geekforbrains

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An eccentric programmer, father, runner and ukulele player inhabiting a small area of Vancouver Island. Co-Founder of QuoteRobot and Input Logic Inc.
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Comment · 1 year ago
I think Aider is great, but when I first tried it, it wasn’t “agentic” - you had to manually manage files in the context window. I found this cumbersome. I definitely resonated with Claude Code more, but wanted more model options.
Comment · 1 year ago
I haven’t spent much time there. Mostly OpenaAI, Anthropic and Google as they had shown the most promise for coding. Hoping to spend more time on local models soon though.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yep! It supports all major models right now: OpenAI (including new 4.1), Anthropic's Claude and all Gemini models.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sidekick is an agentic CLI-based AI tool inspired by Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf and Cursor. It's meant to be an open source alternative to these tools, providing a similar experience but with the flexibility of using different LLM providers while keeping the agentic workflow.

It was a pet project that turned into a thing been a ton of fun to work on though and looking forward to exploring other ideas. Still in beta, so a few quirks but mostly works.

Comment · 6 years ago
Hey fellow hackers. I made a tool (called Cheddar) that connects your bank accounts to Google Sheets and imports transactions automatically. It was originally a shitty little Python script that I was using personally but decided to make it a "thing". I've had friends and family signup and use it but now I'm looking for feedback from a more honest user base ;)

I'd love to know if you're into spreadsheet budgeting and what you'd expect from such a tool as I try to grow it into a full-blown product! I'm all ears!

Comment · 13 years ago
Ha ha, thanks for linking to this old post. For the record, this was meant to be a quick fix to solve some encoding issues we had on our live site.

I agree that setting global state is a bad idea. However, client satisfaction is more important than a temporary hack.

Comment · 13 years ago
As far as I know, Postach.io wasn't a bookmarking app. Not one we were running anyway.
Comment · 13 years ago
You have to enable Markdown in your site settings. Its a checkbox near the bottom.
Comment · 13 years ago
love this idea!
Comment · 13 years ago
Hey, sorry for the lack of details. We're still working on that.

Basically, Postach.io looks in a notebook you specify when creating a site, for notes that are tagged as "published". This will make a post on your public site. Any images are pushed to our CDN. If a note is tagged with "page" as well as "published" its made public as a page. When a note is deleted or the tag "published" removed, it will be removed form your public site as well as any images from our CDN.

Hope that answers your questions ;)

Comment · 13 years ago
Awesome, glad to see you were able to hack a custom theme pretty quick too! Looks great. We'll have some in-depth theme docs coming later this week.

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