Made a new stained glass sculpture this summer. All it took was three months of modeling, cutting, foiling, soldering, and gas brazing. Hoopla Pyramid now stands, lit nightly, outside our cabin in western Massachusetts and will outlive us all because it’s made entirely of glass and lead👨‍🏭

Maybe this exists already and precision is too low. Word-level accuracy might only be easy (read: low power/compute) if the camera's position is tied to your face.

@deadly_onion I’d invite you to mine in soma but a) everybody chickened out and didn’t brave the rain like I did, and b) neither of us would get any work done

Part of the appeal of RSS is lack of algorithmic discovery, you know exactly what you’re going to see. The venture scale idea I see here is formed by a more explicitly defined algorithmic discovery of stories, feeds, topics/communities, and sentiment. But what makes for a big market is the lack of friction and setting up RSS is huge on friction. Tuning it takes work, but you get what you put in. The mechanics of RSS (filtered notifications, normalized interface across sites, platform sync) are wonderful but I have yet to see those mechanics used in a big app.

New idea means a new board

Look for the events around niches, not something that speaks to everybody. I've always found those to be full of high signal, dynamic convos. For me it's hardware meetups, but even emerging software less than a year old that spawns a community is pretty reliable.

I’m jonesing for a Cursor on mobile. Between composer (command-i) and quick input (command-k) I can plan around not writing code and inline prompting when necessary. It’s the next step to the speakularity.

@johnboiles @jazzychad Cataracts is reversible now, no?

@WillManidis Calling @traestephens who just completed one…

@boursier Hmm this might be useful to get around cloudflare throwing 403s at newsblur

Sol Reader does this for partial chapters and then emails you a summary and list of salient quotes when you’re done reading for a searchable archive in your mailbox. I’m also building almost exactly this, where you can select from a half dozen preselected prompts, some of which include context for a short, immediate summary

@ai_for_success Looking forward to when this also has structured outputs. I want to run this in a big local dataset and get back a bunch of booleans to match and classify

> Most of the blacksmiths in the 19th century drank themselves to death after the industrial revolution This is hyperbolic and a dramatic oversimplification and does not accurately describe the reality of the transition from blacksmithing to more advanced roles like machining, toolmaking, and working in factories. The 19th century was a time of interchangeable parts (think the North's advantage in the Civil War) and that requires a ton of mechanical expertise and precision. Many blacksmiths not only made the transition to machining, but there weren't enough blackmsiths to fill the bevy of new jobs that were available. Education expanded to fill those roles. Traditional blacksmithing didn’t vanish either, even specialized roles like farriery and ornamental ironwork also expanded.

@RichardMCNgo Now is the time to buy a Sol Reader, so you can read in those wee hours without disturbing anybody around you

I spend a lot of time interacting with a land trust that’s doing great work around my property in MA and my recommendation would be to study English and philosophy as dual majors, ideally at state school where they want to work. All the logistics can be learned on the job (everybody’s gotta pay those dues!)

Read 32 books on my Sol Reader this year. Not bad!

New website and new price: ($276, this week only)

@hboon @Dimillian Xcode plugins used to be a thing and then Apple removed them years ago

It's Black Friday week, so we're doing a test run deal here, only $276 ($123 off the normal $399 price) for a Sol Reader. Read under the covers without having to hold a book and light up your room. Use the discount code: SAM123 on