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digitalhobbit

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About digitalhobbit

Ex-Google Senior Engineering Manager. Before that, a decade at startups. Left in late 2025 to build on my own.

Now I mostly build things with AI and write about what I learn, under the GammaVibe name (YouTube, blog, the occasional course). I also make indie desktop apps under Sunset Mesa Software: buy-once, no subscriptions, BYOK or local models, your data stays on your machine.

Interests: TTRPGs, hiking, camping, off-roading.

https://mirkof.com

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    Not sure how I feel about this. I'm a fan of OpenRouter; it's a super convenient way to work with a bunch of different model providers. Good usage tracking etc. as well. If Stripe …

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    OP here. This article is my post-mortem of building a course on agentic engineering. Several important learnings (both around misinterpreting traffic to my eng breakdown as willing…

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    Show HN: Rewire Text – system-wide text transforms with BYOK and local-models

    I just launched Rewire Text, a Windows + macOS tool that transforms text in any app at the press of a hotkey. Sits in the menu bar / system tray until needed. Deterministic transfo…

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    OP here. I originally launched my autononomous startup idea pipeline close to 3 months ago. It's been running smoothly since then, I've learned a lot, and continued to tune it. So …

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    I think it's all up to you what you make of this situation. For context: I've been programming for well over 40 years, and I've worked as a software engineer (or eng manager) for c…

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    Op here. I posted a video where I walk through how I auto-generate audio overviews for my newsletter. I cover generating a script (in my case from a markdown post), selecting voice…

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    Hi HN, OP here. I recently shared the text write-up of my autonomous market research agent. Based on the questions I got about the specific implementation, I recorded a video walkt…

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    Hi HN, OP here. This project started on a whim a few months ago. I was curious if it was possible to automate ideation by feeding raw news into an LLM and getting coherent, viable …

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    Wildfire is hiring Ruby developers as well. Would love to chat with you about this. Apply here: http://wildfireapp.jobscore.com/jobs/wildfireapp/ruby-develo...

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    Glad I was able to provide a good starting point. :) It's fun technology to play with, and TweetStream makes the actual filtering amazingly easy. Good luck with your project!

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    Really hope he's ok...