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Software Engineer @ Netflix. Views expressed here are my own. polyglot.codes πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ #BeKind

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Are you sitting on a story, Lorin? πŸ˜‚

24.05.2025 22:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there still any alpha in trying to build this?

24.05.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

😁

24.05.2025 05:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Nova AI Nova AI website

I'd super excited to announce a project I've been incubating in the last six months!

Nova AI is a WhatsApp first, fully featured digital assistant agent. It supports custom slash commands, and all message types - text, voice, image, location etc.

Try it out and send feedback!

www.novaai.fyi

28.01.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What are my options if I want something like Computer Use or Operator, but without the vendor lock in? I can build the abstraction myself, but I just know it won't be as good or efficient

24.01.2025 06:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tangential but relevant - it appears OpenAI is going after successful business ideas, built on top of their models, after they've been de-risked by small startups.

23.01.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One you're really programmed to move around with vim motions, everything else absolutely pales in comparison. I wish Google Docs had insert and command modes

23.01.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today I tried a new productivity hack: dictate words into a text editor. It didn't work too well because my written style is fundamentally different from my spoken style. It's also awkward to say things like "comma" or "full stop".

07.01.2025 21:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's unclear to me what problem Ghostty solves with existing terminal emulators. Speed isn't a real problem. Theming is a solved problem.

06.01.2025 23:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You see this and think "Romanesco", but all I see is Mandelbrot

04.01.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone based in the SF Bay Area looking to hack in person? Would love to see more old school hack days happening!

03.01.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You know where the AI stuff is...tough choice for us

23.12.2024 12:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool! Projects like this perfectly illustrate the main reason I love WASM - it's this unlikely intersection of systems and web programming

22.12.2024 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Landman

09.12.2024 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's beyond laughable now

09.12.2024 05:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

JS library authors, please, I am pleading with you to stop recommending `npm install -g <library_name>` in your documentation. We have much better alternatives today -- use `npx`. Thank you, and with love.

07.12.2024 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love it!

07.12.2024 20:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a real alternative to Google Workspaces?

27.11.2024 05:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the most unfortunate typos: 'git ass ...'

17.11.2024 23:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New blog post:
JavaScript vs. WASM: Monte-Carlo Simulation (polyglot.codes)

19.02.2024 05:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A short, non-exhaustive list for 2024 and beyond:

1. Eat to live, not live to eat.
2. Create more, consume less.
3. Optimize for cashflow.

04.01.2024 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anniversary date night with the wife today 🌹 πŸ‘©β€β€οΈβ€πŸ‘¨

09.09.2023 23:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the key. Build the POC - the design doc is nice to have, but not informative enough because the implementation will have obstacles not previously thought of/discovered in the doc.

18.06.2023 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brought to you from the publication that normalized and pushed for Brexit

18.06.2023 17:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Afternoon good

11.06.2023 17:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🀒

08.06.2023 05:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The mid 2000s were the golden age of Britpop music. The Kooks, Lily Allen, Razorlight, Two Door Cinema club. Man, such good times!

05.06.2023 21:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These prices are outright insane...how can the average consumer afford these?

05.06.2023 20:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love the symmetry here 😁

29.05.2023 22:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today I learned πŸ˜…

27.05.2023 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0