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What did you use for visualizing at the top, webgl?

I’m making an iOS app [1] that allows you to track and analyze your life. It’s all local to your device and was created to help me learn more about myself and my habits. [1] https:…

now to decode the blog post’s hidden message

Thank you for writing this up, it was great to see all of the comparisons. Very well put together!

My experience is that it is much more terse and realistic with its feedback, and more thoughtful generally. I trust its positive acknowledgements of my work more than claude, whose…

I’m surprised there was no mention of operational CRDT’s, or CRDT’s generally.

The language you use to describe this is fun, I make an app for self tracking called Reflect and would love your opinion of it, even if it doesnt suit your needs exactly. https://a…

If anyone is interested in doing this sort of thing themselves, I make an iPhone app called Reflect meant for this exact purpose https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anythin…

o4-mini-high got it on my first try after 9 seconds

Is installing Rust any different? https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

Isn’t this an NP hard problem?

I’ve worked in robotics before. Since you mentioned backend I think getting familiar with ROS and LCM and other middleware would be helpful to you. If you have spare time, you coul…

I think in the workplace this is true, and a bummer, because the workplace demands the benefits that AI augmented programming offers. As a hobby, though, like music, the need for p…

I think AI is posing a challenge to people like the person in TFA because programming is their hobby and one that they’re good at. They aren’t used to knowing someone or something …

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

This is a nice compilation of the work, it was great to see in one place

Great job, thanks for breaking it down the way you did

This sounds amazingly cool, would love to read about the process after you’re done if you have an intention to write about it.

If anyone wants a tool to show you this analysis automatically, I make an app that links with Whoop and Oura and Apple Health and it shows you all of those relationships: https://a…

An app called Reflect to run self experiments, to prove your new habit or supplement is doing what you want, or to get to the bottom of what relationship your mood has with your li…

Thanks! I’m in a very similar situation as far as simplicity goes. This conversation has helped me in finishing my latest article: https://aneksteind.github.io/posts/2025-03-26

Thanks for the reminder. I feel the same way about not playing the game. Moreso than wanting to drive the numbers up, which is not the goal, I like sharing things and want to at le…

Do you have any advice for someone like me, who has about 5 long form article ideas but would like to just get stuff out there? For example, I want to blog about matrix profiles be…