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by jmathai 7mo ago
I think Claude Code can write very good end to end tests given the right constructs. I have been building a desktop app (electron-based) which interacts with Anthropic’s AgentSDK and the local file system. It’s 100% spec driven and Claude C
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by jmathai 7mo ago
Slightly related. Something I love to do is to tell Claude to generate a detailed explanation of a topic I want to learn more about (recently, it was Donor Advised Funds). If I’m going to pick my kids up then I tell it to make it 10 minutes
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by jmathai 7mo ago
I have used this approach with exiftool to add custom tags for “album”. https://stackoverflow.com/a/68284922 Here is my source file for it. It was so long ago I don’t recall all the details but you can retrieve this in
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by jmathai 7mo ago
Racking your own hardware doesn’t get you web UIs and APIs out of the box. At least it didn’t 2 decades ago.
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by jmathai 7mo ago
Ha! I totally get it. Use it for inspiration though!
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by jmathai 7mo ago
I've avoided using XMP sidecars. Mostly because I don't want to have to worry about two files for every photo. And I don't think they're ubiquitously supported like EXIF. Thanks for starring the repo and let me know if y
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by jmathai 7mo ago
My 10+ year old photo management system [1] relies on the file system and EXIF as the source of truth for my entire photo library. It’s proven several times over that it’s the correct approach. Abstractions (formerly Google photos, currentl
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by jmathai 7mo ago
> But it is good enough for people to get what they want out of it. This is the ONLY point of software unless you’re doing it for fun.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
You’d be building blocks which compound over time. That’s been my experience anyway. The compounding is much greater than my brain can do on its own.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
Watsi remains the most inspiring things that’s happened on Hackers News since I joined. Well done Chase and Grace!
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by jmathai 8mo ago
Turn off history. Completely disables the food. The only content you see is what you search for.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
I'm pretty pragmatic and resist AI hype. However, I am in the camp that the tools we've built do not maximize the potential of the LLMs we have today. I see 2 things happening in parallel. 1) Tools on existing LLMs continue to imp
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by jmathai 8mo ago
It’s great advice. If you can be intentional going in to a conversation then I think the chances to serving the other person through listening becomes much higher. It’s truly a gift…offering someone your time and attention. Possibly the mos
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by jmathai 8mo ago
Thanks. We are involved in The Healing Center locally and that’s definitely a place to lean in on “more heavily”. https://www.healingcentercincinnati.org/
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by jmathai 8mo ago
> all we want to do is advance the concept of direct cash transfer I love the simplicity of this. I've been thinking a lot about generosity myself. And while I don't have $100m, our family also has everything we need. What idea
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by jmathai 8mo ago
Probably because the alternatives are OpenAI, Google, Meta. Not throwing shade at those companies but it's not hard to win the hearts of developers when that's your competition.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
I learned all of my programming outside of university and textbooks. It’s one way to learn. Not the only way though - and it has its limits - but you can get pretty far. But here is my advice. Learning by doing with AI seems akin to copying
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by jmathai 8mo ago
You can split the second group into two sub-buckets. Junior devs: who have limited experience or depth in knowledge. They are unable to analyze the output of AI coding agents sufficiently to determine long term viability of the code. I thin
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by jmathai 8mo ago
That's not my philosophy :)
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by jmathai 8mo ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re looking for. Rclone has a Google Photos backend and an S3 backend. I haven’t used it but assumed you could simply copy from Google Photos into S3. https://rclone.org/googlephotos/
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by jmathai 8mo ago
This specific plugin was purely written by Claude Code, correct. The prior 10k lines of python were not. Without Claude Code, the plugin would probably only exist in my imagination. I don’t personally care who writes the code. There’s plent
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by jmathai 8mo ago
I found Immich to be significantly higher quality. Nothing prevents you from running Immich in a newer synology which support containers. Mine is so old that it doesn’t and it’s also under powered - else I’d be running Immich on it.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
Between storage templates and external libraries, Immich covers so many bases.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
I did say it was robust… I include video [1] and audio (.m4a) [2] files via EXIF. For text files [3], I add a JSON block at the top to mimic EXIF. I don’t want to deal with an additional sidecar file per asset. The risk of losing one during
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by jmathai 8mo ago
rclone. https://rclone.org/
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by jmathai 8mo ago
I wish the same would happen for games like Roblox. These games suffer from all the same problems social media does.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
There's a `--trash` option for the import command. It's not the default behavior though. I recommend deleting the source photos once you've verified Elodie has organized the photos how you'd like.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
You mean because the hash of the photo changes? I've solved that by materializing every photo to a deterministic folder path. So it's not possible to have the same exact photo in my library.
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by jmathai 8mo ago
I solved the "one photo in multiple albums" EXIF problem by using Keywords. Each album is a Keyword. But yes, there are some other limitations that would be much harder to solve. But it's a tradeoff I've decided to make
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by jmathai 8mo ago
We haven’t fully proven that it is any different. Not at scale anyway. It took a decade for the seams of outsourcing to break. But I have a hypothesis. The quality of the output, when you don’t own the long term outcome or maintenance, is v

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