Ball-Z type game with your buddies. And it lasts a day, not two hours, on a full charge.
You can interact with the Personal AI Computer without the UI Wear, but it takes you to another level of experience.
Currently, doing it solo and looking for a cofounder who has experience in large distribution, logistics, creating polished commercial hardware, etc. Even if you don't these experiences, please contact me, if you want more info, interested, and/or want to work for this startup.
Some sample photo to help you on imagine. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwsdyvjkIcTk41JFXK...
(I did try taking a look through the website and saw integrations posted more prominently than users?)
Better visualizations and improvements for internal link building
So far I just use it for my company billing, but it's quite delightful for me: My process is to save the services we provided in CSV files (exported from time tracking in org-mode, but you could use any tool that supports exporting), then I run this over it and it creates PDF invoices, and stores all the data (which I query occasionally, e.g. for quarterly VAT payments).
Technologically it's weird, the invoice templates are written in LaTEX, and the code is in Common Lisp.
I don't think about turning it into a business, but I think I'll open source it once it's a bit less messy. For now, I just focus on implementing the features I need (about 1-2 per quarter now).
I kinda doubt it, but if anyone is interested in command line billing tools, I'd be excited to talk about it. Contact info is in my profile.
A side note - put on the site this exact message and then include your venmo or something - I bet you'll get donations :)
I've had this exact idea for quite some time, I'm glad that someone is making it!
There are some unusual things about the game. To win, you have to conquer all of the land. However, no player is ever knocked out of the game. If you lose all of your land, you can simply become a guerrilla leader and engage in guerrilla warfare, in the hopes of turning your situation around. Being a guerrilla leader is difficult, but if all of the guerrilla leaders form an alliance, they might have the strength to reduce the power of whoever is winning at that moment. Every player starts off as a Noble Lord but you can become a Priest or a Communist or an Anarchist. (The Anarchists have a unique way of winning, which does not involve conquest.)
I have been working, for months, on the economics, which are very complex and I think very interesting. All prices start off randomized (within certain bands) so there are no "good units" or "bad units" only those that are under priced or over priced. There is an economic cycle that runs once every 60 seconds. It takes all purchases and turns the money spent into inflation. Specifically, the percentage of total world GDP that was spent on a particular product is the inflation rate, so if all of the players collectively spent 2% of their income buying swords, so 2% of total world GDP was spent on swords, then the price of swords goes up 2% for that minute. In this way, with players buying what is under-priced and thus driving up prices, the prices are pushed to their rational levels. Also, the inflation rate tells you something important about what other players are doing. If you notice the price of horses is going up at an alarming rate, it means one (or more) of the players is spending heavily to build a large cavalry force. The economics are entirely deterministic, based on the activity of the players, there are no random events. There are no randomly generated earthquakes or floods or NPC invasions. Every change arises from the actions of the players.
I was originally going to give the game the historical setting of the Chinese Warring States period, but then I decided to go with more of a fantasy theme. But there is nothing overtly fantasy in the game, it's simply that there are many myths, which the peasants might genuinely believe, that explain how the Empire Of Abundance was transformed into the Ruined Lands. The peasants are looking for some leader who can restore the Lost Age Of Abundance. The peasants (NPCs) will switch their loyalty to whoever they think can win. Occasionally some peasant will become a True Believer, in which case their loyalty is fixed for the rest of the game. That means even if their chosen leader is defeated and becomes a guerrilla leader, the peasant will remain loyal to them, and secretly send them small amounts of money, to help them recover.
If your peasants think you are doing a terrible job with the economy, they will emigrate to the lands of one of your enemies. You can seal the border, to stop the emigration, but the peasants treat this as tantamount to putting them in prison, so their morale will plunge. If their morale gets low enough, they will switch their loyalty away from you and to any nearby guerrilla leader.
There are 3 games in this game:
1. the military game
2. the economics game
3. the spy game
The military game and the economics game are entirely deterministic. At no point does the software "roll the dice". Combat is as deterministic as in the game of chess.
The spy game does use probability. If you torture a peasant then there is an 80% chance they will tell you the true. If you are wondering if one of your peasants has become a True Believer for one of your opponents, you can torture the peasant to get them to confess. There is an 80% chance that whatever they tell you is the truth.
I have almost zero graphics for this game, so I think it will only appeal to a limited set of people who are interested in a game with a very dynamic economics system. The point of view is basically that of a ruler sitting on their throne in their capitol -- they only hear the reports brought to them by messengers. They cannot see the economy, they can only read the reports and graphs given to them by their court scribes. Likewise, with battles. In that sense, the whole game is a bit abstract, but I hope it will appeal to some niche that wants something complex.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287031
Can you manage TILEs via Meshtastic? https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40llxjrIG3w&t=44s
I think there a lot of interesting things to make bike mesh a part of a security fabric - but ensuring that there is no way to spy on location data thats not yours? Doubt thats possible...
As for stream names, I’ve looked into it as well, but from the limited research I’ve done, it seems like only paid services are available.
I doubt there's a way to get the radios' programming since these are mostly small radios with very basic websites and online presence. Best I can get is an MP3/AAC stream and that's about it.
Fabrice Bellard and other has done some work in this domain https://bellard.org/
A custom Lisp and a web backend reference implementation/template in C#, as well as a frontend in React to dogfeed the backend.
https://github.com/codr7/sharpl https://github.com/codr7/hostr https://github.com/codr7/hostr-web
Considered tying it into LibraryThing?
Although they have a recommendation section, I am always open to new suggestions. I would also like to steer it to some general direction.
still needs a name :/
Eventually, two things happened: the site got busy enough that people started experiencing errors when trying to submit/edit to the same story at the same time, and, spammers started realizing they could write chapters about certain erectile dysfunction medications. :) They also guessed some chapter passwords and overwrote them.
I didn't have a quick fix for this, plus I had ignored the site for a while, so by the time I realized, the site was overrun with spam and all my authors (who I had no way of contacting, remember: no user accounts) had disappeared.
So I took it offline for twenty years. I had copious backups, and over time I would reconstruct the story history. I had learned php by then from my career, and so I started rewriting the whole thing, which was honestly a huge project, especially because now every chapter has revision history. I had tried relaunching the site a couple of times without attracting any writers.
Then Covid happened and I was able to relaunch it and find writers. It's been fun since then. I have approximately zero commercial intent for this; I can't bear to turn on ads in the middle of an immersive reading/writing experience. Maybe someday paid accounts for extra features or a share of the copyright. My most fun idea for any sort of revenue is printed books for completed stories, or a mobile app "reader" with more features than ebook software. I think a wide release could be counterproductive since all the members currently kind of know each other, chat on Discord, and have writing nights. So it'll probably be a slow invite sort of thing.
I designed it for individuals balancing personal and professional commitments. I work somewhere with a heavy meeting culture, nothing I can really do about that. I found myself double booked often with personal commitments I had. Consider a scenario where you need to attend your child’s school play, but you forgot to also block off time on your work calendar, now your colleagues think you’re free and invite you to something. You've been double booked.
Events outside your working hours aren’t synced, protecting your personal time and privacy. The default setting is to create events on a destination calendar with the summary explicitly being "Busy" without any other information, but you can change it so it mirrors the event details should you choose.
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I was working on application registration process.
The problem with existing knowledge management systems is that they all eventually become victim to scale the operator can no longer manage.
Consider two scenarios:
Scenario 1:
You have a chaotic system of notes, dispersed throughout random pieces of paper and digital notes on your phone and computer. You have a relatively easy go of it when saving new notes (its as simple as pressing "New Note" or pulling out a new sheet of paper), but as you add more notes to your system it becomes harder and harder to find a particular piece of information. The cost of adding stays the same, but searching goes up and up. Scenario 1 causes us to eventually succumb to chaos.
Scenario 2:
You have an extremely rigid system of tag management, headings, sub-headings, sub-subheadings and sub-sub-subheadings. This taxonomy makes it easier to find information...at first. The problem with these systems is that they require a ton of manual maintenance, and they also make it easy to find certain "classes" of information, but fail at geo locating others. Much more perniciously, this scenario eventually stifles creativity as it falls prey to too much order. The cost of searching stays roughly the same, but the cost of insertion goes up and up.
(I am personally guilty of creating a system like this btw [1][2]).
Both of these systems eventually begin to become inert holders of information, as the processor (us), begin to fear them and stop working with them.
IMO, the closest technology to managing human information well in my opinion is well over two thousand years old, the commonplace book [3]. Simply put, a commonplace book is extremely resilient to chaos due to its centrality of information, but even people like John Locke had to create indexes to fully utilize them [4].
This changed recently with the advent of vector databases[5]. It turns out that commonplace book entries are the perfect form factor to benefit from an address in vector space, since entries are atomic. In simpler terms, the vector processing layer handles the order, allowing our system to "live" and assign headings/tags/etc. as it evolves. Vector databases love commonplace books as well, because many vector solutions have way too much noise as they chunk and store useless information at quite a disappointing ratio.
My system differs from current offerings because it makes no attempt to automize parts that are meant for the human, and makes no attempt at making humans do the work computers should be doing. Ergo, creating a type of symbiotic relationship.
Finally, a note on why I use the term "asset". An asset should become more valuable over time, and particularly, each individual component of the overall asset class should be worth more (e.g. $1 in a bank account of $20 is inherently less valuable than $1 in a $20MM bank account, because it grows slower). So in our scenarios above, the transmutation of information to knowledge peaks out at a logarithmic curve, subject to the scale issues I mentioned before. Old entries appear less frequently in even the most ordered systems, and when they do, it is only in one particular context. My system stores time of entry in the metadata, but since I use vector addresses, the information is accessible in many different ways (dog can be found when query == canine, fido, perro, mans best friend, etc...). An informational asset should scale linearly, and each action of create/read/update/delete should improve the health of the overall system.
There's much, much, much more I could say here, but I'll stop for now :)
[1] - https://github.com/bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-vault-...
[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34034414
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
[4] - https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-method...
[5] - https://openai.com/index/introducing-text-and-code-embedding...
The idea is also to merge in a single app many needs of events, like group chats, photo albums, expenses splitting, and I'm planning to add more. I realized groups have similar needs to events, so I added them as well (think small private groups, not massive communities).
All of this is stil very early in development and it definitely needs some more work before a Show HN, but we've found it very useful for weekends and holidays already.
Consider it an open beta, so feel free to give it a try and give me your honest feedback :)
Initially also on Emacs as a minor mode, the concept is to write in a shorthand of greek letters, mapped like to a Dvorak distribution, that stand there as a code, as variables or latent values, expanded upon a key combination to one of several languages: German, Hebrew or Yiddish. Text can stay code-mixed indefinitely. The greek letters are a preform, condensed by layers of translation and transliteration, a hybrid con, and the keyboard layout itself, dynamic and not static, is dual: for every greek letter in the layout correpsonds a hebrew letter or diphtong or diacritic mark etc. It is a merge and disambiguation of both Dvorak/Programmer Dvorak and Yiddish Klal.
I really don't know if it may seem useful to someone, but I've been itching writing a bit jargon in a system like this for some weeks.
I'm willing to bet that innovation in blade design will get you much further than innovation on the power train itself.
You are right that most of the noise comes from blades. And yes, there is some awesome blade design progress, especially for auto-gyros. Also there are a lot of specific things like low rotational speed, lack of tilt and other stuff that plays well into less noise in our specific application. But no, we won’t be as quiet as multicopters, especially those with ducted fans. That’s ok, this is a reasonable trade-off - manageable noise levels, a lot less complexity, lots of lift.
Also, I'm sincerely flattered that you like the design and execution. Thank you for that and for your contribution!
Pretty standard CRUD flows + plenty of opportunity to get comfy with iterating and deploying software on iOS.
This app will basically be the playground for me to work on: - Frontend / UX - Computer vision (scan in cards w/ Camera) - recommender systems (what cards are good suggestions to add to this deck?) - Clustering (what decks are similar to this deck?)
Websites like TappedOut and Archidekt are great products, but as someone who plays casually and doesn't do much to keep up with releases I find assembling fun Commander decks from singles to be quite a time investment, and I'd like to see if I can focus in on that UX specifically for myself.
The app's website is vid-note.com, if you would like to check it out. The value of the app is that one no longer has to watch endless videos but can find exactly what one needs about a certain topic within the notes that we offer. What is good to know is that most of the notes are centered around business and self-improvement for the reason that we, the founders, are interested in these topics. We understand that many would advise us to let an LLM write the notes, but for this project, we have decided to sway away from the flawed results that LLMs bring with them.
This is the first venture my business partner and I have decided to pursue, and we look forward to finding out if we must pivot or preserve. For those wondering, the app has been approved for external testing on the App Store, but we have decided not to make the jump yet, simply because we still have to handcraft a few notes ;). We predict that a release on the Play Store will soon follow. Cheers.
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+------+-------+A handicap of the notebook, is that you can't find historical data/names/dates so easy, or synonyms... but as I iterate a few times over the text after the first draft, those gaps can be fixed latter while typing the text.
[1] Here's a 2013 blogpost by yours truly https://blog.melnib.one/2013/04/01/gnuplot-data-analysis-a-r...
I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was refurbishing iPods for money while living in a hostel. In my free time, I developed a Bluetooth kit, a crude first version which required hours of hand-soldering soldering, CNC milling, etc. to manufacture. While selling these I used the money to prototype and manufacture the second revision.
That's the version you can purchase today, which can now be assembled in about five minutes. This has allowed me to scale the business, and now we're a few employees big, shipping worldwide. A few grey hairs have appeared at 22 but finally I can relax a little.
just made an battleship game today, look at research for for more
The CPU builds an RPN expression (like "circle, square, union, triangle, subtract"), and the shader evaluates that in a loop.
I wasn't able to find examples of other people doing similar, but it seemed too useful to not be invented yet (:
Do you have any links to your work?
I'm writing some blog posts for my approach, but haven't finished them yet.
> You can tile up the screen to avoid having too many instructions per fragment.
I don't quite understand this part... If a given SDF needs N instructions to be evaluated, then how does tiling reduce N?
> performance may vary depend on what you're doing
Yeah, fill rate was not good enough with a straightforward approach, so I had to cache the evaluated distance values to a (float) texture atlas, then use those to render to screen. Luckily, standard bilinear filtering on distance values produces pretty decent results.
Thus turning a difficult to deal with Li-Ion inferno into a slightly less difficult to deal with block of superheated aluminum, that will happily set on fire anything that looks at it funny?
This is always my concern about fire-proof metal casings for batteries: where do you put that so it doesn't set anything on fire?
Sometimes the tasks are too large, and will easily take days to complete, which puts me off. Sometimes the tasks are too small, and I do them there and then. Sometimes they are right-sized.
When the tasks are written down, they become 'not important' and 'I can do it later', also they are easier to stow away out of sight :).
Not to mention there are also a couple of hundred open tabs of various stuff I'd like to research... but most of them can be probably be closed.
When it's routine, I've got no problems doing stuff like making dinner, vacuuming, exercising, getting groceries and so on.
But when it comes to projects, and publishing, I feel there is no more juice left.
Thanks Rob. It's been a long time since I wrote this much for a 'human' and not for a 'machine'. I'll try to continue reviving a couple of drafts.
Getting away from screens for a while would benefit some of us.
The idea is that phones have very nice cameras and lot of media processing power and such API could enable hackers to easily incorporate capable camera stack in to their projects without android development experience in any language they like.
There are millions of working phones in the drawers battery backed, with plenty of computing power, nice cameras, hardware acceleration, good connectivity (WiFi, ethernet over usb), that could get new purpose.
Previously I was working on automated photogrammetry rig and this is perfect use case for that.
If you see other use case for such API share your ideas.
If you think that's cool idea to develop and would like to help write me at hn@zelo.pl
One challenge for forks is that relicensing doesn't always jump from fully-open to fully-closed. There's a lot of "fake open-source" and source-available licenses, like the one Redis now uses. These may "only impact you if you are AWS", so a fork "that AWS can use for free" feels less compelling. If React was to relicense, I expect they'd similarly take a small step.
I've got a long ways to go with this app though so it's still just a pet project. The position tracking is very suboptimal right now, so I need to switch to a better library. And then I need to start adding actual actions because right now the app is just a glorified object viewer.
I'm insanely flattered that you think it's interesting though. Very motivating to me.
Lee Mack has a great anecdote about his beginnings that he told on the Graham Norton show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbpagijVkk
Right now the best way's either to follow it on Patreon (no money needed) or to follow me on Mastodon (@anthracite@dragon.style). Or fire up your RSS reader and point it at the site.
Recently I got a DIY strobe tuner I've been working on up and running, which pairs nicely with the Mosaichord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkz-fZN54OI
The Mosaichord works pretty well these days, and I've assembled a bunch of them. Just got a new batch of PCBs yesterday to make more. There's a basic website up, but I haven't yet set up a proper web store.
Also, AI suggested this as the soundtrack:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MrWJhxWbIwP5kYHS4XdwG?si=...
We did have an extension which worked okay while we were still learning the ropes but after 2 months developing it we realized that we didn't have access to many of the APIs which we wanted to tinker with or change the UX dynamically!
This made us look for 2 options: - either move out of the editor and become a cloud blackbox AI engineer (not a big fan, I don't want to spend my time just reviewing code) - or own the editor where people code
We chose the editor route and didn't look back after. Over that time we have changed the UX of the editor completely can better play into the APIs which are hidden in VSCode and really build something which I personally could use daily :)
uh huh. MIL, FMI, SPN? anyhow the next time i'm at his house i'll look at any of the polaris vehicles there and see if any of them actually have useful diagnostic information. canbus and odb-II are standardized; i expect the polaris codes to be "ohhhhhhhh. you should bring that in to the dealership straight away" regardless of what it is.
thanks for the spat.
I made a few syllabics converters for Ojibwe when I was younger, but Ojibwe and Cree are harder to build converters from than Inuktitut because they have a lenis-fortis distinction in the latin script but not syllabics, so the word "anishinaabe" can be converted unambiguously to ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ, but trying to convert the other way could render any one of anishinaabe, ani*zh*inaabe, anishinaa*pe*, or ani*zh*inaa*pe*. I don't think it could be done accurately without some sort of machine learning. There's also a lot more complexities surrounding how different dialects are encoded. In the end, Inuktitut was simpler to work with and has a lot more everyday speakers and text to work with, especially because the Canadian territory of Nunavut publishes its government documents and websites in Inuktitut too.
There's a lot to cover but I think the technical challenges might be interesting to the Hacker News crowd, I may make a series of videos about it someday!
Going to give it a try!
I went to school with the son of the owner. For about 3 years off and on he'd been asking me about building apps, where he could find good devs, what price to pay.
I'd sent him some info, but never got too involved. Then the pandemic hit, and I found myself with a bit more time to kill, so I listened more to what they needed.
They basically wanted to get a loyalty program going at their gas stations and partner gas stations, but wanted custom rules which their current provider couldn't do with their off the shelf solution.
They also wanted to use one of those old school CC machines that were everywhere before the likes of square showed up. But getting your hands on those units is expensieve.
So I started planning it out. They needed to store customer data, and needed a point of sale device to swipe customer loyalty cards on, which needed to read in customer info, do a deduction, or a store credit top up and print a receipt.
I found a android terminal machine off alibaba, opened up android studio and started hacking away. I hadn't done more than a basic android hello world at this point.
For the backend I used django to get started quickly, and they were very happy to use the django built in admin panel to do stuff as needed, and view transactions.
After I got the devices talking to django, I had to integrate a loyalty vendor they already sourced, and just went along with it, but that was a mistake. The vendor points API doesn't really add much value on what django can already do for me, and my new goal is to become that vendor since I think I can do their product better.
But basically I iterated on it for about a year, launched a little over a year ago, still working out some edge cases and kinks, but they do roughly 25K transactions a month on devices spread out at over 20 stores.
They want to bring it to new islands, so I'm trying to remove some of my duct tape fixes with more stable fixes so that can be smooth sailing come next year.
EDIT: Might get back to writing and update with a much longer post. Draft:
All this is based on previous work with real coffee shop business owners. So giving it a try as a SAAS service.
Sorry, I’m not too familiar with English-language literature on algorithm design. I just remember this from my uni course on it :)
I believe we used Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al. as the basis, so it should be covered in depth there - but I’m not too sure.
> that is rather an extreme example. i do not see the how it affects the validity of the solution in most cases.
This is a fair point, but also a distinguishing factor between a heuristic and exact approach to algorithm solutions to problems. Algorithmic solutions usually have theorem proof-level rigor for exactness. Also, I just used the easiest counterexample to come up with :)
This is a problem that every refiner solvea to select raw msterials. They traditionally solve with local optimization methods (LPs) that rely on initial guesses and return suboptimal solutions.
For the same refinery we can find raw material acquisition solutions with 2-5% higher profits.
We made a cloud platform for it and hoping to change the landscape.
I looked into pre-built systems like Synology and QNAP, but they seem too proprietary and limited, and somewhat expensive for the hardware they have, so I decided to build my own, but trying to decide on all the HW and SW is a real task: btrfs vs ZFS, Intel vs AMD, RAID levels, etc.
As a note, I watched the video, the company name does become visible at least twice, once from 6:33 in the header pane and URL and also at the very beginning (Company Insights pane -> below "Powered by AI" the AI repeats the company name)
The idea is fairly simple: the client app requests content and passes the context (key-value pairs) along with it. In the trilly app, the content manager sets up different variants of the content for various context field combinations, and the one that matches is returned. Context can be anything, from user role or user location to more abstract things like A/B group or user behavior. It's just data.
I have a couple of ideas on how to extend this system - realtime LLM-generated variants, or more sophisticated context fields (date/number ranges, randomness, etc.).
For now, however, I'm exploring whether this idea would be useful for someone, so thanks for all the comments.
I love this space of hybrid computing. If you want to see some inspiration, look at
- bill buxton at Microsoft research - Disney research has a lot of really cool stuff too - anything siggraph
Please keep me up to date one way or another. If you have linkedin, add me, a blog or newsletter? I'll sign up. Discord? Let me know. Just let me know where you're active.
my point about USSD codes was that a globally applicable solution for micro payments does exist, and using a complex system with many steps really just begs the question of what prevents these simpler systems from being adopted.
the answer is probably politics and lethargy. the inability or unwillingness for big companies to innovate.
to be clear, i am not criticizing your work, but the state of micropayments in the US, and i am mostly interested in discussing what can be done about that.
showing people how it can work now may or may not be part of that. personally i am more inclined to look at this process and run away screaming than make any attempts to adapt it.
The industry and the niche is cut throat with large number of disingenuous competitors. Beginnings were brutal but perseverance was worthy strategy.
It's a bit embarrassing right now (no README, no docs, no examples...) and maybe in the future, but it's being a fun experiment.
Was just frustrated there weren't good youtube summarizer + chat apps. Had fun also interacting with content in different ways
Enjoy using it!
current pain points: the race starts immediately upon connecting. no time to prepare, so i always start in the last position because the AI drivers have a head start due to my slower reaction time.
the AI drivers are to aggressive to prevent overtaking, they will bump into the player, knocking them out of the position and causing a crash without any penalty to the AI car.
bumping into each other should cause both cars to crash, giving the player more time to recover. AI drivers should try to avoid contact however
ghstats[1] - self-hosted service to track & keep GitHub repos views (Rust)
macmon[2] - Apple M-series performance monitor in CLI with power metrics (Rust)
ecloop[3] - let say fast Bitcoin addresses checker by bloom filter (a lot of interesting math inside) (pure C)
[1] https://github.com/vladkens/ghstats
Right now it's a collection of a few tools:
• AWS Resource Explorer - a lighter-weight version of the AWS console where everything is just a sortable/filterable/searchable table.
• Access Denied Debugger - paste an "AccessDenied" message and get back a stack-trace style UI showing all the resources involved, reason for the error (e.g., which policy is missing a permission), recent changes via CloudTrail, etc.
• AWS Organizations / SCP Viewer - generates a tree-diagram style UI showing all your AWS accounts, which policies apply to them, etc.
Still working on merging these into a cohesive application (mostly just been scratching my own itches so far). I'm trying to consider privacy/security carefully, so everything is client-side, using the AWS JavaScript SDK, and creds/data are only stored locally.
I think this is pretty incredible, and lots of potential. I simply love anything that's displayed with a map visual representation. Do you have a team you're working with on this? Shall we chat privately? ping me here - sibynyc@icloud.com
We were both tired of asking AI for the same code again and again, so we thought, why not build something where we can instantly save code from our AI chats
The idea is to create a public library of AI-generated code that anyone can search through, find what they need, and either use it directly or customize it further.
For example, if you find a function that almost fits your needs, you can add it to your AI chat with just a click and tweak it, instead of starting from scratch.
So far we have -
1. Chrome Extension - To save your code or find what you need from the library and add it to chat. Currently only works with claude, working on making it compatible with v0 and chatgpt
2. VS code extension to find whatever you need right in there and an AI that will understand your project's context and integrate these snippets in seconds ( AI part is in progress )
3. Website to do other stuff - build your profile, rate other snippets ( which helps us to maintain quality )
Tech Stack -
- Frontend: NextJS, Tailwind, Shadcn
- Backend: Node.js, Express, MongoDB
- Extensions: TypeScript (VS Code) & React, TypeScript, Tailwind (Chrome)
The Pro subscription to the API now seems to be $5000 per month!
A pledge is the price you’ll pay for breaking your pledge. It’s more than one second of reflection. You have to ask yourself “do i want to spend a $1 to use YouTube when i should be studying”?
I don’t have a website right now. I’m calling it FocusPledge. It’s near complete so if you’re curious you can shoot me a message or follow me on X at @harveenatwal_
I want to expose low level camera capabilities like manual focus controll, capturing raw images, iso, etc. DroidCam exposes only subset of functionality I need.
In short i want it to be more like programmable controlled digital camera than webcam.
BTW scrcpy offers similar features trough adb to DroidCam.
I've been building some macOS apps lately, and I kept duplicating and adding onto the license key backend. I figured I should build it more properly so I built a Saas for myself (and finally took the step into Laravel at the same time).
I have no costumers except myself. If anyone wants a free account in exchange for feedback I am happy to help set it up.
(There was a feature to generate dissertations on whatever topic but I had to turn it off because I believe it was abused and that cost a lot of credits. I'll try to add it more securely very soon.)
I read through your other comment on this post and read about the work you're doing. I didn't quite understand –I think it's hard to explain a lot of these linguistics tools briefly without uploading a lot of context– but it seemed up my alley as well.
> It's interesting to have such a niche tech challenge associated with your ethnic group of languages.
That's true, I think it can be a lot of fun and rewarding for technologists. Kevin King is a font designer who was tasked with making a new font for syllabics, then found that some syllabics had never been adopted into Unicode and set about getting them approved[1]. He worked with the communities and the Unicode committee and got them into Unicode, and that must have been really rewarding.
There's difficulty in approaching from the outside, though. I'm trying to be careful to provide value and not overstep. The Inuit especially can be defensive, because you see a lot of people online who sort of fetishize the culture, or people (certainly linguists) whose work can seem extractive to the tight-knit Northern communities.
I've always wanted to build tools working with text that people use on a day-to-day, but I also worry that this will be just another project I spend months on that will not see any use. I'm trying to make connections so that I can build value without seeming extractive. It's hard to know where to start, however.
I switched from Claude to GPT Mini and it seems to cost less. Wait & see!
My project was using 2D SDFs for UI which meant you could use a bunch of primitive shapes and union/difference between them, and also add outlines, shadows, glows etc. This means that if you tile up the screen and use a union between two rectangles, only the tile with the overlap needs to calculate the union. It's a little more complicated in 3D with frustum culling.
I was doing it in webgl which doesn't have storage buffers and so I had to use uniforms to pass the data which is a huge limitation. Apparently webgpu could be better so I will try to figure that out one day. But it is early prototype so no links or anything yet.
I wondered whether an LLM could be helpful for some of the steps I was taking manually (hence a quick exploration for such a tool) but there didn't seem to be an easy way to test this. (I could have pulled it into Python and tried to automate it that way, but I didn't time/energy on that occasion.)
(Sorry for the slow reply - travel.)
Anyway I managed to get it back running, and running strong! Mail me if you have nice words to say or if you think we can do partnerships. I received nice proposals already, which should improve the service significantly in the coming days. The goal is to entertain and educate, and as free as we can! haha, modestly. Thank you again for everything!
It is a budgeting tool that allows you to create budgets and visualize them as interactive Sankey diagrams. You can configure smart "pockets", which can automatically send excess cash or take missing cash from other pockets. It also allows you to invite other users to shared budgets, so you can use it to plan budgets with roommates or your partner. Currently I am thinking about ways to make it into a viable business, but it is still not quite there yet where it needs to be for that.
To learn more about SEO, digital marketing, and other areas I hadn't explored in much depth yet, I tried bringing it to market with modest success. It's been a fun journey so far, and I’ve documented the first legs here: https://medium.com/@desmat.ca/a-genai-haiku-journey-part-1-a... and https://medium.com/@desmat.ca/a-genai-haiku-journey-part-2-f....
I'm also experimenting with a similar format for limericks (https://limericks.ai) but I haven’t cracked that nut yet.
Thanks for your review also and yes it's still early days, tons to do but of the fun type. I'll look into Manitoba as I have relatives which may be related to the cultures you mentioned, thank you!
When you say syllabics it reminds me of syllabaries (?) of mesopotamian languages and hieroglyphs, but I guess it's just the terms sounding alike.
> One innovative approach involves using ceiling fixtures to gain leverage and mobility. This concept can be particularly beneficial in scenarios where traditional movement options are restricted.
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> Utilizing ceiling fixtures for movement in self-defense is an innovative method that capitalizes on environmental elements to enhance escape techniques. By integrating body mechanics with strategic use of surroundings, individuals can increase their chances of successfully evading threats in confined spaces. Always prioritize safety and practice these techniques to ensure readiness in critical situations.
Digger automates deployment of IaC like Terraform or OpenTofu. You push Terraform code to GitHub, and it gets planned and applied - like Vercel, but for infrastructure code. You can manage environments, secrets, policies and drift in the web UI.
We are doing this by providing 5-star amenities like massages, access to local experiences, events, and even essentials. Currently on the MVP stage, and only piloting in Dubai.
This kind of vehicle has fascinated me for years. Seems like they'll be the transportation mode of the future, and that fully self-driving commuter aircraft will come before their ground-based counterparts, since the sky is a much simpler realm than the ground. The main challenge seems to be safety / reliability. Turbulence dampening, emergency landing in a variety of terrain, automatic ground-obstacle avoidance and communication with other aircraft (and that requires near-perfect cybersecurity).
Exciting times.
However, it's important not to be too cheap - a friend of mine was stuck with a $150,000 balance on CS.Money because he only wanted to withdraw money in the most optimal way.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-roberts-4bb20644
Discord username: idrios_
Feel free to add me on either.
[EDIT: Just wanted to add that I'll definitely be circling back to read the rest as you finish it and the lessons learned.]
It seems to reverse the song/artist names occasionally. For example I've got a recommendation of 'Russian Circles' by Harper Lewis, but it should be 'Harper Lewis' by Russian Circles.
It is also telling me the song 'Ten Billion People' is by As I Watch You From Afar (who have a song called '7 Billion People all Alive at Once'), however it's from Explosions in the Sky.
I like to annotate (highlight and create notes) when I read on my Kindle, and then I take those annotations and throw them into Obsidian. The issue is that if you ever mess up a highlight or note and then delete it, it doesn't actually get removed from the Kindle clippings file. So this project will remove all of the "incorrect" clippings.
I have the de-duplication algorithm working extremely well and right now I'm working on creating the web app using python/django
This app can be useful for listeners who want to enjoy articles while driving, in a gym, etc., and for website owners who want to offer an audio version of their articles.
100% deterministic, full-source-bootstrapped, container-native Linux distribution where no single maintainer is trusted.
Use it to build software that matters enough to avoid single points of failure in your supply chain.
August is a sanctuary. It's the only thing I can hold every day of the rest of the year against Tech's meaninglessness. It's when I can read and do what I want instead of what I must.
https://www.robalni.org/server/
I try to keep it as small and simple as possible while still being flexible and containing everything in one package that you need to write server applications. It also has no dependencies except for very common stuff like a standard C library and a Unix-like operating system.
Still, it’s true that Nix Flakes is a kind of dynamically-typed environment that lets you compose various constructs in Nix in a uniform way. But, let's be honset, we have had duck typing forever, and Lisp is a dynamic language from 1960s. Reading through forum posts (as I never went deep with Flakes), Nix really needs a fundamentally better language, or I have a strong feeling that the project will just keep reinventing language features one by one.
Involves a bunch of reading research papers, figuring out which ones are relevant to enterprise customers and getting our ML team to build it out. The most interesting part of this is how you present the insights of a given test to a customer in a consumable and usable format. (Ex: Just dumping a bunch of RAG hallucination metrics isn't enough but you want to figure out what are the key insights and interpretations of these metrics which could be useful to a data scientist or ML engineer)
A form builder and filler SDK for developers. We make it easy for developers to build form experiences into your SaaS infrastructure. From simple documents and PDFs to large complex dynamic forms. It gives you the tools to provide the very best form solutions that empower your users on every level.
What guarantees does this make about access to data and how does it make them?
There are valid reasons to have a CLA: confirmation that your contributions are not encumbered by an employer contract is a good one. What there is rarely an excuse for is a copyright assignment, which often gets bundled into a CLA.
The only non-nefarious example of copyright assignment that I can think of is the FSF, but only because they have such a strong record on software freedom.
In 2022, I wondered what it would be like if my manager could leave comments directly on the live website for all the edits, rather than sending a bunch of screenshots and videos. That’s how I came up with the idea for a "simple" browser extension that lets you leave comments on any site, anywhere on the screen.
There were several challenges along the way:
Attaching Comments to the Correct HTML Element: I initially struggled with ensuring comments were attached to the right element, as relying on X/Y coordinates would not be responsive. Now, I use a combination of element IDs, classes, outer HTML, and attributes. This approach works correctly 95% of the time. Do you know of any other methods to find the correct element in the DOM?
No Third-Party Libraries: Extension development only allows pure HTML, CSS, and JS, with no external scripts from CDNs. Building a text editor from scratch was one of the most challenging parts.
Real-Time Functionality: Keeping the extension's background page active was tough because it deactivates when not in use, making it almost impossible to maintain a socket connection. I wrote code to wake up the background page and reconnect the socket whenever it goes to sleep.
I stopped all my freelance projects, and now three other people and I work on this tool full-time. We recently became #1 on Product Hunt: JustBeepIt.com
There are still many issues we're working on, such as using it with iFrames or inside scrollable objects, but we're tackling these challenges one by one.
It's a steep cliff between one-off integrations and a general platform with workflow/trigger/action type functionality (assuming you do anything like that, since you mentioned Zapier).
In my experience the hardest part of a general solution is all of the one-off custom business logic that each client seems to have, even when integrating the same two systems. There's custom fields, which in one system could be represented as a special object and in another is just another column in a database. There's tons of if-else logic. Etc.
When doing something like field mapping, did you end up creating an internal/intermediary data model to map everything to, or did you end up creating System-A-to-System-B type mappings? How did you end up handling the special cases; is there a sort of scripting system for special and conditional logic or do you have something like a set of predefined transformations / conditionals that can be applied to the data? I'm sure a lot of this could be handled by a workflow/trigger/action system if one were willing and able to go fine-grained enough on the individual steps.
Other than that, what would you say your biggest hurdle has been in getting this thing off the ground and running smoothly without too much babysitting on each individual integration?
Sorry if this is too much or if I'm asking questions about your secret sauce, feel free to ignore, or email me at my username at gmail.
In my game these player nobles would functionally act as kings/queens, governors, generals, admirals, or travelling mooches, depending on their goals and how well they are doing. The map would be broken into cites and towns arranged into territories, nothing super granular. I wanted to feature politics, where players would normally need to interact with each other, with shifting alliances, etc. A general might decide not to obey their king, perhaps planning a coup with some governors for example. Kind of like the board game Diplomacy. A king would need to coordinate tax incomes from governors, dispatch generals and admirals, expand alliances, and be wary of threats. Governors could influence trade and improve their territories, cities and towns. Generals could perhaps take on mercenary jobs, or raid. An ambitious admiral might want to take a city and move up in the world, or be happy enriching themselves in trade or pirating, etc. There would be gold and various other resources, population morale, seasons, spies, etc.
I was going to have this game be turned based, with each turn being a month of game time, and players only being able to take one turn per day of real time. The world would be one month in diameter - so that a fleet or army or inter-player message could be dispatched to anywhere in the game in a single turn. I figured that this would avoid the possible problem of players gaining an advantage by being able to coordinate outside the game, and to keep the programming as simple as possible. A minor character might not have a lot to do on any given turn. A king or queen could be a very busy person. Players might be on autopilot for some number of days if they don't log in. News in the game would travel also, so any player could hear about most of what was going on in the world. I shared your sentiment on graphics, figuring I would leave room to add those later.
I like your ideas for your in-game economy, and what you described about the effects of morale, and true believers, which I'm sure dovetails with there being priests. And it's cool you have a place for anarchists. They get a bad rap.
Be sure to do a Show HN when it's ready!
I had a similar idea. Since my game is real-time, rather than turn based, I decided to use time for to indicate travel. There is basically no map. In that sense, it is similar to some sci-fi star games where star travel is mostly handled by "teleporting" from one star to another. Though I use time to indicate that attacking another Kingdom cannot be done instantly.
Thank you for the suggestions about Show HN. Good idea. I'll do a Show HN when it is ready.
I'd like to try the software if it'd available please. But I'm not sure where it is or if it's out yet. Is it the Obsidian template you linked here, or is it a separate software called Your Commonbase? Because the Obsidian vault has a different name.
I have to say that the irony is hilarious that I can't find this information in the (well written) sea of information you posted. But then of course I'm not using your solution yet!
On my next deploy that will be already fixed. Unfortunately, software done for the city council has very slow cycles due to several actors interacting. And the deploy will delayed specially now, on summer. Today I'll fix that, but probably you won't see changes until next week.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
I like to mix different materials into the designs I cook up. For the tops I use cut stone which is prohibitively expensive for most hobby stuff but works really well for commission work because of all the different types (marble, granite, composite) and styles/ colors you can get. It gives it a very high end look and feel when combined with a sturdy metal frame. I’m also really into 3D printing so I try to incorporate that into the work as well. Using different pattern schemes to make inserts and accent pieces.
I’ve also experimented with incorporating IKEA furniture pieces into metal frames because I love the idea of doing modular furniture that can be swapped out for different colors and textures. I use the same idea for my 3D printed work.
I love the creativity and flexibility this gives me and my welding skills have ramped up significantly. It’s been years since I welded seriously and I really lost the techniques so getting that confidence back is great. I’ve been approached to do some big 5-6 figure home design jobs through the connections I’ve made acquiring stone pieces but I’ve only consulted on advice. I still feel a bit insecure about putting myself out there in structural work. I see how successful different design firms locally are building this stuff for tech companies and I’d love to eventually have my work featured like that but taking it slow for now.
But in order to get there, I need to rework a couple of mirror grinding machines in the club according to specs by the professional optician teaching us.
This means building the right set of mechanical thingies to safely hold glass and tools from 6 to 16-inch diameter optics. According to our optician, we need an aluminum disc the same size as the mirror with a reverse threaded hole in the center of the aluminum disc. This disc will be screwed onto a coupling which is attached to the shaft of the turntable motor.
We are currently working on sourcing the parts, machining, and doing a trial run with a 6-inch mirror. Then I get some blanks, get the curve I need generated to save me hours upon hours with 80 grit hogging out the glass before he can settle down and let the combination of grit, water, moving glass and time work their magic on the surface, every minute bringing me closer to optical eh-its-good-enough".
We have enough members in the club building telescopes that the effort of making these mirror grinding and polishing machines work is well worth it. With any luck, you'll see me at Stellafane next year.
That reminds me a lot of Helliconia books trilogy. Congrats for it! I'll look for some time and give it a try.
It's Open Source!
Try → https://spotlight.thisux.com/ Repo → https://github.com/THISUXHQ/spotlight Tweet → https://x.com/spikeysanju/status/1827537680084955396
The context sidebar is great! Maybe the first good "AI search engine" UX I've seen (most attempts copy Google look/feel which is more suited for web page results).
There are many out there, who are intimidated by trivial things, such as sending a text, or even scrolling or switching between apps (what is even an app?).
So this course is ready made just for our parents. Or just for the ones who have no patience or capacity to teach these things step by step to their loved ones.
8+ hours and 100 lessons: https://smartphonehowto.com
I hope it helps many of you!
Note: this is a WIP, so if you have any experience working with .fcpxml, I'd love to hear from you!
I love this. In a quick test, I noticed the transcription missed on quite a few of my "filler" words that I might want to edit out, although it did get some of them.
It took me a little while to figure out how to "edit out" words.
EDIT: Turns out should I have read the instructions before uploading my video it would have been straight forward :D
I'm hoping at some point someone will comment or message me to say they've built one. I just added the parts list and CAD models to https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee/tree/main/hardware, and in the next video I'll explain how to build the software.
- Burr -- build AI applications/agents as state machines https://github.com/dagworks-inc/burr
- Hamilton -- build dataflows as DAGs: https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton
Looking for feedback -- we had some good initial traction on HN, and are looking for OS users/contributors/people who are building complimentary tooling!
Were you able to import the result into your editor?
This project is also open source : https://github.com/orthdron/subatic
https://readry.com is my latest venture ever since I got into e-readers/kindle. I want to read everything on my kindle and as it turns out, there are no good ways to get anything else apart from "books" on the kindle.
With this I can get my newsletters, top subreddit posts, news, and more, all on kindle. maybe this will help me curb my smartphone addiction.
We're doing a Kickstarter because we're a startup so we need the upfront money to buy the parts and build the battery! We expect to ship to Kickstarter customers in November 2024!
So far it's trusted by 3000+ businesses worldwide & got pretty good ratings on G2 & Trustpilot. So no new idea but to keep working on it.
What can it do for its users? - Product categorization for well-organized product catalogues. - Generating engaging product descriptions and tagging. - Filtering out spam content. - Allowing understanding and analysis of sentiment in product reviews, comments, and users' Feedback for data-driven decision-making. - Generating complex job descriptions and extracting information from resume files for easy processing - and more.
I've also created a set of SDK Clients for it like PHP, Laravel, .NET, Flutter to make it a plug-and-play solution for developers.
Would love to get your feedback about it.
@ian Adding this to your help page would be helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/@ianthehenry/search?query=livecoding
I unfortunately am not very fast at reading Tex so I could not quite grasp it. My main touch points with literate programming were probably iPython Notebooks and ObservableHQ. I like interspersing code with (rich) text, and starting with a top-down view of a codebase is imo also the way to go.
I'm less sure about the macro bits, I have yet to see a language where it makes for sane means of abstraction. It certainly solves for a hole in our meta-programming design space, but I don't think we've found the right hammer for that nail yet.
From the ones I know of, Pharo is probably closest to my vision, though it is still very far from it, being brutally OOP (the obtuse kind, for me at least) and it still puts a wall between code and visualization. A wall which I intend to tear down.
Thanks for the Hesse recommendation, first time I'm getting one in my native german on this site.
Transparency and non-executable export format is a serious thing, take a look at https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2022/machine-learning-a....
After version 0.9 release, PyMilo became feature-completed with full support of scikit-learn models, now it's time to move on to PyTorch and then Tensorflow. But we decided to add the "ML Streaming" feature before getting into PyTorch, in order to provide an easy way to smoothly stream your ML model. By using the "ML Streaming" feature you can easily deploy your model into the remote server, connect to it from the client side, and choose the working mode, either delegation or local mode, through delegation mode your requests will be relayed to the remote server and you can easily work with your remote model from any devices without any further dependencies, and finally, you can download model for local use.
We will release the 1.0 (tenth) version of PyMilo around Sep 16th, this release will be the first release to have the "ML Streaming" feature with support of REST API, and we will next add other protocols such as Websocket.
Here is PyMilo: https://github.com/openscilab/pymilo Thank you for your time
I wonder how it will compare to ActualBudget and its pre/post rules and the GoCardless account data importer.
Side note: The first col of all text overlaps with some other text on mobile devices (both landscape and portrait mode) and thus is unreadable.
Also the inbox didn't work an I can't look at the inbox as the filters stay open.
Edit just noticed that this is a SaaS. If it would be a single payment for a license or sponsored FOSS, I believe it could work. The current way, I would assume that it will meet the fate of all the other apps in this non-market. Good luck though!
I still need to do more reading about how the SSH key approach would work to support it, but hopefully this unblocks you and others.
Thanks for the advice.
We usually have one test mailbox per domain, so it is about $2 usd per month per domain