jeromechoo

Not that we need more anecdotal evidence but I’ve long felt a certain restlessness and inability to think creatively somewhere in the early afternoon. I work from home with my wife. I’ve eliminated lunch, coffee, and a ton of other variables. The one variable that finally had a distinct effect to my mental state was opening a window.

I’ve had mine for months and I still use it far more than my kindle for the sole reason that it fits in my pocket. It’s still a conscious choice to pull it out over doomscrolling TikTok on my phone though.

Crosspoint has a software fix for this in settings. It’s not 100% but it does work. It’s called the Sunlight Fading Fix under Display settings. https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/blob/...

Built an Apple Watch app that streams music from Plex. It’s more stable than Spotify and Apple Music and it’s been a blast running to my own music collection!

It would've been nice to credit the original designer and developer of this site. https://henryheffernan.com/

BMED2013 and it was still the same in my years. The culture has shifted a bit amongst professors though. After sophomore level classes I remember that professors will often just email you their textbook if you asked (a lot of times they’ll offer to “work it out”with you if you can’t afford the textbook).

Even if the clients go closed source and forked, there's still the very serious issue of closed app ecosystems on iOS and Android. It's one thing to self-host a Vaultwarden instance, it's another entirely to pay Google and Apple $100 a year to publish your own app.

You’re probably also looking for that tool to be available unauthed. And yeah agreed. We do this at Diffbot and the test drive is the 2nd highest visited page.

This is a fantastic resource. The author only briefly covers library databases, but there's so much more in structured querying that could be worth covering.

For example, you can use Sparql to perform structured queries on Wikidata (a structured database version of Wikipedia) to get well beyond unstructured documents.

Here's every person in Wikibase that was born in NYC: https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Humans%20born%20in%20New%20Yo...

> You knew. And you signed off anyway. Because the alternative was losing the job, and the job was the mortgage, and the school fees, and the visa, and the version of yourself who'd fix it later once things stabilized.

I felt the pang in my bones reading this. All of us peons are just wading through this brave new world trying to do what we know is right but ultimately having no choice but to give in to life's needs.

This needs to be an Apple TV app!! Way more fun than watching fly by skyscrapers.

I think many developers worth their salt will argue the same. Cloud is and has always been a shortcut to buying your own hardware. Local models will get better and smaller. Qwen3-coder-next runs on a Spark and is as capable as Sonnet 4.5. Bonsai released a 1-bit model yesterday.

I also like the freedom of not having to ration a daily allowance of tokens.

There are a few. Try this one: https://ooh.directory/

The dilemma we're battling with here is the morality of avoiding most of your taxes if you can afford to hire the right people to manage your money.

Would it still be justified if we replaced "taxes" with "judgement in the afterlife"?

What does “bringing (RSS) back properly” entail in your eyes?

It’s still alive. Many sites still use it. Many people still subscribe to those sites. RSS reader apps are still being created to this day.

15/18 on food. Been to and eaten at all three countries. It was mostly instinct TBH. I’m not sure I can point out exactly what characteristics make a particular picture of food Korean/Chinese/Japanese.

That said I really love food. I cook all 3 types often and go out to eat all 3 types (and even regional variants) quite frequently.

One unobtrusive ad in the middle of an article isn't going to pay for a journalist and their camera person in a war zone.

By "news should be free" I think you probably mean "taxpayer funded".

This is an American-centric POV. I can’t speak for Europe but in many parts of Asia payments are most commonly done as a transfer of digital cash rather than credit. Whether it’s “consumer friendly” is not particularly relevant. People already accept it as a way to transact and there’s very little reason to switch to credit cards.

parse.com was my last straw building on "as a service" startups because of this. DaaS is not even particularly good for hobby projects anymore given how easy it is to work with sqlite.

Response from Clawdbot author when I said this: https://masto.ai/@jeromechoo/115928552690869904

My experience of 100% agentic coding has been roughly the same as yours. That said, starting an agent off on a task has been the single most productive step I have introduced to my workflow in awhile.

95% of the time the code doesn't even build but it gets all the jigsaw pieces in place and it's a million times easier to start deleting and moving pieces around than to start from scratch.

Building an index is easy. Building a fresh index is extremely hard.

Ranking an index is hard. It's not just BM25 or cosine similarity. How do you prioritize certain domains over others? How do you rank homepages that typically have no real content in them for navigational queries?

Changing the behavior of 90% of the non-Chinese internet is unraveling 25 years and billions of dollars spent on ensuring Google is the default and sometimes only option.

Historically, it takes a significant technological counter position or anti-trust breakup for a behemoth like Google to lose its footing. Unfortunately for us, Google is currently competing well in the only true technological threat to their existence to appear in decades.

I’m sure this is great on desktop but lack of mobile support today is kindof a bummer. It doesn’t even degrade gracefully.

I got a $1500 quote to replace a stuck thermostat in my car from my local mechanic. After some Youtubing I was able to replace the part myself with $150 in parts.

I got a $5000 quote to fix my AC 2 summers ago and no amount of Youtube was able to help me DIY a fix.

Maybe in the long term there will be more HVAC techs than auto mechanics. Somehow I don't think that's likely.

There are two paths to KG generation today and both are problematic in their own ways. 1. Natural Language Processing (NLP) 2. LLM

NLP is fast but requires a model that is trained on an ontology that works with your data. Once you do, it’s a matter of simply feeling the model your bazillion CSVs and PDFs.

LLMs are slow but way easier to start as ontologies can be generated on the fly. This is a double edged sword however as LLMs have a tendency to lose fidelity and consistency on edge naming.

I work in NLP, which is the most used in practice as it’s far more consistent and explainable in very large corpora. But the difficulty in starting a fresh ontology dead ends many projects.

I agree with you but the only time execs were held personally responsible that I can remember is Enron and that was on insider trading charges. There is so much plausible deniability and near unlimited appeals built into the system that it would take mountains of evidence and several hundred Lina Khans for an actually responsible executive to be tried for something like this.

I joined my current company to work on Growth. I was added to Gitlab, and for the first 3 months I pushed all my commits as MRs that my manager reviewed and merged into main. Standard procedure.

One day I needed to get a hotfix out to prod STAT. I pinged my manager to accept the MR and explained all the testing I've done. He said I could just accept it myself if I wanted it up now.

Turns out I've had the permission to push to prod since day one. The only red tape I had to cross was my own confidence.

This is awesome. I built a real time whiteboarding app for teachers over 10 years ago on the backbone of the original Firebase service.

It was so fast I was able to build basic collision physics of letter tiles and have their positions sync to multiple clients at once. What a shame to be killed by Google.

I haven't had a need for real time databasing since, but this is inspiring me to build another collaborative app.

Too many people must've turned on their Windows 11 computers at once.

I wrote a tiny self-hosted price tracker that doesn't require a server to run.

It idles as an automator calendar alarm and runs on schedule like a calendar event. When a price drop is detected, it displays a notification using osascript.

When my macbook is asleep, it waits to check the price on wake.

The only input required is the URL of the product page. You can include a target price if you like.

No need to sell your soul to price tracking apps!

Mac only. Because I only use a mac.