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Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:00AM (#49521390)
I had the same urge recently, I got tired of huge RAM use. It looks much less cool, but it suits my needs.

Built a native Spotify player with Rust and GPUI: https://github.com/infomiho/cadence

Re:Backing up Google Drive to a VPS with rclone on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:22AM (#48381755)
Did a thing for myself, wanted to share the process.

My primary motivation was: what if I get locked out of my Google account. Secondary motivation: too lazy to migrate to proper self-hosted Google Drive alternative.

Hey I made the meme in the header https://wasp.sh/blog/2025/04/02/an-introduction-to-database-...

Nice to see it used _twice_ :D

Re:Vibe Engineering on Saturday October 11, 2025 @09:37AM (#45549037)
It works for me and I like the results I'm getting. The results often include callbacks to rules of thumb from the mentioned books - which I find easier to agree with or dismiss when I see the suggestions it made. In a way, it's a framework for me to "communicate" with the LLMs.

I think you should try finding what works for you, maybe even give my ridiculous prompt a go.

Re:Vibe Engineering on Thursday October 09, 2025 @05:53AM (#45525552)
I've been successfully "vibe engineering" with Claude Code for a week now on a side quest at my job. I want the result to be of high enough quality to maybe survive in our codebase long-term, but I don't want to write it myself.

So I've added unit tests, e2e tests, formatting checks to help Claude to self-correct as much as possible. And I make him do a TON of self-review, after each feature I say something like:

> You are a master reviewer, lots of practical experience. Read Clean Code. Great at architecture. Read Effective Typescript as well. What would you comment in a PR review? Type checking MUST PASS, unit tests must PASS, formatting must PASS.

With each review, Claude catches a lot of sub-optimal choices it made which gives me more confidence in the code I get in the end.

Re:Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB on Sunday September 22, 2024 @12:46PM (#41618211)
Missed opportunity: name it Floppy Bird since it fits on a 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Re:Will Figma become an awkward middle ground? on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @06:59PM (#41063095)
Somewhat related: tldraw has amazing demos of generating code from sketches https://x.com/tldraw/status/1814046549522964692
Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:28PM (#39936587)
Every time I write a search query like "best tool for X" or "alternative to X", I use Kagi instead of Google. Because Google results for those kind of queries tend to be SEO optimized articles where the first recommended thing is the advert. Or even worse, I get some sort of spam/scam sites that get paid to shill stuff. I think got conditioned with bad Google results to not do it for those kind of queries.

For all other searches, Google seems good enough.

Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:18AM (#37688521)
Off-topic but:

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Re: on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:12PM (#36978470)
I kept speaking Croatian while I was practicing Spanish and it underatood me. What kind of magic is this? Really cool project!
Re:Smol Developer on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:54AM (#35973217)
Using declarative web frameworks could help with making this more useful https://twitter.com/infomiho/status/1658086265466617858

Show HN: Comics Written and Drawn by AI

Hey, I made a website which outputs daily comics written and drawn by a machine. https://dailyaicomics.comI know it's fun to ask ChatGPT for a joke about X, but I wanted to take a step further by asking it for:1. a comic in three parts 2. to include lines and a title 3. prompts to draw itI'm asking ChatGPT to output JSON with the comic and then I parse it and move it to the next step of the...

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A buddy of mine made the exact same thing a couple of weeks ago https://coverlettergpt.xyz

It's funny how people come up with similar ideas and are able to make them into products quickly with ChatGPT

His is open source if you are interested in how it's done: https://github.com/vincanger/coverlettergpt

Show HN: Phrase Tutor – learn Italian via roulette wheel flashcard selection

Hey people, this is a side-project of mine called Phrase Tutor (https://phrasetutor.com).I whipped it up to help me learn Italian using a method I used way back in high school to faster retain historical facts. It has a pool of 100ish phrases and after you go through them all at least once, it will start prioritising phrases that you had trouble with. This way you are focusing on the toughest...

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Re:Ad block shouldn't break your checkout on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:39AM (#27195192)
I believe that it was an unintentional mistake on TeeSpring's end.

Searching for the dummy function uBlock Origin uses for window.ga https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/src/web_access...

This reveals that this has been in uBlock Origin since 2019.

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