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David Bieber
Personal blog · davidbieber.com/snippets · on HN as dbieberprogrammingai
David Bieber's personal blog at davidbieber.com covers programming and ai. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Go Note Go”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The only comment asks how an automatic video editing project compares to the author's older jump-cut program snippet. Nothing praises or criticises the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
davidbieber.com hosts the writing and projects of Google Brain software engineer David Bieber, including Bieber Bot, the at-scheduler, Teach Everyone, and Scrabble Bot.
Most-linked posts?
- Go Note Go5 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-11-29
- /snippets/2020-02-21-jump-cut-programming/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-14
- Potential Improvements to Spaced Repetition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-18
- Conversational Spaced Repetition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-12
What Hacker News says?
+1 I'm interested in automatic video editing too. Both automatic jumpcutting, and also using audio cues like "cut!" to control the auto-editor during recording. Take a look here https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-02-21-jump-cut-program... and at some of the follow-up snippets for what I'm thinking about. Feel free to get in touch.
Comment linking /snippets/2020-02-21-jump-cut-programming/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Sending messages as I drift off to sleep as a story · 58 points
HN discussionYes, you can do this with OBS. The virtual webcam feature can be added as a plugin. And chroma-keying is a built-in feature. I use a Mac, and I've been toying with this a bit over the last weeks (e.g. https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-04-09-exploring-obs/ )
Comment linking /snippets/2020-04-09-exploring-obs/
on “Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds”Submitted Planning to Analyze My Browsing History (2019) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionLove this question. I've written up part of my strategy for doing this here: https://davidbieber.com/post/2019-12-29-track-your-life-in-a... The short version is: (1) I manually enter the activity(s) I do each day in a spreadsheet, one row per day; (2) the spreadsheet automatically figures out how recently I did each category of activity; (3) [bonus] a chat bot uses this data (and much more!) to help me keep my life…
Comment linking /post/2019-12-29-track-your-life-in-a-spreadsheet/
on “Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?”Submitted Show HN: Magic Functions in Python as a story · 14 points
HN discussionHey Scott, I like how you're generalizing PhoneToNote to support multiple note-taking services. I have a project Go Note Go where I also aim to support whatever note-taking service the user uses as the backend. We currently support Roam, RemNote, Mem, Notion, and IdeaFlow. https://davidbieber.com/projects/go-note-go/ It'd be great to standardize the interop with note-taking services so people like us can write appli…
Comment linking /projects/go-note-go/
on “My Personal Note Taking Journey”Submitted Go Note Go as a story · 14 points
HN discussionJust curious.. how is this better than https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-02-21-jump-cut-program... ?
Comment linking /snippets/2020-02-21-jump-cut-programming/
on “Automatic Video Editing”Submitted Show HN: Keeping Track of My Life in a Spreadsheet as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI use my Pi 400 for headless note-taking while driving and camping. I've written up the details here: https://davidbieber.com/projects/go-note-go/ "Headless note-taking" means there's no monitor. I just type my notes or speak them (I've attached a beautiful handheld button I can push to start an audio recording). The notes are stored on-device until an internet connection becomes available. At that point, the notes…
Comment linking /projects/go-note-go/
on “Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 400 for?”Submitted Conversational Spaced Repetition as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI keep a Go Note Go by my desk. If I have something to write down, I simply type it in and hit enter. Go Note Go is a note-taking system for when you're on the go, with a focus on driving and camping. It's just a headless keyboard (Raspberry Pi 400) -- no monitor, no display at all -- that you can type on (or speak to; it has a microphone). Anything you type will get uploaded to your notes, and if you speak it will…
Comment linking /projects/go-note-go/
on “Ask HN: How do you maintain your daily log?”Submitted Posting to Hacker News Programmatically as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOooh, thanks for the extra-dimples tip. Neat idea. The setup I write about in the post -- Go Note Go -- is great for a raspberry pi 400. If you're just using a bluetooth keyboard with e.g. a laptop, you could also consider checking out the predecessor project Shh Shell https://davidbieber.com/projects/shh-shell/
Comment linking /projects/shh-shell/
on “Sending messages as I drift off to sleep”Submitted Writing Assistant Tool Idea as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis has been a multiyear journey -- and this "sending messages" piece is new in just the last few days. The main thrust of this effort started with being able to get thoughts out of my head so I could sleep easier back in 2014. The original project was just for sleep typing, called Shh Shell: https://davidbieber.com/projects/shh-shell/ https://github.com/dbieber/shh-shell When I moved out west, I expanded Shh Shell…
Comment linking /projects/go-note-go/
on “Sending messages as I drift off to sleep”Submitted Keyboards, keyboards, everywhere, and not a spot to think as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe closest thing to that that I’ve published is in the backstory section of https://davidbieber.com/projects/shh-shell/ under “What have you typed into your shh shell?”
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on “Sending messages as I drift off to sleep”Submitted Writing for No Audience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI made a list of my strategies for this: https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2022-03-18-attention-strate... So you don't have to click through, here they are: * Using an outliner like Roam Research * Working with another person (e.g. pair programming) * Working with another person present (e.g. independent coworking) * Running a “distraction detection” program * Mentally noting the distraction-kind and returning my att…
Comment linking /snippets/2022-03-18-attention-strategies/
on “Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?”Submitted Potential Improvements to Spaced Repetition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Cloud Kitchen (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Date and Time Browser History Queries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shh Shell: A shell for drifting off to sleep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Browser History Queries (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personal Newsletter (Just for me) with GPT-4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Complete and Concise List of Go Note Go's Features as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My strategies for keeping my attention as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Explicit Ontologies in a World Without as a story · 2 points
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