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Here's what I made: * https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/ - A voice note recorder.
by stavros 8mo ago
Here's what I made:
* https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/ - A voice note recorder.
* https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot - My secure AI personal assistant that's made my life admin massively easier.
* https://github.com/skorokithakis/macropad https://github.com/skorokithakis/macropad - A macropad.
* https://github.com/skorokithakis/sleight-of-hand https://github.com/skorokithakis/sleight-of-hand - A clock that ticks seconds irregularly but is accurate for minutes.
* https://pine.town https://pine.town - A whimsical little massively multiplayer drawing town.
* https://encyclopedai.stavros.io https://encyclopedai.stavros.io - A fictional encyclopedia.
* https://justone.stavros.io https://justone.stavros.io - A web implementation of the board game Just One.
* https://www.themakery.cc https://www.themakery.cc - The website and newsletter for my maker community.
* https://theboard.stavros.io https://theboard.stavros.io - A feature board that implements itself.
* https://github.com/skorokithakis/dracula https://github.com/skorokithakis/dracula - A blood test viewer.
* https://github.com/skorokithakis/support-email-bot https://github.com/skorokithakis/support-email-bot - An email bot to answer common support queries for my users.
Maybe some of these will beat the rap.
- profsummergig 8mo ago> "A clock that ticks seconds irregularly but is accurate for minutes." Sounds like something that could be tried as a fix for a kind of OCD (obsessive seconds counting).
- stavros 8mo agoMaybe, although it's actually giving me OCD, I think. It's really hard to tune out because of the irregular ticking. I implemented a regular mode to combat this, defeating the purpose somewhat.
- pinkmuffinere 8mo agowhat was the motivation for originally making it with irregular ticking?
- stavros 8mo agoIt sounded fun (and it is)! My favorite mode is one that ticks each second imperceptibly fast, and then stalls for a second in one of the ticks (so that it lasts two). It's just the right amount of "did that clock just skip a beat? Nah must just be my imagination".
- pinkmuffinere 8mo agoHa, cool! I love the whimsicality of this
- stavros 8mo agoThanks, I love it too!
- observationist 8mo agoUnpredictable things catch our attention - it's the exceptions that are important to survival, and our brains evolved to cope with the stimuli that this experiment messes with. Something like this would be anxiety inducing for most people, I bet. That'd be an excellent experiment, track heart rate, EEG, and performance on a range of cognitive tasks with 2 minute long breaks between each tasks, one group exposed to the irregular ticking, another exposed to regular ticking, another with silence, and one last one with pleasant white noise.
- bencyoung 8mo agoSounds like the Chronophage clock in Cambridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock. It it's purely mechanical but has odd pauses in the ticks etc
- saulpw 8mo agoSome of them definitely do not. Like a fictional encyclopedia? What is the point of that? That's like "an alphabetical novel". And even for the ones that might "beat the rap", I don't understand from your descriptions why they are interesting or unique. A voice note recorder? Cool. There are already hundreds if not thousands of those, why did you need to make your own in the first place? I'm not saying that yours isn't special, I'm just saying that it doesn't help to post the blandest description possible if you're trying to impress people with the utility of your utility.
- stavros 8mo agoSounds like the goalposts are moving from "not useless stuff focused on pretending to improve productivity or projects that make it easier to use AI" to "extremely useful stuff".
- jjee 8mo agoFair. But finally we are seeing what LLM proponents are putting forward. And it’s exactly what I expected - lines of code. Cute. But… so what? This is not good for the AI hype and nor any continued support for future investment. On the other hand all this stuff is going to drive continual innovation. The more tokens generated the more model producers invest. And we might eventually get to a place of local models.
- stavros 8mo agoI swear, I'm going to stop commenting on this site, the amount of shitting on people who use LLMs (ie everyone) is just impossible to deal with.
- slopinthebag 8mo agoI have the opposite experience, the amount of AI boosters deriding the less enthusiastic, gleefully exclaiming how someone will be "left behind" if they don't immediately adopt the latest hype cycle, or sharing AI slop and either embellishing or outright lying about it's capabilities is making me want to log off forever. "Handwritten code? Don't you only care about providing maximum shareholder value?" No.
- risyachka 8mo agoIt does not matter how much stuff is built. What matters is what comes out of it. And with AI the result of 99.9% is abandonware. Just piles of code no one will ever touch again. Which proves the point of no productivity gains. Its just cheap dopamine hits.
- tempaccount5050 8mo agoMissing the point. I no longer need to buy or rely on someone else for software I want to use. A lot of things I want to do ARE one offs. I can write software and throw it away when I'm done.
- sarchertech 8mo agoYou still need to spend plenty of time verifying they work though unless it’s something where that truly doesn’t matter.
- incr_me 8mo agoI know this sounds sarcastic but I really mean it: For years everyone has been monastically extolling some variation of "the best code is deleted code". Now, we have a machine that spits out infinite code that we can infinitely delete. It's a blessing that we can have shitty code generated that exposes at light speed how shitty our ideas are and have always been.
- dsf2 8mo agoA nicer framing is original ideas and original thinking in general is very hard and doesn't come around very often. Steve Jobs once said a thing about the belief that an idea is 90% of the work is a disease. He is and was absolutely right.
- grim_io 8mo agoAbandonware is what the customer wants. Constant enshittification and UI redesigns are driven by the provider to justify monthly extortion.
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