Michael Marshall3d ago

Now that I’ve got the Chronicle program on GitHub ready for testing, I’m kind of at a loss as to how to get exposure for it.
The thing that makes me nervous above all is that even if I found a place where I could sort of put it out there, if people found out it was vibe coded, they might just tell me to fuck off.
It's one of those really divisive things and I kind of see it from both sides but it's a complication that I don't want to have to deal with.
I basically just want as many people to test and tell me what they think of it.
Donations would be an absolute fucking bonus!
I'm just kind of at a bit of a loss.
This is the link to it for what it's worth.

https://github.com/harry6116/Chronicle
#Accessibility #chronicle #Development #AI #Blind #History #preservation #newspapers

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Show threadJonathan3d ago
@TheVoiceGuy Don't hide it. I'd much more appreciate someone telling me their program is vibe coded but well tested (with evidence) rather than not telling me, because then I have to think about it myself and will probably just not bother.
Show threadMichael Marshall
@jonathan859 Don’t worry, I have not hidden this fact that it’s vibe coded.
From when I first announced that I was constructing it, I made it very clear that I myself was engineering the prompting but that first Gemini and then Codex was doing a lot of the backend heavy lifting.
I certainly hope that's visible on the repository because I certainly wanted it that way.
The last thing I ever want to do is bullshit people.
They should know what they're getting with me.
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Show threadJonathan3d ago
@TheVoiceGuy I mean, on your Mastodon and GitHub commits and releases maybe, but from just jumping through the ReadMe a bit I can't really see it. Is there a section I'm missing? Not that you have to put a banner at the top but a little disclaimer with it's own heading might be useful? Also, since I also saw you talking about E-Mail earlyer, you could consider a website/domain, so people know where to look and it's not only a GitHub repo. Don't get me wrong, I don't have an issue with GitHub repos as the main place for a project at all, but the ordinary user might wine about how GitHub is confusing and whatnot.
Show threadMichael Marshall3d ago
@jonathan859 I’m going to do this.
One of the reasons is that I built this program because I attempted to perform optical character recognition on war diaries of the Manchester regiment which my great grandfather Albert Henry Wharton served in during World War I.
I wanted to understand what Albert went through because he lied about his age to join the British army at just 15 years old and I wanted to understand what he went through.
Show threadStephanie Appleby3d ago
@TheVoiceGuy @jonathan859 Um kk why on Earth would your grandpa lie about his age just to join that army? Just wow! I bet your great grandparents were absolutely furious with him for that!
Show threadMichael Marshall3d ago

@cub80_appleby @jonathan859 Very different time in 1914.
Well some were definitely furious, other others thought it was a patriotic duty.
Although people knew that war was terrible, they didn't have the 24 hour new cycle to show them just how graphic it could be.
Most people think it would be like battles of the old days, have a big set piece battle on a certain date, the enemy would lose and pay some indemnity and everyone would be back in time for Christmas.
I've now put a whole section on why I built the program.

https://github.com/harry6116/Chronicle

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Show threadStephanie Appleby3d ago
@TheVoiceGuy @jonathan859 Wow! Different times indeed! Well I have to say that they're at peace now! I hope! On the bright side they gave their lives so you had a chance!
Show threadTim Appleby3d ago
@TheVoiceGuy @cub80_appleby @jonathan859 Ummm, where is the download link, if there is one?
Show threadJonathan3d ago
@carrottop1023 @TheVoiceGuy @cub80_appleby See that's what I meant when I was talking about the website stuff
Show threadTim Appleby3d ago
@jonathan859 @TheVoiceGuy @cub80_appleby Yeah, no download link.
Show threadMichael Marshall3d ago

@carrottop1023 @jonathan859 @cub80_appleby Here you go

Mac:
https://github.com/harry6116/Chronicle/releases/download/v1.0.0/Chronicle.1.0.mac.zip
windows:
https://github.com/harry6116/Chronicle/releases/download/v1.0.0/Chronicle.1.0.windows.zip
Please look at the read me because it'll tell you everything about what you need to do.

Show threadMichael Marshall3d ago

@jonathan859 @carrottop1023 @cub80_appleby Unfortunately at the moment GitHub is the best place for me to host.

https://github.com/harry6116/Chronicle
However, I'm working on trying to get direct download links to the Mac and Windows versions of the app so you can play around with it.
Please just bear with me a minute.

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