🦄 building side projects & drinking coffee. Making https://nitter.cf/t.co/1ymXk4gbbb & running a marathon soonish (btw rainbow 6.5 drops Nov 3)
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hi it’s em
spent a decade in ops / claims
now i build small tools with ai, post the messy version, and train for a half
i don’t use ai to write these (you’ll see the typos)
if you like free tools, build-in-public, and being slightly unhinged about models, let’s connect 👋
(i dont have a dog btw)
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Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
things to do while u wait for limits to reset:
1) watch industry
2) dress up as ur ai agents for halloween
3) order takeout 3x that day
4) drink 2 espressos
5) drink Yerba mate
6) realise it’s only 11am and u have 18 more hours to go
tick tock tick tock
neuralink is here
ads coming soon to the brain
the distribution channel we’ve
been praying for
(praying for)
okay honest question
aquarium hangout for a first meet up
yay or nay?
it’s crowded so ur safe
you also always have something to chat about
cute pics
lol
embarrassing things we do for Halloween
once at work, I painted my face blue because the CEOs were coming to review my team.
why did I do that?
That’s so weird hahaha
you want to push to main
you want to merge my pr
you want to analyze my posts
gurrrl relax, we just met💅
(new agents tho amiright)
it the itch again
pulled out my credit card
wondering why my agent can’t buy it for me ugh
anyway I’m on namecheap again
a new project is borne
i got the .com domain
this one is going straight to LinkedIn
im certain i will hit gold with it
Many asked for the demo for Halloween theme
here you go 🎃
demo made with claude on board video tools, blog has details and prompts etc / just copy and paste in ur llm setup
etc

creativemindhabits.com/posts…
u know in june I didn’t think I could ever make a single video
i was using ai, building with it. but for the life of me, i couldn’t share a single project
then suddenly i said f it, i plopped my phone on my table with an okay light. and I just started talking to the camera
I spoke about mercury retrograde and how the tarot readers on my timeline kept telling me to lock in 😆
then every day before work, I would just record a video, and post it immediately
it’s was embarrassing
every post felt like I was doing something shocking
and some did well
Some got 50 views
others 2000 views
but I committed to a month
I think what’s been my biggest lesson is that the fear slowly went away
and i started to meet people who were also building stuff, and now im so glad i made that first awkward video
a bit of a long one today!
busy reviving my dead LinkedIn acc
(nobody look in my general direction as I do the first post dance with 0 engagement)
thoughts, prayers and tips welcome
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What’s the point of this post? The tools that we have right now are so powerful. You can build anything that you can imagine