Readit NewsScript to auto-rename screenshots with Claude Code
I'm sure there are a ton of other projects out there that do this, but I couldn't find one that fit my needs exactly, so I threw this together in a few hours.
claude-image-renamer uses Claude Code CLI to analyze screenshots and rename them to something actually usable. It combines OCR text extraction with Claude's vision capabilities, so instead of "Screenshot 2025-12-29 at 10.03.10 PM.png" you get something like "vscode_python_debug_settings.png".
A few things it does:
Handles those annoying macOS screenshot filenames with weird Unicode characters
Uses OCR to give Claude more context for better naming
Keeps filenames clean (lowercase, underscores, max 64 chars)
Handles naming conflicts automatically
For my home lab, I built a 3 node Talos (from https://www.talos.dev/) cluster from older Dell Optiplex systems. I am using:
MetalLB - https://metallb.io/ load balancer
Traefik - https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/getting-started/quick-start-with-kubernetes/ ingress
Local Path - https://docs.apps.rancher.io/reference-guides/local-path-provisioner storage
Research on calculator use in early math education (notably the Hembree & Dessart meta-analysis of 79 studies) found that students given calculators performed better at math - including on paper-and-pencil tests without calculators. The hypothesis is that calculators handle computation, freeing cognitive bandwidth and time for problem-solving and conceptual understanding. Problem solving and higher level concepts matter far more than memorizing multiplication and division tables.
I think about this often when discussing AI adoption with people. It's also relevant to this VS Code discussion which is tangential to the broader AI assisted development discussion. This post conflates tool proficiency with understanding. You can deeply understand Git's DAG model while never typing git reflog. Conversely, you can memorize every terminal command and still design terrible systems.
The scarce resource for most developers isn't "knows terminal commands" - it's "can reason about complex systems under uncertainty." If a tool frees up bandwidth for that, that's a net win. Not to throw shade at hyper efficient terminal users, I live in the terminal and recommend it, but it isn't going to make you a better programmer just by using it instead of an IDE for writing code. It isn't reasoning and understanding about complex systems that you gain from living in a terminal. You gain efficiency, flexibility, and nerd cred - all valuable, but none of them are systems thinking.
The auto-complete point in the post is particularly ironic given how critical it is for terminal users and that most vim users also rely heavily on auto-complete. Auto-complete does not limit your effectiveness, it's provably the opposite.
This is a well-thought-out critique. Thanks for sharing your insights.
jftuga commented on Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code? · Posted by u/ex-aws-dude
Working in a Data Engineering/Operations role which focuses heavily on financial datasets. Everything is within AWS and Snowflake and each table can easily have >100M records of any type of random data (there is a lot of breadth.) General day to day is creating jobs that will process large amounts of input data and storing them into Snowflake, sending out tons of automated reports and emails to decision makers as well as gathering more data from the web.
All of this is done in a Python environment with usage of Rust for speeding up critical code/computations. (The rust code is delivered as Python modules.)
The work is interesting and different challenges arise when having to process and compute datasets that are updated with 10s of TBs of fresh data daily.
> General day to day is creating jobs that will process large amounts of input data and storing them into Snowflake
About how long do these typically take to execute? Minute, Tens of Minutes, Hours?
My work if very iterative where the feedback loop is only a few minutes long.
jftuga commented on Golang optimizations for high‑volume services packagemain.tech/p/golang... · Posted by u/der_gopher
I'd be curious to know transactions per second (or other metrics) before and after the suggested changes.
Has anyone tried using zram inside of various K8s pods? If so, I'd be interested in knowing the outcome.
jftuga commented on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout theregister.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111
The guy's brilliant. Check out his other projects too: https://github.com/sharkdp?tab=repositories
Slightly better link that filters to only to "Sources" (no forks) and also by number of Stars.
https://github.com/sharkdp?tab=repositories&q=&type=source&l...
Birdhouse: https://img.notmyhostna.me/cRQ1gJfZCHjQKwFrgKQj
UI:
- https://img.notmyhostna.me/Hnw4qcvbg1ZQCrFxzGMn
- https://img.notmyhostna.me/62TFwSXSRRbCfxDz297h
- https://img.notmyhostna.me/40qhgHmSqQsrGr8BC7Db
- https://img.notmyhostna.me/9bgz4GYsjQH33n3MtWKp (Face labeling, so I can show thumbnails of the actual birds that visited and train a ML model on it in the future)