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mjrpes commented on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI ladybird.org/posts/adopti... · Posted by u/adius

josephg · 20 days ago

> 10/10 - would generate tens of thousands of lines of useless code again.

Me too! A couple days ago I gave claude the JMAP spec and asked it to write a JMAP based webmail client in rust from scratch. And it did! It burned a mountain of tokens, and its got more than a few bugs. But now I've got my very own email client, powered by the stalwart email server. The rust code compiles into a 2mb wasm bundle that does everything client side. Its somehow insanely fast. Honestly, its the fastest email client I've ever used by far. Everything feels instant.

I don't need my own email client, but I have one now. So unnecessary, and yet strangely fun.

Its quite a testament to JMAP that you can feed the RFC into claude and get a janky client out. I wonder what semi-useless junk I should get it to make next? I bet it wouldn't do as good a job with IMAP, but maybe if I let it use an IMAP library someone's already made? Might be worth a try!

mjrpes · 19 days ago

Did you use dioxus? I had claude write up a test web app with it, but when attempting to use a javascript component it built it couldn't get past memory access out of bound errors.

mjrpes commented on Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API github.com/majcheradam/oc... · Posted by u/adammajcher

sgc · 2 months ago

How does this compare to dots.ocr? I got fantastic results when I tested dots.

https://github.com/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr

mjrpes · 2 months ago

Ocrbase is CUDA only while dots.ocr uses vLLM, so should support ROCm/AMD cards?

mjrpes commented on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source blog.greg.technology/2025... · Posted by u/evakhoury

kiba · 2 months ago

Public funding from governments would make sense. Open source software are effectively public good.

mjrpes · 2 months ago

Europe is doing this: https://eu-stf.openforumeurope.org/

mjrpes commented on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Fire-Dragon-DoL · 3 months ago

And what about password sharing? I want to share everything with my partner,in case something happens to me.

Passwords right now are outright better.

And by the way, door keys could be copied.

mjrpes · 3 months ago

1Password family plan, and I assume similar cloud password managers, let you organize passwords/TOTP/Passkeys into vaults, and you can put credentials you want to share with other family members here.

mjrpes commented on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me marcusolang.substack.com/... · Posted by u/florian_s

__lain__ · 3 months ago

Hemingway was still a master of word choice. I recall an entire class spent on a few lines that conveyed a sense of heaviness to the scene. 'Plodding' was given a lot of attention.

mjrpes · 3 months ago

I remember a college English class where a good part of the lecture was on this sentence from Big Two-Hearted River: "He liked to open cans." Forget the details but it got into the difference between achievement and accomplishment.

mjrpes commented on Steam Frame store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/Philpax

andoando · 4 months ago

You can still buy prebuilt though and slap SteamOS on it and youre there.

Dont get me wrong this looks very a nice product, but its nothing revolutionary.

mjrpes · 4 months ago

This thing is meant for a living room media center. A prebuilt PC with discrete GPU is a much bigger profile (and probably cost). You could say, fine, go buy a small Mini PC. But a system with the current best AMD Strix 890m GPU not only is expensive at $700-1000, but would only have half the performance of the Steam Box if its conjectured performance is similar to an RX 7600.

mjrpes commented on JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart stalw.art/blog/jmap-colla... · Posted by u/StalwartLabs

woodruffw · 5 months ago

Serious question: what’s the differentiator if major email providers don’t support it?

(This should not be interpreted as a defense of IMAP.)

mjrpes · 5 months ago

One big differentiator is JMAP allows one network connection to track new emails that may get delivered across different folders. With IMAP you need a connection open for each folder.

mjrpes commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

indoordin0saur · 5 months ago

Seems like major issues are still ongoing. If anything it seems worse than it did ~4 hours ago. For reference I'm a data engineer and it's Redshift and Airflow (AWS managed) that is FUBAR for me.

mjrpes · 5 months ago

Down detector agrees: https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/

Amazon says service is now just "degraded" and recovering, but searching for products on Amazon.com still does not work for me. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

mjrpes commented on Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game subwaybuilder.com/... · Posted by u/0xbeefcab

mjrpes · 5 months ago

Anyone know how big the bay area map is? Would be neat to build dream BART, including north bay and San Joaquin valley.

EDIT: Nevermind, purchased and answered my own question. Outer cities included going clockwise from north bay: Novato, Vallejo, Benicia, Brentwood, Livermore, Santa Teresa, Los Gatos, the full peninsula northward starting from Half Moon Bay. So a good amount, but missing some outer commuting areas like Santa Rosa, Fairfield, Tracy, Gilroy.

mjrpes commented on I only use Google Sheets mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga

fsckboy · 5 months ago

>>Wasn't Microsoft Access basically that?

>No because the datagrid in MS Access is too rigid and doesn't have the extensive slice-&-dice features of MS Excel.

i'm not saying it worked or worked well, but i'm pretty sure the point of Access in the office suite was so that you could access Access (get the clever marketing?) data from within Excel and then do all the excel things you were used to.

anyone know if that worked or didn't? DDE and all those other projects were always pursuing this as a dream

mjrpes · 5 months ago

Access's database is fairly limited and prone to corruption, especially using in a (local) network setup. The better solution would be to have real backend database and use ODBC to sync in data to Excel and Access. Maybe back in 1995 it made more sense but that's before my time.

Access was pretty amazing on its own back in its day, ignoring its multi-user limitations. It glued together a relational database, visual query builder, GUI/Form Builder, and reporting. You could create forms with sub forms that linked tables together. Also had a datasheet view. All of this without touching VBA code, but VBA was there when you needed it.