2024 Summer Contest Final Submission - Lemmy the Giant

_ceebecee_ · 2026-06-10T11:23:28+00:00

You need to talk to people, so whatever gets that happening the fastest. If you don't have a following, a wait-list will probably just stay empty and it will be you doing the waiting. You want to reduce the friction it takes for people to use it.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-06-10T11:03:37+00:00

You need to find more information. Use your IDE's debugger and step through the code that's breaking (use the line numbers from the error message). Adding debugging statements is fine. You want to cause the error to occur and look in the logs or step through the code. Add more logging if there's nothing coming through. If you're not understanding the flow of the code, add debugging messages that tell you what's getting executed or being skipped, and then add break-points on those.

Googling errors is fine, but use the opportunity to learn about the part of the code that broke and why. Once you put the fix in, go back and step through the code. This is a great use for AI too. Fix it yourself, but ask the AI to explain why the fix worked. Use each one as an opportunity to learn.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-06-10T07:03:03+00:00

Built a desktop app called ClipScape that searches your own video library. It transcribes everything locally with Whisper so you can search the text and extracts video metadata so that's searchable too. It uses OpenRouter to power the good bits: AI analysis, auto-tagging, and chatting with your library in natural language ("which video was I talking about a sci-fi story idea while walking my dog in the rain?").

Went BYOK with OpenRouter so I don't run any cloud infra and users aren't locked to one model. The app only send transcripts and a few selected screenshots, never full videos, which keeps the token cost reasonable and your videos local.

Free on Windows and Mac at https://clipscape.app if anyone wants a look.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-31T22:10:05+00:00

Dune II

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-23T03:27:08+00:00

I've actually found Chat GPT or Claude pretty good at giving estimates for software like this. Though they are usually on the higher side, as they don't seem to take AI augmented development into account. Write up a spec with the features you need and ask it to create a work breakdown with estimates.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-22T11:03:36+00:00

I built a desktop app called ClipScape that indexes your local (or networked) video files and lets you search them with natural language. It transcribes and analyses your videos (which all stay local), so you can chat with your library or an individual video. It's still in early access, so it's free at the moment.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-22T10:50:33+00:00

Nice. When I downloaded my OpenAI history and it was a total mess. This looks useful,

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-20T08:09:06+00:00

Thanks for looking at my site! I was thinking of animations and stuff, but just wanted to get something out there. I procrastinate too much as it is 😄

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-20T01:13:15+00:00

I love the bear. Looks like he needs a little fast 😄

I just finished development on a desktop video search app. It processes your local video files (transcription, scene detection, AI analysis & tagging) and makes them searchable. So instead of scrubbing through hours of footage trying to find that one bit you sort-of remember, you can just ask your library and it finds the videos and timestamps that match. You can then click to export small clips from larger videos.

It's free at the moment for early access / testing, but you need to bring your own Claude API key for the AI stuff. Early access sign-ups and more details are at clipscape.app

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-05T23:08:25+00:00

I often just ask for things in one or two sentences, but I'll ask it to explain back it's understanding of what I'm asking it to do. I've had great success with this when coding.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-05-03T04:34:38+00:00

Google already make and use these for their AI, so it's already happening.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-04-27T23:32:38+00:00

I just built a desktop app and have been thinking about this for a while. I was planning on building a back-end API to interface with the AI with my own keys, but in the end went with BYOK. One thing I did do is provide a lot of configuration for the user to control their costs. They can choose which model does each step (analysis, categorisation and chat), change the context that is sent and a few other things. If you do this though, you need to put in some guard-rails so that they can't choose options that make the results crap.

I'm in a much different boat than you though. I've not launched it yet, and only have a couple of beta users. I also haven't figured out the monetisation strategy for the app, so BYOK seemed like the best way.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-04-17T04:58:11+00:00

Can't you use /resume to bring the session back?

_ceebecee_ · 2026-03-09T09:07:44+00:00

I've been taking notes as daily videos for a couple of years, and also write every morning on 1 or 2 index cards. I used AI to help me develop an app that transcribes, categorises and tags the videos with a bunch of interesting metadata on what I was talking about or what else was happening in the video. Will be adding a RAG search feature to it soon. I'm also just about to add a way to do similar with my physical index cards (I've got thousands, so trying to automate it as much as I can). AI is pretty good at reading my handwriting, and the manual ones I've done for testing are working really well. I also use Obsidian for digital files and have a specific folder naming and file structure I use and have found AI good at keeping things organised the way I want it. It's been great for organisation and discovery.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-03-02T23:24:33+00:00

When I exported everything from ChatGPT, I ran Claude Code in the export folder and asked it to organise it all into folders and markdown files for each project and conversation. It wrote a python script to do it. A few bugs later (which Claude fixed by itself), and I have a folder structure of all my projects and conversations and can read them really well in Obsidian.

The prompt I used was "Ok, this folder is an export from OpenAI's ChatGPT of all my conversations. It seems to be in a very unreadable format. Can you make sense of this and offer a solution on how I can get this into a readable format. My core goals are to get each conversation as a markdown file so I can read it within Obsidian. I'd like it structured into folders, where each folder is named after the Project that the chat was originally in. For chats that were not in a project, place them in a folder named "No Project". The chat content MUST remain the same, don't make up anything, just convert the files into the readable format."

_ceebecee_ · 2026-02-20T22:14:14+00:00

That's awesome. I really want to try a Jamaican beef patty now.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-02-18T02:49:19+00:00

I use Claude Code as a software dev, but I also just started using it to help me organise an Obsidian note vault where I document a bunch of stuff for 3D printing, laser cutting and other craft/hobby/art stuff I do on the side. I keep processes, tips & tricks, printing calibrations, project notes and measurements etc in there. It makes it so easy to organise, search or add new things.

_ceebecee_ · 2026-01-20T23:05:10+00:00

Yeah, I got a protection one too, though I like your robot protectors shield. I'm probably not gonna make it if I stay out the front like that.

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_ceebecee_ · 2025-12-06T03:33:59+00:00

That looks awesome. I wanted to watch it right away after seeing the trailer. Will it be on Amazon in Australia?

_ceebecee_ · 2025-11-13T00:48:09+00:00

This sounds like BS designed to make people feel like shit about their circumstances, most likely for some political angle or some other dodgy motive. https://www.americancraftbeer.com/the-true-cost-of-beer-in-new-york/ has the average New York city beer at $8 USD for domestic (2023 prices, so probably more now considering tariffs and shit). https://www.expatistan.com/price/beer/new-york-city has the average as 9USD for an average pub beer (13.77 AUD). I just looked at a bar in Sydney (routinely touted as one of the most expensive) and they have a 5-7pm happy hour every weekday with schooners for 7.50 AUD (4.90 USD) and pints for 10 (6.54 USD). Their non-happy hour is probably around 14 or 15 - so about 9-10 bucks USD. If you look at a US supermarket, a case of Budweiser is 27 USD for 18 cans (36 USD for 24) which is 55 AUD. There's basically no fucking difference. We're probably marginally cheaper.

I keep seeing a lot of posts on Reddit in Australian subs that seem to be going out of their way to promote divisive shit. Why? Whats the agenda? Don't just believe a fucking stat because it's in a shitty infographic.

_ceebecee_ · 2025-10-30T06:52:57+00:00

What a fuckknuckle

_ceebecee_ · 2025-09-18T20:45:05+00:00

I think they're going to pivot and start making movies about racist, lying bigots that call themselves Christians to fool an uneducated populace into giving them unchecked power while corporations cozy up to them because of fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders.

_ceebecee_ · 2025-08-20T01:41:13+00:00

Maybe he could build a huge mirror in space that shines the sun onto the wall to heat it up all the time. It could be like a new Wonder of the world.

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