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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  2mo ago (text post)   460 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for July 29, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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The first 50 things you print on a 3d printer are parts for your 3d printer. Also the community is batshit insane in the best possible way.

I read someone here talk about deepening capital the other week and it created this mantra in my head: regard females, deepen capital.

The regard females part isn't very actionable since I think I've maxed that out, but the deepen capital part is.

So I've been on this rampage of cleaning my property and fixing stuff and thinking of renovations to do. Maybe even considering getting a mortgage to buy another house and seeing if I can exploit some tax advantages and maybe landlord maxx my current place.

It's borderline obsessing. Just gonna try scaling back to cleaning and doing maintenance until this little bout of entrepreneurial(?) zeal passes.

I'm rather astonished how many incentives the government gives you. Subsidized mortgages, deductible interest, depreciation of rental properties even if they're actually appreciating in the market, no capital gains taxes on flipping your primary. What in the world. Kind of silly not to be in this game with at least one property.

Still working on my Minecraft API with MCP for AI integration. I got Dockerization working so I can theoretically deploy it somewhere easily. It's not really ready for that as I haven't bothered adding any security to the API yet.

Previous comments here taught me that I can use different LLMs from VSCode, so I've been having some fun with that.

Going forward I really want to let the AI do building construction, so I've been planning out a component system where it can pass component names, options, and bounding boxes and subcomponents will handle the internal details.

I want it to be similar enough to React that it'll be able to transfer over some of that training. Curious to see if I'll run into limits with the context side.

One of the milestones I set for myself is to have a replacement for my Nitter instance, which has been acting up lately. The road was quite bumpy, between the retarded SQL performance, and my brilliant idea to first import the Twitter data over the API, and then present it in chronological order. I thought I was saving myself duplicated code by fetching and rendering data the same way, whether I'm browsing the Twitter API, or the more generic entries of my application, but I recently realized this was doomed to failure, as Twitter does not return data chronologically. So I opted for rendering the API data directly, while importing it in the background. It went faster than expected, and things have never ran smoother. A few more tweaks and I might reach my milestone.

How have you been doing @Southkraut?

Some time spent tinkering, but sadly no progress.

Right now I just have a bunch of objects that aren't where I want them to be, aren't behaving like I want them to behave, and I can't seem to get a handle on the why or how. I'm trying different ways of debugging this, but so far I'm not getting a proper grip on it.

Over the weekend, I finished cutting things out of the first draft of my NaNoWriMo project. It now sits at about 113k words, 20k words (15%) shorter than the first draft. Under the assumption that the second draft should be no longer than 90% of the first draft, this gives me a "budget" of about 7k words to play with, to add in details that occurred to me since completing the first draft. I'm aiming to have the second draft finished by August 10th.

If you're looking for another person for editing, feel free to message me. I can provide a sample from my own writing if you'd want to see my bona fides.

Thank you for the offer.

What's the book about?

A product designer in a medtech company trying to develop a new way of diagnosing fertility disorders.

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