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Here's an interesting read on the evolution beyond RAG: https://www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/the-rag-obituary-killed-...

One of the key features in Claude Code is "Agentic Search" aka using (rip)grep/ls to search a codebase without any of the overhead of RAG.

Sounds like even RAG approaches use a similar approach (Query Generation).

I did not invest the time to experiment with my SSB receiver and therefore never got any weather reports during the voyage.

wow

David *Sucks

But consider a personal finance app. The main goal is cross device sync, cloud backup, offline capable, etc. In this case having the entire db stored on every device is probably what you want.

A bit confused by this. If I'm a developer of a PFM, I don't want anything but a single user's financial data synced to their device. This sounds like partial replication to me.

Yeah, my solution is just using a deep link - I'm unable to track whether or not the payment is completed due to the lack of a Venmo API.

I wrote about how it works here: https://gabeoleary.com/posts/venmo-deeplinking-including-fro...

When I wrote this it only worked on mobile. The deep link would take one into the app with the amount/details etc prefilled out. Just tested and it looks like the same format works on desktop now too.

I had until just now not realized that Plaid has a Venmo integration.

I could imagine using the deep link to begin the transaction and then using the plaid connection to look for it's completion...

Although it seems to have actually linked successfully after going through the Splitwise auth flow despite this error.

I tried to link Splitwise, but keep getting "The authorization flow was cancelled" While the authorization window is open.

Very cool, I signed up for a trial to kick the tires!

I created a tool that helps people stay on top of shared transactions (https://reconcile.app/) a few years ago and have recently been working on another iteration of it that has some similarities to what you've built, but with a focus on couples who share much of but not all of their financial lives.

I don't know about being able to paste in Playright steps, but a friend of mine has an extension built around extension based browser automation: https://browserflow.app/

You can record steps & have the extension replay them on your machine or in the cloud (presumably using puppeteer/playwright).

This is very cool! I was messing with some browser automation (Playwright) via GPT recently.

One idea I had: it would be cool if I could teach the agent. For instance, give it a task, but if it struggles, just complete it myself while the extension observes my interactions.

Perhaps these could be used as few shot examples for priming the model?

Gonna play around with this soon!

I use https://floorplanner.com for similar purposes (I pay $5/month). It is great at getting the floorplan nailed, but leaves a bit to be desired when trying to fill the space with accurate furniture, patterns etc. You can have multiple variations floor plans per level.

My gf uses https://foyr.com once we have the floor plan nailed to get an idea about what colors, textures & furniture to use in a space. It supports higher def renderings. It's kind of expensive though iirc.

Impressive generated voices for TTS

I listened to a great episode of the Ezra Klein show about "Deep reading". (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...)

They talk about the distinction between reading a book where you have no distractions and no "next" task to move on to and reading on a device - where you are a mere click away from other information & stimulation.

In order to spend actual time reading articles you need to get into a state where you aren't reading to be done with the article and don't care how much time you spend in this state which is pretty hard.

Apps like Pocket/Upnext/Matter/Readwise help, but I find that it takes more than this. People often send their articles to a kindle to facilitate this kind of reading.

a bit of strong reaction given you have no idea whether or not it includes lifetime global 911 after the 2 years...

debatable...lots of people with iphones still use watches and ereaders.

and for a life saving device like this i know a subset of people will not want it a part of their phone.

...but this will definitely take a LOT of business from garmin because i believe that subset to be pretty small.

Apple

Pretty sure I've been waiting 3+ months at this point and am now unable to connect new items via Chase.

At Google an employee must have "readability" in a language in order to sign of on a code reviews in that language.

You must pass a test in order to get "readability".

Agreed, they should show it before signup.

For anyone curious: Free - 2 RSS feeds 24 hour refresh rate $9.99 - 40 RSS feeds 30 min refresh rate $19.99 - 100 RSS feeds 15 min refresh rate

My company uses RSS.app & I find it extremely nice to work with. You don't even have to provide selectors/click on elements for the vast majority of websites, they do that all for you.

We could roll our own solution using any of the above offerings (or something built in house), but it's cheap enough for our usecase that we don't see a point.

There are numerous solutions to this problem. Both historius & pinboard provide full text search on any link that you save.

https://historio.us/ https://pinboard.in/

Their note taking leaves something to be desired, so perhaps Beam could provide some value add in this area.

Does Stripe treasury actually enable people to build independent banks?

My understanding was that it was a way of enabling companies to offer bank like functionality to their existing users. For instance Uber could give drivers an "Uber" bank account.

Not that you could build your own bank on top of it...but perhaps I'm mistaken.

I'm a little surprised about the outpouring of love for Simple. I've been a customer for a year or two and have always been super frustrated with the performance of their web & mobile apps, and their customer service.

I only joined and stuck around because the 1% interest rate was better than anything else I could find at the time. Since their rate dropped I transferred all of my money away.

I'm with Yotta & Onefinance today.

Yotta offers >1% interest rate when you calculate it all out. Definitely not anywhere near the 2-3% the people are mentioning in the the comments. They also just recently dropped the # of tickets you get on deposits above $25k which doesn't help.

One finance offers a 1% rate up to $25k & 3% on an account that can be funded by diverting up to 10% of your direct deposits. They also have "Pockets" which I think is similar to what Simple did but tbh I never use any of that stuff...I'm just a rate chaser.

Cool! My biggest complaint about golinks is the lack of a command activated search...looks like you're tackling that problem.

Yeah I was going to say he probably won't be happy seeing it presented this way considering his current public opinion on Facebook.

No, Rome is a tool chain that is supposed to replace your separate tools for linting, building & testing.

So you might use it with your React app to get rid of eslint, webpack & jest (at some point, it's not there yet).

Svelte however is an entirely new framework which is fundamentally different from react/vue/angular in some very interesting ways (which I won't get in to here).

just an FYI: the first key in the search command shows up as an empty key on Windows (chrome). So it almost looks like you should hit Space + K even though I see its actually Control + K.

This looks super useful. I can't count the number of times I've ended up on one of those ranking sites that feels like an affiliate scam.

One suggestion: for your "ratings matrix" it would be easier to parse if you kept the "our take" section out of it so all of the ranking icons appear close to each other. https://imgur.com/a/PmX1TLu