I also did this a few months ago using a custom MCP server I built for the Alpaca API, the yfinance MCP server, and a reddit MCP server, and the "sequential thinking" mcp server. I hade claude write a prompt that combined them all together starting with checking r/pennystocks for any news, looking up the individual ticker symbols with alpaca and yfinance, checking account balance and making a trade only if a very particular set of criteria was met. I used claude code instead of desktop so that I could run it as a cron job, and it all works! I mostly built it to see if I could, not for any financial gain. I had it paper trading for a few months and it made a 2% profit on 100k. I really think someone that knows more about trading could do quite well with a setup like this, but it's not for me.
It's good at taking code of large, complex libraries and finding the most optimal way to glue them together. Also, I gave it the code of several open source MudBlazor components and got great examples of how they should be used together to build what I want. Sure, Grok 3 and Sonnet 3.7 can do that, but the GPT 4.5 answer was slightly better.
Ah Operator. This synth is so deep. Not only is it a fantastic FM synth, but it does subtractive synthesis well too. Also, it really is impressive how the UI manages to fit all those parameters. I mostly use it for cool synth leads. Here's one of my favorite videos on Operator https://youtu.be/rfeY0_k1ctk?si=s68Lr033cHf34a4M by Robert Henke himself.
Yeah, I can confirm that writing windows GUI apps is not at all painful for me. I still use Windows Forms in .NET 4.8 and my executables are < 1mb, Visual Studio's form designer is very easy to use, you can subclass all the .NET UI controls and customize them however you want. There's always been accessibility and even support for high DPI.
I've tried all the popular yerba mate brands, smoked, flavored, Uruguayan, Argentinian, but I still prefer organic unsmoked Yerba Mate with stems. I brew 1/2 cup of mate with 2 cups of 150F water and a splash of lemon juice for 30 minutes, then pour the whole thing through a chemex coffee filter. It takes a few minutes to filter, but the result is a delicious, very caffinated, slightly lemony tea.
I own this tv, and I had it connected to the internet for a short while. Not only does it have ads everywhere, but the menu is SLOW. Taking it off the internet not only got rid of the ads, but also made menu navigation faster.
There have a few times that I presented a VB6 prototype along with a price and had my prototype purchased on the spot. Sometimes when a client says "We need this software now", they really mean it.
I don't know if this counts, but I built so much software in Access '97. Mostly for small businesses and individuals. I could build a whole inventory management system in a weekend(a simple one anyways). It was phenomenal. Once I learned Java and SQL(how to correctly use SQL, lol) I quit using it as much. But sometimes I still prototype software in old versions of Access just to model everything out.
I rather like mastodon compared to the other implementations of activitypub (Misskey, Friendica and Pleroma). What I'd really like is to build my own activitypub server and client, but it's so hard. I'm going to keep using mastodon for now, but it sucks that the best activitypub implementation is basically a twitter clone. I'd really like something with a layout more like Facebook. Most of the people I try to convert to mastodon don't like twitter. I want to give them Friendica, but it needs a lot of UI work and a nice android client to really be useful to them.
I also strongly disagree. All the jobs I've taken at the advice of a recruiter were the worst jobs I've ever had. Even if the job matched everything on my checklist and I was able to visit the company and talk to the employees before signing on, it was still a terrible place to work. Why? Because it was in everyone's best interest to hide how miserable the job actually was. And yes, the salary was higer, but the jobs didn't last. The longest I was able to tolerate these jobs was about 2 years each. Which didn't look very good on my resume. Switching jobs every 2 years is probably ok for some, but I wouldn't hire anyone that has a consistent record of that. My advice is to find places that you would want to work and apply there on your own.
I bought the cheapest trumpet on ebay($65) and I'm learning the trumpet. It's a lot of fun. I'm slightly annoyed that I'm not programming as much, but this is fun too