I have terabytes of iphone photos/videos accumulated over the years. Apple Photos app is trash when it comes to handling large libraries so I’ve been splitting them by year which is fine for archiving but horrible for actually browsing photos.
Immich has been absolutely awesome for this — I can finally look at all my pictures from any year from anywhere in the world. I’m very happy and hope the creators find a way to sustainably finance the project.
The upload feature in the mobile app is not a 1 to 1 replacement of apple photos import so i still do that via apple photos, but that’s something I can live with.
For a while I was running a windows VM with the iCloud for windows utility that syncs your photos to a folder on your windows PC, iirc it worker reasonably well as an 'automated' sync solution. (under the surface the folder was a share on my NAS, which in turn fed into a separate immich instance)
Many jobs aim to solve problems so well that there’s nothing left to fix — doctors curing illnesses, firefighters preventing fires, police reducing crime, pest control eliminating infestations, or electricians making lasting repairs. And that’s totally fine — people still have jobs, and when it works, it’s actually great for everyone.
Yes, I abandoned Cursor recently and went back to Claude Code. Two main reasons: 1. The “plan mode” for Claude makes it execute complex tasks much more reliably. It automatically keeps track of todos and completes them. With Cursor I’m constantly fighting with it. 2. I can now use my IDE of choice (JetBrains) rather than a poor fork of VS Code. 3. Daily usage limits now included in the monthly $20/month Claude Pro plan seems to be enough for my daily needs. No extra costs.
I used GitHub copilot in my vscode setup. Claude Code is its agent mode on steroids: highly configurable, seems to have much larger context window, can write "memories", has hooks now. Highly recommend trying it out.
The time it saved me in first few hours of use easily made the monthly fee worthwhile. I did hit a limit near the four-hour mark (resets every five hours for us Pro subscribers), but just went and reviewed the ~1700 lines it added in that time and cleaned up the config files (updated todos etc)
I was using it for o3 when sonnet is unable to successfully implement something - but I use ZenMCP now.
I still feel like I can review diffs more efficiently in an ide, but I'm pretty much just mosh-ing into my server and have a few tmux windows going and feel I'm starting to get a bit more efficient.
Still considering the Claude max 20x plan to just use opus 100% of the time though
It's honestly so little opus that i'm not sure if $200 would be enough to be useful lol. I use a ton of Sonnet and if Opus was much better i might subscribe to the $200 plan, but it feels like Opus runs out so quick that the 5x to 20x usage would be pointless. Ie 4x (near)0 is still 0 to me.
To be frank? I can't justify paying for a single-purpose LLM service subscription: Cursor has have a 1-year free educational plan, and for general-purpose multimodal reasoning model work (e.g. OCR, general knowledge reference, math computations, prose processing), I already have a ChatGPT Plus subscription. It's the streaming service dilemma all over again.
Hi all, wanted to share what we've been working on at Pyroscope.
This is a ChatGPT based Flamegraph explainer. Analyzing flamegraphs can be challenging and we often get questions from users about the best techniques for finding insights from flamegraphs.
We thought maybe we could teach an LLM do this task and turns out it ChatGPT does it pretty well.
You can check out a blog post [0] for a longer explanation for how it all works, or you can upload your own profiles and get insights quickly by going to flamegraph.com [1]
hehe, if anyone's interested, I built a similar machine around 2018-2020 [1], although I never automated the nail pick-and-place part of the process. I also used epoxy instead of plaster.
I would suspect you could make some reasonable side money with a large scale version of this, maybe with colored wire, especially with commercial art in mind.
I did consider it, and I think you're exactly right RE the direction I would go into (colored wire, larger pieces, etc). But then I had a bunch of other things happen in life and so I had to put it all on pause.
The world of art (and especially commercial / corporate art) is very foreign to me, but I bet exploring it would be a fun challenge, so I am planning to do that in a few years.
I work in automation. My livelihood is making things, unattended. I see my career.
Personally, I think artist should be compensated well. The whole "starving artist" thing isn't just a trope, and I don't think they should be punished like that, "in the name of art!". There are people in my family who were some of the most creative people I know, with art degrees, who have to spend time waiting tables, rather than on art, because because they have stomachs, and don't like the rain.
Money isn't bad, especially if it's from making beautiful things that others value.
My favorite little anecdote that I like to tell is that the first thing people often see when they add Pyroscope to their apps is that it takes way less CPU than other signals like tracing or logging. It's pretty common to see logging taking 5-10% of overall CPU utilization.
The other 90% is usually spent doing serialization / deserialization (half-joking).
Immich has been absolutely awesome for this — I can finally look at all my pictures from any year from anywhere in the world. I’m very happy and hope the creators find a way to sustainably finance the project.
The upload feature in the mobile app is not a 1 to 1 replacement of apple photos import so i still do that via apple photos, but that’s something I can live with.
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