u/Internal-Combustion1 — reddlx

If many people have a Claude or ChatGPT paid account, they have access to incredible coding tools. If they want to incorporate intelligence gathering into their app, why reinvent the wheel every time?

Why should I package up my app when I can share the code so other with Claude can freely customize it and integrate with other things? If we all share good parts, then we can use AI to put the parts together and customize them the way we want.

Isn’t this the new ‘shareware’?

For example, I built a free financial news reader that consumes and analyzes financial news around the world tied to your stock portfolio. It summarizes the important things happening to impact stock or bond prices that day. It runs privately on your computer, no SaaS, no leaking data, totally free to operate.

I don’t expect to build a product to satisfy everyone, some will want to add sources, some will want to update news in real time, and tune it to detect certain things, some want to expand it to bitcoin, and other kinds of assets. These are easy changes if you have the core to start with.

I give it away as open source code for anyone to drop into Claude et al, and customize it at will.

Am I wrong to think about it that way? Shouldn’t we all be sharing this way?

Here is my tool if you’re interested in taking the code and making it your own.

u/Internal-Combustion1 — 5 days ago

▲ 23 r/LagunaBeach+1 crossposts

UPDATE - this meeting is cancelled due to no quorum. OC Parks proposes to spend $103,000 to pay a consultant to study how to conduct a 4-7 year study to discover if there are any rare, unknown or endangered creatures along our trails that might be disturbed by bicycles. The first $103,000 spent is not a study, it is to pay a consultant to study how to conduct the study. The final study is not proposed to include the impact of loud music, dogs, cigarette butts or horses, it singles out just the impact of bicycles.

Background.

OC Parks cyclists now are comprised 50% Class 1 MTB and 50% ‘acoustic’ mountain bikes. Class 1 MTB are mountain bikes with a small motor, no throttle. These are not e-motos, they are bicycles according to the laws of California and heavily used by the 50+ year old community to keep riding on our steep trails. For 5 years, mountain bike riders have been switching to Class 1 MTB and local bike shops now sell 50% of their mountain bikes as Class 1 MTB. Their use of the trails data is freely available and updated daily at the trail level and provided to OC Parks by Strava in full detail at no cost.

For 5 years, we have been monitoring the trails and witnessed no impact by the rapid rise of Class 1 bikes. Previous analyses, and our own eyes, show that MTB use of the trail has very low impact, even less than hiking and much less than horses. None of these has anywhere near the impact to our trails compared to a single big rainstorm and routine bull dozering and chain saws to fix rain damage or the weed eaters to keep the trails clear of growth.

However, OC Parks is unconvinced by all the data and now proposes to start a 4-7 year tax payer-funded analysis costing upwards of a million dollars to discover if there is any undiscovered creature uniquely impacted by Class 1 eMTBs, but not by traditional MTB or cigarette butts, trash, dogs, horses, loud music and other trail nuisances we all complain about - just class 1 bicycles.

After 5 years of first hand experience seeing with their own eyes, OC Parks will begin paying contractors hundreds of thousands of dollars on a hunt to find something, anything, to help them justify banning Class 1 MTB in the parks.

By the time the study is done, it is projected that 75-85% of all bikes will be Class 1 MTB.

Do you think this is smart use of tax payer money, is this good for our business community or the improved health of our citizens?

The Trails Subcommittee meets in Tustin tonight at OC Parks Headquarters at 6. Show up and share your opinion on OC Parks handling of this issue.

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u/Internal-Combustion1 — 6 days ago

▲ 2 r/vibecoding

Since you all likely have Claude Code or Codex, I’ve been creating free starting point code that you can own and modify yourselves. The first project I’m releasing as open source is an alternative to a Bloomberg terminal for news. The tool is called ‘intelligence’. Intelligence tracks financial portfolios by collecting news from around the world, analyzing that news, and extracting the facts from it. The facts are then summarized about each asset you own or topic you track. It throws away all the spin, fluff, hate, slant, and stupidity that makes up our news and just keeps the actual facts. Basically undoing the work of glory and click-seeking reporters back to just the actual facts they started with.

It’s entirely free and runs local on your computer. Complete privacy for whatever you want to track. It does process relevant articles using Gemini API (fact extraction and classification) and costs about $1 a day to operate.

Download the code, put it in Claude or Codex and ask hard questions of it (is there spy ware in here? Is this dangerous? Is it well designed?). When you are satisfied you are welcome to use it, change it, enhance it, whatever you want. You can run it on a local LLM if you choose or add new sources to it, processing enhancements, whatever you want.

The next tool I will release a sister tool that uploads you brokerage statements, extracts your holdings from it, then gathers pricing updates, daily change stats etc. This tool is also totally private and runs on your computer. It reaches out to free sources to gather asset prices multiple times each day. Stay tuned.

URL to GitHub repo below in the comments.

u/Internal-Combustion1 — 8 days ago