A "plans for agents" interface because I'm tired of reading huge markdown plans to iterate on the real work. Is supports infinite 2d space like miro, but has one thread per card, a cli for the agent to treat open notes. It support voice prompting too. It feels like you have parallel conversation with an agent, except it understands all the surface. And it's granular, surgical and precise. Usage: I'm writing a game de…
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#882Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#883A tool for backing up Google photos more incrementally than Google takeout: https://github.com/ebrevdo/gphoto-pull A version of the IFTTT linter that I missed after leaving Google: https://github.com/ebrevdo/ifttt-lint
gphoto-pull!! I've been downloading NN x 50G zips every two months like a caveman. Assuming I'm backing up in "Original", this manages to retrieve byte-identical backups?
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#884Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#885Added a code runner to the SwiftBook documentation to help me run Swift in the browser without switching back to IDE
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#886Built with inspiration from Karpathy's AutoResearch + PromptFoo.
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#887I used notebook LM and claude/gemini to gather the notes on K8s and created a vitepress site with it. Claude/gemini helped with design and content meta. NLM for content with official sources. https://randomwrites.com I am doing a similar with linux internals (to be published soon). ofcourse from the official docs and asking some questions around the concepts i like and forget mostly :-)
I'm right in the target audience for this as I'm about to embark on a Kubernetes certificate. What is the proportion of official K8S documentation and your own notes and how could someone differentiate between them on that site?
its only generated against official k8s docs so no external sources. thanks
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#889Which is what leads to my issue: cognitive overload, and very high context switching costs especially as I'm usually on multiple work and "hobby" projects at a time, with multiple projects spread across term tabs, IDEs and Claude remote on phone.
So I built a "Workshop" to tinker. It analyses all the projects I'm working on currently as git repos on disk, then builds project pages complete with summary and a full control and data planes including its own startup method, commits being made etc. It does some agent introspection so it's able to display all agents running on machine in unified view.
But the "killer" feature for me is the "Pulse" - this contains human readable summary of what's happening with each project and agent in real time. So one use case is an "overnight view" - I set up architecture and design, assign the agent a goal, then wake up next morning to quickly scroll through the results. It also lets you track changes happening in real time ("We finished adding an export function for receipts, containing your company logo and signature" to summarize a feature across 10 commits).
I also added other useful to me utils such as being able to append a ? To any command in its inbuilt terminal and it'll convert it from English to a cli command waiting for you to confirm, for example; a system load monitor; a network sniffer, sys admin tools etc. all written in Rust, which I've never written a line of :)
Will put it online but need to clean it up first it's very specific to my use cases so not sure it'll be useful to others.
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#890A voice memo app, quite like the actual voice memo app from Apple. The thing is: now I can put my voice memo's on iCloud put Claude Code on it and make my transcripts into structured notes that my app then also displays. So basically a way to just go on an hour long walk with myself, spit everything from the top of my dome stream of consciousness style, and then have Claude structure whatever I said. It's nice to hav…