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I've been thinking about this very hard problem while walking the dog. Individuals and companies love open source software, but the current donation models don’t really work. I tho…

If you're interested in managing patches you may want to check out quilt: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/quilt.1.html

For long-lived forks when the goal isn't to merge back upstream - I prefer using .diff files + a some scripts to apply them. I couldn't find a tool that was close to my adhoc scrip…

> Is it the prompt that Anthropic has been polishing in Claude code for so long? I think so. The opencode TUI is very good, but whenever I try it again the results are subjectively…

https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/ is a great guide to Nix with Flakes. This was the Nix config that helped it 'click' for me: https://github.com/eh8/chenglab that mentions t…

I've been building Limit, it's an Android app & website blocker that (really!) cannot be bypassed. I'd attempted a bunch of blocking in the past, but kept finding trivial ways to d…

I've had similar issues with Reddit and Youtube. I ended up building https://limitphone.com , it's a blocker for Android which uses MDM so it cannot be bypassed. It comes with a de…

Couldn't agree more! This problem is severe for me, I ended building limitphone.com to lock down my Android phone so that I CANNOT bypass blocked apps (using mdm built-in to Androi…

I've been building Limit Phone. It uses MDM to manage your own Android device and block apps and websites at lower level than most other blockers. It comes with a custom build of f…

Limit Phone Dev here! Yea I get it, I have similar feelings about installing such a privileged app on my phone. You can remove the app (with a delay, so it doesn't defeat the contr…

I've tried all the app / website blockers on iOS and Android to try and help encourage healthy use of my phone - I particularly wanted to stay away from feeds and doom scrolling. I…

I'm building a fork of firefox for android that blocks sites that I find addictive e.g. youtube.com, but allows wildcards: youtube.com/watch?v=* so I can watch an individual video.…

Thanks for the suggestion, I've increased the loop time

We're building on top of Aurora at https://xata.io . Currently our Aurora instances are in private beta. If you're interested in trying it out, drop me an email: richard@xata.io

Totally agree. It feels like we've barely scratched the surface. I'm working on a project where I'm experimenting with pretty obvious things like removing the annoying markdown syn…

I built llm-ui, a UI library to help build a UI similar to ChatGPT. It operates on language model output strings, so works with any language model. Quick features: - Hides partial …

This is really cool, I've been building a site to help build templated recipes with markdown and javascript and I'll definitely be using this when I transcribe recipes! https://pro…

Hi - Glad you liked it! Start with the examples linked above, my recipes are also linked - you can remix them! If you have questions or need help with anything you can email me dir…

Lockdown side project whilst I’ve been learning to bake! I’m pretty forgetful so I wanted to be able to scale recipes up and down but still see ingredient amounts inline and hide i…