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Hi, I'm Shridhar. I'm a designer & engineer in NYC.

Projects: https://shridhargupta.com/

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_august··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
apparently, the r is silent. "oh-mah-chee" https://x.com/dhh/status/2016912045124305303
_august··on Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
I've moved my secrets to 1Password Environments (https://www.1password.dev/environments), which works really well for everyday use.

It works with 1password cli (https://www.1password.dev/cli) to access for agents/scripts, and I get a nice UI to manage them in the 1password app.

_august··on TypeScript 7.0 RC
> TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0

amazing

_august··on Ask HN: commands.sh
I have the commands.sh and cmds.sh domain names, wondering if anyone has fun/interesting ideas I could implement on it.

Currently it's just a basic listing of commends using tldr pages.

_august··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Excited to see what Graphite is cooking: https://x.com/MerrillLutsky/status/2049231503108780405
_august··on Show HN: Cymatica – Chladni Plate Simulator
you can take screenshots and capture video in the app, as well play around with sound input and imported music
_august··on Lunar Flyby
Are full size/larger images available somewhere? 1920x1280px seems low.

Edit: Found 'em: https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=...

_august··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
This is very cool, it would be awesome if I could rotate it as well by 90 degree increments to peek at different angles! I loved RCT growing up so this is hitting the nostalgia!
_august··on Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard
Although it's not clear how to upgrade them (I doubt there is any version management built-in), the installer does specify where it will be installed (And lets you choose global/project level.
_august··on Show HN: I spent 10k hours building the perfect language learning app
It looks cool, here's some feedback on the homepage:

- it's really complex. It reads like a tech product instead of an accessible app.

- i wish i could demo it with other languages on the homepage. Greek is, well, greek. I understand some Spanish and French so if i could use those as examples I could immediately "get" the effectiveness of the app by basing it on the knowledge I already have. I would recommend showcasing the most popular language.

- should show the supported languages as icons with text above the fold.

I'm always excited to learn about new language apps as duolingo is a bit basic!

_august··on Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code
Same, I remember being in awe of how well-designed this app was.
_august··on Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
I'm currently in based in Medellin, Colombia. This happens to me about 10% of the time, randomly, where the results will be in Spanish. What's more annoying is that my currency selection doesn't persist, and always snaps back to COP when I'm searching flights, etc.
_august··on Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free
this is very handy, thanks!
_august··on Writing a good Claude.md
I copied this post and gave it to claude code, and had it self-modify CLAUDE.md. It.. worked really well.
_august··on Show HN: I made a fireplace for your wrist (and widgets)
> There are no subscriptions, just like a real fireplace

well, logs are an irl subscription

_august··on I’m Not a Robot
look at each dot carefully
_august··on Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
I'm noticing that Token usage doesn't reset after the time window unless you hit 100%.

This seems like a problem if for example, you hit 90% usage, pass the window, then burn through the remaining 10% quickly and have to wait a long time.

_august··on Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
Incredible, thank you for making this!

Can this be installed with uv? https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

Edit:

  # Install uv
  curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

  # Install the required CLI tool (Node.js)
  npm install -g ccusage

  # Clone and setup
  git clone https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor.git
  cd Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor

  # Install Python deps with uv
  uv add pytz
  chmod +x ccusage_monitor.py

  # Run it
  uv run python ccusage_monitor.py --plan max20 --timezone America/New_York
_august··on Thiings
Somewhat relevant GitHub project, for generating Genmoji-style images: https://github.com/EvanZhouDev/open-genmoji
_august··on Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page
This is awesome! As someone who's trying to be less chronically online, but still wants to keep on top of what's new I love this.
_august··on Show HN: Flow.diy – a super duper simple flowchart maker
thanks for the feedback! your expectations make sense, i will implement them. For the last bug, i think what happened is the orphaned node 3 got moved to the top, as a sibling with the auto layout and may have moved off screen.
_august··on Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos
perhaps, but they build out a full booking flow that doesn't take you off-site: https://www.tripoffice.com/united-states/new-york-city-new-y...
_august··on Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos
Nice idea! What did you use for your hotel dataset source? I've been wanting to work on travel based app idea with hotel integration, but seems like most providers (like booking.com) lock down their data.
_august··on A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial
When I long-press on iOS, it shows me the mastadon link as the main "Open" link, as well as "Open in Github" (app link) in the context menu.
_august··on Triplit: An open-source, local-first database with built-in realtime sync
I've been getting into / discovering local-first databases and solutions in search of something simple & powerful to build a realtime offline-capable app (built with nextjs, react, react native), and have been playing around with Triplit which I find quite capable & easy to build with.

Here's a bunch of other links I've run across:

* https://localfirstweb.dev - List that aggregates many products

* https://www.localfirst.fm - A podcast about local-first software development.

* https://www.localfirstconf.com/ - local-first conference - many interesting talks on their youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstconf

Another promising, similar product I found is Instant: https://www.instantdb.com/, though their schema/relations/permissions are not quite as straightforward as Triplit's. However, they have written up a great article here: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase

_august··on Ask HN: Is there an easy site to submit/edit POIs/businesses on OpenStreetMaps?
streetcomplete looks like a great idea! unfortunately i have an iPhone.. but yeah gamification is the way to go (just like google does)
_august··on Ask HN: Is there an easy site to submit/edit POIs/businesses on OpenStreetMaps?
also, are there any projects to add images?
_august··on Here is $1M. Try to Win the Lottery
Looks like every simulation is a new lottery, would be interesting to simulate "x per lottery" as well. eg. spend 10,000, 5/lottery
_august··on Show HN: Play Wordle vs. ChatGPT
fun! noticed a bug though, i won against ChatGPT (it wasn't even able to guess it), but it still said "Chat GPT wins!" at the end.
_august··on Show HN: Simple passwordless authentication for your website
Nice! Some feedback:

The gif shouldn’t end so soon and stick a little longer on the 2nd screen. Right now it’s faster than I can read.

Maybe use a different email than simpleotp in the example.

Perhaps a free tier for 500-1,000 active users.

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