1. theptrk Sep 2, 2025 parent

   Long weekend, chance to explore a basic tool using coding agent. Nice to see, any command you can run in the terminal is a potential tool.
2. 1 point Sep 2, 2025

   Build an AI coding agent in Python

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3. theptrk Nov 27, 2024 parent

   I would pay for the outline of this book.
4. theptrk Oct 1, 2024 parent

   thanks for the tip. my battery is definitely getting crushed so i might need to mirror that local logging for ios. But yes, the usefulness of it all will be the big question.

   I tracked a work log in a "did" list for work and that was useful because you often need regular reporting (standups, perf reviews).

   No one needs any location updates on how often I've been to the gym.

5. theptrk Sep 30, 2024 parent

   Oh nice. I feel like so many things affect my sleep including diet, mood, how long it’s been since I doom scrolled. I wonder if any of that can help you investigate.
6. theptrk Sep 30, 2024 parent

   The "me database" tracking my gps for physical location, urls visited, etc..

   This way I can search through all my physical and computer activity to answer questions like: how many times did I go to the gym last year? or how many leetcode questions did I do this month?

   Wrote a summary here (https://theptrk.com/2024/09/27/me-database-master-plan/)

7. theptrk Feb 21, 2024 parent

   There should be awards for this type of content. Andrew Ng series and Karpathy series as first inductees to the hall of fame.
8. theptrk Feb 8, 2024 parent

   docker ps is sometimes too wide for me to read. like antirez (http://antirez.com/news/140) ChatGPT helped me write this script that I wouldn't have written otherwise
9. 2 points Feb 8, 2024

   Invert Docker Ps Output

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10. theptrk Aug 31, 2023 parent

    You gotta try “fd”
11. theptrk May 23, 2023 parent

    Nice work highlighting that "Life In The Big City" classic from the Ben Avery days
12. theptrk May 8, 2023 parent

    I tried to make a youtube video exploring the code and it was fairly short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joby-58DuBE. I think if the prompts were put front and center in the documentation it would be clear up a lot of mystery.
13. theptrk Jan 27, 2023 parent

    Todidlist: https://todidlist.com

    I built a web version of my original plaintext did.txt file. Plaintext is great for computers but I wanted a way to do a "did" ritual on iOS devices.

    There is 1 user, me. I feel like all the benefits comes from using it like a journal so I never actually read the dids or built any features to query them well.

    Original did file post: https://thepatricktran.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/ ** I lost the theptrk.com domain because I forgot to update my credit card.

14. 21 points Jan 20, 2022

    Goodbye Outstandem

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15. theptrk May 11, 2020 parent

    https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cjn-google-sheets-as-json-... The output needs some parsing but I tried this and it works:

    Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ze0mrYyT98Z3DupKiynC... JSON:https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/1Ze0mrYyT98Z3Dup...

16. theptrk Mar 19, 2020 parent

    Drawing these illustrations are super helpful for info absorption while learning. I drew these while taking the Andrew Ng Coursera ML course. https://theptrk.com/2020/02/12/notes-for-coursera-ml-course-...
17. theptrk Mar 19, 2020 parent

    I think drawing your own flash cards/ illustrations while taking a course like Andrew Ng’s Coursera course is a good way to start.
18. 1 point Feb 20, 2020

    Someone made a rust crate for did.txt

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19. theptrk Feb 12, 2020 parent

    Hi all, wanted to share illustrated notes I took on the Coursera Machine Learning course from Andrew Ng. This covers weeks 1-5.
20. 2 points Feb 12, 2020

    Notes+Cartoons on Andrew Ng ML Course W1-5

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21. theptrk Feb 10, 2020 parent

    Heres a vim shortcut for something like this: `alias did="vim +'normal Go' +'r!date' ~/did.txt"`

    More: https://theptrk.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/

22. theptrk May 16, 2019 parent

    I originally had a simple vim shortcut that would open my did.txt file but switching computers made this less universal so I created a server to accept "dids".

    This is v1, any suggestions or feedback are super welcome!

    * Heres the original VIM shortcut that is still super useful https://theptrk.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/

23. 1 point May 16, 2019

    Show HN: did.txt file is now a curl endpoint

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24. 4 points Dec 28, 2018

    Improvements to the original did.txt file

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25. theptrk Dec 22, 2018 parent

    they sell them here https://www.purpleair.com/sensors
26. theptrk Aug 8, 2018 parent

    ouch, i linked to the edit screen, and theres no way to delete submissions. this will be here forever haha.
27. theptrk Aug 6, 2018 parent

    Oh wow sorry about that. Thx for the heads up
28. 1 point Aug 6, 2018

    When should you build your own ecommerce site? (Never)

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29. theptrk Jul 22, 2018 parent

    Dynalist is missing a key feature from workflowy which is the keyboard shortcut to jump from bookmark to bookmark

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