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mrroryflint

208 karma · joined October 23, 2022

Software engineer from London, England.
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mrroryflint··on How to read more books
I read 150 books (mostly short and accessible) in a year a while back. It was one of the happiest times of my life after a very dark period.

https://rory.codes/150-books-in-a-year/

mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Thanks!
mrroryflint··on Book Dedications
Why did you re-submit this? Was it deleted before?
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
I think first prompt to deploy was < 25 minutes - purely to amuse myself.

I have so many other projects that have taken days and in my eyes are way "better" but get zero attention.

mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Cool idea, thanks
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Thanks!
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Thank you!
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
I built it and still suck, don’t feel so bad.
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Oh wow - that is very cool. Thanks for sharing.
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Very cool idea! Will try and add.
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Just wrapping up the beta for iOS! Will let you know asap.
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
I'm* building an app currently!

*my old pal Claude

mrroryflint··on Show HN: Eyeball
Cool idea - thanks! I'm building a mobile app as we speak so I'll add it for sure.
mrroryflint··on How HN: I turned 1,063 reported purchases into a satirical online shop
Assuming you aren't from the UK, Peter Murrell is the husband of famous Scottish politician Nicola Sturgeon. He is currently on trial (having recently please guilty) for some very dubious spending of money that was most certainly not his to spend.

I compiled every purchase into a mock online shop.

mrroryflint··on How HN: I aggregated 17 years of the Guardian's Blind Date column
For years I've religiously read the Guardian's Blind Date column every Saturday morning.

If you've not come across it: the paper sets up two strangers on a date at a nice restaurant, then asks them both a series of questions afterwards, culminating in a score out of ten.

As of this Saturday, there have been 877 of them. So I pulled every article and analysed the scores, sentiment, trends, and a few other things I was curious about.

The whole thing updates itself; every Saturday a new date drops into the dataset automatically.

mrroryflint··on Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023)
There have been alternative (often mad) health proponents who have insisted upon only eating fruit in the morning for years - similar(ish) reasons. I think there is probably something to it.
mrroryflint··on The Grand Line
We have a print on our wall that says "These are the good old days" - when I'm going through it with newborns, chaotic toddler tantrums and work stress...it's a good reminder that I will desperately wish to return to this stage of life one day in the future.
mrroryflint··on Do your own writing
Yup! I am, ironically, second guessing myself when doing edits now to ensure I don't sound like an LLM...thus altering my natural writing style in places.
mrroryflint··on Do your own writing
I recently added an AI Policy to my blog (https://rory.codes/ai-policy). The assumption now appears to be AI guilty unless proven innocent which I think is a travesty for readers and writers alike.
mrroryflint··on Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind (2025)
Thanks for reminding me of this. One of the all time greats.
mrroryflint··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
Thank you!
mrroryflint··on Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google
Thanks for sharing - I took a look at my own robots.txt and realised the sitemap was broken.
mrroryflint··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://rory.codes
mrroryflint··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
Airpods Max (is that the name?) - the big ones.
mrroryflint··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
Airpods Max (is that the name?) - the big ones.
mrroryflint··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
On a M4 Macbook Air, there was enough lag to make it unusable for me. I hit the shortcut and start speaking but there was always a 1-2sec delay before it would actually start transcribing even if the icon was displayed.
mrroryflint··on Show HN: Meetinghouse.cc – a place to find and be found
As per the OPs comment - but an email doesn't inherently come with

> a name, a profile picture and a way to be linked-back to something else immediately

mrroryflint··on Show HN: Coach Thyself – Replace your morning scroll with structured journaling
Would tend to agree. Interesting concept but unless it's all encrypted, I wouldn't trust this at all.
mrroryflint··on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (2024)
Connecting your washing machine to the internet and then observing the outgoing traffic and knowing that it is obscenely high simply IS tech-savvy as compared to the average person.

On HN or similar circles, maybe not - but that isn't Newsweek's audience.

mrroryflint··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Yeah I mean - that machine isn't going to struggle with much!

I'm on an M1 Mac and it's pretty smooth. Of course, maybe I just have terribly low standards.

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