I’ve always had the same problem with website blockers: I might need YouTube for a tutorial related to what I’m working on, but allowing YouTube also means allowing every unrelated video. Same with Hacker News - I might need to look something up for work, but I shouldn’t end up reading the front page for the next 30 minutes. Most blockers operate at the domain/app level, but whether something is distracting really depends on what you’re trying to do.

With Nono, you describe what you intend to work on at the start of a focus session. It then uses an on-device model to look at the active window in that context. So a relevant YT video can stay open, while an unrelated video gets blocked.

The tricky part right now is the model. It needs to be small and fast to run continuously, while still being capable enough to understand the context and not annoy you with false positives.

It's like a fixed up TypeScript specifically tailored for Wasm GC that can produce very small and fast binaries, but also has features like pattern matching, ownership / borrow checking for resources, pipeline, tail call elimination, multi-value returns, direct WASI component integration and a lot more.

    {:find [?title ?director ?rating ?card ?shout]
     :where [[?m :movie/title ?title]
    
             [?m :movie/vote-average ?rating]
    
             [(str ?rating) ?rating-str]
             [(concat ?title ": ") ?title-colon]
             [(concat ?title-colon ?rating-str) ?card]
    
             [(lower ?title) ?lowered]
             [(concat ?lowered "!!!") ?decorated]
             [(upper ?decorated) ?shout]
             
             ;; joints
             [?cr :crew/job "Director"]
             [?cr :crew/movie ?m]
             [?cr :crew/person ?p]
             [?p :person/name ?director]]}

I believe it is the first eCommerce platform where all the products have date as an important feature and where the search and navigation are by date - the thinking being it could help people find interesting and original birthday presents and anniversary gifts. I've also built it as a multi-vendor platform so it can hopefully live on once I've sold my things. Note that I'm the only seller and it is all UK based at the moment, but it has just been launched.

I've a blog post with more info at https://michael-lewis.com/posts/vintagepresents.com-date-bas... if anyone is interested.

It was a pain point from a start up I cofounded before where we needed Kubernetes flexibility but developers hated using it. I figured there was no reason why it had to be hard to use and thus Canine was born.

Lately been playing around with setting up remote dev containers on your own compute as well -- basically like github codespaces, except self hosted.

Built in Rails + Stimulus

On the side, https://infrabase.ai (hand-verified AI infrastructure directory) launched a Media Generation category, image and video APIs after a run of requests for it. Also the submission spam is way up here latley, been improving the detection here as well. Also seeing real interest in paid listings now, including one that started as a link-buying request I turned down :)

Been doing a lot of AI assisted emailing, so I have started to work on a little review UI for AI generated text, comments on specific words, inline edits, Claude picks up both and revises in place. Like a PR review interface for text. Turns out pretty good workflow with Claude watching the files for new comments, editing and commenting back right away.

Also: kids can code using cardboard cut-out blocks and just take a photo to import, generate Arduino firmware, compile and flash to ESP32 - all from a single docker web application.

Hoping to bootstrap a cheaper, open source alternative to current systems (one of which my son is using at his school). I have had success doing this with another project on Patreon so that's where it is going to be launched. https://www.patreon.com/ChonkyBlox - so far just a couple of demo video's but code will be released in full once I have added more blocks and a tutorial.

Ultimately this is aimed at the South African education sector, where many schools may have only one computer available for a classroom to share, hence the cardboard cut-outs. There is also a hardware component still in development - a simple pcb breadboard break-out with connectors for components instead of kids having to use jumper cables on the breadboared. We also have a working Desktop application which does code assistance from within the Arduino IDE - using the same web server with api, so literally everything from very small kids to advanced is covered.

Tritium - the legal IDE for desktop and web.

We're building the document viewing and editing layer for a number of AI native law firm startups.

Web preview: https://tritium.legal/preview

WASM example: https://tritium.legal/wasm

We actually offer source access here, too: https://tritium.legal/source

Trading Results as a service.

Our philosophy is Capital protection first, so we focus on protecting capital and managing risk while trading, and avoiding large losses enables compounding and high returns in the long run.

Infused with my co-founder's three decades of experience in trading & finance.

We don't want all your money. We want to be part of your diversified portfolio, which should also consist of other things like index funds, bonds, etc.

Initial allocations will open within the near-term future. For the founding investors (as we call the first clients), we also offer a portfolio review to align your portfolio with your long-term goals, a direct line to founders, and other things.

https://autotradelab.com/

I wonder if Claude Code could do this. That's a useful metric for the future - if a coding agent can't handle the breaking changes in a package upgrade, it's the package's fault. The day may come when that's something Github Actions checks for pull requests.