A simple app to copy music and photos between my Mac and my Android phone. Norton Commander style file manager: the Mac is on the left, the phone is on the right, and it uses adb over USB. It uses Python curses with a retro green-on-black window, made with pywebview and xterm.js. Background: Android File Transfer is not available anymore for the Mac, and the MTP-based tools I tried were flaky.
Limitations: you have to turn on USB debugging on the phone. It's also mostly been tested with my own phone, so I'd like to hear how it does on others. Please check the README on the app's security.
Yes, personalised software is a very useful field. Years ago, it was: is there an app for that? Now that's no longer the bottleneck, and you can make an app as individual as you like. That also means that selling apps gets more and more difficult, because everyone can build her or his own.
Or will the AI agent make apps generally redundant? There will probably still be a stable core for databases, payments, and authentication – services with an API plus data. The winners will be those who own something an agent needs to call.
Yes, but also people in the HN bubble overestimate how many people would want to sit down and "prompt their own app". Just like I mostly don't want to bake my own bread and leave it to the professionals at the bakery.
I might be excited about doing my own music library management script, but probably less excited about building my own Photoshop if there's already a company in that space focusing on that as their core business.
Lovely idea. As a sailor, I still rely on lighthouses and their individual signature. In times of GPS jamming, we shouldn't give up longstanding technology.
Ilma is a Navtex decoder for the Raspberry Pi that just got weather fax (WEFAX) capabilities. I’m a sailor and I built a headless receiver for the Raspberry Pi & SDR-RTL v4 dongle.
The tempo of AI development is overwhelming. Within one generation, coding/IT has gone from the most promising career for the young to profound insecurity about the future.
That's true! Even faster, for exemple for young people who started university in September 2022 thinking computer sciences is one of the most promising for job opportunities: they started before ChatGPT was released, and now they haven't yet finished their masters degrees.
I use a self-developed plain text editor for writing and my one-click GitHub sync menu bar app to deploy Astro blogs.
The irony of the GitHub sync app is that I do no longer have a working GitHub account...
I built this on a Pi Zero 2 W because of its low energy consumption when it's running continuously on a boat. Navtex is a 1970s radio technique that delivers navigational and meteorological info and has forward error correction built in. For the characters that still slip through, I added a small n-gram model. An LLM wouldn't fit on the Pi.
I also work on an RTTY mode that hasn't got any built-in error correction. Does anyone have ideas for correcting characters dropped during radio transmission?
