I had recently learned about using image pyramids[1] in conjunction with template matching algorithms like SAD to do simple and efficient object recognition, it was quite fun.
I'm actually not all that opposed to some of these features, but the way it's implemented is so clunky. The UI make it feel like a half baked browser extension.
"automatically group and label your tabs" is the only thing out of those that sound at all interesting to me, though I don't know how AI comes into play here. And is it all local AI?
It’s local and it tries to group the tabs based on what seems to be URL and title, and what seems to be a semantic content of the page (eg it understands to group shopping sites together).
Is this rage-bait? A language alone doesn't dictate reliability. There are tons of large scale systems out there running on Python. As for the language being, "flawed irreversibly", I'd be curious to hear you expand on that with examples.
All programming languages are Turing complete and you can arque with that. But you reach similar results with varying pre-knowledge and effort. Sometimes it is even impossible. All programs can be bug-free but most are not, if we reverse the argument.
Nobody would claim that. But are you trying to say that the language has no effect on reliability? Because that's obviously nonsense.
Language choice has some effect on reliability, and I would say Python's effect is mediocre-to-bad. Depending on if you use Pyright. Not too bad if you do. Pretty awful if you don't.
I still use pycharm, but these days I satisfy my debugging with pudb (https://pypi.org/project/pudb/) which has been amazing and a good middle ground for the integrated debugger feel.
I really like a good IDE. I may try this but the all in one world is what I work best in. I'll give this a look though. I am always willing to try something not in my comfort zone.
These are all great projects! When I find myself getting burnt out in my job I find that writing a little toy project usually helps be get back some spark. Some projects that weren't listed that I've enjoyed:
- GUI based bot for a small video game
- raft consensus algorithm
- ray casting
- simple b-tree or lsmtree storage engine
I'll also second chip8 emulator as being a good quick fun one! It helps there are ROMs that help quickly validate your implementation also (https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite)
> Why Not Redis? I have a single VPS, so I can get by with a simple SQLite database. If I had many instances of my API on separate servers
Just to push against this a bit. Redis can be very low memory cost and is very easy to run (I give it 5mb). I have a small single server with a few instances of my API that let's me cache pretty much everything I need.
When I last benchmarked Redis vs. PostgreSQL for a simple k/v cache it was about ~1ms for PostgreSQL to fetch a key, and ~0.5ms for Redis. Faster, but not really noticeably so. I haven't benchmarked SQLite, but I would be surprised if the numbers are substantially different.
Of course Redis can do other things than just a k/v cache, and at scale you just want to offload some load from your main SQL server. But for "small" use cases my conclusion was that Redis doesn't really add anything. OTOH it's also not especially difficult to run so it also not a big problem to use it, but by and large it seems superfluous.
There was a period of time in my life where I had recently moved to California from Canada and I was desperate for a job. I got a job doing door-to-door sales for Comcast. I hated it. I often sat in my car playing VVVVVV on my phone while shirking my responsibilities. Thank you Terry, for the reprieve.
