rikroots

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by rikroots 4d ago
I made a web-based multi-target screen recorder with talking head and teleprompt functionality because I fancied making an obscure tool to prove that I could. Maybe if I marketed it harder more people would know about it, but I'm not t
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by rikroots 7d ago
It's not enough to invent (and patent) something. You also need to document it in various ways - so people know the invented thing exists, what it's for, how to use it, how to fix it, etc. > poor people couldn't afford to
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by rikroots 8d ago
Agreed. While copyright timescales are currently over-extended, copyright was introduced for a very practical reason: "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of suc
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by rikroots 11d ago
Oh, it's about avoiding LLM-generated slop. I was hoping it would be about the increasing trend over the past 20 years for writers to stop trusting their readers, and instead insist on telling the readers how they should read and inter
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by rikroots 1mo ago
Late to the thread, but I agree with everything in this comment. The best way to build a website (especially any sort of transaction and/or form) is with the standard tools: HTML, CSS, the smallest amount of JS necessary. I've bee
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by rikroots 2mo ago
Oh, excellent! I thought I was the only author (idiotic enough) to give away my books for free. I choose to call it altruism, but the truth is that I got sick of the whole marketing-and-promotion meat grinder a long while back and decided I
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by rikroots 3mo ago
It turns out that adding noise to gradients is a really useful thing to do - so many new effects can be created with just a few additional parameters. Sadly, CSS and Canvas API gradients (linear, radial, conic) are very basic implementation
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by rikroots 3mo ago
I learned last year that "translation" can be a very tricky thing. Because there's never a one-to-one correlation between one language's words, phrases, structures and metaphors, and another language's equivalent st
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Show HN: A local-only image filter editor and batch processor in the browser(kaliedarik.github.io)
1 points by rikroots 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rikroots 4mo ago
I give my side projects away for free because I have a $job to pay for the roof over my head, food, etc. and don't feel the need to make more money from my hobby work. I create my side projects in the first place because I like to prov
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by rikroots 5mo ago
> when it's much easier to just build a nice website using JavaScript I'm currently building a web-based tool that uses dynamic forms for UI, without the help of of a framework (yeah I know; I have reasons). This is the result:
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by rikroots 5mo ago
Last year I made the mistake of asking ChatGPT what the world would look like if `∞ === -∞` and it took me seriously (I think) and led me on an hours-long dance where in the end it had me trying to prove, mathematically, that `2 > 1` ...
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by rikroots 5mo ago
I'm building a client-side-only web page that will (eventually) allow users to build their own image filter and batch-apply it to a bunch of images. https://kaliedarik.github.io/sc-filter-builder/ No idea if anyon
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by rikroots 5mo ago
> I spent a fair amount of time with p5 etc, but the results always felt limited and brittle. I wrote a JS canvas library[1] partly because existing libraries of the time (2013) didn't do what I wanted a canvas library to do. Things
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Record demo videos in the browser: multi-screen, camera, annotations, subtitles(github.com)
2 points by rikroots 6mo ago|1 comments
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by rikroots 6mo ago
No install, no backend, no fees. MIT licensed for hacking and local use. Link to tool: https://kaliedarik.github.io/sc-screen-recorder/
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by rikroots 6mo ago
> the wheel template can have some letter parts like the top of L or d extend beyond the wheel Yeah - I use the template (in that case, a circle) to calculate line lengths, then I run 2d text along the 1d lines. Even if I tried to keep a
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by rikroots 6mo ago
> This thing is very impressive. Agreed! Text layout engines are stupidly hard. You start out thinking "It's a hard task, but I can do it" and then 3 months later you find yourself in a corner screaming "Why, Chinese?
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by rikroots 6mo ago
My tool uses the browser's built in encoders (which vary by browser, but whatever). I did use wasm though, for the MediaPipe background removal stuff. https://kaliedarik.github.io/sc-screen-recorder/
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Scrawl-Canvas Screen Recorder(github.com)
1 points by rikroots 6mo ago|1 comments
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by rikroots 6mo ago
Browser screen recorder with canvas composition, teleprompter, live annotations and talking-head overlay.
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by rikroots 6mo ago
For me it's a case of, I have to expose my canvas library documentation for the training data bots to find and (hopefully) include in the LLM training data because it's the only way I'll ever get LLMs to: A) accept that my li
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by rikroots 6mo ago
I've got a rotating tesseract demo up on CodePen[1]. At least, I think its a rotating tesseract - I have no idea if it's an accurate representation because tesseracts lead me into thinking about quaternions and then my brain shu
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by rikroots 6mo ago
Well I do seem to spent a fair amount of my developer time swearing at my laptop screen. And then there's that time I spend just prior to writing code just staring at the wall while I figure out what sort of code I want to write - if I
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Show HN: SC Screen Recorder: a browser-based screen recorder with added layers(kaliedarik.github.io)
2 points by rikroots 7mo ago|1 comments
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by rikroots 8mo ago
Because corruption is a thing. Also: any government contract can be audited at any time by the National Audit Office, who have criminal prosecution powers if they find malfeasance in the procurement process. Also: being hauled in front of a
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by rikroots 8mo ago
https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/
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by rikroots 9mo ago
> he did manage to predict/make into reality electric vehicles I miss the morning delivery of milk to the doorstep. And the milk carts that used to deliver it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
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Truths Tempered in Doubt: A journey alongside AI to Damascus, and beyond(rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk)
1 points by rikroots 9mo ago|0 comments
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by rikroots 9mo ago
The agent that generated the email didn't get another agent to proofread it? Failing to add a space between the full stop and the next letter is one of those things that triggers the proofreader chip in my skull.

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