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by tajd 10mo ago
Yeah agree, the devex has room for improvement as well. I use it perfectly fine for simpler apps but it could be better. Big love for cloudflare though - all my apps are hosted with it. Their components and generous free tier have been able
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by tajd 10mo ago
I've been building out my portfolio at https://verdient.co.uk/ and writing more blog posts about applied maths on my blog at https://tom-dickson.com/ Most recently I've been having fun extending t
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by tajd 10mo ago
This looks interesting but I’m trying to understand it in more layman’s terms. Is it more about providing abstractions for llms to work within to do things?
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by tajd 10mo ago
what sort of prod apps are you running from it? keen to learn by what other people are doing
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by tajd 11mo ago
There has got to be opportunities here for abstracting over regulation to make it easier to comply with and prove compliance so that risk owners/govt can enact change faster. Now to figure out who would pay for that.
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by tajd 11mo ago
I feel like articles like this need to come with a diagram like this to put it in the context of relevant tradeoffs. High Scale/Revenue │ │ Mana
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by tajd 11mo ago
Looking at an ancient game called Trias/Ternii Lapilli and learning/using maths to figure out if it can be solved https://tom-dickson.com/blog/trias-game-investigation/ It’s similar to tic-tac-toe but sl
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by tajd 11mo ago
Life is easy when you don't want to think about scale or security. Until you have to, that is.
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Show HN: Estimating startup viability using Nobel Prize economics(tom-dickson.com)
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by tajd 1y ago
this is a really interesting talk - thank you for sharing!
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Show HN: A simple sharing site for react components hosted as gists(gistreact.verdient.co.uk)
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Show HN Helping home owners find useful renewable energy sources for their homes(renewable-home.verdient.co.uk)
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by tajd 1y ago
I do not but I think I'm growing one! Potentially the heuristics would be about the level of user state management - e.g. if you're needing to do various workflows vs just presenting content.
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by tajd 1y ago
I ported my personal website from Jekyll to Astro a few weeks back and I really liked it. Astro is much easier to build and extend for me (and that is a personal preference point - I (and by I mostly mean claude) - and it's cool to add
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by tajd 1y ago
Ah ok, potentially I was imprecise - the post office leadership appeared to assume that the software was completely correct. That is what I was trying to frame as "systems are imperfect and people should take care to validate what they
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by tajd 1y ago
I think hopefully it raises that awareness that these systems are imperfect and do not allow people to delegate their decision making totally. I'm afraid rise of AI and the increase in more plausible sounding yet incorrect behaviours w
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by tajd 1y ago
This looks really cool! I can't remember what article I was reading the other day but it was advocating for local first software as being the true goal of creating user friendly software -> this app absolutely meet's that goal.
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by tajd 1y ago
I really like using UV. I introduced it at work for builds and it made everything a lot faster which was awesome. Now I can remove the other components of the build process and just use one. I am interested in how they're going to make
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by tajd 1y ago
Created a dashboard to help people figure out what renewable energy solutions they could use for their homes in the U.K. https://renewable-home.verdient.co.uk/ Created a game to learn navigational marks in the Solent https
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by tajd 1y ago
love the receipt printer idea I'm looking into it now
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by tajd 1y ago
I love this! definitely inspired, I'm quite good at using a journal but there's a lot I lose track of
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by tajd 2y ago
Yes, 100% this. I’ve seen this idea before somewhere, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people started to basically develop more of their own software from first principles like this. I was doing it today to create a gantt chart from mermaid.
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by tajd 2y ago
Yeah maybe. But I think the thing I like is that is takes me a much shorter amount of time to create solutions for my users and myself. Then I can worry about “tech adoption” once I’ve achieved a relevant solution to my users. If performanc
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by tajd 2y ago
I haven't seen anyone with zero computer skill build apps but I've definitely started building and deploying apps outside my day job that I've been able to put together quickly with the aid of Claude artefacts or copilot. It&
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by tajd 2y ago
Yeah it's interesting to see how it's getting on! I wrote my PhD simulation code in it from the ground up as it had nice fundamental abstractions for parallizable code. Of course now it's just Python and Scala/Java but J
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by tajd 2y ago
Yeah - hard agree with this. There's a lot to be said about giving your best effort in proportion to all the other things you're doing in your life.
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by tajd 2y ago
Thanks for your feedback! I built it as a hobby project to explore this space and learn a bit more so I’ll keep learning!
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by tajd 2y ago
I shared the concerns of this author. I wrote a free tool to use simple heuristics to predict if text was generated by ai or not - https://isthistextai.com/
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Show HN: I made a free simple app to guess if text was generated by AI(isthistextai.com)
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by tajd 2y ago
I actually built something similar last week https://bestefforttools.com/workouts I wanted something to create realistic yet slightly randomised warm ups and finishers - similar to CrossFit wods but more structured. Behind

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