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Thanks for the note. I just fixed it.

Also made something like this called Sun Path which tracks where the sun is through centuries and how the path deviates ever so slowly.

Plus there are all the equinoxes and solstices.

https://pilgrimapp.org/sunpath/

momentmakeron Do Your Emojis Make You Look Old?

https://archive.ph/03jqB

momentmakeron The Creator Economy Has a New Middle Class

https://archive.ph/1RKqa

momentmakeron The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It's Making America Miserable

https://archive.ph/zH0KI

momentmakeron Bitchat is now on Radicle

For some context, it seems like the Indian government wants Bitchat to be taken down.

https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2080565084586135773

momentmakeron I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year

I have similar experience as the author where I don't know the first thing about Swift but I was able to make my first iOS app[0] from start to finish on the initial release in about 3 weeks.

I think the hardest part was actually automating the release pipeline to directly upload to the App Store for a release with Test Flight.

It wouldn't have been possible without Claude's help.

Then next hard and tedious part was do a complete conversion to Android with Kotlin, which I also didn't have any experience either. That one-to-one parity was rather painful but it was done in about a month or so.

Now I just develop create features on the iOS version first and then do a parity match with the Android version after with Claude.

[0] https://github.com/walktalkmeditate/pilgrim-ios

momentmakeron The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

I think Tristan from The Social Dilemma documentary - his co-founder's dad - was the one who invented the infinite scroll and he deeply regretted it.

momentmakeron Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

I've just finished this chrome extension recently: https://ypuf.com/

It helps me to automatically save a tab that's not been used in a while so it auto-closes it but saves it as well as having the ability to snooze a tab like how you'd do it in gmail.

Everything is locally stored with 100% privacy in mind.

And vim like navigation is natively done.

momentmakeron A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't

The problem with union is that it also centralizes the power to the top which also then attracts sociopaths and/or psychopaths who are better are playing the political game.

momentmakeron Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline

You can use edit your settings.json in ~/.claude and put a hook for it like this:

    "Stop": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "afplay ~/.claude/hooks/chime.wav",
            "async": true
          },

momentmakeron Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made

Apparently it has its own holiday.

June 1 is officially "Mugicha Day" (麦茶の日), designated back in 1986 by the barley tea manufacturers' cooperative, and a MyVoice survey has it as the #1 summer drink for 40%+ of Japanese respondents, per Unseen Japan [0].

[0] https://unseen-japan.com/mugicha-japanese-barley-tea-history...

momentmakeron Why I Stopped Arguing with People

You get to see the other side's perspective and how their views shape their inner world.

You don't know what events they had experienced that caused them to shape those views.

Just smile, nod and agree :)

momentmakeron Robots will replace 700k delivery workers 'sooner or later' warns JD.com boss

https://archive.ph/YCUol

momentmakeron Claude Fable 5

There is a discussion about how now AI is a gated utility now with public access (safe-tuned) and private access (full-usage):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u1fsdi/claude_fa...

momentmakeron AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice

It sounds like a plot for this movie: Mercy [0]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31050594/

momentmakeron Show HN: GridTravel- A community based travel app for users to share routes

If you are releasing for every country you might need to do a special form on the App Store for the EU region before they are allowed to distribute your app. I had found this out when I first released mine.

momentmakeron Show HN: GridTravel- A community based travel app for users to share routes

Awesome job! Congrats on the launch!

I like the idea of exploring what others had found before. Maybe it doesn't need to be gear towards just travel but also this gives an opportunity for locals to explore places they've never knew before too?

I've also recently launched a walking app - made for myself but thought others would enjoy too. I had added an anonymous collective walk counter which encourages others to keep walking.

BTW, Mapbox does give sponsorships to projects/apps for displaying how their product is being used so once you get to a certain level you could submit a form for it. I know this project was sponsored by them: https://gpx.studio/

Here is my project if you are interested to checking out. Feel free to take any feature you find in there for your app. https://github.com/walktalkmeditate/pilgrim-ios

momentmakeron Show HN: E2a – Open-source email gateway for AI agents

There is also this project for using email as a coordination layer between agents for multi-agent workflow.

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail

momentmakeron An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

I feel like the exponential growth of the models will make this a non-issue in the future. So the tweaks we might make right now might not be even more with when even more powerful models in the future come.

momentmakeron Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

I'm working on app for walking based on the practice of walk, talk, meditate.

For now it's just for iOS but currently I'm working on porting to Android.

https://pilgrimapp.org/

momentmakeron Getting arrested in Japan

This sounds like a monk-styled meditation retreat where one just get fed and can just keep doing meditation all day alone.

Sounds a heaven for someone who is ready for it but hell for those whose thoughts run amok.

momentmakeron City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

There is also another movement to stop Flock. And a discussion [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772012

momentmakeron AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

I feel like this can be summed into 3 words: Discernment is Key.

momentmakeron Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

I built something recently for myself which is based on the any device philosophy using a Telegram bot approach and like the creator of this app uses a private Github repo as the source of truth.

I use it for just collecting anything I find interesting around the web.

https://github.com/momentmaker/to

momentmakeron Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task

Installed it just now. The most surprising line for me was "Conversation $225 / 496 turns". Basically half my turn count this month was chat, not building. Had no idea that ratio was so off.

Cache hit rate is another metric I wouldn't have looked at otherwise. 98.2% on Opus 4.6 here. Apparently that's the difference between a $2k month and something much worse.

Activity classification is the actually useful feature though. Most token trackers just tell you total spend. This tells you what kind of work the spend went to.

Nice work!

momentmakeron Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

The iOS equivalent is to hold the side + volume button until the power slider shows up. Cancel out of it and the next unlock will require your passcode. Pressing the side button 5x triggers Emergency SOS which does the same thing. Been there forever but barely anyone knows about it.

Nice to see something like this on the Mac side.

momentmakeron Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

The Burnout Society

Strangers in Paradise: How Families Adapt to Wealth Across Generations

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI

The Year in Tech 2024

This Is Strategy

Optimal Illusions

Matrix Energetics

Models

The Value of Others

The Essence of Bhagavad Gita

From Barista to Billionaire

Go On Alone

78 Days Practical Transurfing

The New Game of Life and How to Play It

Getting Real

There Is No Such Thing as Business Ethics

How to Be Happy All The Time

Shape Up

Catching the Big Fish

Babaji The Lightning Standing Still

The Courage to be Happy

Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail

The Art of Spending Money

Laws of Life

The Oracle

Kriya Yoga: Spiritual Awakening for the New Age

Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life

momentmakeron AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits

blockchains are isolated environment where it can only know about data/states within itself.

if outside data is needed, then it needs something called an oracle, which delivers real-world and/or even other blockchain data to it.

you can learn more about oracle here: https://chain.link/education/blockchain-oracles