Timothy Brown

Perfectionist programmer of Python, witty writer of words and hyperactive hacker of hardware.

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@MidwestGunWorks @HecklerAndKoch While I’m a big fan of the Holosun AEMS, the MR 556 A4 deserves a better optic. I run the Sig Romeo 8T AMR combo myself, it’s fantastic!

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@TheModerateVA And currently 2-4 hour waits just for transfers! The queue was 60 people when I was there the other day.

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@microtechknives Does it have an RMRc compatible footprint so I can add an optic? 🤔

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WaffleWeather v2026.5.14.1 is live!

Fixed a mobile layout bug on the Records page: The 4-column table was overflowing on mobile, squishing labels into values. Each metric now stacks cleanly with its three time-period values in a 3-column grid below.

https://t.co/Z795okitNy

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https://t.co/MXt5XS4xBX

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WaffleWeather History panel got a serious upgrade:
- URL-driven Day/Week/Month/Year: Jump straight to a specific past period
- Progressive date pickers (year → month → day, two clicks deep)
- Per-series toggle chips on every chart
- Adaptive bucketing kills 24h Wind/Solar spaghetti

v2026.5.6.2 - Self hosted from source or Docker

https://t.co/RYI1aoOTMs

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Preparing to release v1.0.0 of GlideHUD tonight!

https://t.co/afv8hmzLa5

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@OpenAIDevs I present Trace, your little oscilloscope companion!

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I had already created it, but this was a pass to add backend support for keeping track of high scores, a security sweep looking for any vulnerabilities or injection points in that code and then another set of workers designed to add a bunch of new emoji puzzles. Then deploying it all and doing visual validation and play testing using Playwright.

Considering the amount of work (and the fact that it was doing TDD, so it was creating tests along with the actual code) 3 hours actually isn't too bad.

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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: https://t.co/aSSdrXRgEc

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@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.

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

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@fortelabs Check out a little app I’m working on called GlideHUD: https://t.co/afv8hmzLa5

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!

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@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!

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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.

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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!

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GlideHUD is fully signed and notarized, has zero telemetry, and auto-updates via Sparkle.

Beta is open now → https://t.co/L2XLq883Gm

Would love to hear what you think, especially from heavy terminal + Obsidian users!

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Website updated, now with screenshots!

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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).

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@coIedeb Thanks!

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@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!

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