jamescampbell
Re:Show HN: Trailward – Learn anything in 90-second micro-sessions
on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:25AM (#46797471)
This kind of reminds me of 6 minute abs vs. 7. Can't you make them 60 seconds vs. 90? lol. In all seriousness, it is in the category of Readwise for me where I do use it daily for quotes and tidbits of text that I want to remember and retain. Looks great.
Re:Show HN: Kaboink Humanize and Stay on Brand
on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:17AM (#46792479)
Soft launching this today. Humanize AI created text.
Re:Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:40AM (#46753200)
If you run say ollama in docker vs native you lose MPS (metal core like the way CUDA works but Mac) which is really a deal breaker to do any AI work via docker for doing things with local models, which is my use case to have a full fast VM inside my mac.
Re:Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:36AM (#46753184)
I already use UTM and make a gold standard image that I setup once as beginning state snapshot. What am I missing here? This seems like it would take longer and more brittle to do the same thing? I also configure RAM, HD size, and CPU as well as networking and shared drives.
Show HN: LTXMac a native Mac app to do text to video generation
https://james-see.github.io/ltx-video-mac/
LTX Video Generator is a beautiful, native macOS application built with SwiftUI. It harnesses the power of Apple Silicon to generate AI videos directly on your Mac using the LTX-Video model from Lightricks.Key Features Apple Silicon Optimized - Leverages Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) for fast GPU-accelerated generation Intuitive Interface - Clean, native macOS design that feels right at...
Show HN: Swatchme – client side only JavaScript color grabber from images
https://www.npmjs.com/package/swatchme
Extract dominant colors from images using k-means clustering — browser-only, zero dependencies. Related to swatchify and in the same mono repo, the command line tool version of this as well.
Show HN: Gofindadomain super duper fast domain checker
https://james-see.github.io/gofindadomain/
Launch an interactive terminal UI where you can:Enter keywords Select TLDs from a list See results in real-time Filter to show only available domainsbrew install james-see/tap/gofindadomain
Show HN: Swatchify – CLI to get a color palette from an image
https://james-see.github.io/swatchify/
A fast, cross-platform CLI tool that extracts dominant colors from images using k-means clustering.
Show HN: WeatherOrNot a maximal weather app in the terminal
https://james-see.github.io/weatherornot/
A RETRO TERMINAL WEATHER EXPERIENCE
Re:Show HN: Unicorn – Text-Based VC Investment Adventure
on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:27PM (#45775755)
I hadn't updated this since 2019. Future state will probably give you more money to invest, like $500k or $1m or unlock bigger funding as your firm grows across rounds of gameplay. It stores leaderboard data in a local sqlite to track and lookup users and stats across games.
Show HN: Unicorn – Text-Based VC Investment Adventure
https://james-see.github.io/unicorn/
Start as a VC with $250,000 and invest in 20 different startups over 10 years (120 turns). Make strategic decisions, diversify your portfolio, and try to find the next unicorn! Will you become a Legendary Investor or lose it all?
Show HN: Beatstoch – BPM-aware stochastic drum MIDI generator
https://james-see.github.io/beatstoch/
Create dynamic, probabilistic drum patterns that adapt to any song's BPM. You can run it as a cli or import in as a library in your python code as part of a music generation pipeline.
Show HN: Pngmeta – a Python library to edit metadata in PNGs
https://james-see.github.io/pngmeta/
Read and write PNG text chunks, XMP, and metadata with ease. Follows the same pattern as iptcinfo3 that I also maintain.
Show HN: Elector – A lightwight Tor browser in Electron
https://github.com/james-see/elector
Version 2.0 - Now using modern Electron with enhanced security features!WHY?: "A super lightweight Tor-connected browser built with modern web technologies."Elector is a simple browser that auto-connects to your local Tor service. If you're running Tor via homebrew on macOS, this app works out of the box. For other setups, you may need to configure your torrc file.
Re:Show HN: YNOT – Free, Open-Source YouTube Downloader
on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:58PM (#45466477)
I haven't done much market research, but I will check it out. I was focused on building it fast and getting it out there.
Re:Show HN: YNOT – Free, Open-Source YouTube Downloader
on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:57PM (#45466465)
I firmly believe tools like yt-dlp should not be wrapped as PAID things. Tools like that should be free for all to use.
Re:Show HN: YNOT – Free, Open-Source YouTube Downloader
on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:56PM (#45466448)
I was thinking of adding some github issues for features. Another one would be downloading the transcript file (which is easy to grab btw).
Re:Show HN: YNOT – Free, Open-Source YouTube Downloader
on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:56PM (#45466442)
Thank you for the feedback.
Re:Show HN: YNOT – Free, Open-Source YouTube Downloader
on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:56PM (#45466435)
It was a challenge on X. A person was making a PAID desktop app and I said Ill make an open source one in a day. So I did. :shrug:
Show HN: YNOT – Free, Open-Source YouTube Downloader
https://james-see.github.io/ynot/
Hey HN! I built YNOT, a simple cross-platform YouTube downloader with a GUI.It's powered by yt-dlp and completely free/open-source (WTFPL license).Key features: - Simple GUI - just paste URL and download - Downloads HD/4K videos - Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux) - No ads, no tracking, completely private - Lightweight and fastGitHub: https://github.com/james-see/ynotI'd love to hear your...
Re:Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not fo...
on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:58PM (#35310739)
I thought Scrivener as well. Happy customer for a long time.
Re:Show HN: Morgan – PyPI Mirror for Restricted/Offline Environments
on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:32PM (#32956103)
Came here to say this. I run private pypi repositories for this use case and it works fine. Ive had to thumbdrive over all of our dependancies from the wheels etc. A single bash script that runs all the checks and downloads and zips to the offline environment then use your pip install like normal with the login creds to your offline pypi registry.
Re:Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @07:48AM (#32494980)
My Mac OS bootstrap script to setup any new Mac from scratch. It includes niceties like moving the default screenshots from the Desktop to a more sane location, setting full disk encryption, and setting up privoxy & dnscrypt out if the box. https://github.com/james-see/fresh-mac
Re:Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:48PM (#32432136)
Super cool. TIL.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:47PM (#32432120)
Hard agree here. Stopped taking scraping projects because the sites always change. No matter how general you design it.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:44PM (#32432087)
Badass as always Simon. I prefer my custom cloudflare killer chrome headless python code. But this is cool for quick things.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:41PM (#32432060)
I have a codebase that defeats cloudflare protection. Felt like I had keys to kingdom.
Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
on Sunday June 26, 2022 @09:04PM (#31889566)
Second that with logitech cam on macbook pro works fine no lag issues.
Re:Greedy phone number parser regex Python function gist
on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:11PM (#30002919)
Passed all my tests for phone number variations including international notation, spaces, and parentheses. Welcome feedback and comments. This handled my use case for text parsing of phone numbers.