2025-06-18 Nerd Show and Tell
Superhero iPhone App for People with ADHD * By: Courtney * Ever forget you had food in the Oven or brush your teeth, this app is supposed to help you with that * A expertly crafted chatbot with curated user tested Prompt Ecology designed to help manage your behaviours * The AI assistant help you makes plans then sets reminders to help hold you to them, but not too tightly
Merged code into Ublock Origin to block Youtube Ads * By: Smitty * You can use a Google Developer account to get a special URL that will put ads on a youtube video every time you watch it * Turns out the videos on Youtube are not from youtube but some Google CDN product. This CDN has caches in many popular ISP's, the demo showed the youtube video coming from a Rogers IP address, while on a Rogers Internet Connection * The technique youtube uses to block ad blockers uses/used JSON.stringify to validate some info, but if you overwrite JSON.stringify with the same function except it does a string replace, you can fool the youtube script to provide the direct video link rather than one with an ad * That method was patched, luckily there is this Javascript Proxy Function that somehow keeps our ad blockers working read the PR for more details * Link to Github Comment that was merged * And yes, this code is running on millions of of computers including Brave Browser which just rips its filter lists from Ublock Origin
Programmable Split Keyboard * By Pavelz * Epic Keyboard that can be configured via a web browser that uses WebUSB * The keyboard can be configured to act as a mouse using the vim key bindings * Special keys can be used to remap the entire keyboards keys, Dvorak anyone? * The Product: The keyboard) , config interface
iPhone App Full Stack Instagram Clone * By Pavelz * Custom implemented backend even including Authentication * Logo is an omage to the old, and better, instagram logo * App is using raw Swift, no webapp as a native app shenanigans * Source Code: pavelz/instapicture
Brivo contact management app
- By: Dimitri
- Take a photo of a business card, have AI extract the information, and save it as a vCard in the app
- The app gives users a custom URL just like Linktree
- Brivo supports adding reminder's that will notify you to follow up with a contact
- Add tags to your contacts
- Built with Context.dev backend
- Link to Brivo app
Claude AI Chat Export and Analysis * By: Kromar * Demoed exporting all their personal Claude AI chat logs * Demoed loading all that JSON into Power Query * Showcased how to filter chat logs to find the most notable ones, for example most chat logs don't have a title * SOURCE CODE
Custom Music Scale with PyGame Interface to Play It
- By: Valentin
- Presented slides explaining how resonance and music scale note frequencies are generated
- Showed how resonance in synthetic music generation works, and how it can be played with
- Demoed a PyGame application and playing a new type of musical instrument
- LINK TO SLIDES, LINK TO CODE
cenutrytale.com AI Image to Video Interface * By: Masa * A website where users can upload photos and animating them with a text prompt for guidance * The interface made it easy to view the same image animated against different prompts back to back * We discussed value of animating old back and white photos for use in museums * Link To Site * Site: cenutrytale.com