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Re:Show HN: Strava for Cooking on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @11:32PM (#44666599)
Had not heard of it, thanks for sharing! I tend to think it’s good to follow one’s muse and make something useful for oneself and friends rather than over focus on “competitors”

I took this approach for my last two projects (Water Cooler Trivia and Twofer Goofer) and ultimately was able to scale and sell both with a lot of elbow grease!

Show HN: Strava for Cooking

https://www.stravaforcooking.com/

I love the niche social media of Strava. Use it as a personal log of your own exercise and/or a light-touch way to keep track of friends lives. Cooking is something we do 3+ times per week like exercise so I built this. I wrote 0 lines of code (not a programmer, just a lowly PM) and graduated form lovable to cursor to Claude code. All feedback welcome :)

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Re:Eclipse October 2023 on Friday October 20, 2023 @01:39PM (#37959146)
When's the next one? How big does an eclipse need to be to start wreaking havoc on the grid? Or is that a "never" situation still?
Re:Twofer Goofers Found in the Wild on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:38PM (#37332181)
Twofer Goofers are pairs of rhyming words. Here's some found in the real world.
Re:Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? on Sunday March 26, 2023 @11:32AM (#35315530)
Ethan has been an excellent source for keeping up with the advances in AI on his twitter account, through the lens of both academia (he's a professor) and "industry" (he professors in an MBA program).

I recommend him as a follow: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1636454151272931337

Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:41AM (#35258396)
Fair! But if I wrote Twofer Goofer in the title it would not resonate at at all. Alas, tradeoffs.
Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:40AM (#35258385)
In the article, I mention that Twofer Goofer requires perfect or strict rhyme. Perfect and strict rhyme require that all syllables are pronounced identically in the speaker's tongue (for me, American Midwest accent), except for the first sound of the word which can vary.

Hence pooh-teen and proh-tein do not rhyme. Skell-ih-tin and Gell-ih-tin do rhyme.

A game like this requires a pretty tight rhyming definition to not annoy players in a given day!

Thanks for reading: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/perfect-vs-imperfect-rh...

Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:36AM (#35258352)
Hah - we only made the blog over the weekend and don't have any nav or menu for now. But yep we link the prior article a few times in this article, that article goes into more detail!
Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:35AM (#35258345)
I tried it both ways; with individual prompts and prompts in bulk. I ran both tests the same way. There's a tradeoff in writing a legible/interesting blog post and relating step-by-step the way the evaluation was ran! Appreciate you reading and the feedback :)
Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:33AM (#35258331)
From Chicago ... and with more than a thousand solves on that puzzle we've never received a single complaint about the rhyme on that one (plus the stats say users find it an extremely easy rhyme to solve)! Curious how you pronounce that one such that they don't rhyme?
Re:Can GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 play Wordle? on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:40PM (#35242294)
Hah - very similar to this post earlier today: https://twofergoofer.com/blog/gpt-4
twofergoofer.com - just a fun daily word game. no monetizing, no plans to monetize. wanted a new "daily brain game" for my grandma's arsenal and have had fun making a celebratory piece of art with midjourney each day.
Re:Interior AI autofills photo of room with CG furniture/art on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:45PM (#33071911)
Love it! More and more consumer-friendly tools using SD/Midjourney/DALLE where it just "feels like magic" is so exciting, like twofergoofer.com and other games sprouting up.
Re:Harrison Bergeron (1961) on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:33AM (#32995739)
The ~25 minute short film titled 2081 of this story is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVHgpCnBmk
This is fixed :)

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