ecliptik
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Comment · 7 hours ago
I am willing to check this out. I have 512Ke and Mac Plus hardware and am always looking for ways to maximize the hardware capabilities.
Comment · 16 hours ago
Claude built me a meta web/notes/code search engine with IOS and MacOS apps, and for fun I asked it to make a Haiku version [1], which it did in under 20 minutes.
With AI I feel like a lot of these bygone-era OS's could see a whole new ecosystem of modern apps within a very short period of time.
Comment · 6 days ago
Few months ago I had Claude build me a Gopher browser for Classic Macintosh systems, geomys[1]. I was using TurboGopher[2] before then, and it worked, but had a lot of design choices that are clunky today.
I tried to focus on keeping with the Apple HIG from the 1990s, while also making it more aligned with modern browser principles.
Comment · 8 days ago
In those years in the systems group I was working in at a fortune 500, we were very interested in this type of technology. Mostly using Solaris Zones and cgroups and trying to do this ourselves with limited results.
When Docker came out it solved so many issues we were having. Thank you for scratching that itch.
Comment · 8 days ago
I work with Claude to port games to DOS and build new Classic Macintosh apps [1][2][3] using real hardware.
For a while I was doing the SDcard swap thing; but realized with a usb4vc[4] (hands), a vga/hdmi usb capture dongle (eyes/ears), an old Wemo switch (on/off/reboot) and ftp/appleshare (files/logs) I could have Claude do it all for me.
Claude made me vcctrl[5] that ties all of it together, including an mcp, skills and a webkvm.
1. https://github.com/ecliptik/doskutsu
2. https://github.com/ecliptik/flynn
3. https://github.com/ecliptik/talkip
Comment · 1 month ago
Will there be a Claude Sheets too? I find myself using Claude to work with spreadsheets more than almost any other document type. It does okay now, but feel like it could be even better, especially with visualizations and formulas.
Comment · 1 month ago
Adding Ode to the Half-Broken [1] to the list. Read it a few weeks ago and it has stuck with me.
>Wrestling with themes of loneliness, connection, and purpose, this hope-punk sci-fi is for fans of Becky Chambers’s Monk & Robot duology
1. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787289/ode-to-the-h...
Comment · 1 month ago
I do this for porting things to DOS. Was swapping a CF card back and forth between a 486 PC and my laptop that was running Claude and it was extremely tedious and required me to physically be at the system.
Automated it entirely by giving Claude hands/eyes/ears so it can take complete control of the 486 using a raspberrypi 5, a usb4vc HAT for PS/2 and a VGA capture device. Adding an ethernet card and a tcp/ip boot profile for FTP, Claude then can update binaries, test them, and gather logs. Now I just steer Claude and it handles interfacing with the machine for me.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm doing something similar for DOS SDL ports. Repo isn't public yet, but idea is to have a repo with a knowledge base, skills and patches agents can use when porting to avoid having to bootstrap everything from scratch.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's dumb, but whenever I see something representing the planets, I always count them. Occasionally you come across places that still include Pluto.
Most recent example I found was the Swatch MoonSwatch Collection [1], which includes the Sun, Moon, eight planets and Pluto[2].
1. https://www.swatch.com/en-us/bioceramic-moonswatch-collectio...
2. https://www.swatch.com/en-us/mission-to-pluto-so33m101/SO33M...
Comment · 2 months ago
I knew of GPG key signing parties, but never anything at this scale or impact. Might try booting the "Signing Computer Operating System Image Release coen-2.0.1" ISO in a VM and checking it out.
Comment · 2 months ago
Onigiri [1] - https://github.com/ecliptik/onigiri
A calorie tracker for iPhone/Watch/iPad, no subscriptions, no ads, integrates with Apple Health and fully open source. Includes optional AI features, either using on-device Apple Intelligence or BYO with Anthropic, OpenAI and OpenAI compatible services (eg self-hosted).
Still tuning it, but over the last month I've used it to lose around 10lbs.
I'm planning to put it in Testflight to avoid the 7 day signing expiration and improve iCloud integration, but don't have any plans to put it in the App Store. Developed with Claude Code and Axiom skills [2].
GPG Proofs ----------------------------
This is an OpenPGP proof that connects my OpenPGP key to this Hackernews account. For details check out https://keyoxide.org/guides/openpgp-proofs
[Verifying my OpenPGP key:openpgp4fpr:5F70F2ACBD58F580DF153D1F4FA270F5CD3671F9]
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ecliptik; my proof: https://keybase.io/ecliptik/sigs/Qoe_QkXfE9Es5N3OsRDLBMaWxHMFt8l3JbegDmU8R20 ]