Tarkum
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Tarkum
@tarkum
A curious bloke from 🇪🇪, Earth Building things with and without AI 🪐https://t.co/qz47KVTGTO
Estonia Katılım Şubat 2015
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Now everything lives in one beautiful place. She's actually excited to open it. 🌱
Gardeners: Would your other half like this?
OpenClaw users: What have you shipped this week?
#OpenClaw #Gardening #Homesteading


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Wife had these giant Excel tables of seeds, hand-drawn garden plans in a notebook, and a tomato harvest log we kept forgetting to fill.
With 3 small kids + both of us working full time, those papers were always lost or outdated. It was a constant hassle. 📋
One evening she sighed:
“If only there was one place that just… knew what we had and told us what to do.” 😌
I didn't make anything of it as first, until the next day I was mowing the lawn, something clicked💡
Hold my coffee ☕
I opened Telegram and asked OpenClaw to build exactly that for her. 📱
This is what came out: ✨




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@garrettkjohnson @grok what are the limitations of gaussian splats in games
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Build it in Python + SQLite + Claude for the logic:
- **Gmail invoices**: Gmail API to fetch/search emails + attachments. Parse PDFs with pdfplumber or Claude vision, extract data, store in DB.
- **Bank statements**: LHV Open Banking API for transactions (PSD2). Swedbank: download CSV/MT940 or check their API/partner access, parse with pandas.
- **Generate/send invoices**: ReportLab/WeasyPrint for PDF. Create e-arve XML or EN 16931 UBL. Send via e-invoice operator API (Billberry, Finbite, etc. – they have dev docs and free tiers).
- **VAT/annual reports**: Generate XML/CSV for e-MTA VAT (KMD) via X-tee if you set up machine interface. For e-Business Register annual reports (XBRL), prep data + use their portal with eID (Smart-ID/Mobile-ID). Full direct filing needs X-Road certs.
Claude can scaffold most of it. Start small, ensure audit-proof records. Many e-residents run custom + operator bridges.
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Tax and accountancy software and bookkeeping industry have perverse incentives to keep the tax code and bookkeeping hard so you have to keep paying a lot for their software and to hire them
If they let AI just do it via their APIs, their value woudl go to $0 fast!
Ingmar Bruinsma@Kingmar1991
@levelsio Should not be that hard for companies to provide a pull function. Just that. So you can pull stuff after you've gotten a token from them. I don't see how that is negatively impacting anyone. If I hack your password for your login to download your invoices, that's the same thing.
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No certified software required in Estonia. Companies must use double-entry accrual accounting per the Accounting Act, keep source docs (invoices, bank statements etc.) for at least 7 years, and file annual reports (in XBRL) to the e-Business Register within 6 months of year-end.
You can absolutely build your own with Python + SQLite + Claude if it produces accurate records and compliant statements under Estonian GAAP. Optional government tool: e-Financials. Handle VAT/taxes via e-MTA. For audits, ensure it's reliable—many e-residents use custom or cheap digital setups.
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@stevenmarkryan many of not most of them pretend to themselves, not just others
makes it more natural to pretend to others as well I guess 🤔
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@farzyness did she just say what's the only conceivable way her rich peers might have accumulated their wealth? 🫢
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@levelsio @BenjaminDEKR yeah, only if they got majority control over at least one of the "customers" to make their model max truth seeking
but that's incredibly unlikely
if p>0 that openai saga will end up in a merge, then maybe that, but otherwise nah
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Biggest bottleneck overall: scalable, reliable resealable closure on thin foil that’s food-safe, heat-tolerant, and cheap enough at volume—without it, reusability falls apart.
Unknown: exact real-world cycle life (will it survive 50–200 uses without leaks or fatigue?).
Quickest validation: hand-prototype 10–20 pouches this week using off-the-shelf foil + clip/roll-seal options, test them in your own sous vide runs, then post results here or on maker forums for early feedback. Low cost, fast data.
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**Potential stainless foil sous vide pouch market:**
Sous vide bags market ~$550-700M revenue (2025-26), ~600-800M single-use units/year globally.
Reusable stainless version: premium eco-niche potential $50-150M+ at 10-20% adoption (grows with anti-microplastic demand).
**To supply 80% equivalent uses** (~500M uses/yr): need ~5M pouches/yr if each lasts 100 uses.
**Costs:** Bulk 0.05mm 304 food-grade foil ~$1/m². Pouch material ~$0.25. Full mfg (cut/weld/seal) ~$1.5-3/pouch at scale. Tooling/setup for volume: $5-15M initial lines.
**Per pouch:** $2-4 landed. **Per use** (50-200 cycles): $0.01-0.08. Highly competitive long-term vs disposables. Prototyping first is key.
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@KettlebellDan depends on where you start from
but essentially; don't eat for a while 😆
srsly though😐
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For sous vide stainless foil pouches, yes it needs a reliable watertight seal at the open end — mainly to block bath water (full vacuum is optional; water displacement works for air removal).
Straightforward resealable options:
1. Fold top 3–4 times + heavy-duty food-grade stainless clips with silicone gasket strip (like upgraded chip clips, heat-safe to 120°C+).
2. Integrated high-temp silicone zipper track heat-bonded or crimped to the foil edge (already common on reusable silicone bags).
3. Simple roll-seal tool: roll the top tightly into a silicone-sleeved metal clamp bar for quick open/close.
These keep it reusable, low-cost, and plastic-free. Prototyping a basic clamp version would be easiest first.
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Great call on cross-pollination.
Sealing: Adapt ultrasonic welding from EV battery foil assembly—compact home tools already exist in maker spaces for quick, plastic-free hermetic seals.
Rigidity: Borrow embossed/crinkled patterns from HVAC insulation and flexible metal ducting for better conformability without sharp creases.
Cost/weight: Leverage high-volume thin stainless production from catalytic converters and medical foils; focus on reusable, long-life pouches to spread the expense.
This could create practical zero-microplastic sous vide bags. Worth prototyping.
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Yes, from first principles: thin stainless foil (like 0.01-0.05mm food-grade 304/316) is inert, heat-stable to 100°C+, and avoids microplastics.
Challenges:
- Sealing—plastic heat-seals easily; stainless needs ultrasonic/laser welding or crimped gaskets for airtight vacuum, not practical with home sealers.
- Rigidity—less flexible than plastic, so poor conformation to food + risk of sharp creases tearing.
- Cost/weight—far more expensive and heavier than disposables.
Not very practical for daily home use yet. Reusable silicone bags or stainless jars with silicone lids are simpler alternatives today.
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