#AI in a nutshell: Watching #frieren, a dying mage describes another's creation of replicas through memory: "I see. I understand now. It has no mind, it's just precisely mimicking the functions of one, we can't beat it." 🪦....Yes, I asked #ChatGPT to write this tweet.

💡Bifocals: my weekend hack to generate custom #travel guidebooks! With #japan JR Pass increasing 70% in cost this year, I wanted to hit up as many cities as possible. 🧵on combining @googlemaps, @openAI, @LeafletJS through @nextjs to make planning easier!

Using #ios widget, I can make sure to keep budget top of mind and stay accountable. One discovery is that using the target, I can get a quick summary of how much I spent without the stress of seeing $. If you see 250% and your budget is $200, then you know you’ve spent $500.

I figured that by making the process more manual, we can leverage reinforcement learning to improve our spending habits. When the app opens, you get a keyboard to type, then you press “enter” by choosing a category. No bank linking, AND you become an active participant!

That’s it for now! Let me know what you think :) P.s. why yes, this whole thing is just an excuse to make yet another keyboard :p

You might have noticed that the colors of the ball representing the switches’ leads changed after some contact with the soldering pen. I thought this might be useful to help me remember which leads might be hot and provide visual feedback, since it’s hidden in the real world.

Now that the keyboard is not using an Image Marker, I can use the Image Marker to track the soldering pen!

When soldering a circuit, you don’t want to apply the heat for too long, lest you burn something. Maybe AR can also help my terrible skills? I added some real-time feedback on how long I've been on a lead, as well as historical feedback (bar chart) to track how consistent I am.

Since we’re dealing with hands and real objects, it also felt natural to pretend to press buttons. In this case “two finger press” to turn-off x-ray mode to get a cleaner look at our keyboard. This thread is really just about pretending #oscar #bait

We can take this digital twin and overlay it on top of the real world. In this case, I’m using Lens Studio since I'm p familiar with it. Ironically, phone cameras are so good now that they have a strong DOF. Not super ideal for focusing on tiny things like soldering, but alas!

Since I deal with mostly software at work, I thought I’d spend some weekends with my hands. The last couple of weeks, I set out to build my first hand wired #MechanicalKeyboard based on FFKB, and @foostan's Corne FW. As you can see in the image, I’m bad at this!