_bramses

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by _bramses 2mo ago
Half right, but no. It IS intellectually lazy precisely because as you pointed out, snake oil salesmen exist in the space. Because of them, well meaning people who can inform people of the very real trade offs of different storage or search
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by _bramses 2mo ago
The reason I love the Personal Library Science space is directly due to its emergence of information features in a personal library against the idiosyncratic processes of resonance and attention in their creators. The whole discourse around
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by _bramses 2mo ago
The punchy sentence delivery is so annoying and repetitive. The "X is not Y, its Z" form they all take is headache inducing.
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The How and Why of Entity Shorthand(bramadams.dev)
2 points by _bramses 2mo ago|0 comments
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by _bramses 2mo ago
Location: New York, NY Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JS, Claude, OpenAI, Python, Postgres, React, Node Résumé/CV: https://www.bramadams.dev/share/ Email: bram@bramadams.dev Only interested in c
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by _bramses 2mo ago
Reading is a System! https://reading-is-a-system.vercel.app/ I've been helping people achieve their reading goals by hosting workshops at libraries and helping adults become more intentional about their reading goals a
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by _bramses 3mo ago
I’ve been doing 1:1 therapy style sessions to make adults better readers!
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by _bramses 3mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! I don’t agree with your assessment, since the slideshow is about books, not learning in general, but I’ll take those thoughts into consideration. I agree with your point wrt fragmentation, but my point is to actuall
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Reading Is a System(docs.google.com)
3 points by _bramses 3mo ago|2 comments
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Use Claude to Annotate Handwriting and Photos on iPhone(github.com)
1 points by _bramses 5mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A Question and Annotation Driven Parallel Reading App(apps.apple.com)
1 points by _bramses 7mo ago|0 comments
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by _bramses 7mo ago
Im working on a number of projects at once that are all under the umbrellas of: personal library science, booktech, and qualitative improvements to personal life [1]. Notable mentions: - Life’s Articles, a personal Wikipedia - Counting Worm
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BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice(github.com)
1 points by _bramses 7mo ago|0 comments
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by _bramses 8mo ago
I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type "standup". Other than that, I use Linear basically in the way they mak
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by _bramses 8mo ago
https://www.bramadams.dev/ my pride and joy with many easter eggs, including: - random post surfacing - animated book progress html [1] - creative code [2] - code poetry [3] and much more!! 1 - https://www.bramad
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Swote: Swipe (or drag) Up Quotes from Books(swote.vercel.app)
1 points by _bramses 8mo ago|0 comments
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by _bramses 9mo ago
I’m kicking off my 2026 book club! It’s probably a bit different from book clubs you’re familiar with. Each of us is reading sixty books over 2026, five a month, where every book is self selected by each member. It’s small, six people, all
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My Working Thoughts(bramadams.dev)
3 points by _bramses 9mo ago|0 comments
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by _bramses 10mo ago
Pretty easily doable by reading multiple books at the same time! Averages out to ~50 pages a day. The trick is to always keep the book queue filled, so long books that take a while coexist for a while with a number of shorter length ones
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by _bramses 10mo ago
I’m starting a book club! - Sixty books a year (five books a month) - Self Chosen Books (no forced reading) - Two recorded Salon style meetings monthly - Bespoke software for the group including: shared embedding graph of highlights and ann
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Sixty Books a Year Book Club(bramadams.dev)
2 points by _bramses 11mo ago|0 comments
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My Five Favorite Inventions(bramadams.dev)
2 points by _bramses 1y ago|0 comments
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by _bramses 1y ago
A lot of good ideas in this comment section. I’ll say this: between store, search, synthesize and share, store and synthesize are consistently the most difficult to nail down. A society that wishes to succeed in creating an activated and kn
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by _bramses 1y ago
Curious as to why you think so? The goal was to discuss my incorrect assumption of the mobile form factor for my software, but how did it read to you?
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I Was Wrong About Mobile(your-commonbase.beehiiv.com)
1 points by _bramses 1y ago|2 comments
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We Traded Fun for Practicality(your-commonbase.beehiiv.com)
2 points by _bramses 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: The Commonbase Data Structure(github.com)
4 points by _bramses 1y ago|0 comments
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Software is about promises(bramadams.dev)
90 points by _bramses 1y ago|22 comments
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by _bramses 1y ago
> Discoveryness. Even if the needed content exists, it’s hard to guarantee that users will find it. I'm curious as to what you'll think of the UX layer I applied to embeddings for public perusal. I call it "semantic scroll
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by _bramses 2y ago
For anyone who's looking Brave Search is $3/1000 requests [0] I also wrote a script that searches the web and works pretty well (using the vercel ai sdk)[1] [0] - https://brave.com/search/api/ [1] - htt

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