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This is the app I was begging for a few years ago!

Ended up buying a ton of Ear Training books and using those little web apps.

This would have been so much better.

I just started using it,

I will say, I feel we can skip the chords annotations and stuff if the ICP is intermediate guitarist.

Or do a quick survey at the start and see what fundamentals they know.

For intermediate guitar, I think the main gaps are:

- Ear training (unless they were taught early) - triads + inversions - Music theory beyond basic pentatonic shapes - Synchronization at higher speeds (this was my biggest one by far) - Chords beyond basic ones and M/m 7th.

I feel you could add little quiz or survery to see if they are already familiar with some of these.

just my 2 cents

Overall, love this. Very happy someone took the time to do it.


Thanks for the detailed feedback :)

When I first started working on the app I actually mostly meant to go only with a quiz + flashcards approach with little to no explanation but this felt a bit rough and I was affraid most users would just give up on it too quickly. Also I think some users might have learned guitar theory a different way and might not be too familiar with diagrams, such as classical guitarists.

Hence why I added all these lessons with more details including beginner ones.

I might add something in the vein of a "practice page" with only challenges and the ability to create custom ones in the future for more advanced users + a change to a more interactive onboarding that actually asks what you want rather than showcase the app, we'll see...


This is super cool!

Have you thought about making a tool to help preview/dry run migrations?

I feel that's something I would want a ton of confidence in if an LLM is making migration scripts.

Especially if it's doing scary stuff like breaking up a table.


How do you expect an LLM to help here? Can't you just use OverlayFS on the database volume, or a backup thereof, and run the migration against that?


Very cool! Would be sweet to add number of usages each tool gets.

Interested in seeing what other people use!


I'll report back. So far the youtube downloader and case converter


HI! OG Author here.

Honestly, I don't know.

This was purely a toy project/thought experiment to challenge myself to learn exactly how these LLMs worked.

It was super cool to see the loss go down and it actually "train".

This is SUPER far from a the real deal. Maybe it could be cool to see how far a fully in memory LLM running on CPU can go.


License added! Good catch


I wanted to learn exactly how these things work. Down to every detail.

So I built a Mini LLM from absolute scratch in Rust. No libraries other than ndarray and rand.

Started a few months ago but got stuck. Used claud code and fixed the remaining issues and now it works!


I know I am about to get roasted. But hopefully someone suggests a killer tech-stack and I am proven wrong.

I really don't like coupling backend and front end, but at the same time, wanted extreme type safety on the REST API.

So I put together this very simple full stack TS boilerplate that syncs types via a shared folder.

Super lightweight, easy to extend, two seconds to set up.

Let me know what you think. Or roast me and suggest something better!


Very interesting. You have any before and after examples?

Curious how it handles some of the concurrency stuff. Actors, async/await etc..


Sure, here are a few more examples:

- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/tasklocal

- https://sosumi.ai/documentation/swiftui/button

- https://sosumi.ai/documentation/foundation/measurement

Most of the docs about the language itself live on swift.org (e.g. https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...). I've had pretty good luck getting Claude to write modern Swift code by saying things like "Use Swift 6 structured concurrency instead of GCD". But I could totally see expanding sosumi to include swift.org content, too.

Edit: Another Swift developer life hack: for new language features, copy-pasting the Swift Evolution proposal works pretty well! https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/tree/main/propo...


Are you making use of the new markdown files Apple started shipping inside Xcode? They’re probably copyrighted though


OK I need to give this a go. tbh, I've been going back to just writing stuff manually and asking ChatGPT doc questions.

I talked to and extremely strong engineer yesterday who is basically doing exactly this.

Would love to see a video/graphic of this in action.


I'm going to create a video and post it both here and on the repository over the weekend


And I'm going to reply here so that I remember to check back! Thanks!


Good idea. I'd love a video.


I found it hard to find content like this when I was looking to get promoted.

By far the best content came from Will Larson. Thought I would add another data point here to help whoever is currently looking to get promoted.

(ps: yes I wrote this a few months ago, but a friend said I should share here for more vis)


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