jflessau

Just wanted to say how moving I find these pictures. Proof of what humanity is capable of :)

Simple, fun, precise and works on mobile. Love it!

I’m developing in TS and Rust for the most part.

Went from Atom, to VSC, to Vim and finally to Zed. Never felt more at home. Highly recommend giving it a try.

AFAIK there is overlap between Atoms and Zeds developers. They built Electron to built Atom. For Zed they built gpui, which renders the UI on the GPU for better performance. In case you are looking for an interesting candidate for building multi platform GUIs in rust, you can try gpui yourself.

Alright, most people won’t want a significant portion of the web to go 'beep bop'. But the use cases listed on the website (notifications, game sounds) are valid, I think.

Can you elaborate on your bad experiences with Paddle?

A calorie tracker app has been my tool of choice for the past few years, one that includes a catalog of food items, meals, and recipes.

The two most useful features are the barcode scanner (scanning is much easier than typing into a search bar) and the fact that it knows, for example, how much a slice of cheese from a scanned package weighs. Weighing the food is actually the most annoying part, at least for me.

It’s even trickier when you're having breakfast and need to weigh butter, etc., before and after to get the difference, to avoid prepping everything beforehand.

All that sounds annoying, and it is. But compared to exercise, it has been a great time investment for me. Weighing things and using this app takes about 5 minutes a day. It yields results I'm happy with and significantly reduces uncertainty.

When you're unsure if you can eat one more thing near the end of the day, you can just look it up. Otherwise, uncertainty, at least for me, leads to under-eating, causing more hunger the next day, or overeating, jeopardizing the goal.

The thought of using an LLM to analyze a picture is intriguing.

I tried laying out items from the fridge on a plate and asking an LLM what I could make from them. That worked surprisingly well. But I like your idea much better.

The question is how accurate that would be. But snapping one more picture and testing it for a few weeks sounds fun.

Thanks for the food for thought! :)

Would you mind elaborating on how you use LLMs to track calories?

Edit: nevermind, its all in the blog linked by you :)

A realtime multiplayer bullshit bingo game with prefilled or custom bingo cards for things like online meetings or apple keynotes.

Demo link is in the readme if you want to try it.

I always wanted to build something realtime-ish for the web that multiple people can use simultaneously. I was wondering how such systems could work and how hard the realtime part would be.

Here I'm using Postges listen/notify to let my rust service know when tables change without having to query these tables all the time. First I was using one listener for every websocket connection. But a listener keeps a postgres connection hostage, so it would cause problems with too many clients holding a WS connection.

Next thing I tried was to have just one listener and send updates to the websocket handler via a mpmc channel. But the channel receivers remove messages from the channel once they read them. Thats unfortunate since changes in a game of bingo are relevant to all players. Meaning that only one random receiver reading the update for a game would be bad for the other players.

Now I'm using a channel type from the tokio library called "watch". It contains just one value and receivers can await changes and don't remove the value from a channel on reading it. That allows broadcasting changes to all receivers so that all players getting realtime updates about the game.

Next I might look into WebRTC DataChannels to send game updates from client to client without the server in between (mostly).

Is someone else working on a similar problem and has repos to recommend?

Thanks!