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thijser

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About thijser

Founder/Software Engineer of appbrain.com and blue.facts.dev

thijser.bsky.social

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    This reminds me of when I tried to let Claude port an Android libgdx-based game to a WASM-based libgdx version, so I can play the game in the browser. No matter how much I tried to…

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    Comment #46525210

    I wanted to know more about current web speech recognition APIs. I tried three different coding agents to set up a proof of concept app for me. To my surprise, Cursor's composer mo…

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    Show HN: Git rewind – your Git year in review

    I started an experiment to let a WASM-powered webapp interact with a local git repo and see how well this works. It turns out, it works pretty well! I made it into a "git wrapped" …

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    Comment #45384895

    Translated link here: https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2584070-chatgpt-wijst-...

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    Comment #43023502

    At this point I only included accounts with >20,000 followers and the community page lists the 20 most 'central' users to each community even if there are more people included in t…

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    Show HN: Community Detection on Bluesky

    We ran the Leuven community detection algorithm on popular users on Bluesky (where the graph has edges determined by Jaccard similarity of a users' followers). We identified 118 co…

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    Comment #42800745

    Now it's working again, great tool. Would also be great to see the growth of the feeds within the category view.

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    Comment #42800664

    The site is unreachable for me? Great to see so many good analytics tools pop up for bsky, I'm also working on one that primarily focuses on the fastest growing user accounts if yo…

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    Comment #41983245

    Great site. Feature request: two essential categories for our family are missing: princesses and unicorns.

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    Comment #37464821

    It seems the apps starting to enforce upgrades to pro in ~February of this year. On the AppBrain page you can see the rating nosedive from 4.6 stars (out of 5) to less than 2: http…

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    Comment #37118042

    AppBrain shows market share stats for all apps and also for the top ranked apps: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/flutter/flu... 6% of the top ranked apps use Flutt…

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    Comment #36168810

    Nice approach. It feels very similar to "tracer bullet" development (I think coined by the pragmatic programmer book), where you get something end-to-end as quickly as possible and…

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    Comment #35915075

    I used ChatGPT (because no access to bard :) ) to convert their 180 country names to 3-letter codes and generate a world map showing where it's available: https://twitter.com/thijs…

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    Comment #35878220

    There have been many vit D studies before, e.g., this one with 25K participants in the USA, which found no effect: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1809944 It's best to …

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    Comment #34477403

    Have you tried Trilium ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium )? It's a generic note storage (with a DAG based model) that's very extensible and comes with a demo task manager implemen…

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    This reminds me of self-determination theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory ) which proposes that you need autonomy, competence and relatedness to a task…

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    Comment #34001692

    OP here. We founded a startup to automate git tasks. Ask me anything!