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Definitely not a nothing burger.
I have a question though - in the very first part of the readme:
"A production-grade framework for creating, managing, and evolving AI agents with intelligent agent-to-agent communication."
What makes this production-grade?
However, I wouldn’t want to build anything in it again. The amount of gymnastics required to work with and around those kinds of limitations (500 records) through pagination, error checking, retry logic. I ended up needing to implement things I wouldn’t want even my worst enemy to maintain. Definitely nothing wrong would expect a citizen developer create or maintain.
But it’s ability to easily bring together multiple data sources, consistent uni-directional dataflow, and lots of other things made it a rally nice platform to work on
I think there are a lot more than just two types of intimate spaces for men.
The best part is people have the ability to create new spaces, then keep iterating and trying new ideas. And even more excitingly they aren’t static, they can change and adapt to what the people in the group need.
To use a part of your anecdote, that therapy group you went to sounded like not what you wanted or needed at the time. But one could imagine another guy walking in and see the facilitator with earrings and lipstick and say to themselves “oh this is amazing, I feel safe here knowing I can wear makeup and won’t be ridiculed”
It’s different for everyone.
Each individual has a responsibility to create and shape the world to be better, depending on their capacity, sphere of influence and ability to do so.
Right now my capacity is very low, so I’m depending on others for support.
But in the future I very much hope to set up groups or ways for guys to connect in a way that fits what I wish I had access to.
One specific example of when I’ve these this implemented exceptionally well is a wood working group I saw. The premise is you come and do carpentry, but what really happens is trust is built up over time. At some point an thereshold is reached where newer people feel safe enough to share, and then were able to talk about things going on in their life and get some practical support and advice.
It’s so rare so see such an effective blend of what you described as the extremes of brotherhood or therapy sessions.
Although if I’m truly honest with myself, even after many years of developing, the true cycle of me writing code is: over confidence, then shock it didn’t work 100% the first time, wondering if there is a bug in the compiler, and then reality setting in that of course the compiler is fine and I just made my 15th off-by-one error of the day :)
Thankfully there is a giant corpus of terrible code out there for any language. Especially that code written by the most evil terrible coders of all time: past-self :D
I guess that’s the role of tool builders - is to find ways to do the impossible to support artist workflows.
The first step is to find out if the end user would even want that workflow in the first place. Maybe it makes no sense, to work that way. But if it is valuable then starts the hard part of figuring out if it is worth the programming acrobatics to implement it.
Many many years ago I built Quake 3D model editors. One of the features added in was being able to paint on the 3D model and have it update the original texture. The ability to make little tweaks to texture in-situ was really valuable to fine tune the art asset.
When I watched the video of Stipple Effect, I loved the live output window showing the result of the combined sprites.
The first thing that came to mind was “If I was the artist I would love to draw I the result window and have it update the input sprites for me”
I fully get the challenges with implementing that, but it might be a valuable addition to the workflow, being able to work on the art with one less abstraction level
There are many third party links that you can click on, which does align with the original ethos of the web.
For a small example, when working from home, we want to connect to SMB shares over the vpn, with regular traffic going over the regular LAN interface of the computer. When the same person comes into the main office, just use the LAN. The simplest solution is to teach users to make sure they turn their VPN off when in the office, but that’s a super easy step to forget.
Could Firezone help managing these quality-of-life details for end users?
Asking it to do a summary on a paper or meeting notes I’m mot familiar with, yes the utility is very limited exactly the way you’ve pointed out.
However, asking it to summarise or shorten a paper or meeting notes I’ve been directly involved in - that has enormous utility for me.
It provides me a quick starting point to create summaries, and I get to see if the salient points are addressed, and if not, I get to add them in.
I’m no a fast writer, and often experience writers block, so having a fast way to start is enourmously useful to me.
- overcoming social anxiety in voice or online calls. It doesn’t take very many bullying incidents during childhood to become convinced you have a horrible or weird voice. I can see this being used as a useful tool to make people feel more comfortable by having a different voice
- amateur interactive fiction development. Having your characters have a real voice in a game in response too the players commands is a real need, and being able to record it yourself and be a different character would be a huge enabler of creating something for a solo developer.
- internal HR videos/podcasts. Creating these can be very expensive, needing different persons reading out dialogue could significantly reduce the effort in recording and producing these
- another instrument for music creators. Auto tune is a very common tool for music production for all skill levels, and this could be applied in a very similar way
It no doubt can be used for disingenuous purposes, any technology can. But these can be real life improving tools enabling many people to do things they never thought possible.
The idea of participating in Q&A session in a webinar would be far too confronting and inconceivable for many people, but to be able to do it semi-anonymously with a different voice would eliminate much of the anxiety preventing them
And nice work making SCons faster!! not at easy thing to do at all.
It would be worth to see how they tackles some of the challenges you're looking into.
Blurb from the website:
SCons is an Open Source software construction tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SCons is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software.
In Australia the number of job ads seem to be as high as ever, but advertised salaries (when they do advertise them) are perhaps a fraction lower.
What is it like for people in other regions?
It could be a text description of a fighter or noble wearing coats or armour. And then substitute in different style description of coats and armour depending on the family, class, race or other attributes suitable for the world you're trying to generate.
But playing music over speakers that would interrupt the tranquillity of other people trying to enjoy the quiet and space is very not cool.
To do really nice form layouts in a desktop application, alignment and sizing of labels across the entire form becomes really important to me. Products like Developer Express that have a dedicated form layout work so well for this. And some of the swing layout managers I've used (I can't recall the name, too long ago) make complicated form layouts much more sane than grid, flex and other css layouts.
Those were the days!
To find them a combination of: - Using search engines for "life coach" or "business coach" in your area
- Find people that you respect in your industry, reach out to them over twitter/linkedin/email/whatever, clearly stating you're looking for a coach, and if there is anyone they recommend.
After you find a few, I suggest just trying them out. Book some sessions and see how it goes. I use these criteria:
- Has worked with engineers in the past.
- Is able to clearly articulate boundaries and approach in the first session
- Willingness to test and measure. Understanding and appreciating the lean startup approach essentially.
- Is solution and goal oriented. Spending weeks/months talking about the problem without attempting solutions is a waste of everybodys time.
- With you can quickly develop a shared understanding of what success looks like.
- Can build a rapport with you, and you can build the trust required for total honesty.
In exchange for the free trial the potential customer gives you permission to use it as a demo for others to try out and see how it performs.
And you just asked the big questions - we have only successfully managed to find customers by word of mouth. We get the occasional person who stumbled across GamePlan from a Google search, but that is becoming more and more rare
I built it with a old colleague part time. We were trying to solve our own frustrations with planning, and just kept adding more things. It’s been an enormous amount of fun to do.
I have had a blast building it and it is hard to market - but the people that do stumble across and use it, the visual way of planning really resonates with them.
Can you describe the massive difference it’s made for family?
To me it implies that since the definition of perfection is always changing, you are continually altering course to get closer to where you want to be.
Combined with the other plain text accounting resources, it was the first resource that made everything "click" for me, well, for varying definitions of "click". I often refer back to it when I need to remind myself of things.
One thing on my todo list to expierment with is modelling double entry accounting as a graph, with nodes of the graph an account, and edges of the graph a transaction with the two amounts on the edge.
That's nice and all but the part I'm really interested in experimenting is modelling reconciliation as equivalencies of graphs. I have a separate graph that models the real world bank accounts and flow of cash, and organisational flow of money, and then I have my accounting graph that models all the transactions. For reconciliation I would go "these whole bunch of edges in this graph A are the same as all these other edges in graph B"
I just want to see what falls out the other end...
So in this case "rolling death trap cum molotov cocktail" means a rolling death trap that becomes moltov cocktail, in a rather unpleasant explodey fiery fashion.