martin-adams

I’ve launched two projects:

1. Novalede - https://www.novalede.com

I got tired of having newsletters in my inbox that I never read, and emails building up where you have to hunt for the important part, and not really being able to get the gist of whether the email affects me or not.

So I build an MCP connected newspaper. Ask your agent to publish them as articles where the lead is front and centre, and I can read it first thing in the morning. It’s surprisingly effective and catches so much context I’ve sort of stopped reading my email directly.

I also get it to pick the HN articles of interest to me and give me a summary of what the comments say. It’s nice to remove the sensationalism of how people react.

2. Bebril - https://www.bebril.com

This project is a fun one where you to state who you want to become and you are given mini quests to take that help you on your path to get there. I want it to be a choose your own adventure where you feel rewarded for action.

The important thing here is that the British Library has a copy of all the published books, magazines, etc from the UK.

When I self published my book with a physical print, I was required to submit a copy to them free of charge. Which I’m proud to have contributed to. Naturally I don’t want it accessible to all, hence the reading room requirement.

I remember them launching the web archive as an extension of this as a lot of human knowledge has moved online. So yes it feels weird you can only retrieve it from their reading room, but in the context of them having access to physical copyrighted material, it does make more sense.

I like this. There's a lot of history hidden in codebases that definitely should be considered. I wonder if in code design docs and LLM to review it will make it easier to manage.

Very cool. I do feel there is something to this to have a grasp on these large codebases and have a sense that they are structured the right way.

Thank you :)

Oooh, nice catch, I'll feed that back to get fixed.

I’ve also been exploring a visual way to understand a code base and have explored turning it into a virtual city.

https://app.preview.craftspec.com/app/city/

This whole thing is just a proof of concept, and needs a mouse to interact with.

It’s incredible what AI has made possible with experimental projects that would require months of coding.

My favourite story is that it was someone’s job to watch for the end of Eastenders to trigger a dam release to generate surplus electricity for everyone to put their kettle on to make tea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

Yes, and if they keep dumbing it down, you’ll have it soon

I am using iTerm2 with multiple tabs. Sometimes I put different projects on different spaces on macOS. The trick seems to have a special place of them in my head.

But I do feel there must be a better way.

This feels like the image of the plane that returns from battle with bullet holes, and the engineer being asked to path up where the holes to make it stronger. Only to be told to patch where there weren't holes as those planes didn't make it home.

While not an exact fit of an analogy, those tests patch what was a problem with Postgres in the wild. What it doesn't cover are the things that worked in Postgres without tests, but may fail in port and go undetected.

What timing. I was just preparing my Sony Vaio PCT-C1MHP only yesterday to try and sell. I remember seeing this in a movie around 2000 (probably Charlies Angels) and got one.

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=64

About 15 years ago I used to have a Silhouette cutter printer. You could get a cutting blade and it would cut shapes out of paper and card. I remember putting a pen in there and using it to write with it on paper. It was cool.

Very fun. I can only imagine building this with Claude and testing needed a bit of mental concentration.

React was one of those ways of building software that gave me back the giddy excitement I had learning Visual Basic as a kid.

It’s hard to explain, but the way everything was encapsulated as a component just clicked for me and suddenly the whole app could be composed.

I think it was when they introduced functional components. And when it comes to hooks, I love them.

Not to say other frameworks didn’t do the same, there was something special about React.

I’m working on Flowtelic. A workflow driven note-taking system that aims to get you thinking deeper, but also help you work on the most important thing next if you’re stuck. While not essential, it’ll be enhanced with a local first AI approach.

https://www.flowtelic.com

As someone who tried to sort many lego sets lately, I do like this. The problem lies that modern lego has so many unique forms that it feels like you'll have many bins with one or two pieces in.

I just compared this on my Mac book M1 Max 64GB RAM with the following:

Model: qwen3.59b Prompt: "Hey, tell me a story about going to space"

Ollama completed in about 1:44 Lemonade completed in about 1:14

So it seems faster in this very limited test.

What incredible work. I found his video on all the smoking products he found really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3gK-X32cy8

This is actually one of those things I think the EU should consider regulating. It then means kids can have proper parental controls as they often get introduced to things by being handed a parents phone every now and then.

This is my site: https://www.productgenome.com/

It's where I'm exploring the range of products I'm building/testing which gives a bit of context to why I'm interested in certain areas.

I picked up on that also. I feel that a lot of humans would also get confused about whether you mean the eye on the left, or the subject's left eye.

Thanks, and great feedback about the use of dollars!

Thanks. I’m based in the UK so have a good grasp on that, but I’ve reviewed someone’s resume from the US just as easily. Generally, English speaking and preferably in a digital related field, but a lot of the common pain points seem to be universal. It’s only difficult when it’s a field that’s highly niche as hard to know what’s common knowledge.

I like to play the role of the person doing the hiring, hence why the form asks for an example job description.

I’ve gone old school. After reviewing a few people’s CV’s the easiest format was for me to record a video with the feedback, so I put a site together for that:

https://resume.fail/

No AI, you just buy my time.

I’m also looking to do a couple freebies if anyone wants to anonymise their CV and let me use it for a promo example.

The problem I face with building web apps where the elements are draggable or clickable, is that the browser also selects the text. The easiest solution is to disable text selection.

But I’d love to know if there’s a better solution to keep text selection somehow.

I tried looking this up and it sounds like it will be supported. But then again, we don’t have the ability to install Fortnite as that’s blocked in the EU.

I noticed that as well so fixed it out of auto mode and onto the Claude 4 Sonnet 4. It takes longer but gives a better results.

I also saw that it was 0.8x the ‘credit cost’ thinking still that I had 500.

Now to learn that the 500 has gone and you get unlimited only on auto shows how easy it has been to misunderstand what they’re trying to say.

Also, I’ve no idea how to find out the cost of MAX. Especially as their web agent has the text MAX next to the selected non-max model.

Siri to book a flight? I just want it to reliably tell me what time a specific meeting is tomorrow, know that when I ask for where Mount Etna is, I don’t mean a city in the USA, and stop just ignoring me randomly when I talk to it.

Apple are much further behind with Siri than they realise.

I'm working on a resume review service. Really simple, submit your resume and I'll record a video analysis of it. I created it because every so often I get asked to review someone's resume and they've found it very helpful, and it's my way to address the poor resumes I've received when hiring.

https://resume.fail