taylorfinley

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   by taylorfinley 1mo ago

   I started the NOVC alliance to support folks like myself building without equity capital funding. Think of it like "BPA free" for software. Software engineering seems like a precarious career path right now, yet an individual engi
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   by taylorfinley 1mo ago

   Seems like this community was formed in part to promote your mcplocker project? I am building an app that uses MCP extensively, want to tell us about your project a bit more directly?
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   by taylorfinley 1mo ago

   The authors have apparently never heard of a Mexican Mocha, a common chocolate coffee and chili pepper drink I made thousands of during my stint as a barista.
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   by taylorfinley 2mo ago

   You're looking for a "media converter", often sold in pairs for ~$50. Match it to the fiber connectors you buy.
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   by taylorfinley 2mo ago

   This hypothesis is why I created the NOVC alliance[0] and am committed to building my product without the enshittification pressure inherent to the structure of VC funding. We currently only have 2 members, but you have to start somewhere.
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   by taylorfinley 2mo ago

   The full standard is outlined here [0] Tl;dr: anti-vc, not anti-capital. It's for those building without institutional equity capital structured around venture-scale returns, which is what tends to result in enshittification imo. [0]
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   by taylorfinley 2mo ago

   I'm trying to build my own software that maybe someday people will pay for. I've also worked really hard to reduce my family's hard costs (paid off mortgage and car, grow lots of our own food, full solar+battery off-grid setu
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   by taylorfinley 2mo ago

   I'm also self-funding my own solo-dev "in it for the love of the game" agentic app[0], mine for woodworking. It also supports STL output for printing the woodworking designs. I found building an MCP was the easiest way to avo
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   by taylorfinley 2mo ago

   Have you considered adding binaural beats to induce altered brain frequencies? Something like https://github.com/synapseq-foundation/synapseq
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    This is actually the source of the project's name, "know your project, down to the sawdust" -- Blade kerf is fully accounted for, the dimension itself is a property of each tool that can make a cut, so you can configure your
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    > I also suspect there’s a fairly finite number of sane join primitives, you can have rabbets, dados, dominos, dovetails, pocket screws, etc. These could be experimented with digitally against an existing design. And your tool availabili
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    Thanks for the kind words! NOVC [0] is kind of like "BPA Free" for saas, in my case it's a pledge that this software will remain indie and founder-led and not be subject to enshittification pressures that can come from taking
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    This is amazing! So cool to see people using the tool. Thank you for sharing.
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    Try using the export drop down menu ios/android specific AR links, that will download a file you can open natively on-device. I will debug the 'view in ar' button today, thank you for the report. >A couple of years ago I d
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    Thanks for reporting the issue, it should be fixed now. Make sure to fully remove and then re-connect the MCP, and let me know what you think! If you like you can describe what you're building here and I'll make a demo of how I wo
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    I recently added a chisel and hand saw tool and started working on adding more complex joinery types. Right now any of the frontier models can easily handle half laps and pocket jig miters and the like. You can chat with the model and have
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    Thank you, I will take a look! I think my poor little vps is getting a bit of the hn hug of death, too :)
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    I have a parametric bed frame procedure already! It's demoed in an example project here https://sawdust.diy/share/60d515eb-ca3f-559e-994f-56164dd1fc... click 'open the workshop view' to see the full UI,
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    Shopspec looks very cool! Love to see people building in this direction, we have at least validated for each other that the demand for a tool like this has a minimum bound of at least 2. Feel free to reach out! Email in profile.
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    SI units are intended to be supported, but I am unfamiliar with commonly-available wood sizes in non-US markets so it is thoroughly untested and likely a bit of a disaster. Bug reports are appreciated and can be filed by clicking the lightb
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    by taylorfinley 2mo ago

    I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table s
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    by taylorfinley 3mo ago

    Came here to flag the same beat. It's wild to me Terrance Tao has to pay to talk to chatgpt, you would think it would be the other way around!
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    by taylorfinley 3mo ago

    This is a really cool project. Is there any way to contribute data? Hawaii's artifacts have been displaced far and wide, The British museum alone has a stunning collection that usually sits in a basement, e.g. a small sample of their c
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    by taylorfinley 5mo ago

    Let me share a couple demos, with the caveat that this project is very much still a beta. There's a bug report/feature request button in-app, so if you notice anything egregious feel free to reach out there. [0] Building a hubless
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    by taylorfinley 5mo ago

    It's a woodworking simulator. There are tools (tape measure, pencil, miter saw, table saw, jigsaw, drill, router) and wood stocks (2x4s, plywood). There is a chat window and human UI similar to SketchUp. You can task the agent with usi
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    by taylorfinley 5mo ago

    I've been using Qwen3.6-Plus in my carpentry-simulator agent harness. That model performs pretty well, but not at Opus 4.7 levels. I will try 3.7 Plus when the pricing is announced and report back. I use Qwen3.6-A3B locally on my Strix
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    by taylorfinley 5mo ago

    I had a similar experience recently while helping my 5 year old daughter vibe code a sandcastle-themed tower defense game ( https://sandcastles.finley.lol ). I ended up thinking it might be easier to generate rigged models, animat
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    by taylorfinley 6mo ago

    Don't have too much fun with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
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    by taylorfinley 6mo ago

    Surely they are testing their optimizations against common benchmarks internally? I bet the "real world task" degradation is larger by some multiple than it appears when measured through a benchmark that is part of the target.
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    by taylorfinley 6mo ago

    I've noticed this and thought about it as well, I have a few suspicions: Theory 1: Some increasingly-large split of inference compute is moving over to serving the new model for internal users (or partners that are trialing the next mo