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Posted by
iamjk on Friday October 17, 2025 @12:18AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/after-ephemera/playbot
Playbot is a Rust CLI + TUI that reads the currently playing track from your local Spotify desktop app and displays lyrics, artist info, album details and more — no Spotify or Genius API keys required. It caches results in a local SQLite DB for fast lookups and includes an interactive browser for searching your library. macOS only. Install with cargo build --release and run ./target/release/pb....
plot twist: they leave it up, collect telemetry to match and understand the data behind pirating vs. owned emulation, find it useful to open the platform, focus on services, and build their business to 10x on software almost exclusively
not probable, but that would be interesting to see
imo this is the biggest thing deno and bun have going for them. running typescript from the shell is so nice and easy
Finally a competitor to dbt. the world needs this!
Privacy, longevity, nutrition science, trust, deep space exploration.
Posted by
iamjk on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.
It seems like it's hard to cut through all of the SaaS companies to find jobs in deep tech (innovative companies inventing new technology). Is there a job board out there for this kind of thing?
I mean I get why everyone wants everything to be fuse-compatible but some things just aren't meant to be done.
Posted by
iamjk on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:16AM
from the virtualface.app dept.
> Python’s standard library sucks
Maybe for production ready microservices, but I've always thought Python's std lib was pretty expansive.
I mean, is anyone really surprised by this? LLMs (as I understand them today) only predict the next token based on previous tokens, so there's no actual logical cohesion to what they produce.
Posted by
iamjk on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:24PM
from the twitter.com dept.
Hey everyone, Jk here. I cofounded Jetty Labs to build data tools. The tl;dr here is that data teams use a lot of tools and understanding how access is configured across the growing stack is complex and exhausting.
Jetty is a tiny peek at our broader vision of simplifying data privacy and we'd love you to give it a try and offer any feedback on the product.
Posted by
iamjk on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:59PM
from the docs.get-jetty.com dept.
I won't be surprised if DE ends up just falling under the "software engineering" umbrella as the jobs grow closer together. With hybrid OLAP/OLTP databases becoming more popular, the skillset delta is definitely smaller than it used to be. Data Engineers are higher leverage assets to an organization than they ever have been before.
Someone fix the grammar on that last statement!
"We're don't view ourselves in competition with Meta"
I love this book! There is a lot of abstraction today that most software workers benefit from, but I think there is a lot of value in understanding lower-level mechanisms.
Isn't this... what everyone (that uses in-app browsers) does? I just assumed that's a big reason why one would use in-app over sending a person to their native environment, which is decidedly a better browsing experience.
Posted by
iamjk on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:15AM
from the old.reddit.com dept.
The concept seems cool and the price seems reasonable if the quality is high. But how does this translate to value for subscribers? It seems like the company is treating curation as the core value prop but I see it as more of a means to some end.
Their podcast, "On the Metal" provides more context at the work they're aiming to accomplish.
> Computer Systems: A Programmer's Persepctive
Can vouch for this one. Provides a great overview of systems through the lens of algorithms they are built on.
Shirer has a shorter book called The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler that was concise and clear. I look forward to reading this longer iteration on the same topic too.
Posted by
iamjk on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @11:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.
You'd think he would have found someone to design a nicer cover for him.
What's the company you work for?
Props to you, putzdown, for bringing this up. The Bible is an often overlooked trove of wisdom
Completely agree on this one. Almost every conversation I have over religion or politics brings to mind the lessons I learned from The Righteous Mind.
Posted by
iamjk on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:24PM
from the jkjensen.me dept.
Posted by
iamjk on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:14PM
from the jkjensen.me dept.