Mastodawn

For around 10 years I've been playing around trying to get GraphViz built for iOS. Admittingly I've not spent huge amounts of time on it but have never quite got it working properly. Have also tried over the last couple of years on and off with various LLMs to see how they would fare also without success.

Had another go this today with Claude Code - and got it working quite nicely! Took a few iterations to get things built properly but have a nice build script and understandable instructions.

AndyQ Mar 10

Rebane Mar 9

did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?

i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too

AndyQ Feb 24

Dave Frampton Feb 24

‘We need a new internet’ is being shouted from the rooftops. ‘That’s not possible!’ Everyone yells back. ‘Look I’ve built one!’ I shout into the crowd.

*crickets*

We know that nearly all successes are discounted and ignored before they become mainstream, I’ve personally lived it many times before. I’m actually going to pull this off, so remember how no one will ever believe you. No one ever does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124149

A simple web we own | Hacker News

AndyQ Jan 25

Got one of those little Polono P31s thermal label printers from shown on TikTok - actually a neat little gadget, only thing I'm not a fan of the Labelnise app - no idea what/if its sending out. So with the assistance of Claude, knocked up a small Python CLI to print text, images, qr and barcodes to it over BLE.

https://github.com/AndyQ/Polomo-P31S-Thermal-Printer

#python #printers

GitHub - AndyQ/Polomo-P31S-Thermal-Printer: Small Python app to print text, images, barcodes and QRCodes over BLE to the Polomo P31S Thermal Printer

Small Python app to print text, images, barcodes and QRCodes over BLE to the Polomo P31S Thermal Printer - AndyQ/Polomo-P31S-Thermal-Printer

GitHub

AndyQ Dec 23

When you are really cozy but just a little too warm

#dogsofmastodon

AndyQ Nov 12

5 years ago we got this gorgeous little puppy who has turned into the most wonderful and funny dog! Happy gotcha day Miya!!! #dogsofmastodon

AndyQ Nov 5

Whoever at Apple thought that "Copying shared cache symbols" every new beta was a good thing should be made to deploy a watch app to device with a new beta every day (without their fancy connection cables!!)

#iosdev

AndyQ Oct 31

Oy - I want something BUT you'll have to guess what!
#dogsofmastodon

AndyQ Oct 4

Christina Warren Oct 4

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

AndyQ Oct 3

Have just been playing with Meta's Hyperscape on the Quest 3 - and have been totally blown away. Quick and Easy to capture a room, 8 hours to process (it is preview so hope that comes down), but WOW!

The first 5-10 seconds I was waiting for it to show the virtual room then realised it already had! The detail it captured was amazing and there were times I forgot I was in a virtual environment!

Its not often that I get totally really impressed but this is really well done!