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chux52

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www.charleslukowski.com
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chux52··on Python on My Wrist
What’s a watch to do things like this that might not have this many hoops to jump through?
chux52··on My Rules for Using Spreadsheets
As a spreadsheet user first, this just reads as programmer prefers programming.

Many times the spreadsheet is a collaborative document. One way to use spreadsheets is you use it for a number of iterations, get your outcome quickly, let stakeholders give feedback and adjust the approach. Then once it becomes stable, then you turn it into a database/app/script. Errors in spreadsheets are obvious to more users than errors in code because your work is shown, not hidden.

Taking a csv file and writing bash is not the answer. If you are doing that, you should probably get back to work/research.

chux52··on Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)
I had this same book, only made it to chapter 3 or so (making an OK button) is how I remember it.

Ended up in Accounting, dabbled with Python and now back to programming with Cursor/Claude.

It did get me just far enough so I could see that computers were complicated but not actually magic and like you did change my life.

chux52··on Show HN: A canvas-based note taking and organizer app
As a notetaker who likes new apps, but has tried them all, I was impressed by this.

Your version reminds me of OneNote when it was new and good and not horrible. Being able to place your notes where you want them is such a radical concept.

The features you have are simple and the idea of stacking notes is really cool and don't think I've seen that done before.

chux52··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Yes, I had to start using more fable to not waste all that usage by Sunday and figured I broke it myself.
chux52··on Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse
Even if data centers are the bottleneck, aren't they scarce for everyone in your scenario?
chux52··on ChatGPT for Excel
How do the OpenAI models/reasoning effort map to Fast, Standard, Heavy in the add-in?
chux52··on Show HN: Free online calculators built with AI
Seemed a bit off, but I’m no designer. Thanks for the tip.
chux52··on Show HN: Free online calculators built with AI
Definitely not. If you see a mistake please submit feedback. It’s free, let’s keep the quality bar a bit lower
chux52··on Show HN: Free online calculators built with AI
AI tools have made it so cheap to build useful software that there’s no reason to gate it behind sign-ups or paywalls. CalcForAnything (https://calcforanything.com) is 157 free calculators — solar, finance, health, math, home, medical. No accounts, no fees.
chux52··on Show HN: Perchpad – Collaborative real-time Markdown editor backed by Git
How does the git part work if you are always fighting github authentication. It's git only, not github?
chux52··on Show HN: Find what you should play next
I hit show my recommendations and it didn't return anything. Not sure if you need to be signed up for that to work or not.
chux52··on Show HN: Retain – A unified knowledge base for all your AI coding conversations
Would definitely try this out, but am Windows only.

Tried to create something like this but the best I got was a bookmarklet to copy the chat text. Ended up just exporting data and using that method for a one time pull.

chux52··on Show HN: Sornic – Turn any article into a podcast in 10 seconds
This looks useful. When I click the voices, am I supposed to hear samples of the voice?

I got an error trying one of the article on the main page: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution

chux52··on Show HN: Company hiring trends and insights from job postings
Looks really useful
chux52··on Show HN: SeeClaudeCode – visualize Claude Code's edits to your repo in real time
This is a great idea. Any plans to take it further than what your page demos?
chux52··on Show HN: Wingspan Games: Arrow – a multiplayer game built in Elixir / Phoenix
This was pretty fun. I played the quick game and it was just me? Maybe you need some bots if it is supposed to be multiplayer.

One thing was that being so close to the edge means hard to shoot things that are headed for you.

chux52··on Show HN: CEO Simulator – Run a company. Make decisions. Get fired
Love incremental games. LLMs are going to be great to see more of them (whether you used one or not).

I thought this was really well done, but I was a bit thrown to be blocked after 8 turns with the come back tomorrow thing.

chux52··on Show HN: SQL Quest – The Bank Job
Cool site, what made you pick this to build?
chux52··on Show HN: A tool to help websites appear in AI-generated answers
Really good idea, was just thinking how important this will be
chux52··on Show HN: Ganttchart-webviz – Web-based Gantt chart generator
Looks promising. Part of something else or just something you wanted to build/share?
chux52··on Show HN: BananaSlice – free Generative Fill alternative using Nano Banana
Any examples?
chux52··on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
If your goal is more users, it would make sense to have a calm setting.

If you want to build the app you want to use, go for it.

chux52··on Show HN: I used Gemini 3 to turn 42 books into interactive webpages in 2 weeks
I checked out the Atomic Habits page, because I read it a few years ago. The visuals were much better than I anticipated and went with the book content really well.
chux52··on [dead]
I had an old/bad link in the <head> part of HTML that might be causing redirect? Didn't realize it would do that.
chux52··on [dead]
Not sure why this URL got changed?

Should be: https://www.flywheelfeedback.com/

chux52··on Show HN: Pipedreamer – AI for Excel
What model you using for this?
chux52··on GPT-5.2
Is this why all my Cursor requests are timing out in the past hour?
chux52··on Show HN: Open-Source Excel AI Agent
Videos wouldn't play for me?
chux52··on Show HN: Typeconomy, a clicker game where you type
Enjoyed playing this. It took me a round to realize what the store was, might want to take user there after every round?
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