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idk about a house party once a week, but I do like the idea of having my friends invite their other friends. As I age, it becomes harder to find new friends just by happenstance. Friends of Friends usually end up becoming friends after meeting them.

That's interesting, 4.6 is finally when AI started to become good in my eyes. I have a very strict plan phase, argue, plan then partial execute. I like it to do boilerplate then I do the hard stuff myself and have it do a once over at the end.

Although I have had it try to debug something and just get stuck chugging tokens.

This is exactly what got me to actually pay. I had a side project with an architecture I thought was good. Fed it into Claude and ChatGPT. ChatGPT made small suggestions but overall thought it was good. Claude shit all over it and after validating it's suggestions, I realized Claude was what I needed.

I haven't looked back. I just use Claude at home and ChatGPT at work (no Claude). ChatGPT at work is much worse than Claude in my experience.

I never knew about this either and it's been very frustrating as I've been converting my Manga library over to webp (savings are insane) and doing any spot checking opens Edge.

Edit: After reading the comments, this doesn't seem to open in Photos App.

There is a brand new plugin for KOReader that offers a richer experience and uses Kavita's API. I don't have a link handy, but it was shared in the Kavita discord (and will be on the wiki once I write a new page for it).

Koreader's OPDS implementation is VERY rough around the edges. It doesn't support much of the metadata and doesn't follow the spec very well. I had to write hacks in Kavita to give users better support for it. (My understanding is Koreader isn't too hot on OPDS in general).

Some nice performance improvements, really looking forward to their new bundler mentioned at the end for large codebases. My Angular app is quite large and I would appreciate the speedup.

Loaded very fast, but after reading, I refreshed and got an error....

I haven't seen this in the real world or the tooling to back it up. Currently, Calibre is the only software that writes metadata that pulls from online sources.

I'm sure Adobe Acrobat also supports, but that's not used in the scene.

Very true, I just rolled out annotations for Kavita (a self-hosted book/comic server) and epub doesn't have the ability to store it in the file (although Kavita has a no-modification policy).

Although for cases like Kavita, storing in the file would be problematic if multiple users want their own annotations without concerns of data leaking.

I don't know much about webp other than you get about 50% savings in compression vs png/jpeg, but it does have some hard limits on sizes of images. It doesn't do well with webtoon reading formats (long strip format).

Otherwise, I love webp and use it for all my comics/manga.

That's interesting, I absolutely hate PDF. Lack of metadata for collecting, format is difficult to support, doesn't layout well on mobile, and very limited customization (like dark mode, changing text size, etc).

Only benefit is browsers have built-in support for the format.

Some amazing enhancements in here, the MCP AI tutor is very interesting and Aria Components look excellent.

I've had good results saying Do not code, focus on architecture first.

There are a few non-paid PDF libraries, but that is the biggest pain point in .NET, anytime you need advanced features for PDF, you're better off paying for a license (it's just insanely expensive unless you're a large company).

Having worked on some basic parsing of metadata from PDF spec, I would rather pay than have to code something myself. PDF is such a PIA.

I'm constantly being pushed hard left or hard right videos. I am subbed to nothing political and while I've watched a few before, no matter how much "Not interested" or "Dont recommend channel" I've done, I consistently get pushed these videos.

Personally drives me off the platform, but hard since my subs are so unique and great.

Add sponsorblock to skip those sections automatically as well.

I'm not sure, but when I was working with UX years ago, they designed everything for a fixed width and centered it in the screen.

Kinda like how HackerNews is, it's centered and doesn't scale to my full width of the monitor.

I will say, Pikapods is really nice because they give a cut back to the developers of Open Source. I'm the maintainer of Kavita, a popular self-hosted reading server and pikapods gives me something like 10-15% cut of each user running Kavita.

I think LLMs provide value, used it this morning to fix a bug in my PDF Metadata parser without having to get too deep into the PDF spec.

But most of the time, I find that the outputs are nowhere near the effect of just doing it myself. I tried Codex Code the other day to write some unit tests. I had a few setup and wanted to use it (because mocking the data is a pain).

It took about 8 attempts, I had to manually fix code, it couldn't understand that some entities were obsolete (despite being marked and the original service not using them). Overall, was extremely disappointed.

I still don't think LLMs are capable of replacing developers, but they are great at exposing knowledge in fields you might not know and help guide you to a solution, like Stack Overflow used to do (without the snark).

I'm super interested in this, I'm the developer of Kavita and would love to be able to extract metadata from ISBN from user's files.

Is there a Github/Site where I can follow you (or this project) on?

In modern day Angular, everything is standalone, so the module issue doesn't apply.

I've been coding in Angular since 2 and I have never had a duplicate component with the same name. Almost every Angular app uses nearly the same folder structure.

Java is quite popular, so it's easy to go back. But try C# out. It's years ahead of Java in performance, features, and syntax quality.

I've been doing .NET for years and had to spin up a Java Spring Boot app and it was so painful compared to .NET (esp maven/gradle vs nuget).

The backend is not open source, so how is this self hosted?

Pretty good article, I wish there were some trick to getting more maintainers. I've been working daily on an Open Source application that became pretty big. So far, I've only gotten one full time maintainer besides myself. Many have come and gone, but most come to work on ad-hoc ideas versus helping me develop my vision.

This is my go to. I hope it becomes cheaper though.

> I don't love the idea of my work training an ai without compensation either.

How is it different then if a Company uses your code without paying you due to a permissive license? It sounds like Open Source doesn't fit your mindset.

It hasn't changed anything for me. I don't really care if AI trains on my code or not. I write open source to share the code for other developers and give back as a way of pay it forward, to all the people's libraries I've relied on before.

Are people open sourcing their works in hopes to make money and that's their concern? I've never heard of that from people involved in open source.

To add on, r/financialindependence has a good wiki that will also link back to Boglehead, but can cover some of the more advanced concepts and tie it into the FIRE movement (even if you don't want to RE).

I have 2 primary side-projects, one that has become a popular open source project and another which is a personal tool.

For me, I commit myself to work on it every day except vacations. I use a kanban board for tracking work and just do things that feel natural. When I'm grinding out a big story, sometimes I switch and just focus on small bugfixes or random ideas to rebuild the motivation.

My other side project is much less worked on. But when I have a need in the software, I just focus on it for a week and document everything in Github issues. Usually the needs are quite complex and the fun of solving and getting a nice solution is fun enough to help drive me through.

I only work on things that I have a need for and I think that helps a lot with the mindset of finishing it off.

Kavita (self hosting for books/comics)