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LLMs have really provided me with a lot of confidence to explore making more fun random projects. I personally didn't like the long research process and tool se

LLMs have really provided me with a lot of confidence to explore making more fun random projects. I personally didn't like the long research process and tool setup just to begin to do something basic. Now a lot of friction is gone and I can prompt a silly idea and get a super simple prototype running and then from there, tinker on my own. I made this geolocation music web app that plays a little tune based on your precise location. It's just a little fun toy that serves no purpose but I regularly use it when I go for walks just to hear the variation in tunes in different parts of my city. https://geo-tune.vercel.app/ https://geo-tune.vercel.app/

bansuian 2y ago
This is so cool. I had a similar idea that I did except this one was akin to virtual geocache. Your uploaded a file and could only see the file if you were 5meters within the gps coordinates. Now will take is inspiration from you and add music. Thanks for sharing.
- helpfulContrib 2y ago
  Some folks I know did something similar - for fun: an artificial museum which shows you a VR space based on location: https://artificialmuseum.com/#2/52.49/13.37 https://artificialmuseum.com/#2/52.49/13.37 Its pretty fun to see what virtual things have been parked out there in the real world ..
matheusmoreira 2y ago
I asked ChatGPT to explain GCC internals to me and it actually helped a lot. I actually managed to add a builtin to this thing. Getting the compiler to actually generate the code I wanted, on the other hand...
dailykoder 2y ago
>I personally didn't like the long research process and tool setup just to begin to do something basic. I am the exact opposite of that. I love to do the basics and dig myself through it to understand the fundamentals of everything. I love to rebuild stuff. Though I don't research too much. I get some ideas, but basically just read about the functionallity (and theory) about what to build (a CPU, a Compiler, an OS, some webapp, you name it) and then try to come up with a solution by myself. If it kinda works, then ill reavaluate my implementation with looking at others and iterate from there. Somehow I refuse to use big libraries or frameworks (yes, you could argue the compiler is big too etc etc, but you know what I mean). This makes it unlikely to build the next million-dollar project, but I enjoy it. For a few years I had a negative self-talk and told myself that this is a bad approach. But nowadays I just love it. It's fun. I do enough serious stuff on my job and I don't need a million dollars really (even tho it'd be nice). I rarely use LLMs or SO. I try to stick through reference sheets or read through git repos myself
- famahar 2y ago
  That's really great that you enjoy the learning process. I feel like curiosity is such a key to being a creative developer. I do fear LLMs will add more of a black box to projects for better and worse. Nice reminder to always ask "why" something works.
fragmede 2y ago
oh that's really cool. what's the algorithm you use to generate the tune?
- famahar 2y ago
  Been a while since I've looked at the code but from what I recall, each number in the geolocation is iterated through and assigned a note. This note is generated using the Web Audio Api. It's quite simple and there's so many ideas I have to build other musical patterns. But I do like the simplicity.

bansuian 2y ago

This is so cool. I had a similar idea that I did except this one was akin to virtual geocache. Your uploaded a file and could only see the file if you were 5meters within the gps coordinates. Now will take is inspiration from you and add music. Thanks for sharing.

helpfulContrib 2y ago
Some folks I know did something similar - for fun: an artificial museum which shows you a VR space based on location: https://artificialmuseum.com/#2/52.49/13.37 https://artificialmuseum.com/#2/52.49/13.37 Its pretty fun to see what virtual things have been parked out there in the real world ..

matheusmoreira 2y ago

I asked ChatGPT to explain GCC internals to me and it actually helped a lot. I actually managed to add a builtin to this thing. Getting the compiler to actually generate the code I wanted, on the other hand...

dailykoder 2y ago

>I personally didn't like the long research process and tool setup just to begin to do something basic. I am the exact opposite of that. I love to do the basics and dig myself through it to understand the fundamentals of everything. I love to rebuild stuff. Though I don't research too much. I get some ideas, but basically just read about the functionallity (and theory) about what to build (a CPU, a Compiler, an OS, some webapp, you name it) and then try to come up with a solution by myself. If it kinda works, then ill reavaluate my implementation with looking at others and iterate from there. Somehow I refuse to use big libraries or frameworks (yes, you could argue the compiler is big too etc etc, but you know what I mean). This makes it unlikely to build the next million-dollar project, but I enjoy it. For a few years I had a negative self-talk and told myself that this is a bad approach. But nowadays I just love it. It's fun. I do enough serious stuff on my job and I don't need a million dollars really (even tho it'd be nice). I rarely use LLMs or SO. I try to stick through reference sheets or read through git repos myself

famahar 2y ago
That's really great that you enjoy the learning process. I feel like curiosity is such a key to being a creative developer. I do fear LLMs will add more of a black box to projects for better and worse. Nice reminder to always ask "why" something works.

fragmede 2y ago

oh that's really cool. what's the algorithm you use to generate the tune?

famahar 2y ago
Been a while since I've looked at the code but from what I recall, each number in the geolocation is iterated through and assigned a note. This note is generated using the Web Audio Api. It's quite simple and there's so many ideas I have to build other musical patterns. But I do like the simplicity.