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EddieLomax

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EddieLomax··on Why getting your hands dirty is good for you
Lucky for you, you can buy a subscription to DirtPlus™, which has the proper ratio of Earthzymes™ to organic material to make sure you get your hands properly dirty, instead of just dirty.
EddieLomax··on Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
https://github.com/ehamiter/Catlock
EddieLomax··on Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs
I made a thing that ties LLMs with OpenSCAD. Same concept

https://figure.codes

EddieLomax··on Show HN: Figure – produce printable STL files via LLM and OpenSCAD
I own a 3d printer, and I print things from time to time. My old box fan was missing the speed knob, so I figured how hard would it be to make another one of these guys? So I searched on Maker World, confident I would find one that was Close Enough™. I did not. So I tried my hand at CAD, and it turns out I suck at CAD. But, I don't suck at software, so I made this app.

Figure equips an LLM agent with extensive OpenSCAD knowledge and allows a user to chat about the model, and adjust parameters. It worked out well for me, but I cam curious if others find it useful. It's a free beta for Apple Silicon machines now (ARM64), and I'm planning on adding support for Linux and Windows soon. Thanks for looking!

EddieLomax··on Ask HN: I think we need Trustpilot for GitHub users, don't we?
This vouch system?

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

EddieLomax··on Show HN: Sigil – A new programming language for AI agents
Curious if you have seen this:

https://moglang.org/

EddieLomax··on Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
This is similar to something I was playing around with last month-- basically just a CLI for accessing the foundational models.

https://github.com/ehamiter/afm

It's really handy for quick things like "what's the capital of country x" but for coding, I feel that it is severely limited. With such a small context it's (currently) not great for complicated things.

EddieLomax··on MagicAudio – Free Noise, Echo and Background Music Remover
"Serivce Quality"
EddieLomax··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Goddamnit
EddieLomax··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
Fuck yes. OpenAI, take notes.
EddieLomax··on Show HN: Tiled Words, a daily puzzle inspired by board games and crosswords
This random guy enjoyed solving the daily puzzle. Well done!
EddieLomax··on Show HN: CSS Clicker – a pure-CSS idle game where you build your own website
That music is intense
EddieLomax··on Show HN: Ki Editor – Multicursor syntactical editor
"Ki" also means "who" in Persian-Farsi ("کی"). Looks neat, just wanted to add some random related trivia.
EddieLomax··on Show HN: Made a free app for editing bjj rolls into viral TikTok clips
I'm guessing you're talking about rolling with a sparring partner in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. That is a very niche target audience-- I would wager most people are going to be unfamiliar with that phrase. Why not open it up to ...well, anything?
EddieLomax··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
bookmarking system, made for me by me

https://bookerics.com

EddieLomax··on Show HN: Mesop – Open-source Python UI framework
Thanks! I somehow completely missed the deployment section.
EddieLomax··on Show HN: Mesop – Open-source Python UI framework
This is appealing to me as a Python backend dev-- but if I end up building something cool for my own personal use, and I want to deploy it so others can use it-- is that a thing for this? I don't see any kind of documentation for deploying it, but that could just be on me. I realize this is touted as a demo-friendly / internal tool so that just might not be aligned for this type of thing.
EddieLomax··on Show HN: ChatGPT taught me how to code – I made a daily movie song guessing game
When you find that it starts to lose context, there are some phrases that genuinely help "reset" it:

"Take a deep breath."

"Let's step back for a second."

I've also found that it's far more beneficial telling it what you want versus what you don't want.

EddieLomax··on Show HN: Schnell Console – Terminal App Redefined
Why is a Google account mandatory?
EddieLomax··on HTTP Cats
I like this one, but it's arguably less fun:

https://httpstatus.in/

EddieLomax··on Ask HN: Python Programming Books
https://pythonbooks.org/
EddieLomax··on Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable
It's now enabled by default in IPython, for better or worse: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/13397
EddieLomax··on Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves
If I click on "Challenge", and set up a game with unlimited time control (or correspondence), the challenge is declined with:

> This time control is too fast for me, please challenge again with a slower game.

Is that expected?

EddieLomax··on Pattern matching accepted for Python
Using _ might be problematic for Django devs, who usually use it for translation, e.g.

    from django.utils.translation import gettext as _
EddieLomax··on Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling Like Jwt.io and Online JSON Validators
Just posting to say that I didn't finish reading the article, even though it seemed interesting, because the color and layout is really hard to read. I'm not color blind, it's just very unsettling in a way... somehow it gave me anxiety as I was reading it.
EddieLomax··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
I used bazqux for a while and paid for the annual subscription. It just ended and I was looking around for free alternatives, and found CommaFeed, which reminds me a lot of Google Reader.
EddieLomax··on Icebreakers.site – Conversation Starters
My team at work begins each planning session with an icebreaker-- it's a great way to get to know everyone a little better, especially since we are all remote and located around the globe. Each time it's my turn to come up with a question, I end up googling for "icebreaker questions" and have to sort through decent ones ("What skill do you think everyone should have?") to semi-not-great-for-work-ones ("Name something you hate about your boss.") to inappropriate ones ("What do you like best about women's bodies?") to outright illegal ones ("Are you religious?").

Since I'm lazy and wanted one place to easily give me a question to propose to the group, I made a progressive web app that randomly picks a question out of a pool of around 700 questions (that I think I've mostly vetted to be considered "decent" questions). The neat thing about it being a PWA is it can be installed as a Chrome app (or saved to a home screen on a mobile phone) and it will still work offline.

Full disclosure-- it's free to use, and there's no ads or anything, but I do have a Google analytics script on it, simply out of curiosity if anyone is using it. So if you are anti-Google or anti-analytics, don't go there. Otherwise, I hope it sparks some good conversations for you and lets you learn a little more about your fellow teammates.

EddieLomax··on How to Hack every weekend into a 3 Day Weekend
How is leaving work on a Friday at 5pm "hacking" your weekend into a 3 day weekend?
EddieLomax··on Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X
Awesome to hear, Jakob-- I recently purchased PG Commander after a couple of months of using it, so a "free" update to 2.0 is awesome. Thanks for your hard work on the app-- it's my default PostgreSQL client.
EddieLomax··on Hacker News Modification With target = _blank links (GitHub)
https://greasyfork.org/scripts/3974-hn-new-tab
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