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by robgough 3d ago
If you're on one of the betas for about-to-be-released apple OS’s, there's a new describe an extension functionality and building a dark mode for HN is exactly what I just used it to do. Super easy, and synced across all my device
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by robgough 4d ago
The only listed feature here I've not got is the automated translation. It will currently draft responses in the incoming language right now – though that's not terribly useful if you don't speak that language. I'd been
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by robgough 5d ago
I get the temptation to self-host your support platform, as the existing tooling out there can be quite expensive when you want to upgrade from just using an email inbox. If any founders find themselves reading this, and don't think it
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by robgough 15d ago
Same here. Over the last two weeks I switched back to Opus 4.8 and turns out that still seems to last the week like it used to. These new models must be eating tokens.
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by robgough 15d ago
On the other hand, all the little services I'm building for myself are passwordless and use passkeys with emailed codes for setup/reset. Passwords were a really poor solution to the problem of security, they didn't take the h
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by robgough 2mo ago
I'm seeing a lot of this across all sorts of apps right now. We're at a sort of cambrian explosion point for software. I too built my own equivalent of this (belfry.robgough.net). I take it as a good thing, we're all using th
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by robgough 2mo ago
This is great – I built almost the same thing. It's eerie how similar it made that footer on the public websites! Your app definitely looks a bit nicer than mine though! https://belfry.robgough.net I actually started with a
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by robgough 2mo ago
obligatory link to https://chatjimmy.ai
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by robgough 2mo ago
I appreciate the kind words. Thank you. I really wanted to have background audio and make it so the keyboard would directly record audio etc, but my first pass didn't make it through app review (and that was just keeping background aud
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by robgough 2mo ago
I built my own because I was frustrated with a lot of the free options. Largely because a lot of them had an upsell to be able to do the secondary post-processing step with an LLM. And it wouldn't pick up things like emojis properly or
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by robgough 2mo ago
I think that's parakeet doing its job there. That is a closer reflection of what you've actually said. The trick is then throwing that output through some additional deterministic and non-deterministic steps to tidy it up however
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by robgough 2mo ago
It pairs quite nicely with agentic development as it has a history of plenty of open-source projects published on GitHub, which means they have learned to work with Rails et al. rather well. It also helps to have a "boring" framew
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by robgough 2mo ago
Wow, thanks, I'd missed that. It's impossible to keep up with Anthropic and their rather erratic way of operating.
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by robgough 2mo ago
What makes you think your usage is getting cut by 50% post July 13th? It's just that you can use up to 50% of your usage on Fable right now, and that is what is going away. I'm going to miss Fable too, I found it surprisingly toug
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by robgough 2mo ago
Quickly switching between multiple sessions, and seeing which sessions are waiting for input. I generally run a session per project. Then within each session, a window for Claude, a window for running whatever dev server/logs, a window
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by robgough 2mo ago
I'm a big tmux fan, but admittedly I've found myself switching between a lot of sessions recently and wishing it was a little bit more mouse friendly. If you're a Mac user, and can forgive the shameless plug, you might find b
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by robgough 3mo ago
I've been surprised by how far my motivation has taken me. I have multiple projects now that are so much further ahead than I have ever managed before. I would get stuck on some small issue or key-decision and then would struggle to mo
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by robgough 3mo ago
They've said there are limits, and increased limits for those on iCloud+ ... so it seems that Apple is in the selling LLM access game now. I don't think there are any details yet on the nature of those limits, and whether they can
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by robgough 3mo ago
Have you seen that they've added an `fm` tool? It was mentioned in the Platforms State of the Union. Here's what you get when you run it... https://gist.github.com/robgough/7893602895e7580117475076198...
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by robgough 3mo ago
I'm fully expecting an updated foundation model of some kind, but I would bet money they don't utter the words "Google", "Gemini", or "Gemma" even once.
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by robgough 4mo ago
Mac only I'm afraid, but I already did [1]. Packaged it too as I figured it might be useful to others [2] (and I'd want to install it on machine's that I might not have Xcode on) [1]: https://github.com/robgou
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by robgough 4mo ago
I've got a home-built dictation app that uses a local model to clear up the text and fix grammar. It was super easy to build. I’m extending it to capture meeting notes and summarise too. All on-device. I saw a little app the other day,
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by robgough 4mo ago
I recently built a similar app, and so hit the same limitations – I wasn't too upset on Mac, happy to distribute without the App Store (though it's a shame). Where I was more frustrated was how much this limited the potential usab
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by robgough 4mo ago
It's not as powerful as Gemma 4, but I think they likened it to GPT-3. It's perfectly capable of looking at images and classifying them at the level you'll need for this app. And it runs everything on the Apple Neural engines
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by robgough 4mo ago
As clever as this is, it seems like the names are fairly straightforward (as you'd want!) – did you try using the on-device Apple Foundation model at all? That's actually pretty powerful for a use case like this, and if you'r
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by robgough 4mo ago
Review times have already spiked, apparently, although I've never found them particularly good. There used to be a third-party website that tracked this via user submissions, though that was shut down when they made genuine efforts to
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by robgough 4mo ago
I think that's a fair question. For this app I didn't see the harm in releasing it. You have to pay for the account etc. to get it onto TestFlight anyway, so I might as well just put it out there. And avoids me having to resubmit
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by robgough 4mo ago
That looks great! It's so clearly going to be the dominant way of working with your computer. I was such a cynic, so I was completely shocked at how quickly it became my favourite way to interact with my devices. I'm fully expecti
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by robgough 4mo ago
Exactly this. For example the iOS app failed first time as I accidentally used "Free" in the app name, and the app declared support for UIBackgroundModes but they were "unable to locate any features that require persistent au
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by robgough 4mo ago
I had a go at building both a Mac and iOS dictation app the other day (dictator.robgough.net) thinking that with Claude's input, this probably wouldn't work... but it was a real problem I had, and I wanted to see how far we could

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