Timothy Brown

@eddiejaoude So I’ve actually been toying with this exact same idea! It would have to be the turn based. My thought was a sort of hacker/cyberpunk themed turn based combat game.

Do you remember Battlesnake, where you would code your snake to compete? I am thinking of building some other turn based games where people have to code their player. What do you think? What games would work well? - Battleships - Tron - Bomberman - Worms ... 👇

Wow, Codex's new `/goal` feature is really great! It just ran for 3 hours solid polishing off and making production ready a little browser trivia game I've been working on for awhile: emojigame.timb.us

@cljack This got reposted in an internal Slack channel and it’s doing numbers.

@fortelabs Check out a little app I’m working on called GlideHUD: glidehud.com Pulls down from your menubar with a scroll down gesture, gives you access to Markdown notes on the right and your clipboard history on the left. Currently in open beta, releasing soon!

Can anyone recommend a dead simple, easy to use notetaking app based on markdown files? Obsidian is far too complicated for me. I'm looking for Apple Notes, but with markdown storage

@magesh Well received so far! I've been churning out updates fixing bugs, we're on Beta 12 now. You have a link for Klippy 2? I'd love to take a look!

@TimothyBrown SwiftData is a solid choice — I went with Core Data for Klippy 2 and the migration was painful. How's the beta going so far? Any feedback on the split-pane layout from early users?

I just opened the beta for GlideHUD - a native macOS app written in Swift that drops down from the top of your screen like a HUD. Left side: Full clipboard history (text, images, files, rich text). Right side: Markdown notes that point at any local folder (Obsidian vaults included). One gesture. No app switching. Built for people who live in their terminal and want their clipboard and notes always within reach. ——— What’s been interesting about building this is how I used AI. I didn’t use @grok to generate code - we used @claudeai for that. Instead, I used @grok as my senior engineering partner during the design and planning phase: reviewing specs, catching edge cases, pushing back on scope, and making sure the architecture was solid before any code was written. The result? @claudeai’s token usage during implementation dropped by roughly half, and we ended up with far fewer bugs. We’ve basically been able to one-shot most features once the spec and plan were locked in. It’s been one of the most effective ways I’ve found to work with AI on a real product! ——— GlideHUD is fully signed and notarized, has zero telemetry, and auto-updates via Sparkle. Beta is open now → glidehud.com Would love to hear what you think, especially from heavy terminal + Obsidian users!

Website updated, now with screenshots!

Yup, I am! I’m using SwiftData, which is a native framework. It’s SQLite backed, so it persists to disk and is pretty fast and flexible! It also integrates with CloudKit, so you can have the data store automatically sync to iCloud (though I’m not using that functionality right now).

Love the split-pane concept — clipboard history + markdown side by side is a really elegant layout. I just shipped Klippy 2 last week with a similar menubar-first approach. Curious if you're persisting history across reboots? That's the edge case that always surprises me in this space.

@coIedeb Thanks!

@TimothyBrown Website looks sick

@tinleyharrier Yeah, I’ve found it’s much better as a code quality reviewer than it is actually writing code. The upside is Grok is very fast at thinking, so iterations are fast at least!

@TimothyBrown Nice, it'd be great if Grok was better at writing code though lol

@DurhamVSmith @bcherny Yeah, looks like it’s fixed now though!

@TimothyBrown @bcherny The writeup and a fix I wouldn’t trust is in the GitHub

Opus 4.7 uses more thinking tokens, so we've increased rate limits for all subscribers to make up for it. Enjoy!

@DurhamVSmith @bcherny Yeah, we’re seeing this too. Model works fine on the playground in the console but when we try to use it in Claude we get a 400 error related to an invalid beta flag?

@bcherny Thanks! Can you also fix that opus 4.7 is not working with Claude code via Aws bedrock

Massive updates to WaffleWeather over the last week, too many features to list. github.com/timothybrown/W…

Working on a physical console that pulls data from the backend API now!

Got tired of staring WeeWX, so I built my own modern weather station dashboard from scratch. After a few weeks of pair programming with @claudeai, 6k lines of code, 343 tests, and one comprehensive security review: WaffleWeather is born! Ecowitt sensors → MQTT → FastAPI → TimescaleDB → Next.js, all running on a Pi 4. Real-time updates, drag-to-zoom charts, lightning maps, thermal comfort, Zambretti forecasts, and more. Named after a very good dog. github.com/timothybrown/W…

@kawaiiswag @MaxellCorp Ah well, maybe it’ll at least be the high spec version?

@TimothyBrown @MaxellCorp It's using a Tanashin clone like every other one sadly

With the rise in cassette popularity, we knew it was only fair that there was a great cassette player to go with them 😉 So we made our own!!

@DMVAdventures 66 or 15 to 29 would be the front way. To me, the back way would be coming down the back roads through Middleburg and The Plains from Leesburg or Purcellville. Lots of scenic windy roads. 🙂

@TimothyBrown What's the front way lol? From DC and NoVa its 66 to 29?

I just bought some 10/10 cheesecake from a tollbooth on the side of the highway, and it was only $6 a slice. This is the SMALLEST Restaurant ever. Seriously it's like 20 square feet. It's located inside of an old ATM Machine that is converted into a drive-thru tollbooth that sells 10/10 cheesecake...and each slice is less than $6. It is less than an hour from DC and a great roadtrip detour on the way to several places. Its in Gainesville/Warrenton. When I went there was a short line of cars grabbing one of their 6 or so daily choices, I got an Oreo slice and an Espresso slice. I love cheesecake and I love this place. Slices are consumable size and consumable priced. So you can try more than 1 flavor...although its very dessert-y and 1 slice did me fine.

@7NewsDC We will not comply.

Tighter gun restrictions are moving forward in Richmond. A bill that bans buying, selling and manufacturing assault weapons is now heading to Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger's desk. wjla.com/news/local/ass…