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I recently switched jobs, and as I've become more comfortable in my new job, I realized that my old job completely sucked the creativity and fun out of programming for me. I did not have any energy for any projects in my spare time while working in my previous job, so the 1,5 months I've been focusing on taking small ideas and running with them. This weekend I got an idea to create a 2D-pattern from a 1D initial patt…
I built an English-speaking website that helps immigrants settle in Berlin.[0] It has been my full time job for a while. Most English speakers know about it, but it's nearly invisible to Germans, who would also benefit from the content and tools I have worked on. I'm currently adding an automated AI translation feature to my custom static site generator, so that I can translate the website to multiple languages and r…
Thank you for building this! I’ve discovered it a while ago and has been showing it as an example of what a good government website should look like. It’s a joy to read and explore, even though I’m not considering moving to Berlin :-) Any suggestions to anybody starting another website like this?
- Only add things that improve upon Reader View. A table of contents, better typography, and that's about it.
- Get to the point. I put a lot of effort into writing succinctly and unambiguously. I revise my content time and time again to get it just right. Information architecture is also important.
- Sweat the small stuff. Reduce friction for your users wherever you can. Something as simple as a letter template makes a big difference for readers that dread communicating in German.
I've been doing this for seven years, so I picked up quite a few tricks along the way. It all comes down to knowing my users, and working hard to reduce their pain.
My kids' elementary school has a running club that I manage. In past years they pay a subscription to a company that's quite expensive to track laps. I decided to implement some software that's better and runs on an rpi. It's working very well, and the kids like it more because it has audio feedback on laps and time. Besides the cheap USB qr scanners there's no expenses either.
I don't need this app, but sounds look a cool project? Can you share more details? How does it tack laps?
We've received a lot of positive feedback from the kids compared to the old system that was using proprietary software. The problem with that software is it used cell phones for scanning codes, which is very error-prone and takes a long time to register on some phones.
I see it being useful for artists, indie devs and anyone else who want to fire up their immersive ideas and keep control of the content, code and costs of running it.
I’m working on an Anki Addon that streamlines the hell out of the card generation process using LLMs. You can define a schema of prompts for your note type & fields, where each prompt can reference other fields, and use it to generate things like translations, example sentences, mnemonics, for tens of thousands of cards in batches or in the fly as they’re reviewed. These generated fields can reference other generated…
This is really nice! I couldn’t find it in your feature set and maybe it is there, but I am looking for a way to do Anki card reviews without looking at the screen. The other day I was on a 6h solo road trip and thought how useful it would have been if I could just open Anki on my phone and do my daily reviews without direct interaction. With a combination of TTS/STT and some background noise reduction this would be…
Now looking into fine tuning a small LLM like Gemma 2b-it to this task.
Any advice on other LLMs that would work appreciated.
Also bonus if this LLM can run in a browser
Building a web app that lets me do math and chemistry problems on an infinite canvas with a drawing tablet. After finishing the problem, I can open up an integrated text editor (with vim bindings) that lets me create Anki flashcards about the problem, letting me copy different portions of the handwritten/hand-drawn stuff onto the flashcard. I developed a very simple compiler to specify flashcard content. Anything ins…