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What are your favorite tools?
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I’m really liking:
Hex: voice to text locally. Better than Handy
Paper2audio.com : TTS on cloud for books and very generous free tier. Synchronized across web and app too
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Terminal part: Ghostty + tmux + different CLI apps such as vim and glow (the latter is for reading Markdown in terminal in a pretty way, since everything is Markdown now). Voice to text: currently Handy, but you got me curious enough to try Hex. AI agent harness: Happy (disclaimer: I'm affiliated). Open source, and it's letting me use subs I already had + local models a bit.
Comment on Hacker NewsAh, I can't resist these! I work a lot in the terminal: - Alacritty - zellij - helix - fish-shell Non terminal stuff (do operating systems count): - Zen browser - /e/os - elementary OS I've had a lot of fun playing around with pi and ollama recently too.
Comment on Hacker Newsa shovel, sometimes a hatchet :>
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct repliesTessera Keyboard: I can never use a qwerty keyboard on Android ever again after trying this out
Comment on Hacker NewsImpact Drivers are far superior to drills for driving bolts and screws. Couldn't imagine not using them now.
Comment on Hacker NewsVoiceInk for voice2text DEVONThink to organise/protect data
Comment on Hacker Newswhy is hex better than Handy? I feel like you need to give an explanation there. Handy running Parakeet is fine for my use.
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