richardgill88

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   by richardgill88 9mo ago

   I've been thinking about this very hard problem while walking the dog. Individuals and companies love open source software, but the current donation models don’t really work. I thought this problem was bad for programming libraries (e.
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   by richardgill88 9mo ago

   If you're interested in managing patches you may want to check out quilt: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/quilt.1.html
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   Show HN: Patchy – Manage long-lived forks as patch sets(github.com)

   1 points by richardgill88 9mo ago|1 comments
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   by richardgill88 10mo ago

   > Is it the prompt that Anthropic has been polishing in Claude code for so long? I think so. The opencode TUI is very good, but whenever I try it again the results are subjectively worse than Claude Code. They have the disadvantage of su
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   Claude Code solves Advent of Code 2025 in under 2 hours – with one command(richardgill.org)

   2 points by richardgill88 10mo ago|0 comments
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   by richardgill88 10mo ago

   https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/ is a great guide to Nix with Flakes. This was the Nix config that helped it 'click' for me: https://github.com/eh8/chenglab that mentions this guide.
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   Show HN: Limit – Android content blocker which can't be bypassed(limitphone.com)

   9 points by richardgill88 1y ago|0 comments
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   by richardgill88 1y ago

   I've had similar issues with Reddit and Youtube. I ended up building https://limitphone.com , it's a blocker for Android which uses MDM so it cannot be bypassed. It comes with a default blocklist to block social media,
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   by richardgill88 2y ago

   Couldn't agree more! This problem is severe for me, I ended building limitphone.com to lock down my Android phone so that I CANNOT bypass blocked apps (using mdm built-in to Android). It has a custom build of firefox that blocks in the
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    Show HN: Limit Phone – Block feeds, allow posts(limitphone.com)

    2 points by richardgill88 2y ago|0 comments
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    by richardgill88 2y ago

    Limit Phone Dev here! Yea I get it, I have similar feelings about installing such a privileged app on my phone. You can remove the app (with a delay, so it doesn't defeat the controls!). I'll make this a bit clearer on the site.
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    Show HN: Limit Phone – Hardcore social media blocking for Android(limitphone.com)

    3 points by richardgill88 2y ago|0 comments
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    by richardgill88 2y ago

    I'm building a fork of firefox for android that blocks sites that I find addictive e.g. youtube.com, but allows wildcards: youtube.com/watch?v=* so I can watch an individual video. Then I block all other browsers at that operating
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    by richardgill88 2y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, I've increased the loop time
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    Hiding ChatGPT's Markdown Syntax [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by richardgill88 2y ago|0 comments
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    by richardgill88 2y ago

    We're building on top of Aurora at https://xata.io . Currently our Aurora instances are in private beta. If you're interested in trying it out, drop me an email: richard@xata.io
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    by richardgill88 2y ago

    Totally agree. It feels like we've barely scratched the surface. I'm working on a project where I'm experimenting with pretty obvious things like removing the annoying markdown syntax all the LLMs show you for a split second
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    Improving the ChatGPT UI [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by richardgill88 2y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: LLM-UI – A library for building LLM UIs(llm-ui.com)

    4 points by richardgill88 2y ago|0 comments
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    Solving 6/10 days of Advent of Code with GPT-4(rgill.co.uk)

    3 points by richardgill88 4y ago|0 comments
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    Block Your Feeds(rgill.co.uk)

    2 points by richardgill88 6y ago|0 comments
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    by richardgill88 6y ago

    This is really cool, I've been building a site to help build templated recipes with markdown and javascript and I'll definitely be using this when I transcribe recipes! https://programmablerecipes.com
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    by richardgill88 6y ago

    Hi - Glad you liked it! Start with the examples linked above, my recipes are also linked - you can remix them! If you have questions or need help with anything you can email me directly (email address on the site!) At the moment you can&#x2
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    Show HN: Programmable Recipes with Markdown, JavaScript and Handlebars(programmablerecipes.com)

    5 points by richardgill88 6y ago|3 comments
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    by richardgill88 6y ago

    Lockdown side project whilst I’ve been learning to bake! I’m pretty forgetful so I wanted to be able to scale recipes up and down but still see ingredient amounts inline and hide information in collapsible panels. I like to write my recipe
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    by richardgill88 6y ago

    Thanks for the resources!
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    by richardgill88 6y ago

    I built a powerful programmable recipe website. (WIP) You write recipes in markdown, you can template in variables from javascript using handlebars. Here is a recipe with a slider, it updates all the amounts in both the ingredients table an
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    by richardgill88 7y ago

    Location: London, UK Remote: London or Remote Willing to relocate: No, but open to occasional travel Technologies: React, React Native, Node, RESTFful APIs, Firebase, Elixir, SQL Databases, Cloud. Résumé/CV: https://www.link
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    by richardgill88 9y ago

    ZDEV | London, UK | Full-time, Remote | Engineer / Manager | $80-130k We're a startup software consultancy / agency that trains people to code and puts them to work building high-quality software (apps and websites). Our stac
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    by richardgill88 9y ago

    Looks similar to https://www.straple.co , but without the brand book / React component bits.