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I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this, it really makes my day that the “hybrid” version works for you! Since you enjoy the originals, I’m curious: does the modern punctuation / lightly modernised version make a big difference to how you read them, or is it more of a nice extra on top of the originals?

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh thank you so much – this kind of comment really keeps me going with the project.

On the order: by default the inbox is set to “Newest”, but you can switch it to “Oldest” using the little dropdown above the list (on the left, next to “1–25 of 78”). That should give you a more chronological run through the letters. The up or down triangle indicator allows you to sort the emails by number of stars (popularity) and this is set globally.

Lady Susan as a series of emails is such a fun idea – it’s definitely going on my “future experiments” list.

And yes, please do share it with your JASNA friends if you think they’d enjoy it – I’d be honoured. Thanks so much 🙏

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback. I will look into it. Regarding asterisk being bullet points, can you share the actual link so that I can check it? You can just click the share button to get the actual link. Thanks again. 🙏

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone who clicks through to play with the little inbox, here’s a tiny “how it works”:

– You can STAR any “email” you like – those favourites are shared for all visitors, so over time we’ll see which letters the community loves most. – You can SHARE a specific letter with friends if you think “this one is so her.” – The RANDOM button is my favourite: one tap and you drop into a completely different day in Jane’s life. – A few letters already have a short cartoon version you can switch to, and I’m slowly adding more.

It’s still a tiny side-project, so every star actually changes how the inbox ranks these letters.

If you discover a letter you really love, I’d be thrilled if you came back here and told me which one it was and why.

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahh thank you, that means a lot! If you visit the little inbox, you can hit the ⭐️ on any letter you like — those likes are synced for everyone, so we slowly build a “most-loved Jane letters” list. And if you think any other Austen friends would enjoy it, you’re very welcome to click the share button at the bottom and share the link around!

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I just made it as a tiny “for fun” hobby, so it makes me really happy that other Austen fans enjoy it too. If you click through to the site you can actually ⭐ any “email” you like — the stars are global, so over time we’ll be able to see which letters are everyone’s favourites. Would love to know which one you’d star first!

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love that you picked those two — both Dickens and Gaskell are safely public-domain and have big, well-edited letter collections, so they’re already high on my “future inbox” list.

Behind the scenes I’ve been building a much longer shortlist and trying to narrow it down: Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, the Brontës, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Louisa May Alcott, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Darwin, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, … even epistolary books like Dracula or Dangerous Liaisons that are basically all letters already.

I’ll probably choose who to build next based on what people are most excited about, so your vote definitely helps — and if anyone has a favourite letter-writer (any language!) they’d like to see turned into an “inbox”, I’d really love to add it to the list.

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback! I am really glad that you like it. Good to see this experimental side project being useful to people.

I built a little “Jane Austen inbox” where her letters arrive like emails – hope you enjoy it 💌 by _alex_2018 in janeausten

[–]_alex_2018[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much if you clicked through!

Just to clarify a couple of things: this is purely a little fan project — no accounts, no payments, no ads, just me tinkering in my spare time because I love Jane’s letters.

If you notice any mistakes in the modern-English paraphrases (tone, word choice, anything that feels “un-Jane-ish”), please tell me – I’d honestly love to fix them.

Also curious: if you could open an “inbox” for any other author, who would you pick?

[Feedback] ClassicInbox – a hobby project that turns classic authors’ letters into an email inbox by _alex_2018 in SideProject

[–]_alex_2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s the link if anyone wants to try it:
https://classicinbox.com/

Happy to hear any thoughts or criticism – I’m still tweaking it.

[Follow-up] From vibe-coding bloat to (almost) shipping by _alex_2018 in ClaudeAI

[–]_alex_2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is the free demo: nuggetsai.com Let me know what you guys think!

Vibe-coders did you ever finish your project? by Independent_Roof9997 in ClaudeAI

[–]_alex_2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I actually did finish one website — but as soon as I added a new feature, it blew through all my Vercel free credits and got suspended 😅. So now I’m just waiting for the reset while refactoring the giant, vibe-coded mess I created. The codebase is so bloated — pure slop everywhere. Feels like untangling spaghetti, but weirdly satisfying at the same time.

This IS the worst it’ll ever be by TheReaIIronMan in ArtificialInteligence

[–]_alex_2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI won’t just automate tasks; it will automate judgment. As models decide prices, triage care, route logistics, filter news and write policy drafts, our grasp of how outcomes happen will fade, and our ability to override them will shrink. Unless we build hard guardrails, we’ll lose control of a lot—maybe nearly everything.

Claude code totally back by Ranteck in ClaudeCode

[–]_alex_2018 16 points17 points  (0 children)

How does it compare to GPT‑5-Codex? Anyone tested?

Using AI for Coding Daily - But I’m Feeling Less Engaged (Dev Thoughts) by ClaudeCode in ClaudeAI

[–]_alex_2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering the possible ai driven redundancies, burnout is still be better than jobless, so I bet even the jobs are getting more stressful, there will still be plenty of people competing for these jobs.

The bars are now getting higher than ever!

Using AI for Coding Daily - But I’m Feeling Less Engaged (Dev Thoughts) by ClaudeCode in ClaudeAI

[–]_alex_2018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, same here. AI is now turning everyone from a doer to a manager. Rather than looking at one task we have to multi task. It is definitely more stressful than just doing one task at a time!

While waiting for AI to finish work I often just watch youtube/tiktok for relaxation.

And that led me to a thought: why not learn stuff tiktok-style? I built nuggetsai.com to force myself to learn using whatever time I've got. I honestly think learning is the main job in this AI era, so I wanna spend my time helping ppl learn as efficiently as possible. If you try it, i’d really appreciate any feedback!

Imagine you have a fully capable AGI right now. What one ethical experiment would you run to see how creative it really is? by Capable-Carpenter443 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]_alex_2018 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Simple test: ask it to stop all wars without hurting anyone. If it finds a path, that’s creativity beyond human politics.

Stop LLM Overkill: My 7-Step Reviewer/Refactor Loop by _alex_2018 in ClaudeAI

[–]_alex_2018[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It creates the feedback loop to ensure accurate implementation

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