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In PasClaw, I specifically built it to do local embedding and other local only functionality. Whether it works well or not yet is another story.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:35PM (#50237510)
Look up the Pocket 386.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:01PM (#49929142)
Location: SoCal

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Python, Delphi, AI agent harnesses, GPU clouds, Replicate, Runpod, Lovable, Claude Code, LORAs

Résumé/CV and contact: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/elim9

26+ year software architect and cofounder. Freelance.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:19AM (#49691938)
Https://www.pulado.com/

Built this 18 years ago. Flash arcade game engine. 10,000+ games built by users on it. 2+ million plays. Lets you build mashups of classic arcade rules like Breakout+Space Invaders as one example.

It's been unplayable since Adobe killed off Flash. It uses a lot of dynamically loaded remote assests so Ruffle hasn't been able to run it.

Recently had Claude Code fix the Flash client so it would work in Ruffle and then had it convert the code to haxe (let's call the haxe version v2). It was an interesting conversion because Claude made a lot of wrong assumptions about how the engine worked so had to have it test every feature and match parity between the ActionScript version and the haxe version numberous times and play test it all. It's pretty close to parity now but still ironing out kinks in the engine. The existing engine art is very 2010esq.

On the game editor side converted it (it just re-wrote it) from ASP into JS. Now with an AI agent to help configure the settings and generate fresh artwork in additional to the manual editor.

The art has some very specific rules about orientation etc which the pixel art generation models seem to struggle with a bit but getting that aligned as well.

It lives again!

Same, I want to bench PasClaw on it.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:55PM (#49237071)
Orchestrating an AI agent built in native Object Pascal for Free Pascal Compiler and Delphi. Runs in less than 10MB of RAM. Besides being very Windows forward and local first; doing some fun things with it like incorporating WebLLM and running it in the browser inside a WASM Linux.

Https://pasclaw.dev/

Re:Use Boring Languages with LLMs on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:10PM (#48287286)
I use it with Delphi. Claude Code with Opus 4.7 works fine. It can use FPC in Delphi mode so that it can test itself. I'm doing greenfield and not an old project though.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025) on Friday January 03, 2025 @12:48AM (#42582903)
SEEKING WORK - 26+ year Software Architect - Remote - US Full stack developer, growth hacker, and serial entrepreneur for a variety of projects involving tens of millions of visitors. Jack of all trades software developer and strategist for AI, the web, mobile, and desktop. Core competency lies in faster time to market by modifying existing technology to get the job done now instead of later.

Recently working with Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, Flux, Dreambooth, LORAs, Diffusers, Replicate, Suno AI, Controlnet, GANs, A1111, Python, PHP, Runpod custom GPU clouds (H100 NVLs, A40s, 4090s, A5000s, A6000 ADAs), HTMX, Open AI APIs, AI video, and more. 70+ million AI photos delivered. Hundreds of thousands of fine-tunes trained. 1000+ AI songs generated.

Contact via Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/fl/~015a0a19afc2593d77

Github: https://github.com/FMXExpress/

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2024) on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:22PM (#42301463)
SEEKING WORK - 26+ year Software Architect - Remote - US

Full stack developer, growth hacker, and serial entrepreneur for a variety of projects involving tens of millions of visitors. Jack of all trades software developer and strategist for AI, the web, mobile, and desktop. Core competency lies in faster time to market by modifying existing technology to get the job done now instead of later.

Recently working with Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, Flux, Dreambooth, LORAs, Diffusers, Replicate, Suno AI, Controlnet, GANs, A1111, Python, PHP, Runpod custom GPU clouds (H100 NVLs, A40s, 4090s, A5000s, A6000 ADAs), HTMX, Open AI APIs, AI video, and more. 70+ million AI photos delivered. Hundreds of thousands of fine-tunes trained. 1000+ AI songs generated.

Contact via Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/fl/~015a0a19afc2593d77

Github: https://github.com/FMXExpress/

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024) on Friday November 01, 2024 @08:08PM (#42022885)
SEEKING WORK - AI Solutions Architect - Remote - US

Full stack developer (26+ years), growth hacker, and serial entrepreneur for a variety of projects involving tens of millions of visitors. Jack of all trades software developer and strategist for AI, the web, mobile, and desktop. Core competency lies in faster time to market by modifying existing technology to get the job done now instead of later.

Recently working with Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, Flux, Dreambooth, LORAs, Diffusers, Replicate, Controlnet, GANs, A1111, Python, PHP, custom GPU clouds (H100 NVLs, A40s, 4090s, A5000s, A6000 ADAs), HTMX, Open AI APIs, Runway ML video, and more. 70+ million AI photos delivered.

Hire me via Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/fl/~015a0a19afc2593d77

Github: https://github.com/FMXExpress/

Re:How well can LLMs write COBOL? on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:51PM (#39886358)
Try feeding it 8 pages of examples first? Something like this https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Advanced%206502%20A...
Re:Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself? on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @11:35AM (#38773238)
So many things...

- Write complex SQL queries

- Write Python GUI apps

- Write songs, heikus, and Christmas rhymes

- Write Delphi Object Pascal functions

- Write PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS code

- Create SVG files and ASCII art

- Find bugs in PHP code, Kotlin code, and HTML syntax

- Create HTML/CSS layouts

- Write SEO outlines and blog posts

- Write synopsis of a potential fictional novel

- Write titles for user content in an AI mobile app

- Create UI layouts for Delphi Object Pascal

- Create strategic marketing plans for clients

- Create recipies for a list of ingredients

- Write bash scripts, PHP CLI commands, WinSCP CLI commands

- Write haproxy and Dockerfile configs

- Orchestrated a 70 server CPU/GPU cloud in programming languages I don't know

- Write Python Stable Diffusion image model pipeline code with Diffusers and PyTorch

- Researching romance novel tropes, driveway maintenence, eminent domain, Waldorf, treasury bonds

- Writing professional sounding emails

- Text summarization and analysis

- Stock and real estate data summarization and analysis

- Psuedo scaling algorithms

- Marketing copy

- Code conversion between languages (like C# to Delphi)

- Cost comparisons between signing a Cloudflare enterprise contract and not over 12 months

- Naming a novel brainstorming

and many many other things. A huge productivity multiplier. It's like having 1000 domain experts and junior devs on tap 24/7 that you don't have to hire off Upwork. Also have to be able to recognize when it produces trash.

Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:53PM (#37218073)
It does. The FMX framework compiles to Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows. Single codebase single UI.
The pricing or lack there of is a huge turn off. We use Replicate and Runpod. On Replicate everyone just shares the GPU cloud. On Runpod I had to bundle 8 together into my own cloud but I can't see that this service solves my problems (queueing image generation and restarting jacked stable diffusion nodes).
Re:WordPress Turns 20 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:25PM (#36110289)
Love Wordpress. We've made millions of dollars with it.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2023) on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:31PM (#35430855)
SEEKING WORK | USA | Remote

25+ year full stack software architect. Currently working with Stable Diffusion, Dreambooth, and Replicate. Exploring LLMs and the GPTs.

Prefer PHP, Wordpress, and Delphi for Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS.

Can build almost any MVP with $10k and a month.

Fmx at peacekeeper.com

I'm a full stack contractor. Been following generative AI since late last year. Picked up an AI startup gig in early January. Launched a couple weeks ago. Building out the client, API, server, and orchestrating the AI image generation pipeline plus Dreambooth. Choosing an AI GPU provider (or 3), solving prompt issues, figuring out model settings, making sure it can scale. A lot of the models are all comoditized on providers like Replicate which makes it like any other API based project. AI knowledge is still very useful to know what settings to use with the models though.
Building an MVP right now. Digital Ocean but may switch to Linode. LAMP. Wordpress for web and the API. Delphi for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux clients. Stable Diffusion.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023) on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:03PM (#34222915)
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA

Remote: Only. Contract only.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Delphi, PHP, Javascript, SQL

Résumé/CV: on request

Email: fmx (at) peacekeeper.com

25+ years as a software architect and entrepreneur. Jack of all trades. Delivered content and technology to 250 million people in the last 12 years.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:39PM (#33427181)
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA

Remote: Only. Also contract only.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: SEMrush, Ahrefs, Jasper.ai, SurferSEO, Stable Diffusion, Screpy, Wordpress, Google Ads, Upwork, Delphi, PHP

Résumé/CV: on request

Email: fmx (at) peacekeeper.com

Interested in content marketing strategy and generative AI right now but 25+ years as a software developer and entrepeneur.

Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:40AM (#29531039)
It isn't difficult. Just use Delphi. 26+ years of unbroken excellence building using Win32. And now Microsoft is saying that going forward they are back to promoting Win32 as the best way.
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Borland? on Saturday December 11, 2021 @02:40AM (#29519264)
Embarcadero sponsored its upgrade to support Windows 10/8/7.

https://github.com/Embarcadero/Dev-Cpp

Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Borland? on Saturday December 11, 2021 @02:30AM (#29519233)
Delphi still exists and you can still do it in Delphi. Responsive. Cross-platform on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux. Single codebase single UI.
UpWork has 20,000+ hourly project listings that are US only and listed as less than 30 hours a week.
I searched for an option for make to do a command line file like this but didn't see one so struck out.
Yes, it could be as simple as having Dev-C++ run a build every time a file is saved. Currently it does not do this. Remember, Dev-C++ didn't have -j support at all until I added it. TwineCompile does do this (background compile). Therefore the IDE is providing this functionality and has nothing really do to with make or the compiler.

TwineCompile is not a plugin wrapping the -j flag. It is a separate thing entirely unique to C++Builder. It does offer integration with MSBuild though.

The second part of that was the fall off. With the 1 million size files it only ever used half of the cores and each successive round of core compiles it would use even less cores. TwineCompile didn't seem to have that problem but this post was not about TwineCompile vs. MAKE -j so I did not investigate this farther.

I was expecting MAKE/GCC to blow me away and use all 64 cores full bore until complete and it did not do this.

My theory is that programmers love complexity and gravitate to more and more complex things over time. If something is complex and never complete your job is assured to be there tomorrow. C++ has a performance advantage but Java and C# do not.
The latest version of Delphi compiles 1 billion lines of code in 5 minutes on a 16 core 5950X and 2 minutes on a 64 core 3990X.

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