PullJosh

I love this! Such a beautiful use of some real nerdy math to benefit humans in a way non-nerds would appreciate.

I can’t believe they haven’t already

I like their emphasis on quickly prototyping many variations of a design. That seems useful, even for experienced designers.

This is awesome!

1) I am able to run the model on my iPhone and get good results. Not as good as Gemini in the cloud, but good.

2) I love the “mobile actions” tool calls that allow the LLM to turn on the flashlight, open maps, etc. It would be fun if they added Siri Shortcuts support. I want the personal automation that Apple promised but never delivered.

3) I am so excited for local models to be normalized. I build little apps for teachers and there are stringent privacy laws involved that mean I strongly prefer writing code that runs fully client-side when possible. When I develop apps and websites, I want easy API access to on-device models for free. I know it sort of exists on iOS and Chrome right now, but as far as I’m aware it’s not particularly good yet.

Looks great! I’ve definitely wanted this exact thing before. I will consider reaching for this next time I need to throw together a quick app.

I just deleted my account. The other LLMs are so good that I don't even feel like I'm sacrificing much.

Does relying on larger players result in better overall uptime for smaller players? AWS is providing me better uptime than if I assembled something myself because I am less resourced and less talented than that massive team.

If so, is it a good or bad trade to have more overall uptime but when things go down it all goes down together?

It’s been many years since I built a website using Django. At the time, my favorite feature was that it provided a built-in admin UI with no extra work. So helpful!

Now that I live in the JavaScript ecosystem, I don’t have an equivalent tool.

I’ve been working on promoting my seating chart app for teachers, Shuffle Buddy, on social media. I had a 1M view pop on TikTok when I first launched and have now been clawing along to try for continued engagement.

It’s reassuring to know that social media posts are hard for everyone and that it isn’t supposed to be easy. I keep looking for ways to create content that is genuinely beneficial to teachers and also convinces them to try my app, but it’s hard.

I feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.

I have aphantasia and have long thought that my lack of a mind’s eye might be an asset for programming, much like how a blind person will typically have better-than-average hearing.

If programming is best done through abstract thought and doesn’t benefit from pictures, then I’ve been training since the day I was born.

The design of this blog post is lovely! Despite seemingly having no right to be. It goes against all of my design instincts, but it somehow nails a vibe while remaining pleasant and easy on the eyes. I love it!

I was expecting this to refer to different ways to represent the same diff. (For example, you could represent a change from `console.log(“hello”)` as `console.log('hello')` as +'-“ … +’-“ or as +'hello'-“hello”)

I don’t have a specific example in mind, but it seems reasonable that different languages could benefit from different ways of representing the same diff.

Totally agree. I’ll also add that although I am often tempted to work alone, sharing my work or ideas or output with someone else boosts motivation a lot.