p5v
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Comment · 2 days ago
Why not use nim instead? https://nim-lang.org/
Comment · 1 month ago
I’ve long since been having a pro-forma CLAUDE.md, referring to @AGENTS.md in all of my projects. Still works fine.
Comment · 2 months ago
In my peak programming years in Germany, about 5-6 years ago, every company that ever tried to hire me, wanted to do some sort of CRM for xyz. It’s fun when you build it once, but then you change the domain, and realize you’re essentially building the same thing, but for different people. I’d gotten so bored of it all by 2020 that I’d approach them right away, asking “are you building yet another CRM for xyz?” They didn’t like it, because it would undermine their work. But it’s true - thousands of highly-educated, well-paid people in Munich at the time, were essentially paid to build and maintain glorified sheets software for managing people and resources.
You can guess which companies and people were hit the hardest, when it turned out that all that software could eventually be generated by a machine.
Comment · 5 months ago
This looks like Tauri.
I don’t know. I still prefer simply shipping Go binaries around that fire up a local web server and open the web page on start. I’m old enough to care about these fancy languages, frameworks, native APIs and such. A dumb language like Go, in combination with HTMX and some JavaScript/CSS is all I need.
Comment · 6 months ago
Generative art was my first love. By accident, I ended up being a student of the great Frieder Nake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieder_Nake) and that changed my future trajectory.
Eventually, this led me to writing my own indie book on generative art with Go: https://p5v.gumroad.com/l/generative-art-in-golang, which led me to a talk I gave on GopherCon Europe: https://youtu.be/NtBTNllI_LY?si=GMePA3CfVQZJq2O7
These were great times, but I think the book is not worth buying anymore. Sadly, AI-generated imagery sort of killed the mojo of algorithmic art for me, and I've been trying to get back to it for the last few years.
Comment · 6 months ago
Is this a hobby project or a real social media application with people using it? If there are at least 1000 ppl. using the platform, we can consider adding link aggregation for it in https://murmel.social
Comment · 7 months ago
My best takeaway from this post:
> The friction of building personal apps has always been so high that as users we accepted the ads, the trackers, the dark patterns, and the constant upsells.
> The friction is just not there anymore. You can build a personal app that has the exact subset of features you want, that is clean, fast, and respects your privacy, in a matter of hours.
https://preslav.me/2026/04/03/the-friction-is-just-not-there...
Comment · 7 months ago
Convince me that this wasn't written by an LLM.
Comment · 7 months ago
Hey HN,
Anthropic charges $20/month for Claude Pro, which is all fine, but we all know that this is heavily subsidized, and is not the real cost of tokens we burn through.
The well-known ccusage (https://ccusage.com/) utility can read those logs and compute what you would have paid on a pay-per-token basis. For heavy users, that number can be... surprising.
I built a single HTML file that turns that data into a shareable infographic — cost trends over time, model breakdown (Sonnet vs. Haiku vs. Opus), total token volume, and peak spend days.
Everything runs client-side. The JSON never leaves your machine.
Comment · 7 months ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot while building Murmel (https://murmel.social). One thing we wanted to avoid from day one was the “infinite engagement machine” model, so instead of pushing algorithmic slop, we just surface links that are already being shared by people you follow on Bluesky and Mastodon.
It ends up feeling much closer to “what’s interesting in my corner of the web right now?” and much less like a system trying to keep you trapped inside it.
Small scope, obviously, but I think more social tools should feel like utilities, not casinos.
Comment · 7 months ago
I think this post sums it up pretty well: https://preslav.me/2026/03/25/murmel-competition-identity-tr...
Comment · 7 months ago
Interesting, I’ll check it out. But just like X RAW studio, I bet that it won’t work with my old X-E1.