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frankbyte··on Don't Paste the AI, please
the angry version is... not very angry.
frankbyte··on Show HN: Open-source macOS CLI tool for aliasing and timing command line runs
Yeah, that would be possible as well and probably for some interactive terminals better. I’ve found this handy, but maybe it’s just me personally.

Aliases are in my understanding in those cryptic terminal files, this is I suppose an attempt to make it more understandable with easy json structure and also make it shareable between team or machines.

But yeah, if you’re clever enough this probably doesn’t do anything you could achieve otherwise.

frankbyte··on Show HN: [fuck.it] – email with attitude
Great job on the design of the page, oozes attitude! As it should, given the product.
frankbyte··on [dead]
Just got the new laptop and ran a few benchmarks, let me know your thoughts. I think it's so fast because of the dedicated ML cores, but could be the CPU too I suppose.
frankbyte··on Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
Well it's presented them with billionaire fortunes. That's a fact.

I think it's fine for entrepreneurs like them to work however much they want, but it's not cool to put that on employees, especially if they don't have any ownership in the company.

I don't buy the theory about poor relationships and long hours. I could see it going either way, especially if one was single and would otherwise spend their time at home watching tv or whatever.

frankbyte··on Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
“There were times when, some weeks ... I haven’t counted exactly, but I would just sort of sleep for a few hours, work, sleep for a few hours, work, seven days a week. Some of those days must have been 120 hours or something nutty.”

Now, Musk said he is “down to 80 or 90” hours of work per week and “it’s pretty manageable.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/elon-musk-on-working-120-hou...

That's the quickest I could find. But yeah, I suppose 20-23h constantly long-term would not be doable. Point is though that many people can and do work even long-term the equavalent of 2 "full-time jobs".

frankbyte··on Ask HN: Losing all interest in programming, what now?
One problem I recently noticed was that I was feeling down staring at all the metrics related to my projects.

I'd obsessively look at my downloads, conversions, page views and what have you.

This in no way was helping my work, but it was bringing me down because I was comparing with all the people who had "made it" already. Couple days I decided to stop that. For all those moments I'd rather read a book or play with the kids or listen to the wife. Feeling a bit better already to be honest, and interestingly somehow... free.

frankbyte··on Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week
I wonder if the email format made such a big difference, maybe people just like to save money. They wanted it and got it cheaper. End of story.

But I don't anything about this so I might be wrong.

frankbyte··on Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
There's 24 hours in a day. Read Bezos or Musk's or anybody stories and they'll tell you they worked 20-23 hours a day.

It's fucking crazy with some people, but that's what it takes to get ahead of the competition.

Edit: Please note that I'm not advocating that anybody should do this, but just be aware that a lot of people are setting that level for themselves and in some cases for their subordinates.

frankbyte··on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
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frankbyte··on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
After that a messy divorce and funds are in lawyer and exwifey account and back to the commune
frankbyte··on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
You just became the first GitHub profile I follow. Good luck bro! I’m still just 35 but I know I’ll face the same music in 20 years or less.
frankbyte··on Show HN: New website for a Mac screen text recognizer
Brutal man, maybe I should have checked mobile - thanks for the heads up, no sleep.

Fixes, going up

frankbyte··on Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember
Wow, what a gem I loved Liero back in the day!
frankbyte··on Show HN: Snappy, Secure, On-Device OCR for macOS
^^ Catalina only! Not Mavericks. :)
frankbyte··on Show HN: Snappy, Secure, On-Device OCR for macOS
I do indeed, thanks for the correction.
frankbyte··on Show HN: Snappy, Secure, On-Device OCR for macOS
Cheers. The app is built for Mavericks only since it is using SwiftUI, PDFKit, Vision, and other latest Apple API goodies. Not all of these unfortunately support earlier OS versions.
frankbyte··on Show HN: Snappy, Secure, On-Device OCR for macOS
I was intrigued by SwiftUI last summer and have been building this app up for a while. The first version was released about a month ago and I just released the third version this week. The TLDR version is that it is a simple OCR application for on-device OCR that can handle image files, pdf files, screenshots and iOS photos/scans. The OCR is done using Apple's Vision framework.

The app is built for Mavericks only since it is using SwiftUI, PDFKit, Vision, and other latest Apple API goodies.

The application is still free at the moment, but I'm planning to add some fair business model to it in the near-future so I could put in the time to maintain and improve it. I'll be super grateful to get any feedback regarding the application!