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I use that extension to summarize Perplexety.ai's discovery news summarizations. - It's pure insanity, I know...

I love markdown parsers, the clunky PHP ones, the very fast javascript ones and now the streaming (JS) ones:
https://thetarnav.github.io/streaming-markdown/

perfect for my page summarizer sidebar chrome extension.

abogen - an unbelievable piece of software to turn text (#epub #txt #pdf) into audio. I tried elevenreader to listen to a book that's only available as text, but it's a subscription service yaddayadda (it works well though). But abogen let's me create an audiobook in hours, locally. Given, even the most natural-sounding AI voices still sound sterile if you listen for hours.

https://github.com/denizsafak/abogen

Why isn't all #podcast audio encoded as #opus? At least offer an opus-only feed. There are 120 MB 320 kbps voice only audio files out there that could be a 30 MB opus file. Save space and bandwidth!

I think it's pretty cool that there is a #jquery v4. Not sure what the decision tree is to end up using it, but their api is still so much nicer than vanilla JS.
https://blog.jquery.com/2025/08/11/jquery-4-0-0-release-candidate-1/

Dark mode a scam?

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxOppYJyjNk48xHMgVit5BmwOwjcYxZIA0?si=ipuG0DEIZkAV_lkd

@phillmv @simon That "why is that?" is so funny. Rather than write clear instructions to get it resolved I often find myself questioning the LLM's response and ask why it didn't choose another much better solution (keeping everything vague because I have no clue either :D)

5. let AI script my own extension that uses OpenRouter models
6. find out Chrome and Firefox Manifest v3 extensions are not necessarily compatible? (background worker something something not in Firefox)
7. let AI write the prompt for summarize a page
8. Now I've got my first quick and dirty, configurable, OpenRouter-driven sidebar extension for Chrome.

1. find a version of the firefox extension on @internetarchive (https://web.archive.org/web/20250612103538/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/orbit-summarizer/) - the xpi is archived and you can download it!

2. unzip and make sense of the minified source code. This in-depth review helped a lot: https://matduggan.com/review-of-orbit-by-mozilla/

3. burn through a bunch of tokens to let AI make sense of how to replace the  `https:// orbitbymozilla .com` calls with #OpenRouter calls.

4. there was too much going on and I scrapped that thing

Mozilla's Orbit Summarizer was a short lived service for #Firefox to summarize websites. It was quite helpful in my option. Unfortunately they shut it down and I couldn't find anything to replace it with (2 click summarizer, ideally Bring-Your-Own-OpenRouter-Key - the extensions I found were useless). Here is what I attempted to revive it for myself:

The other day I revived my Cleo app. It's a PWA (add to homescreen in ios) that lets you scroll through a stream of cat pictures and ♥️ them. Those are saved in the browser and has import and export functionality. It's a sweet distraction from the daily doom scroll. And everything is local (#privacy)! Check it out if you like: https://cleo.mfru.it/

I googled the error, found out about recent incompatibilities of mutagen and newer docker versions as well as the merger of mutagen with docker desktop which is now only available via subscriptions.
Then I checked out the ddev website that offers a windows installer of ddev in wsl with a promise to set it up in under 10 minutes (and it really works!)

Conclusion:
1. confirmation of this study (sort of) https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
2. know your stuff and #rtfm
3. yet I learned a lot in the process...

I let cursor.ai agent mode install ddev for me, here is how it went down:
- created a script with rules and where to install what
- let the agent do its thing (in the beginning I approved everything, then hands off)
- after 1 hour I had a working dev environment in wsl and a snappy laravel app thanks to mutagen.
- next day I installed Docker Desktop as recommended and nothing worked.
- burnt some tokens, agent only came up with the solution to disable mutagen (I need the speed and convenience).

@davatron5000 RE: In any conversation you have 3 options
A precursor to “say nothing” can be: Riff, write puns, be rude, get it off your chest by writing it down, then close the tab and move on.

Horseflies don’t bother with anesthesia, they just fuck you up.

An incredible dark week at the best time of the year.

For a fun project, I thought I look how #leafphp is doing things. It was intriguing at first, but the docs weren't complete and I got stuck and lost interest. Today I picked up where I left, saw that leafphp 4.x is out, and I completely failed to get that thing updated and running. Partially it's my fault, my dev environment is still stuck at PHP 8.0. But the docs are still not clear on how to do certain things.
I gave up and moved back to the familiar and much more resilient #fatfreeframework.