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A framework for Excel spreadsheets, written in Excel VBA. A nine-minute demo video is here: https://www.cabin.wtf (the file is 4mb, not 4kb) If nothing else, this shows that the Excel UX can be radically changed thru one small Excel file... so much of the object model is exposed to VBA.
I realised that I'm a horrible prompt writer and so are many other people. So i created this extension to help me write better prompts, using templates, save prompts, and optimize it for better performance. No login, not paid, just a useful little extension. Check it out!
I've been building an intentionally annoying app against doomscrolling [1]. I've recently started with marketing, but oh boy is that out of my comfort zone! I never thought that as an engineer I'd be doing TikToks. And here I am. It's fun to crack the algorithm little by little, but also frustrating because it's like a black box. So far, I've discovered that going to the point works best. For example, I was sharing s…
I'm in a similar situation as you (developer having to do marketing) but have not gotten as far, so far I've only posted on a few subreddits and here on HN. Have you found any nice learning resources?
The first ever SQL debugger – runs & visualizes your query step-by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY, aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated ones!), CTEs, you name it. You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query lineage – which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries contributed to the result you're searching for. Entirely offline & no usage o…
Some music control using Wii balance boards thing: https://gitlab.com/TOGoS/SG-P27 So far this has means orchestrating a set of processes just to talk to bluetoothd, automatically connect to boards, guess which /dev/input/event* device each one is associated with, and start reading those and sending data somewhere over OSC. Every step of the process is about 10 times as difficult as I initially expected it would be,…
I'm almost finished with a project that has taken up quite a lot of my life for the past few years, a book on Estonia! After working for their government and returning to the U.S. I wanted to better understand how the country modernized so effectively after gaining their independence from the Soviet Union so I did a fair amount of research into the topic and many interviews which culminated in a book, Rebooting a Nat…
It might be interesting to see similar area from similar, but different enough, perspectives.
It's a pretty specific niche with interesting challenges like massively varying project sizes (ranging from a few pages to 20,000+ documents), a high importance of graphs / charts, and very different extraction tasks (from more qualitative analysis to quantitative, exhaustive lists which is still a pain point).
Built most of the pipeline by hand, mostly because I started this earlier than many RAG tools came out, but I am glad I did because we needed a bunch of adjustments and changes that might have been hard with something ready-made.
Debugging co-routines / threading is a pain in any language. I'm a big believer in observability anyway so this isn't a leap. Nor is it the first time I did this very thing, but last time I had implemented a console and it was a console command. This is in a product written in Python which implements a DNS gateway for Redis: # dig @sophia.m3047 coroutines.redis.sophia.m3047 txt +short "write_control:1" "get:3" "stati…