miniatureape

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Comment · 8 months ago

I had a take on this same thing a number of years ago. Much simpler, but the idea was just to see it at a glance. https://miniatureape.github.io/sprezzatura/

Comment · 1 year ago

Is this the problem that Claude sub agents are supposed to be solving?

They say they’re are for preserving and managing context and I’ve been wondering if they help with the “too many tools” problem.

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents

Comment · 1 year ago

Reminds me of the account of the macrobians by Herodotus:

> and after this [the Persian spies] saw last of all their receptacles of dead bodies, which are said to be made of crystal in the following manner:—when they have dried the corpse, whether it be after the Egyptian fashion or in some other way, they cover it over completely with plaster 21 and then adorn it with painting, making the figure as far as possible like the living man. After this they put about it a block of crystal hollowed out; for this they dig up in great quantity and it is very easy to work: and the dead body being in the middle of the block is visible through it, but produces no unpleasant smell nor any other effect which is unseemly, and it has all its parts visible like the dead body itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobians

Comment · 1 year ago

Perhaps an even more fitting Housman poem: https://poets.org/poem/loveliest-trees

Comment · 2 years ago

I think my perfect phone would be if Apple chopped an inch or an inch and a half off the bottom of the iPhone 12 mini and ran a slightly improved watchOS on it.

Comment · 2 years ago

A made a little “secret knock” authentication demo.

Shave and a haircut is obviously the secret knock used in the demo

https://miniatureape.github.io/prohibition/

(Nb: I’m sure this doesn’t work great on some devices)

Comment · 2 years ago

I would really love a control-f for the real world.

Imagine you have a list of wines you want to try, or used books you’re hoping to buy.

In the store you open your phone and scan the shelves with your camera and if it finds any matches from your lists, it shows you them on the screen.

Comment · 2 years ago

The building in that show is the Holmdel location. Murray Hill is a different campus.

The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95 panix.com

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Comment · 4 years ago

I would try to identify an ecosystem where he could start building on his own: Custom Shopify functionality, Wordpress plugins etc. he can try to find small customers with simple needs and scale up as he learns. The ecosystem will provide him some guardrails and shrink the surface area to something manageable. You could coach him as he goes if you have time.

Comment · 4 years ago

What is the best way to help people in Ukraine? Are there charities or organizations that I can donate to?

Comment · 4 years ago

I think this is a really cool idea and something I have personally wanted (or at least thought I wanted) for a long time. In fact I wrote about a similar idea in 2013.[1]

To me, this is just one part of something bigger though. I want to be able to store code in blocks and compose them into bigger blocks by chaining them and pipelining them. I'd also like versioning and some access rules.