mjmvisser

These services only exist because Google refuses to provide a paid search API.

It’s worth it for me because I’m still using an Apple TV 4K 2017 that I bought in 2019. It struggles with a lot of Plex content. The price tag does feel high, but taking into account post-Covid inflation and component cost increases due to the AI bubble, it makes sense. An Nvidia shield pro cost exactly the same (in Canada, at least).

My home theatre set up is through a Denon receiver. I love my gen1 HomePods for listening to music, but I can’t understand why anyone would buy four HomePods rather than a proper surround setup.

Anycode Wallet! I used it years ago to put my family’s library card in Apple Wallet. It supports a bunch of standards, and also you can use a photo (which I ended up using because my library uses some weird non-standard bar code).

Edit: also, it’s free.

One thing you can do that never seems to occur to anyone is to tell the LLM to critique its own work. Then ask it how it would fix the issues it found, then feed that into the next iteration. You can also ask it to look for generative AI “tells” and do the same. One-shotting a prompt rarely gives you the best output.

“Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you.”

So far so good…

“Those rethinks are load-bearing parts of your voice.”

Oops.

I looked into a bunch of things like this, but in the end I decided to just pay for a Boosteroid subscription (cloud gaming service). Works great.

Claude Auto was the push I needed to finally switch to running VSCode in a dev container. It’s a Microsoft VSCode extension that builds off docker, and it was surprisingly easy to set up. Took about 30 minutes, and I no longer have to worry about Claude using my ssh credentials or accessing files outside of the project. It’s completely transparent, too, the user experience is nearly identical.

Had a similar experience. I bought an ePaper display and a Pi 4 to run a calendar widget on. I got stuck because the open source project I was building off expected the previous generation of ePaper display, and the firmware had changed completely. I found the new firmware examples, but got stuck trying to get it to work. With Claude assisting we banged it out in two sessions of about 3 hours each.

codeberg.org/mjmvisser/infoframe if anyone’s interested.