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__grob

139 karma · joined May 3, 2025

Software engineer at NASA ARC working on SHERPA and VIPER lunar rover mission planning. Founder of SpinAttack Studio, LLC making video games.

I love graphics, simulations, AI (LLM and classical), etc.

https://groverburger.xyz

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__grob··on Creating an animated manga with GPT Image 2.0 and Claude Code
Glad you enjoyed the technical postmortem!

I agree with what you said, but I think it's reductive for a few reasons:

- It was (and still is) amazing to me that GPT Image 2.0 was this good at making a coherent manga page in one shot.

- This project was focused mainly on the animation pipeline, not the manga page content.

- As with all things AI, it is up to the user's creative direction to make the output good. I did not give much creative direction at all to the example manga page, thus the AI catchphrases. With some guidance, this seems to be a very promising way to get your manga ideas onto "paper" quickly if you desire.

__grob··on Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net
Let me know how it goes!
__grob··on Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net
Neat! Glad it's a cognate for cool words haha :)
__grob··on Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net
Very actively developing this project, so hopefully it'll become a suitable replacement relatively soon. Please open GitHub issues or PRs if you have specific requests, happy to help.
__grob··on Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net
Haha glad it brought back fond memories! Grob is just the nickname of my username GroverBurger. Fun coincidence.
__grob··on Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net
Yep, magic wand already exists with contiguous/global toggle and tolerance slider. : )
__grob··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
It still amazes me that so many people can see LLMs writing code as anything less than a miracle in computing...
__grob··on Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams
This is sick, loved the 2swap video on this. Happy to see more content visualizing lambda calculus and Tromp lambda diagrams.
__grob··on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations
This is so cool to see. Saw tons of Waymo in LA/Santa Monica area when I was there in October. Very excited to see them expand basically all through SoCal!
__grob··on Show HN: Dead-Simple HTML5 Markdown Editor/Viewer
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words.

I didn't get around to that because my monitor is not amazingly wide (mainly using a laptop :P). Thanks for the feedback though, I may add that in the future.

__grob··on Julia 1.12 highlights
This is a fantastic release, been looking forward to --trim since the 2024 JuliaCon presentation. All of the other features look like fantastic QoL additions too - especially redefinition of structs and the introduction of apps.

Congrats Julia team!

__grob··on WASM 3.0 Completed
This is so exciting! Been waiting for this for years, very interested to see what people can do with this
__grob··on Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases
Cool, I had a very similar idea recently, awesome to see it live! Congrats!
__grob··on A software conference that advocates for quality
I know Berkeley Mono when I see it! My go-to terminal font for coming up on three years. Automatically gets me pumped about this conference.
__grob··on ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine
Using Devin's DeepWiki for the docs page gives me an uneasy feeling. I would rather have real docs.
__grob··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I use Perplexity as my daily driver and it seems to be pretty good at piecing together the path forward from documentation as it has that built-in web search when you ask a question. Hopefully LLMs go more in that direction and less in the SO copy-paste direction, sidestepping the ouroboros issue.
__grob··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I would love to know as well. I also have problems with the LLM coding agents when it comes to lesser-known languages like Julia. Has anybody solved this yet?