I've recently been working on developing an MCP on top of Libreoffice Draw and I just learned what an amazing piece of software the whole Libreoffice suite is, I would definitely be trying to use it more and I will take a look at your extension. Thanks for sharing!
It is! My only struggle is with the extension development/documentation. It was a pain to get my sidebar appearing in the toolbar, and I'm afraid to touch any of that code I wrote.
How are you going about learning about the LibreOffice APIs?
Do you mind elaborating more about the use case? Postgres itself is heavily engineered around OS process boundaries for both correctness and resiliency.
I'm not sure it'll be a serious project, but the main goal is to use it in CI or dev, where setting up postgres is kind of a pain.
I got it to work already by setting up the global context in single-user mode (like postgres --single) and exposing bindings for SPI operations.
Yesterday night I got extensions working, but as this project builds as a static archive, the extensions also have to be part of the build. Both plpgsql and pgvector worked fine.
The bigger challenge is dealing with global state -- comparing the pre-start and post-shutdown state of the process memory, about 200 globals change state. Been slowly making progress to get restarts working
I really liked wisprflow on my mac but my daily driver is Manjaro KDE. I have stitched together a bash script that copies the transcription (right now I am using the Parakeet TDT 0.6B) to my clipboard. I would give this a try on linux when it becomes available.
Would you be open to sharing your script? I run whisper.cpp in Linux through some stitched together scripts (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44949314), but would be very curious to try Parakeet. I don't believe I can run it through whisper.cpp?
I looked at your script. I am doing basically the same thing just using onnx-asr (installed as a uv tool) with the parakeet model instead of the whisper-cli.
Look Here: https://github.com/istupakov/onnx-asr
Just checked out whisprflow, I must say that looks really nice, kudos to those devs. Shame there isn't a Linux / Android version.
I have added the auto-copy to clipboard functionality that will come with the next Android release and be included in all others. Adding a hotkey / quickbar button is on the roadmap for the desktop versions.
Ever since I tried grok imagine I became obsessed with the idea of re-imagining classical paintings or animating them so I created https://ravaan.art
I don't necessarily have a vision for it, so if you think it is cool tell me what you think could be added to it.
Yes, awesome mate, fascinating. I just checked the tech stack and found you are using Next.js. very minor issue. The OG Meta tag pointing to your localhost url, please fix it :-)
Thanks for the heads up! I had taken it further locally with a landing page and a blog section (empty for now) but didn't finish up the deploying it. I will patch this one.
Curious about the differences between content on aphyr.com/tags/jepsen and jepsen.io/analyses. I recently discovered aphyr.com and was excited about the potential insights!
Curious : do you have a team of people working with you, or is it mostly solo work ? your work is so valuable, i would be scared for our industry if it had a bus factor of 1.
Highly recommend you check out the interview series they are a lot of fun.
> They will refuse, of course, and ever so ashamed, cite a lack of culture fit. Alight upon your cloud-pine, and exit through the window. This place could never contain you.
I became interested in the matter reading this thread and vaguely remember reading a couple of the articles. Saved them all in NotebookLM to get an audio overview and to read later. Thanks!
Really enjoyed the Salvatore's write up. Two things grabbed my attention:
1. He is also an admirer of the Claude! I can't emphasize this enough but coding has almost always been an isolating state for me. But now, you can feel some support with some intelligence! This is sci-fi! it's much more efficient than Google Search and docs. Not sure about the value added here, but when Salvatore explains how he's using the Gen AI for writing software, I really get to grips with my impostor syndrome.
2. Second: "One thing I particularly liked about the article was that Salvatore explained how he is using the Claude (any Gen AI) in his work. Salvatore is one of the programming figures for me (started professional programming in 2016~2017) and I am feeling really relived that these people confess using the Gen AI trick for writing software." this is were SWE ends and product starts!
Absolutely, I get any help I can, to do better work.
Trick for the sci-fi story I used. Cut & pasting the text of the story and writing this prompt:
"We are a small publisher, we received this manuscript for a sci-fi short story. We only publish top quality stuff, we don't want any garbage. Please tell us if this story is worth publishing in our high quality series, and what we should reply to the author."
This way it is really sharp and identifying what is lacking. It's like an editor review. Then you go back to work for 2/3 days. And check back to see if your work improved. But the important part here is that many bad things he says you know are true. You needed somebody to tell you, to put more efforts into it.
With programming, while I have some knowledge of math, sometimes for the kind of programming I want to do I need to explore stuff I didn't study or know. And also in this regard Claude has been totally incredible. And so forth.
I also use it to find potetial issues in my desing ideas. Of course if it says something that I don't recognized as a true issue, I just don't care.
I got similar experiences with Claude, it's so convenient to use it to get an idea for a concept and being able to go back-and-forth with it about some kind of a feature that needs to be built.
> I can't emphasize this enough but coding has almost always been an isolating state for me. But now, you can feel some support with some intelligence!
This part from the original commenter resonates so well with me. Working basically as a solo dev, it's fantastic to have something that provides feedback and can challenge the ideas I have, so that the final result is good.
Many interesting leads for where to look to learn more has been provided in the comments, but I wanted to point out the fact that learning most of these concepts and many more technical concepts boils down to understanding the problems they're intended to solve, and understanding those problems requires having struggled with them. Reading or studying alone will not take you there.
Despite some market imperfections, and non-monetary contributions like caregiving or volunteer activities, the money you make is a very good proxy of the value of what you produce and the impact you have. I can not simply think of a better proxy.
