reidjs
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Text message reminders and automation.
Send the service number a text message like "call Dave in 2 hours"
and then in 2 hours you get a text back that says "call Dave"
Open in private beta if you're interested email:
[email protected]
In what world would this be a future burden? It's just a throwaway fun project lol
Posted by
reidjs on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:11AM
from the show-hn dept.
There are free and offline options, like Llama.cpp, but you will have to pay by giving up your privacy to Meta (or similar large companies)
Posted by
reidjs on Friday November 08, 2024 @02:05PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/reidjs/banner-timer
I found myself spending too much on websites like Hacker News, so I made a Google Chrome Extension that shows a simple banner with a timer to make me feel guilty for wasting time here.All data is stored locally on your computer. I am happy to help with installation or configuration if necessary. I hope this helps you spend your time more wisely!
I set up HTMX for a toy project recently, seemed fine to me. I think the philosophy of HTMX is the real selling point, sending structured content instead of passing JSON around. There is an opportunity here to either improve HTMX or build a competitor.
The difference is self harm vs harming others. The distinction is that advertising may convince people who do not gamble to start gambling.
speech interfaces have gotten amazing in certain contexts, especially now that speech to text is decent. Think times when you can't call the person but need to send them a quick message, eg noisy festival or loud bar while you are moving and aren't able to stop to type.
I know that some people even use voice assistants to do things like set timers, reminders, or initiate calls
Perhaps it’s the movies fault for not being interactive or engaging enough
At least it doesn't run windows
Just out of curiosity, what are some of the problems with "Clean Code"? I thought most of it made sense as basic guidelines. It's been a while since I read it though
Oh thank you, not sure if that existed when I first set it up
Hey I do exactly this! Borg into rsync.i know it’s not exactly your domain, but are you guys working on making this flow easier? I found borg difficult to set up, and tbh I don’t really trust my setup long term. All the borg tutorials I found are on random people’s hobby blogs, it would be nice if you had one specific for rsync.net
Either way, Thank you for providing such an affordable service !
Agree, especially for conveying tone, eg, happy, frustration, danger, etc, especially in dialog.
There is an art to using them to enhance a message instead of obscuring it, though.
At my company, we call this a scream test
You're validating that there is a human on the other end, though, that's dangerous.
I like that it requires a small amount of mental energy to perform the 'optimal' play in every situation. The obvious example is doing basic arithmetic to calculate whether you should block more or attack.
At first, the game feels like it's deterministic with sprinkles of randomness, however, at high ascension levels it is the opposite - random chance until you get a broken deck that makes winning trivial. It's a slot machine.
That article will be very meta next time Jimmy Wales' face is plastered over the page asking for wikipedia donations.
Or better yet, have the majority of people vote by mail and make it easier for everyone.
Is there something like leetcode for string manipulation exercises like this?
If anyone else was wondering why this is a physical device
> Why aren’t all these AI gadgets just an app? The answer is actually really simple: phones and tablets don’t allow AI deep system-level access. The iPhone, especially, is a closed platform that Apple wouldn’t allow AI complete access to.
If the text fits within the context window most models are pretty reliable at summarizing texts effectively.
Was also planning on using it for sending happy birthday texts
I like your solution a bit more because it doesn’t require scheduling this script to run on a cron or something. How do you URL encode the message? Could you share the whole shortcut
I tried sending to a non iMessage number, it failed to send, but there may be a way.
I'll edit the readme for clarity
It only works for iMessage texts, unfortunately.
I just built it this morning! I was planning to use it to send myself reminders.
Posted by
reidjs on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:50AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/reidjs/schedule-texts-from-txt
Annoyingly, iPhones don't have a great way to schedule messages. This around 100 lines of python to schedule iMessage texts from .txt files on your computer.If this is useful to you, please give it a try and let me know what you think. Thanks.