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Repo Prompt - A macOS native app designed to remove all the friction involved in iterating on your code with the most powerful AI models.

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had…

If there’s one thing that characterizes the Information Age that we find ourselves in today, it is streams of data. However, without proper ways to aggregate and transform this data into info…

Having built my MiSTer FPGA system, the first thing I did …

Hard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century. Of those, a significant portion were never available in a digital format and haven’t yet been digitized, which means their content is effectively inaccessible to most people today. To bring that content into the digital world, Redditor […]

Retrieval-Augmented Generation made easy with Llama

Maybe your goal is to preserve the heyday of rail travel with a precise scale replica of a particular railroad station. Maybe you’re making a hyper-local edition of Monopoly in which the hous…

Here’s a great hack sent in to us from [Simon]. He uses an e-paper photo frame as a weather map! By now you are probably aware of e-paper technology, which is very low power tech for displayi…

If he’s anything like us [Duncan Hall] was probably equal parts excited and disgusted when he found a 1987 Macintosh SE case at a garage sale. Excited, because not every day do vintage comput…

You might think that a nuclear explosion is not something you need a detector for, but clearly not everyone agrees. [Bigcrimping] has not only built one, the BhangmeterV2, but he has its output pub…

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AI agents aren't replacing developers - they're amplifying what skilled engineers can accomplish. The job replacement panic might just be the wrong place to channel our energy into.

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

Amplified developers, AI-enhanced development · The leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside the IDE

Extension for Visual Studio Code - The leading open-source AI code assistant

XR may not have crashed into our lives as much as some tech billionaires have wished, but that doesn’t stop the appeal of a full display that takes up no physical space. At that point, why not get …

Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo Jarquin of the YouTube channel MateoTechLab has adapted it into a shoulder-mounted animatronic named “Pico” that can constantly interact with the wearer. All movement, sound generation, and lighting are handled by an Arduino Nano Every board embedded inside a custom 3D-printed […]

One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there are at least two profiles that “save” the position of the seat. When switching drivers, the new seat occupant can simply push the button for their profile and the seat will automatically move to their saved position. […]

Make your own Offline "Internet" that includes your own locally hosted AIAlso I really enjoy @dirty-civilian 's channel so this is not a dig at them. To get ...

Devstral: the best open source model for coding agents

A straight forward practical build from 406JEM using HUZZAH for monitoring/watering a flower garden. Via Instructables: This is just some instruction for a little water controller flow controller I…

Brian Dorey writes about adding remote monitoring for soil moisture levels using Raspberry Pi Pico’s and LoRa radio modules programmed in MicroPython. In our polytunnel we have two raised beds wher…

This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late since [richardg867]’s Wayback Proxy is, quite literally, timeless. It does, more-or-less, what it says as on the …

Popular advice about using AI is obsessed with tools and “magic prompts”. To me, this is like if software engineering advice was all about memorizing the right…

As a long-time Steam user and avid PC gamer, I was bummed when Valve discontinued the Steam Link hardware back in 2018. This handy little device let me stream