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msyea

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About msyea

Climber and Software Engineer. Building apps for Garmin watches so you can leave your phone behind. https://untether.watch

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    Comment #49247878

    My biggest worry is the small talk that you casually have in meetings. Comments about your pattern of life, family, locations, friends and health. Slurping all that up over 100s of…

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    Comment #49203760

    I think this is because all frontier AI providers integrate with GitHub as a default git forge through their GitHub apps platform and their free tier is too generous. They should e…

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    Comment #48895099

    I've been excited about OpenRouter's OAuth 2.0 PKCE flow for backendless BYOK inference. I just updated my Garmin watch AI app ( https://untether.watch/en/apps/byok ) to run the wh…

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    Comment #48487704

    Nice idea. I recently published an article with a different twist. Static Vite+React site but all the backends are via OAuth PKCE and your customers bring their own. https://type2f…

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    Comment #48461411

    Author here. Built some personal apps using OAuth/PKCE for auth, hosted as static sites. OpenRouter adds the AI. No backend, no database, no growing bill, minimal maintenance. I be…

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    Comment #48434410

    For me it was reverse engineering an obsolete travel scanner (should have just taken a photo ) and automating a document workflow. Something I knew was possible but impossible for …

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    Comment #48088244

    I'm currently fighting Garmin's wonderful Connect IQ watch app platform (it's horrendous). I'm working on https://untether.watch >. Trying to shift 20-30 micro phone interactions t…

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    Comment #48088032

    The issue is every AI coding tool integrates as a "GitHub App" (OAuth, PATs, webhooks etc.) first, over other code forges. This load is coming through their 3rd party app integrati…

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    Comment #47150244

    You can make standalone Garmin Wifi Apps for free (you only have to pay if you want to charge). Do note that it's very janky. By default web requests proxy via the phone - if you w…

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    Comment #46967326

    I'm a solo dev working on a suite of Garmin apps in order to make the sportswatch into a fully flung smartwatch, with the intent of enabling you to reduce screentime (mobile) but s…

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    Show HN: Built an AI assistant in MonkeyC for Garmin watches

    Built an AI assistant for Garmin watches in MonkeyC using Connect IQ SDK. BYOK (Gemini API key). MonkeyC is terrible; kind of like ancient Java without the ecosystem. Building for …

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    Comment #45870575

    I’m working a Garmin watch app to query all the rich data on the watch (health, physical, environmental, location sensors) from the watch + general AI assistant. Privacy focused us…

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    Comment #41694813

    Have a look at the Internet Printing Protocol. I built a NodeJS app that pretended to be a printer and could receive real time transactional data from a legacy POS/software. No dri…

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    Comment #20007648

    I recently did the same thing. Hit 30; reflected on last decade. I had moderate success consulting but didn’t get a single product off the ground. Considering the lost potential ea…

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    Comment #15155590

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ breakdown of juicer. So fantastically overengineered. Beautiful.

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    Comment #15040923

    That was my immediate thought. Does anyone know how much these licenses cost?

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    Comment #12777680

    Just borked my 16GB MBP. Never seen the OS X "Your system has run out of application memory." alert. Great game though.