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Love it! Every class of app needs this treatment. No ads, no install, and no fluff. Tools are better when the motivation for them is to be helpful.

https://avi-perl.github.io/dense-printer/ I tend to print a lot of stuff to read while disconnected. This is a tool to help squeeze as much content onto a printed page as possible …

Heads up, I get a 404 on the 30 sec demo link.

I have a box full of film gear and development equipment because, one day, I want to hang a picture of my kids on the wall that I _made_. My photo, on film I developed, printed man…

Only a small anecdote, but I'm 2 projects into telling Claude to "make it look like Google podcasts" and getting satisfactory results. Still smells like llm in parts, but overall i…

I was hanging out on a slack community of developers where I would commonly respond to questions and chat on the channel for Python. Someone there had a friend with AWS costs flyin…

Using my real name severely limits what I can post online. This is helpful with my desire to limit my use of social media.

The best part of GOOG411 was that they would connect you to the phone number, free of charge, across borders. List a business with a Google voice number and you can call in, check …

Thanks for the response! Another note: in the email, it's totally not clear what I'm "approving" which is not really a huge issue. But it might be nice to include the username in t…

This is super neat! Here are some of the things I noticed: My site link of > Avi Perl's personal site! Shows as > Avi Perl's personal site! On the edit page, there's no link to…

On the topic of structured logs, can anyone point me towards where I might learn more about what people have learned over time? I'm new to the world of querying through my logs, bu…

An easy way to do this that I've used is to cache web requests. This way, I can run the part of the code that gets the data again with say a modification to grab data from addition…

https://gist.aviperl.me/ Convert your GitHub Gists into a full featured blog and RSS feed. Example: https://gist.aviperl.me/avi-perl https://gist.aviperl.me/avi-perl/rss By default…

I've been doing more or less this with a small pocket size notebook since October. I admit that I initially fell for the romance of the idea and made an impulse purchase, but start…

If you provide me with your username and the id of a secret gist for configuration, I'll add your username to the list of users to precompile pages and use the full features.

I've been working on blog powered entirely by GitHub Gists. https://gist.aviperl.me/ With zero extra effort, you get a simple blog. With configuration via settings files stored in …

Making something _actually useful_. Creating a to-do app teaches me how to use tools, creating a web scraper that sent me an email when clothing my wife missed the chance to buy wa…

I'm working on a project to create a blog powered entirely by GitHub gists, POC is working but there is lots more to do. https://gist.aviperl.me/ It's an outlet for sharing some sm…

On chrome on a phone, selecting Linear does not work, and after selecting it, no changes are possible. Looks great!

I've particularly enjoyed saving loads of time by having it convert API responses to typescript classes. And once I was done, asking it to write up some functions for the way they …

I have an app that takes 15 minutes to deploy. We use GitHub actions to run the process which includes a build of a next.js site, building containers, creating assets in AWS, insta…