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Purely anecdotal, but I experimented with getting rid of my phone entirely for 6 months (using VoIP on my laptop for calls and text), which meant I had to plan my route ahead of ti…

I started building this to learn Afrikaans which has sparse support on language learning apps. It was costing me roughly $50 per month to do my preferred learning routine. The LLM …

"make it secure, make no mistake"

uThermal has been documenting in shorts the myriad game breaking bugs introduced into StarCraft 2 in recent patches. The game was super stable for 15 years and now you can load 8 s…

They've already burned at least $15bn on that disastrous Snowy Hydro "battery" project... Could've just rolled out consumer batteries on a large scale instead.

How does it compare cost-wise for you?

Good point. Age and obesity are the strongest correlates with low testosterone. Increases in sedentary lifestyles probably aren't helpful either, but not clear if that is anything …

My little hamlet is 40km (~25 miles) from the nearest established town and it’s nothing but state forest between so it will never be economical to run fibre. The typical solution i…

My Ducky Zero keyboard has outlived several laptops in the last 10 years of abuse and it’s nice and portable. You can swap the switches when they die. I see this as a far better so…

It’s the food equivalent of declaring bankruptcy. If you don’t fix the behaviours you’ll just end up in debt again.

This is awesome! I’ll be lurking for new data sources. I’m working on a self-hosted language app more focused around cloze and sentence mining into Anki. I love seeing more stuff h…

It’s great to see more stuff like this. Thank you for your contribution

Maybe I'll try out a month on the usage plan and see how it compares dollar for dollar. I think I'm squeezing about as much as I can out of Anthropic under the plan

Fair. If you trust the stats on Codeburn I've used $6k USD of tokens in the last month with Claude as a very heavy user, so our situations may differ

No problemo! I built almost the same app just with a web interface because I couldn't sell my tech illiterate fiancé on a TUI app. I'd have used micasa if I was rolling solo

Maybe there's a conversation to be had about how much is enough... Unless something beyond my imagination happened, I would be happy enough with Opus 4.5 levels of productivity

I’ll play around and see if it works with reduced permissions. I understand your concern. FWIW there’s no outgoing network requests or telemetry, nor logging. Thanks for checking i…

I originally intended for it to bind to the Hyperkey bind but had trouble getting it to play nice with existing binds. Any ideas of other key binds that might work? It occupies a l…

Is there even an option in the Android space that isn't entirely filled with Bloatware? I've always hated the Samsung Android skin so I've mostly written off the rest of the market…

I think the Nexus 4 is still my favourite phone I've ever owned. Maybe it represents a period of techno-optimism I had, and how my relationship with phones have changed over the ye…

They rock. I've made a couple which act as proxies for previously web-only activities. e.g. a Github Issue manager app which generates a little kanban board for me locally. The bar…

I got tired of MacOS failing to index applications (it consistently seems to prefer apps installed on my phone instead of the computer) so I've bound them to keys and have started …

It falls under the "social outreach" line item I believe

What is stopping you from switching to GLM 5.2 now? Have you tried it out yet? I'm playing with Deepseek a lot more via OpenRouter recently and the only major downside I can see is…

Thank you! Running phrase translations through an LLM really helps with processing idiomatic phrasing, and also enables quite good output practice. Spoken output practice would be …