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Tinker Tuesday for March 24, 2026

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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  1. I'm happy to announce that my first PR was merged into TheMotte's codebase - link formatting buttons are now available in the comment editors. I plan to take on a few of the outstanding issues in the following weeks :)

  2. Does anyone know which image generation models have reliable inpainting? Gemini claims to have it in Nano Banana, but the results look... less than stellar. Specifically, (by request of a family member, ah the curse of being "good with computers") I have a group photo of people + one person separately, and I want to compose the one person onto the group photo, and change everyone's clothes into magnate garb. Everything I've tried so far fucks up the faces at least a little bit, making one or more people unrecognizable. Which again, wouldn't be a problem if I had access to inpainting, because then I could just add the original face to the intermediate result, but the generation then changes and screws up some other part in turn.

Completed the fourth draft of my novel on Sunday. It's just shy of 96k words, about 17k shorter than the third draft and, I think, much stronger for it.