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Just remembered how weird some mangakas are, pretty sure at least one is clinically insane without a diagnosis

i mean some of the story lines can only be produced by such a mind.

i made it is an open-source version of grammarly that uses chatgpt, grok subscription or even then already local apple intelligence models.

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looks great!

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thanks mate.

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Been a bit quiet here the last week or so. Recovering from ill health, at risk of redundancy, and working on side projects. It's been a bit full on. Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects? Can I use my redundancy runway to turn some websites from side hustle to salary money?

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Recovering from ill healthHope you’re feeling better now!Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects?That’s the dream, I’ve only made a few hundreds so far. I’ve had a machine gun approach. Shoot as many rounds as possible in the hopes I might hit something. has helped immensely in this direction. I’ve done a dozen projects past year and while became I’m still not there yet. I’m hopeful though! 😊

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Lots of slop PRs at $WORK. Trying Claude Tag, works well but token-billed, daily usage over 100€ for three sessions.

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ouch, that's a month for virtually unlimited Codex. why so expensive?

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Anthropic uses token billing for Claude Tag. But it’s different from CC - it’s an AI Colleague, so I’m asking PM and EM to talk to it instead of to me - accountability switches.

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so it's expensive and you're left with dealing with the PRs others generate for you?

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No, Claude Tag’s PRs are my team’s. Slop PRs come from outside of the team. Anyways, dozens PRs per day is draining energy. Don’t want to review anything anymore.

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Last weeks post about "if you're not using an LLM router, how do you know wtf is going on" inspired me to spin up a couple of OSS options this week and wow were they right.

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what did you find?

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Well, I know conceptually what is passed between my client/harness and the model provider, but to actually see it is mind expanding.

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just finished the book “This is what inequality looks like” by Teo You Yenn. will gather my thoughts and write more about it.

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Made some big updates to my side project. including adding loads of interactive maps. local data for local people

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Microsoft Excel 1. Pre-requisites 2. Foundation 3. Core Knowledge 4. Intermediate 5. Advanced 6. Application / Mastery

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Pre-requisites

Basic computer / file skills
Arithmetic, percentages, averages
Basic logic (AND/OR/IF thinking)

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HelloWorld show code

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
formatted_time = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
print("Formatted:", formatted_time)

Wow

Formatted: 2026-08-28 07:22:42

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Wrote a short essay on overreliance on metaphor in our "understanding" of the brain

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NIH syndrome? I am guilty of it too. I love implementing things from scratch, you learn a lot by doing so and you get to own the codebase end-to-end, so no surprises and fighting around others’ choices. It can get exhausting too though, in the end I succumb to using off-the-shelf components because my primary goals move at a higher level.

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I don't see much point in trying to build software at a "higher level", like whole products and services. I'm going to go down low and train myself on the fundamentals. Hopefully in time I'll be able to contribute to the foundational bits. You're right, it does get exhausting. At some point you just want to rebuild everything, which is not possible.

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I'm going to go down low and train myself on the fundamentals. When I wrote an HTTP sever (albeit HTTP/1.1), I learned how primitive the HTTP protocol its magic became a skill. It is freeing understanding how things work and allows me to choose where to spend time with more intention.

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someone asked me if I were a bot. ahahahahaa...

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hello i am verity

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Hello Verity :)

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verity my helper friend!!!!!

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omarchy felt a bit like cheating so i redid a plain arch install and am using sway now. if im honest, its all not that far away from eachother. obsessing over configs and distros is really just a hobby that some people in the linux community take too seriously.

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At dragoncon, and it's even more than a zoo than I expected. way more people than I thought would be here on a Friday.

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One day I would like to see Thailand. That would be nice.

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I am writing a GIS app for Android and iOS. Any opinions/suggestions?

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Make it easy for users to export polygons. My municipal GIS didn't for some reason so I had to guess by moving the mouse around and manually type the coordinates into Marble.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Export feature added.

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signals. thinking about shifting my mental framework to identify signals instead of waiting for concepts to be assembled. exploring the amount of energy and opportunities for distractions through the operations of processing what just happened and what is happening to short circuit latent and unnecessary systems. cut through the assembly processes and identify the raw signals. recognizing that naming these "raw signals" is misleading. maybe, shifting observability lower in the stack.

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