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by wkirby 1mo ago
There's a lot here I agree with and a lot I disagree with. If I'm doing any kind of serious data work I'm probably not reaching for a spreadsheet for things like processing, manipulation, statistical analysis. But if I'm
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by wkirby 1mo ago
> It doesn’t matter if you don’t use a note taker AI, if even one person on the call uses one Yeah, but I'm unwilling to be that person.
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by wkirby 1mo ago
I've got a suite of CSVs that represent both edge case and performance issues, and I script timing opening/common operations using Apple Scripting. It's not perfect, but it gives us a sense if we're introducing back-brea
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by wkirby 1mo ago
Wow, thanks!
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by wkirby 1mo ago
Literally starting my monday weekly standup now, I'll run it and see what's up. Thanks!
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by wkirby 1mo ago
My ideal use case is to pipe audio from both my microphone and capture system audio so things like our weekly team standup or my 1:1s with my devs can all have reliable, decent notes without taking me out of the flow of the conversation. I
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by wkirby 1mo ago
I'm very intrigued by AI note takers, but I'm absolutely unwilling to expose me or my clients to this exact problem. The solution (theoretically) is a purely local note taker, but I haven't found one that's any good. Tri
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by wkirby 1mo ago
The integrated SQL bench runs a full duckdb so it should be super accessible. Let me know what kind of licensing terms you'd need to make this work --- you can drop me a line at wyatt[at]apsis[dot]io.
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by wkirby 1mo ago
Still plugging away on Cassava, a CSV editor that sits somewhere between sublime text and Excel: https://cassava.dev/ . Our most recent releases added first-class xls/xlsx file opening and an autofill handle. The projec
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by wkirby 2mo ago
Replying for the ~5 people who happened to download earlier this afternoon, the rc20 build that was uploaded earlier today was missing the update server URL. Re-downloading rc20 should have a corrected build that will notify you of any upda
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by wkirby 2mo ago
Coming soon. Just need to figure out the build and deploy story.
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by wkirby 2mo ago
I keep telling my team "it's CSV but with some As thrown in there."
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by wkirby 2mo ago
Almost certainly not; it really depends on how iCloud handles the sync. Cassava supports (at the moment) CSV (and its variants TSV, etc.) and JSON files. If your sync mechanism works well for those files in a text editor like vscode or subl
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by wkirby 2mo ago
Linux support is there and working, half my team uses arch btw. Windows is working, I just don't build for it right now. Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't like using text editors for sheet data; it's s
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by wkirby 2mo ago
I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in ru
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by wkirby 7mo ago
My experience thus far is that the local models are a) pretty slow and b) prone to making broken tool calls. Because of (a) the iteration loop slows down enough to where I wander off to do other tasks, meaning that (b) is way more problemat
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by wkirby 10mo ago
Make. A. Smaller. Phone.
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by wkirby 1y ago
I see this as the next great wave of work for me and my team. We sustained our business for a good 5–8 years on rescuing legacy code from offshore teams as small-to-medium sized companies re-shored their contract devs. We're currently
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by wkirby 1y ago
Looking forward to trying this out. An early comment: I would love to be able to override tool descriptions and system prompts from a config. Especially when working with local models, context management is king and the tool descriptions ca
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by wkirby 1y ago
I'm not trying to start a fight, but fwiw I adore both typescript and rails.
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by wkirby 1y ago
I dream of building an apple watch case that adds a T9 bluetooth keyboard. Turn the standalone Apple Watch into the dumbphone I've always wanted.
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by wkirby 1y ago
It’s trying to convey that Sam Altman is a dweeb.
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Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen(ft.com)
2 points by wkirby 1y ago|3 comments
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Good Readers and Good Writers [pdf](moodyap.pbworks.com)
3 points by wkirby 1y ago|0 comments
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by wkirby 1y ago
Like my co-founder said, we're a small company based in the US, and hiring in foreign jurisdictions is both expensive and time consuming. We're currently set up to hire in the US and Canada, and while we'd be willing to expan
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by wkirby 1y ago
Apsis Labs | Staff Frontend Engineer | REMOTE (US, Canada) | $132,000 | https://www.apsis.io Seeking a skilled frontend-focused full-stack engineer who thrives on building beautiful and functional user interfaces, but still feel
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by wkirby 1y ago
I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in this thread that this represents a "hideous theft machine", but I think even if we discard that, this is still bad. It's very clear that generative has abandoned the idea of creative; i
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by wkirby 2y ago
Absolutely love the sound design on this.
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by wkirby 2y ago
The bottleneck is not putting code on the hard drive, or turning my thoughts into code — the productivity bottleneck is thinking and frankly no LLM is thinking better than an average developer.
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by wkirby 2y ago
Even if that’s what they mean (and I agree, that’s plausible, though not obvious) it’s still an asinine statement in the context of their broader thesis: advancements in generative AI are going to power the rise of the solopreneur. In absol

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