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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by netcoyote »

camillomiller wrote: post #823
netcoyote wrote: post #802

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You are correct, I will amend that. I do think that locks you out of a lot of the plugin ecosystem if using it as a static site generator, yeah?

As a developer who deploys wordpress often, I can tell you that if you have the resources (experience and time) to setup a headless wordpress you probably don’t need 99% of plugins. The really important ones (ACF Pro, cookies-stuff, SEO etc) are compatible with headless. I regularly deploy non headless high impact wordpress sites with about 6 plugins max. Theme is custom developed as a skeleton starter plus custom fi…

This sounds like it's worth a blog post. I'm sure lots of folks, including me, would be interested in the details of which plugins to maximize utility, and what the deploy process looks like. Cheers!

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Post by hakunin »

sunnygo wrote: post #867
hakunin wrote: post #846

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IME way better. It may not be the best out there, but it's cheap (2c per page), fast, easy to integrate API, and sufficient for my needs. It does things like describe what's drawn in pictures and shown in graphs, which all helps when searching.

great! have you tested how well it return coordinates of objects/text? Ive tried with generic LLMs like Gemini/Qwen/Gemma and they all are unstable with coordinates around text, better when using visual grounding though

Yeah, for perfect positioning/overlaying I would be much stricter with my requirements. For that type of OCR I used Apple’s own LiveText framework that comes with MacOS. But in this use case I only care about standalone plain text and descriptive text to store in the database, not overlay over original content, so never tested Mistral on that front.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by usrme »

mutahirs wrote: post #861

I 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?

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by vtbassmatt »

kigiri wrote: post #660
vtbassmatt wrote: post #242

Mostly games-adjacent hobby tools, it turns out. (Edit: forgotten in first edition) A cookbook to store the recipes my family likes to cook so I can eventually break up with Pinterest: https://github.com/vtbassmatt/Cookbook A data extraction pipeline and search engine for a new card game called Mood Swings: https://moodswingsdata.github.io and https://moodswingsdata.github.io/feelings . An app to let my friends and m…

https://github.com/vtbassmatt/djournal is not public ? I'm using https://github.com/ralsina/grafito but I'm not super happy with it

Oops, I forgot this one wasn't public. Sorry! Auth was implemented using a library I don't know much about, so I figured better safe than sorry.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by realitylabs »

UnknownBanana wrote: post #285

Nothing that I couldn't have done myself, but in a fraction of a time. - Custom off-brand version of Pangolin - Dashboard with beautiful UI for parsing traefik logs with database, filters, map and various integrations and statistics - Samsung SmartThings Volume Control for Soundbar in Windows 11 native style - Android App with good UI which serves as remote for switching display output modes for PC for movie night /…

Willing to share the traefik dashboard?

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by zuzuleinen »

I built Algotutor

https://github.com/zuzuleinen/algotutor/

a spaced repetition system that teaches you how to solve algorithmic problems and Go concurrency. I use it daily.

An Android mobile app that sends e-mails to myself. So far private, but I use extensively throughout the day to send notes to myself.

If someone wants an invite drop me an e-mail.

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