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Just posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466

https://openlibrary.org/volunteer is the general page but I'm assuming you want the technical stuff so https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/C...

I'm a very active volunteer and can always use the help of folks that have tech experience already. We get lots of student volunteers that require a lot of work to shepherd. As such, issues tend to be claimed pretty fast but also medium sized ones don't always get through the finish line.

Anyway, if you're seriously willing to commit some time you can tag me on their slack/github (@raybb). I'm currently doing a lot of performance related work (primarily migrating their codebase to fastapi) and I could use help but don't always open issues for it because sometimes guiding a non-experienced person is more work than just doing it.

There's also quite some design work going on to move things into the modern age and more reliable. One small thing that comes to mind is getting rid of jquery where it's used casually (not where a library depends on it). We have a few files like that.

Happy to chat more with anyone who is seriously willing to spend time to tackle medium sized issues with a few rounds of feedback!

Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.

Do any of the apps support taking actions as you talk without having to hit stop?

Like telling it to edit the text or remove a word.

Would also like to know how it compares to https://github.com/openwhispr/openwhispr

I like that openwhisper lets me do on device and set a remote provider.

I had been using Hidden Bar but gonna give Thaw a shot now. Looks a bit more full featured and under active development!

https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

This is pretty because Grist can react to changes in your data automatically, sending emails or firing webhooks. I only recently learned about grist and have been playing with it a bit in the hosted version. Thinking of adding it to my list of applications to run soon. Do people prefer something else?

Seems like something DOGE should have tackled early if they actually cared about making the government effecient. I guess making the lives of the disabled easier isn't flashy enough.

A paper came out about this recently: The City as an Anti- Growth Machine.

> Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This paper argues that under financialized capitalism, the dynamics have inverted: asset appreciation now outweighs productive investment, and urban land is increasingly treated as a speculative asset.

https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70145

Likely the same for public schools and maybe universities. Having educated folks in your city increases productivity and revenues and incomes.

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time transitioning from tech into urbanism and working on a few projects I care deeply about.

- Urbanism Now - I run https://urbanismnow.com, a weekly newsletter highlighting positive urbanism stories from around the world. It’s been exciting to see it grow and build an audience. I'm thinking of adding a jobs board soon that'll be built in astro.

- Open Library - I’ve been helping the Internet Archive migrate Open Library from web.py to FastAPI, improving performance and making the codebase easier for new contributors to work with.

- Publishing project - I’m also working on a book with Lab of Thought as the publisher, which has been a great opportunity to spend more time working with Typst.

These projects sit at the intersection of technology, cities, and knowledge sharing, exactly where I’m hoping to focus more of my time going forward.

Kinda related, does anyone have a favorite obsidian plugin for AI editing on mobile?

I wanna be able to talk to a document and iterate on it just like chatgpt with canvas but inside obsidian.

I've been digging around and haven't quite found anything to do that.

One potential challenge is I'm not sure how easy it would be to let it do tool calling to edit the document rather than spitting out the whole document each time (with risk of minor changes).

fyi the typepad link in your bio is broken

I have also noticed that it seems pretty common with PWAs so I more or less stopped using them (in the sense of installing them).

Only extension is ublock origin and most of the settings are default.

This UI is great but do you get this horrible thing where sometimes the browser is shows a white screen and you have to force stop the app? Happens all the time on the latest version for my Pixel 9a. And did on my Pixel 7 too before. It's really horrible and I can't pin down any rhythm or reason other than loosely seeming to happen more often when I'm in battery saver mode.

Linkwarden is awesome and with the singlefile extension it's pretty easy to store things you can see but the scraper gets blocked on.

One question, what's your stance on adding a way to mark articles as read or "archive" them like other apps that are branded a bit more as storing things to read later. You can technically do something similar with tags but it's a bit clunky of a UX.

OpenRouter is pretty great but I think litellm does a very good job and it's not a platform middle man, just a python library. That being said, I have tried it with the deep think models.

https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/

Did you consider adding cron jobs or similar or just sticking to the heartbeat? I ask because the cron system on openclaw feels very complex and unreliable.

Seems to be fixed now

How do you deal with context management?

What are you doing for storage? Markdown files for each day or something?

Sounds great!

Yeah it's a little weird how the token usage is so high after just a few prompts.

I'm also using it with the z.ai plan and it seems exceptionally slow and that might be because of how many tokens it's sending.

That being said, one I got speech to text setup that did work decently.

Also, scheduling a reminder with it wasn't successful. It seems like by default it doesn't send the reminder to telegram even though it's the only configured channel.

Seems like there might be enough coverage that Nova Launcher is ready for a Wikipedia article now. Previously it was deleted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Launcher

Do you know if this, or any other launcher for that matter, works well on the latest Android for Pixels? Ever dang launcher I try (Nova included) has this horrible problem where at some point during the day the app launcher becomes a wasteland of blanked out apps with no names and no order. Only fix is to restart the phone. It got a little better with Android 16 but not much.

What would that look like? I'm thinking of starting with eBay which I know is available internationally but not sure how popular it is.

I've been thinking of creating a website to make it much easier to search for used thinkpads and sort by various specs. There used to be a similar website like it for servers that's long shut down.

I am in Mexico City and I learned quite a bit about Santa Muerte. Hard to know how much truth there is in what the locals tell me but supposedly people who live in such dire conditions they feel closer to death than to life pary to Our Lady of Holy Death for protection.

Wikipedia says it is the fastest growing religion in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Muerte

What a cool project and I really appreciate the way you are emphasizing the foss nature of it.

Have you had any luck using vector maps? I know for the web SDKs, vector maps are finally getting some love for OpenStreetMap, but I'm not sure what the situation is on Android or if something like https://openfreemap.org/ can be used.

Please reply back here when you do publish the the blog post. I'd love to read it.

Why did you make a native app instead of PWA? Because of push notifications or just ease of development?

Also, would be nice to add some screenshots of the web UI.

Looks like a nice little app!