The focus of every ounce of my career that isn't put towards money for survival is to undercut these fuckers with FOSS. I want to do a shitload of exactly what this loser is complaining about

[–] hungrybread@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any interesting projects in the works?

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes, but I used a bunch of LLMs in it and that's cringe.

Just this weekend I put the finishing touches on an ERP/workflow/database system that uses python, SQL, and JSON to store any schema you design. You can even put in scripts to automate taking raw data and turning it into good data at the click of a button.

It's FOSS as a means of trying to cleans myself of my sins.

But basically during my time at Langley monitoring leftists who post too good to inject them with cringe takes and nanobots I saw people pay out the ass for software that wasn't exactly awe inspiring. Even before that when I was working at the adrenachrome factory they had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a lemon of a database system. So now, forget it, you can make it yourself in an afternoon[1]. Not in a regulatory environment unless you want to pay me or recreate the nodes+modules yourself, but generally it should lower the bar for a billion different kinds of databases everyone's using. Use it on your phone, upload pictures from your phone. Use it in firefox. Use it as a exe file. Use it as a linux app. Connect to the same database from all of them. Host it somewhere yourself. Use it over LAN.

I need to make sure I know what I'm doing before I provide a github link for all the stuff I mean to share. For example, I had to make sure I have an AGPL license on that thing.

My dream project is to create RuneLite for smart glasses so people can use quest helper and hold down space bar at work to skip all the text then highlight the next step in bright cyan. Again, dork technology created by tech bros. But it would be cool and funny

[1] I could make it myself in short order because I spent months developing it. It's a pain to get anybody else to mess around and try pressing buttons without first declaring they don't understand it.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Your project sounds interesting and useful af.

It's a pain to get anybody else to mess around and try pressing buttons without first declaring they don't understand it.

I'd be happy to have a play with it if you want a bit of testing and feedback before you make it public. Feel free to DM me about it, I have relevant experience and stuff.

[–] hungrybread@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but I used a bunch of LLMs in it and that's cringe.

doesn't seem cringe to me at all tbh! It's a cool project that you're looking at providing free of charge and if you're using LLMs to make that process faster/easier/more pleasant then that seems like the ideal use case of LLMs in coding imo. to be fair though I was using LLMs for some personal projects recently to get them off the ground for similar purposes (sharing with others for free), so maybe I'm a little biased.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can guarantee with every shred of confidence I have that this shit was not going to be created by me unless I got what is basically a powered exoskeleton doing syntax for me in 4 different coding languages (python, SQL, javascript, HTML), helping me with libraries (docker, WASM, electron, fastAPI), and instructions for hosting on AWS. In the best case, this project was dying on the command line the second I needed unit tests to make sure everything was working. So not only was it faster/easier/more pleasant, it was possible.

I can't tell you what that means ultimately, but that's what happened to me. Thank you for being supportive of me.