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That's what led me to make https://slopsift.dev/editor/

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SlopSift uses NLP-backed lint rules. It goes beyond word lists and part-of-speech tags by matching relationships in a dependency graph. Though it still includes a few word-based ru…

What would be fun if we can rewrite the Claude responses, as if we had edited them. So the next message goes back with the updated text tricking the model into believing that it ha…

https://writinglint.nikhilv.workers.dev/ Most text linters rely on simple POS tagging or regex, I've been working on this tool that allows one to use the dependency graph of a sent…

I have a Canon printer, I actually can't trust that their print nozzle won't get jammed up after sitting idle for a while. So I had claude setup a systemd script to print a picture…

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I've been actively using Vue for my official and personal projects for over 6 years now. While SFC was great it's quickly becoming a pain. It requires custom Volar plugins. It does…

I was thinking of a Chrome plugin to enable this, I think plugins can make arbitrary API calls.

Being able to run docker containers on the web will immediately unlock so many usecases for my work! Right now I've been trying to get a Python sentence parser to run in the browse…

A similar thing has happened with Twitter. After the Musk takeover and the removal of SMS for auth something has changed they keys of the 2FA authenticator. My old keys don't work …

I wonder what the astrologers have to say about this

This is absolutely wonderful, I am a HUGE fan of local first apps. Running models locally is such a powerful thing I wish more companies could leverage it to build smarter apps whi…

How do you manage token limits when sending large amounts of code structure to OpenAI?

I remember vividly when going out with my family in the year 2000. There used to be a stretch of road filled with vultures. Then a few years later they just stopped existing. I hav…

I wrote about my frustrations with modern day XPaths here - https://dev.to/nikhilverma/xpaths-in-the-modern-age-1gah

I've been programming professionally close to 16 years. Here is what I can remember of my code: # Job 1 (3 yrs) - Worked on around three products, all shut down, code probably live…

Recently my org decided to disallow sudo/admin access to all employees on their laptops. So basic things like updating the OS, updating VSCode need to go through an approval proces…

I see Frameworks as another layer of abstraction, just like programming languages. And they have the same pros/cons that comes with abstractions.

So much fun! It'll be nicer to highlight the paths which are "available" given the criteria. It could be only enabled when you start dragging an entity

I am curious why they manually split the video to compress individual clips with different bit rates. Encoders usually have a variable-bit-rate option that does the same?

My first PR ever was in Firebug :) https://firstpr.me/#NikhilVerma Loved that software and it truly kindled the frontend developer inside me.

I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowi…

I had a general guidelines in my previous company which I follow to this day to great results. If a piece of code is duplicated thrice, it's ok. If a piece code is duplicated four …