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by _bramses 2y ago
For anyone who's looking Brave Search is $3/1000 requests [0] I also wrote a script that searches the web and works pretty well (using the vercel ai sdk)[1] [0] - https://brave.com/search/api/ [1] - htt
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by _bramses 2y ago
thank you, i appreciate it! yes, the software is api first, and much of it’s utility comes from working in other environments like google docs, ios shortcuts, etc.. in essence, the core of the project is a vector database that works for end
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by _bramses 2y ago
a self organizing scrapbook! focused on zero stress for storage, searching, synthesizing and sharing a personal library https://yourcommonbase.com/ (and some philosophy on the subject :)) https://www.bramadams.de
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by _bramses 2y ago
I recently changed my thought process on the responsibility of readers and writers. I think it is the responsibility of the writer to say something interesting, and then publish said interesting thing somewhere where it can be reached by re
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Why Can't Coding Be Celebrated Like Art or Sports?(bramadams.dev)
3 points by _bramses 2y ago|3 comments
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Almonds Can't Do Math(bramadams.dev)
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The Leverage of Programming Keeps Going Up(bramadams.dev)
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Comment Sections Are Bad for You(bramadams.dev)
2 points by _bramses 2y ago|2 comments
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Some Thoughts on Remarkability(bramadams.dev)
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Just Wait a Week(bramadams.dev)
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by _bramses 2y ago
Clever! A method that has worked well for me: divorced databases. The first database is a plaintext database that stores rows: id, data, and metadata and the second database is a vector database that stores id, embedding. whenever a new row
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by _bramses 2y ago
From my last comment in August 2024 [1], I have made progress! The project I'm developing is called Your Commonbase, a self organizing scrapbook built around Personal Library Science. The big updates are: 1. From Fleeting Note to Conne
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Are Inboxes Evil?(bramadams.dev)
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by _bramses 2y ago
An active reading habit (of books) is one of the most reliable ways to achieve wisdom. Why? - Books require a "Goldilocks" amount of sustained, slow effort given to one topic. Not too costly to pursue that it is a bodily harm risk
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by _bramses 2y ago
Very fun game concept! I got stuck on level two. The difficulty is a bit too much, and it seems when i’m halfway through my pattern input a random haptic feedback happens from my phone, which throws me off/signals i’ve failed? iPhone 1
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by _bramses 2y ago
Developer Hegemony [1] will help your thinking on how to price software in a world that traditionally rewards business people, as well as being pretty emotionally revealing about the trade we’re involved in. [1] - https://books.g
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by _bramses 2y ago
If your blog provider supports it, adding a “Open a Random Post” button on your blog makes the experience much more fulfilling in the long term, as you (and others) can revisit different posts from different eras. Websites don’t have physic
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Can You Back into a Second Brain with a Collection of Software Features?(bramadams.dev)
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by _bramses 2y ago
The technique I find most useful is to implement a “linked list” strategy where a chunk has multiple pointers to the entry it is referenced by. This task is done manually, but the diversity of the ways you can reference a particular node go
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by _bramses 2y ago
Sure! The problem with existing knowledge management systems is that they all eventually become victim to scale the operator can no longer manage. Consider two scenarios: Scenario 1: You have a chaotic system of notes, dispersed throughout
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by _bramses 2y ago
A few months back, I posted an essay here about how I think we are entering an age where the personal library will become an asset class unto itself [1]. This is due to a combination of the advent of semantic search and the revival of perso
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by _bramses 2y ago
Makes you wonder as well if the expressed genetic traits we can’t see are more are less different than the ones we can. For example, does evolution have any pressure to produce those who think linguistically, vs healthy hair and skin?
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Upgrading a 500 Year Old Technology(bramadams.dev)
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by _bramses 2y ago
> There is a rush in public to condense and summarize many authoritative publications to find patterns, or to replace a human expert with automated results.. yet that is fundamentally different than taking multiple incomplete perspective
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by _bramses 2y ago
> Would an LLM-driven "Personal Library" require manually annotated textual interpretation of each curated item, or could it derive personal interpretations from user history and the uniqueness of curated items/sets? I’ve
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Personal computing paves the way for personal library science(bramadams.dev)
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Personal Library Science(bramadams.dev)
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by _bramses 2y ago
neat! one thing i’d really love tooling for: supporting multi user apps where each has their own siloed data and embeddings. i find myself having to set up databases from scratch for all my clients, which results in a lot of repetitive work
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by _bramses 3y ago
You definitely could! Funnily enough, I have a function named "justBooks()" [1] that filters the Readwise export to just book type tags, but you could use the entire export, or whatever upstream method you want. I think much like
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by _bramses 3y ago
Gonna drop my own link here, because I really think the UX I’m working on is truly novel. Inspired by the commonplace book format, I take highlights from Kindle and embed them in a DB [1]. From there I build (multiple) downstream apps but t

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