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Ilma is a Navtex decoder for the Raspberry Pi that just got weather fax (WEFAX) capabilities. I’m a sailor and I built a headless receiver for the Raspberry Pi & SDR-RTL v4 dongle.…

The tempo of AI development is overwhelming. Within one generation, coding/IT has gone from the most promising career for the young to profound insecurity about the future.

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I use a self-developed plain text editor for writing and my one-click GitHub sync menu bar app to deploy Astro blogs. The irony of the GitHub sync app is that I do no longer have a…

Impressive, congratulations for the nice work.

I built this on a Pi Zero 2 W because of its low energy consumption when it's running continuously on a boat. Navtex is a 1970s radio technique that delivers navigational and meteo…

Storage is the hard part of renewable energy. In this article, the researches used a molecule that captures sunlight and locks it into a strained, high-energy shape. It can hold th…

I write Astro blog posts in a text editor; when I'm done I want them pushed to GitHub so Cloudflare deploys the site. To make it comfortable, I built Quay for the menu bar. Also us…

I can relate. I also fought with OAuth (GitHub, for a much smaller project) for an App Store app (Quay) that finally went through.

Efficiency claim: 70% less token usage, 3x faster task completion in internal testing. Even if that's marketing-inflated, the structured CLI commands replace a lot of trial-and-err…

I'm an iguana and need to wash my bicycle in the carwash. Shall I walk or take the bus?

There was a recent research article titled "LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users". They described systematic underperformance of AI models targ…

"We show systematic underperformance of GPT-4, Llama 3, and Claude 3 Opus targeted towards users with lower English proficiency, less education, and from non-US origins." Even if y…

I had the same issues, so I built a macOS menu-bar app that does one-click git pull/commit/push for any local folder, including Obsidian vaults. Uses the system git binary, fast-fo…

I had Max plan and never reached its limit despite constantly working. Now I use the Pro plan and regularly reach the 5h limit as well as the weekly limit, as expected. I found tha…

AI has solved the "code problem", but it hasn't solved the "marketing problem"…

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