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rcarmo
31,677karma·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.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rcarmo; my proof: https://keybase.io/rcarmo/sigs/dPUWksGTynvLR6kAjasNUx4K65ETkwsM3_vFZ_dcDFA ]
recent activity (6,896 total)
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People want to generate corporate content. For years now, it comes and goes.
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AI has zero need to see the renders (you are just wasting tokens) and that is why I built the Go version - I patched a lot of the PPTX code in my MCP server, as it happens.
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Nice, but I don't see a lot of ECMA 376 test cases. Both https://github.com/rcarmo/python-office-mcp-server and https://github.com/rcarmo/go-ooxml are …
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Nope. If you use pi and its extremely minimal harness you can see a _lot_ of difference in models.
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Yep. I spotted the same thing in piclaw (which relies on the pi runtime) but did not have time/energy to do a lot about it—and fable does the same, as far as I can tell, with one out of five or s…
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Years of regular use here, has been great even before I started using it as an agent tool.
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As someone who also works for a US company with very large EU customers and partners I can attest this is completely true. Most European people on HN seem to be in the startup/SME space, so this …
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I like the idea, but without a cross-platform OSS browser it’s hard to consider adopting it (and I am primarily a Mac/iOS user…)
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We could fix a lot of this by just making sure .local (which is used in Bonjour/mDNS) could coexist sanely in mixed resolver environments _and_ could support subdomains. I built https:/…
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Why isn’t there a black bar at the top of HN yet?
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Oh fuck. I used to swap notes with him every now and then, drifted away over the past couple of years. Had no idea.
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You should just integrate with pi.dev, like I did for https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw (which has replaced Obsidian for me). I too integrated a terminal and a WYSIWYG Markdown ed…
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Nice, but as usual if you want a 3-step “getting started” example you have to wade through the docs, and even then…
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I got one last April, and love it: https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/04/04/1800 I also built two quick hacks for it that people might like: - https:&#x…
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I'm glad HN prefers downvoting actual work/demos to discussing them.
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There's _way_ more than one way to do "loops". I just asked one of my superviors/auditors to document how it's been working while monitoring a few other agents that have long-…
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If it writes functional Python instead of cosplaying as a Java programmer and cramming code with classes and accessors, it's already better than Opus...
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I am doing a very similar thing right now, which is adding a JIT to both Basilisk and SheepShaver: https://github.com/rcarmo/macemu - on the PPC side, we're still poking at …
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My take on this is a turbocharged fork of joker, with an IR-driven runtime and a WASM bridge via wazero: https://github.com/rcarmo/go-joker …
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Where does it break nav? Honest question, because I have been living inside it for almost 7 years now and actually prefer it to any of the desktop clients (except on the Mac).
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Last anyone tried that in earnest, the binary executable formats were of course incompatible and there were hardware checks.
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Pretty amazing, congratulations!