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ryanfox | 2 years ago | on: NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

Last year I started another version for Mo(vies):

https://namogenmo.github.io/

I wanted to keep the anything-goes spirit, so “movie” is defined really loosely. Anyone is free to join me, there’s still time this month!

ryanfox | 2 years ago | on: The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)

You’re in luck, there’s new Connections as of 5 days ago!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/fans-of-connections-...

ryanfox | 3 years ago | on: Unbundling Tools for Thought

Hey, I’ve been building that. It’s called A Personal Search Engine: https://apse.io

ryanfox | 3 years ago | on: Project Naptha

I’ve been working on exactly that! [0]

My info is in my hn profile, if you (or anyone reading) would like to chat about it.

[0] https://apse.io

ryanfox | 3 years ago | on: How Websites Die

I’ve been working on a very similar thing which runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux: https://apse.io

ryanfox | 4 years ago | on: APSE – A Personal Search Engine

Founder here, I am happy to talk about it, my email is ryan at the submitted domain.

ryanfox | 4 years ago | on: A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint

I run a similar project: https://apse.io

It runs locally on your laptop/desktop, so you don’t need a server to host anything.

Also, it can index everything you do, not just web content.

It works really well for me!

ryanfox | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

Any chance you’re thinking of APSE? I submitted a Show HN a while back.

https://apse.io/

ryanfox | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

I’ve been working on an app that’s pretty much exactly “the latter”! [0]

The amount of disk space it takes up isn’t crazy. It has been very useful for me.

[0] https://apse.io

ryanfox | 5 years ago | on: When Fonts Fall

> I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives -- e.g. here's a vertical stroke, a horizontal stroke, diagonal strokes, what various serif endings look like, here are what the bowls of letters look like, etc.

Tom7, who makes excellent videos about computers, has one about splitting letters up to create anagrams in this way.[0]

All of his videos are technically astounding, like the one where he frankensteined a raspberry pi into a game cartridge to play SNES games on a NES, or the one where he designed and built a computer using IEEE 754 NaN and infinity instead of 0 and 1.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTBAW-Eh0tM

ryanfox | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?

Thanks!

You could block it at the firewall - same as you would for any application.

ryanfox | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?

I built an application for exactly this. It's called A Personal Search Engine, APSE for short.[0]

It OCRs screenshots and stores the text in a search index, so you can query by keyword, date, boolean operators, the whole shebang.

It's all local. It is really useful for me - yesterday it saved me after Firefox wigged out and lost all my tabs. It's in a great place to try out, and I am actively developing it.

[0] https://apse.io

ryanfox | 5 years ago | on: Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse

How about a local app? I am working on almost exactly what you're describing.

ryanfox | 5 years ago | on: Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse

I made an application[0] that does capture your view. It's screenshot-based. It works outside of a browser too - anything on your screen. All local too, so no privacy concerns :)

[0] https://apse.io

ryanfox | 6 years ago | on: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

I’ve been building essentially that, but more than just websites: https://apse.io. I am really pleased with how it works - just released v2.0!

ryanfox | 6 years ago | on: This Page is Designed to Last

I’ve been building an application to do this, except for everything on your computer! It’s called APSE[0], short for A Personal Search Engine.

[0] https://apse.io

ryanfox | 6 years ago | on: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

I've been working on APSE[0], which does something similar. Everything's stored locally, so you'll never lose your archive.

[0] https://apse.io

ryanfox | 6 years ago | on: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

I'm building something that does this. It lets you search text in images, video, local files, anything that comes across your screen. You can manually add e.g. web pages too.

It's at https://apse.io. It has been working really well for me. I'm happy to answer questions if that sounds interesting.

ryanfox | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

Could the bags-of-characters approach cause issues with anagrams having the same vector?

It would be surprising (to me) to get the same results for e.g. "strange" and "garnets".

ryanfox | 8 years ago | on: Look for the duct tape

I work a lot with image and video processing - this sounds like the kind of thing I'm interested in. Would you want to chat some time? Email is in my profile.