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rcarmo
31,678karma·6,896submissions·July 17, 2013
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I remember when 8-bit machines ruled the Earth, IOS was a Cisco thing, and e-mail bounced around via dial-up, back before the first AI winter.
I'm now enjoying the new AI spring and doing all sorts of fun stuff.
Profile and secondary social links at https://carmo.io, blog at https://taoofmac.com, @rcarmo@mastodon.social.
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You get two blobs if you use ZigBee :)
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I like this kind of thing, but like many on this thread have mixed feelings. nostalgia vs the cyberdeck concept vs practicality don’t really yield a good enough appraisal. Still, it’s a nice design. B…
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Anecdotally, I’ve had instances when using Claude models inside VS Code they tried to access stuff outside my workspace. Never had that happen with Gemini or OpenAI models, and VS Code is pretty good …
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I just built myself a DYI TRMNL ( https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/12/13/2200 ), decided to hack together my own server for it, and (serendipitously) got…
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I keep having to explain that if you use a mobile app with an embedded browser none of those will work.
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Hobbyists don’t get full exposure to this, but the reality is that the embedded space is still very much a binary blob landscape. Even relatively popular SDKs like Expressif and Nordic’s are full of w…
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You can use https://pypi.org/project/mega-lite - works perfectly fine (I too am not a fan of Mega)…
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“you are totally right!” does feel like a very human behavior in some respects…
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They’re not alone in that.
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Well, my MCP servers only really started working when I implemented the prompt endpoints, so I’m happy I’ll never have to use MCP again if this sticks.
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And yet we cannot have dark mode, which would be a simple CSS tweak. But I’m thankful for the other little things.
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I hope someone gets this into the Internet Archive as a tidy ZIP so we don’t have to scrape them… I’ve just pushed https://github.com/rcarmo/python-fastapi-trmnl-server and these…
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I've been using this trick for a while, and it actually got me to do quite a bit without an ORM (just hacking a sane models.py with a few stable wrappers and calling it a day)
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Azure is just fine, as long as it's documented someplace. I'll take a look, although I also couldn't find prebuilt Docker images referenced in the compose.local file (I will look into w…
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The folk who left Psion tried to resurrect the Psion 3/5 form factor a few times as an Android phone with a fairly decent keyboard, but I don’t think they’re still around (or that it’s cheap enou…
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Pretty impressive. I have one of those (or related) around, might give this a go even if Maemo always ran like molasses.
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This looks really cool, but not being able to use my own LLM endpoints for the Copilot is an instant turn-off.
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Ditto.
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Very nice indeed. I recently went through a similar process and built an RSS feed summarizer, but didn’t bother with comments because… well… it could go either way in terms of productivity and token u…
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You can run .pyc stuff “directly” with some creativity, and there are some tools to pack “executables” that are just chunked blobs of bytecode.
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Pyodide is a great enabler for this kind of thing, but most of the libraries I want to use tend to be native or just weird. Still, I wonder how fast things like Pillow, Pandas and the like are these d…
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Yeah, but only one more a week. Next question.
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My immediate thought: when does the copyright on Mickey expire? Didn’t it happen already?
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I like this and find it profoundly weird in equal parts. I get the use case and why it’s being done in “the browser”, but like RPA and similar tech, I have to wonder at the path that the industry took…
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As a bilingual/trilingual user (I have English, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French and Chinese keyboards enabled, and use the first three on a daily basis), I have had surprisingly few issues w…