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brulard··on Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
Or swamp to be shorter
brulard··on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
That sounds intriguing. 7 layers - do you mean its one prompt composed of 7 parts, like different paragraphs for each aspect? How do you send bounding box info to banana? Does it understand something like that? What does claude add to that process? Makes your prompt more refined? Thanks
brulard··on Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
I had a simple scenario in mind: Hide annoying "shorts" section from youtube. It nagged me I have to sign in. I expected to be able to create a script for myself locally. Why would that lead to spamming requests?
brulard··on Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
Am I required to sign up after setting it up? Why that was not requested from the beginning? Quite a dark pattern right there.
brulard··on Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)
Oh, I wanted to escape the Kratos hell by migrating to Keycloak and you say Kratos was created to actually be a better alternative? Well I have to say I had a very hard time implementing browser flows, configuration is a mess, not everything working through yaml configs works as env var. Documentation is a mess. All in all, it took months what should have been weeks at most. Sorry for the negativity, but it is one of the software pieces I really wish I have avoided.
brulard··on Perkeep – Personal storage system for life
Looks nice, thanks!
brulard··on Perkeep – Personal storage system for life
Nice. I checked multiple time during last years if the project was dead or not. I would love to use it but it seemed to be rotting away.
brulard··on iPhone Pocket
It felt more like: keep the size, reduce the battery life
brulard··on Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025
Can you share the game? Thanks
brulard··on Visualize FastAPI endpoints with FastAPI-Voyager
I would appreciate some quick info what this is all about. Clicking on link presents me with a huge diagram i know nothing about. What am I looking at?
brulard··on Alive internet theory
I did the same and did not even think about it until i read this!
brulard··on AI Models Fail Miserably at This One Easy Task: Telling Time
If only from analog clock. They constantly think it's 2024 and sometimes refuse to believe you 2025 is almost over. Regardless the knowledge cutoff, they should be better instructed by default on what date it is.
brulard··on Coding Assistant wiped my Mac
Yes, it is important to remember, that these agents are a double edged sword. One edge cuts nicely through the work, but the other is facing you.
brulard··on At the Root: An Anti-Racist Ethical Source License for Open Source Projects
I don't get it. This is full of some hard to define and enforce restrictions. Who benefits from it? Who wouldn't be immediately turned away from such license? I mean, let's be all good to one another, but this seems misguided.
brulard··on Why to use vector graphics everywhere?
Vector graphics is awesome. It's a shame that SVG did not evolve more, and that some important planned features for SVG 2 (like mesh gradients) were dropped.
brulard··on Most Starred GitHub Repo
Nice one, never heard of it. Maybe worth to create a Claude Code skill, and let the agent lead the learning.
brulard··on We Used To Actually Own Our Computers.
It's unbelievable that we have all these microchips, microcomputers, sensors, displays etc. available at few dollars price. Anyone can create anything right now, and even learning and starting with some little hardware project is easier than ever. And yet with all the distractions it's harder than ever to focus on a single thing.
brulard··on Show HN: Command line YouTube downloader,a universal media solution for everyone
Tried yt-dlp right now, seems to work fine
brulard··on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
Although the reason was absurd, videos were eventually restored.
brulard··on Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app
What the actual hell... I never experienced this. Wasn't it instructed in CLAUDE.md or elsewhere in the context to refuse stupid ideas or something? I would suspect something like that.
brulard··on How I use every Claude Code feature
Did you notice the @-referencing requirement? AGENTS.md is not included by default, but CLAUDE.md should be
brulard··on How I use every Claude Code feature
I have quite long CLAUDE.md file and claude code follows it almost all the time. When it was ignoring some instructions, i told it to update CLAUDE.md to make sure it does. It emphasized it with uppercase and IMPORTANT! ALWAYS DO ... and that make it work for me like 95% of the time. And I do this for multiple project with different CLAUDE.mds with similar results. I don't know why your experience differs so much.
brulard··on Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
Full assistant and a text search are quite a bit different things in terms of usefulness
brulard··on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
I can not think of many hobbies which are less expensive if you are serious about them. Some hobbies around me, where $3000 wouldn't get you far: Motorcycles, cars, cycling, collecting anything, woodworking, machining, music making, traveling, horses,...
brulard··on Corrosion
Doesn't it say when it was last updated?
brulard··on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
What do you mean "in terms of ranking" vs "in terms of money"?
brulard··on Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
In 2025 dollars that is around $230.
brulard··on Claude Memory
I would say these are two distinct use cases - one is the assistant that remembers my preferences. The other use case is the clean intelligent blackbox that knows nothing about previous sessions and I can manage the context in fine detail. Both are useful, but for very different problems.
brulard··on VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
No more takedown notices for including legacy VST SDK in your github project? Wait, mine was 2.4, so I guess steinberg would still chase me down if I hadn't complied already.
brulard··on The case for the return of fine-tuning
Care to elaborate what are some of those use cases?
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