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- set7
✎ Public Voice 2026
Some of you may remember the old Public Voice project I started on here yonks ago. Well... 12 years on, I've built it. Though it's come along a bit since then.
It's just a bit of fun, but now that I can use AI to help with the database and backend stuff that I couldn't do previously, I've gotten a bit carried away and ended up putting over 200 hours into it.
I've added many of the features discussed in the original thread, plus a few extras.
- Customisable utility column for Updates, Saved and Popular threads
- @mentions, basic markdown, 60-second edit/delete window, notes
- In conversation: the latest posts and discussions as they happen
- In pictures: the latest images from every thread in one grid
- Dark and light themes
- Topics (if/when needed)Coming soon/currently building
- Private messaging
- Chat roomI'm also working on a new addition called Spaces.
Users will essentially be able to create their own Public Voice, open or invite-only, and build their own communities using the Public Voice template. That's still in development, though.
Feel free to sign up and get involved. It'd be great to see some more familiar faces on there.
It's in beta, so far from perfect. Tell me what breaks or what's missing and I'll fix it. I like the idea of this being an open community project, so if anyone wants to get involved, or has any suggestions or ideas for improvements, all are more than welcome.
- This is the way.palimpsest
- 10/10 can recommend.Continuity
- Nairn9
Punches For:
Received the brand vector for a fairly well-known brand here in the UK - by no means huge, but a lot of people here would know it.
It has a keyline rectangle around the wordmark.
The keyline, in their own brand vector file, was a rectangle with a specific stroke width set.
It wasn't an outlined form.
wtf, guise.
WHAT THE FUCK.
- The technical infractions I witness that are worthy of the death penalty are myriad. However, the more I see these fundamental errors and how they make it...Morning_star
- ..into the real world the more I realise I’m just an old man shouting at the clouds. Nobody gives a fuck anymore about craft.Morning_star
- The horror!bainbridge
- Oh man :/OBBTKN
- Not converting strokes to outlines?!!!
If ever there were a reason to start a 'Death For:' thread!!!
(btw - it may have been me) <3PonyBoy - It’s a fun bonus feature tho... when you scale up the logo, the edges go from 5pt to a beautiful microscopic, thin hairlineprophetone
- They think you’re just gonna place it. Not paste it.monospaced
- PonyBoy5
- Fell all the way back to Monday :(mort_
- so windyKrassy
- Man Putin's getting desperate with the latest batch of recruits he's sending to the front line_niko
- it's all of us sooner than laterHAL9001
- There's an alzheimer's symptom where you're afraid of stepping on dark surfaces. My dad had it and he would feel like he was stepping into a hole.nuggler
- Daylight Saving Time – Checks Oututopian
- Gardener4
- And 'thanks!'OBBTKN
- a gentlemens karmaneverscared
- Be kind to what can potentially kill you in a near futur.ApeRobot
- apparently saying thanks is a massive waste of powerhans_glib
- oeeps. i be yelling a bit to much latelymilfhunter
- @hans_glib Safety first. ;)ApeRobot
- I always say please and thank you. It just feels odd not to. I guess we're so used to only ever talking to another sentient being, until now.set
- WHHAT THE SET?! I have been gone for too long.lvl_13
- Nice to see you, fellow sentient being.set
- https://gifrific.com…utopian
- https://i.haasie.com…pango
- Continuity13
Ramen of the Day
Autumn is upon us, and it's time to kick the cold season off with proper soup ramen.
Tonight was a straight shio tonkotsu, made more fragrant with my onion/spring onion/leek/garlic/ginger-infused lard for the aroma oil. Delicious.
Tomorrow will be Kumamoto-style black garlic tonkotsu.
- Keep it up and I'll have to do a kidnapping. Love your dedication to this craft.garbage
- amazing. also love the way the placement of the toppings worked out (whether on purpose or not)Squiddy
- Lovely!
This one has a meditative character to it, visually.palimpsest - Me every time you post a new food pic https://i.haasie.com…_niko
- damn that looks goodbezoar
- I only cook easy to prepare food, cuz I'm a lazy fuck. And i truly appreciate when someone makes an effort like here :)jagara
- I saw this post st 9am this morning and it's still haunting me at dinner time 10 hours later.Fax_Benson
- autoflavour4
making beats
randomly sold my second machinedrum.. wasnt planning on it, but saw a WTB post on one of the gear facebook groups i am on, and by the end of the day i had $2000 in my hand.
given i paid $500 for it and $160 for a replacement top panel, i think i did ok.
probably under priced.. but easy come easy go
- now to by a new Erica Modular synth caseautoflavour
- one of my grails, original sampling machinedrum, so cool, got a selection of elektron boxes, so prob all goodprophetone
- get that modular!prophetone
- Ianbolton15
blog
I’m 50 today. Finally made it. Seemed easy enough actually. Made shed loads of pizza tonight after going for some insane Michelin starred food over the weekend. Good times! X
- Oh, you crossed the threshold. Congrats! I turned 53, which is ... weird.Continuity
- Happy birthday Ian, welcome to the club ;)OBBTKN
- Happy birthday fella!set
- happy bday !neverscared
- that's the spirit, hit fifty and start shovelling fat into your body. happy birthday, you're only fifty once!hans_glib
- hbd man! stay wild!renderedred
- Way to celebrate it! Welcome to the club.canoe
- Welcome to da club.palimpsest
- HB Mr.B !_me_
- congrats you should be proud! welcome to the club!_niko
- happy birthday! pizza is the way! welcome to the club!Squiddy
- 100 more to go!garbage
- HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDYbogue
- I hope that you had a Happy Birthday, you beautiful human. My partner and I are next year - how much am I in the hole for a Michelin experience?!Nairn
- congest!milfhunter
- Happy 1/2 century!Krassy
- Happy birthday brother. <3mort_
- Happy Birthday!rzu-rzu
- Happy Birthday fella, the club expands as we do! Interested to know which Michelin stars you're heading to...MrT
- HBD! Old.bezoar
- HBD IB!stoplying
- slappy11
Artificial Intelligence
I got tired of finding half broken keyboards around the office and not knowing if they were actually broken or not so I built a keyboard tester, I know they already exist but they look terrible and have ads for days so I built this.
That went well so I created a whole suite of tools for testing internet speed, webcam and audio before meetings etc.
- Sorry, Claude built this.. I just wrote a couple of prompts and deployed it.slappy
- Very cool! Looks great.set
- +1utopian
- Lovelymort_
- nice onesab
- Your 'forward' and 'back' mousebutton test don't work - forward doesn't fire and back is captured by the brwoser, so goes back a page.Nairn
- Oh thanks!slappy
- Yo, this should be in "the useful thread" !jagara
- Fancy mouse pointer is slowing down mouse speed.jagara
- pango9
- RJ Mitte 34pango
- Damn, RIPaliastime
- That's just awful. RIPfuturefood
- Sad. Rest in peaceSquiddy
- :(PonyBoy
- Wow. Somebody find his manager. I remember an interview he did about a year ago where he said she was pocketing everything and the IRS came knocking.garbage
- What a loss, RIP.garbage
- Eat, drink and be merry....
for tomorrow we die!utopian - BREAKING: SadGardener
- RIPrenderedred
- RIPinteliboy
- RIPKrassy
- RJ Mit Das RIProbthelad
- pango5
- Immigrant Derangement Syndromeutopian
- That's typical of his verbal defecation.CyBrainX
- https://i.haasie.com…
the only democratic engineers are the ones defrauding the gov't with bridges and High-speed trains to nowhere, lolhotroddy - 2004!!! You have to go 22 yrs earlier from 1 magazine to finally find a number to fit the picture you have in your own head lolpango
- Wanna give it another shot?pango
- Maybe try grox. It's more Maga friendly.
Believe in your self! You can do it! Or grox in this case.pango - At least I cite sources for my screenshots. That’s what anyone with an ounce of education knows to do. :)hotroddy
- You didn't. The Ai did.pango
- Quit trying to take other people's accomplishment as your own.pango
- There's only one party pushing to lower academic standards. I'll let you take a stab of who they are because math and spelling is racist!hotroddy
- awwww you got scared to look up the facts and proofs cuz you kept getting it wrong XDpango
- University is a scam change my mind
- hotroddys hero_niko - Maga is 75% high school dropouts or maybe graduated high school at best. They believe Jesus walked with dinosaurs. The only thing they’re engineering is..._niko
- ...makeshift meth pipes._niko
- I didn't even call him dumb. Trump did. In an attempt to associate himself with smart people, he just made up numbers from his ass XDpango
- https://www.youtube.…pango
- i agree with doddy republican doctors are nr.1 https://encrypted-tb…neverscared
- Republicans are the only party attacking and dismantling the public education system. Moron.monospaced
- Imagine thinking that most smart people are hyper Conservative. Fucking donkey fucker.Nairn
- when your immigration policies literally welcomed millions of 'poor and uneducated' you become the party for the poor and uneducated.hotroddy
- I didn't know republicans let in millions. according to trump, republicans are the poor and uneducated. Ai or LLM thinks so too.pango
- are you saying trump was wrong?pango
- hotknobby I think you mind set got stuck in the late 90s. I wonder what happened that got you stuck there. it's true 1999 there were more people with postpango
- secondary degree identifies as republican. but that's 27 years ago... everywhere shows the reversal had happened.pango
- you also like to used the word "commies" at anyone you don't agree with. which is very cold war era <1991. it's like you got stuck in the 80s-90s.pango
- omg, again with the immigrants, as if that racist conspiracy theory held any water when talking about engineers and doctors. Fucking maga retard.monospaced
- Dude! Give him a break. He's clearly not one of the 25% of the smart Republicans. And his reality seems to be stuck in the past.pango
- mg334
Artificial Intelligence
In around 12 hours of time since Friday, I used Claude to build a tool to automate Instagram posts to my account https://www.instagram.com/shape_… so I can do a better job of promoting the prints I'm making. That's been the part I've not been doing.
I created post formats for square, 4:5, and 9:16 reels and can post as either a single post or carousel. The reel feature builds out mp4 videos by animating from screen-to-screen. I've got four design formats for full view of a print, detail view, a specs view showing print prices, and a final promo slide with more info. Can upload my own music to embed in the video and sync bpm with animation timing on the video.
I can queue up posts day by day in a calendar, and post time. It even integrates with Claude to help write post content if I want to use that.
Lives on my NAS, functions in the browser. Far more technical aspects than anything I've done yet because it required a Meta developer account, API keys, etc. and a ton of Terminal usage, including edit/management screens for the NAS that I've never even seen and were really confusing.
At publish time, it sends a zip file to a NAS folder, which then SFTP's to my web host, drops the zip in there temporarily, unpacks it, and the Instagram API grabs it and uses it in the post.
At most per post, I just need to upload an image and edit a description if I want. It's like two minutes of work.
There are full-blown subscription services for this stuff that cost $35+ a month. I did this in 12 hours, customized to my needs, using no tokens and just within my normal Claude account. Hell, it built all this out with Sonnet 5.5! :D
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I've been building stuff with AI since spring 2024. I know several of you have as well. What I find fascinating and worth remembering is just how fast this is all moving, and how insane the quality and features are now compared to even the entirety of 2024. I'm probably even doing more than I should have manually, because I think I could have had Claude going directly into Terminal and doing everything there.One workflow that I've really enjoyed figuring out is having Claude write tasks to a kanban board in ToDoIst, broken down by major tasks and sub-tasks. It stays connected to it and closes out tasks, and drops prompts in there that I need if I'm doing the build in VS Code.
Credit to @set if he's back on here after a convo where he told me about something related that he was building.
- palimpsest4
- https://i.makeagif.c…_niko
- Like no other.utopian
- its only a cat broneverscared
- It was the fault of the idiot who jumped in...OBBTKN
- Good kittyPonyBoy
- TIGER GONNA TIGERAQUTE
- if the tiger jumped the fence, yes. If an idiot human jumped the fence, hell no.dbloc
- LEMMINGS GONNA LEMAQUTE
- He had learning difficulties. Or he has nowIanbolton
- Not Grrrrrrrrrreatrobthelad
- Tragic. Special needs person who escaped from his care taket.inv
- It's difficult to learn not to play with a Tigerrobthelad
- Idiot human. Don't euthanize normal tiger.jagara
- Morning_star2
Suggest a good movie…
Re: DIGGER...apparently it's NOT a good movie.
I have seen it, and I would encourage anyone to take a look and decide for oneself if it could be replaced with an email. Received opinion regarding creations like this is just not cricket.
It's the savant, bastard lovechild of Brazil and The Grand Budapest Hotel. It teeters on a rusty fence between Dr Strangelove and Twelve Monkeys. It gathers influences from far and wide: Peter Greenaway, The Coen Brothers and Terry Gilliam and all the while it inhabits it's own space.
It's a feast for the eyes, beautiful production design, camera work and editing. It's funny and tragic. Cruise, Plemons, Goodman, Huller, Ahmed are all excellent. It's a film you should make your own mind up about as I suspect the blatant political and social commentary could feel a bit too targeted for some.
"a cinematic charlatan who should have been buried by Hollywood two or three movies ago" Well that would be The Revenant and Birdman.
Think for yourself.
- I noticed that after the immediate "it bombed" news it's been gaining traction in online discussions.evilpeacock
- a rusty fence ? whats thats to suggest ? ...........cruise is no peter sellers,neverscared
- https://www.bbc.co.u…Gardener
- studio is about to lose $250 million which is fucking crazy._niko
- not as crazy as tom https://media.tenor.…neverscared
- Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Shawshank Redemption, Bladerunner and Citizen Kane were all commercial disasters. If box office success is your measure of a cinema...Morning_star
- ...and film great the I have Super Mario Galaxy ready for you.Morning_star
- *thenMorning_star
- nobody's saying the movie is good or bad since we haven't seen it but just commenting that the studio losing $250 m is nuts_niko
- and fight club made 102m on a budget of 65 mil so not the same_niko
- seems a bit of banal to say -think for yourself -when citizen kane and shaw werent trashed by critics to bring them into the mix..... nevermind the box officeneverscared
- with that chances are lottery ticket probabillty that the flick swings itself up to a classic... no biggie for alejandro .. one stinker in his filmography ..neverscared
- = manageable.neverscared
- Citizen Kane was a box-office flop primarily because powerful newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst launched a massive media boycott and smear campaignneverscared
- https://www.smithson…neverscared
- @niko, the vey first line of the original post says 'apparently it's NOT a good movie'Morning_star
- Fight Club also only made $37m on it's original cinematic release. So, exactly the same.Morning_star
- I enjoyed it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯toemaas
- 37 mio is 71 mio today though...neverscared
- Fight Club 2.17 million tickets sold digger 750.000 tickets sold.neverscared
- calling that exactly the same... is thinking for yourself done wrong.neverscared
- anyone seen it yet? can't trust this received opinion.robthelad
- mantrakid2
Artificial Intelligence
Thanks for keeping the news + thoughts flowing @proph - i genuinely terrified... but i also dont want to dedicate my life to fighting it... i feel so weird.
- *im.
ai making me stupiderrerrmantrakid - Your concern is completely valid, and science backs you up: relying too heavily on AI can actively weaken your cognitive abilities. Recent studies, including a.set
- AI agreesset
- Let's ask it how to be less stupidererset
- You are likely not stupid. The simple fact that you are reflecting on your own behaviour and asking this question proves you possess conscious incompetence...set
- I'd let it go other than I'm both fascinated and terrified by it simultaneously too, and frankly it ain't being handled with our kids' futures at heartprophetone
- It's never about the greater good, it's def spoonfed to us that way, but it's just like Hot Fuzz, eventually the village eats itself, we all get bolognese'dprophetone
- something like thatprophetone
- Mmmm bolognesemort_
- Mmmm conscious impotenceset
- more like conscious incontenence.mantrakid
- *im.
- garbage6
RIP of the day
Proper rip of the day
- Was Mike Ditka related to Dick Butkus?
https://encrypted-tb…futurefood - https://i.imgur.com/…futurefood
- the age where u dont care no more.milfhunter
- @futurey spirtitually, yes. Both Bears, but the former was Polish, the latter Lithuanian. The funniest thing about Dick Butkus is somehow not his name..garbage
- ..but his birth weight. He came out over 13lbs. We're talking 98% percentile massive child.garbage
- As a kid I would always get the two guys confused, Ditka / Butkus..futurefood
- 13lbs! Sumo babyfuturefood
- Same here, and flol "sumo baby"garbage
- Was Mike Ditka related to Dick Butkus?
- prophetone4
- Crushing The Blacksutopian
- Ugh. All of the canon, none of the artistry. Reminds me of a starwars franchise.monNom
- It doesn't look bad. Not a high bar to clear, ofc...jagara
- have high hopes for it, we’ll seeprophetone
- We look back at startrek tech and sneer at how primitive it is for the future... the rate ai is moving at this movie feels primitive too and it’s not even out yet_niko
- The thing about Sci Fi is that it motivates people to bring the future sooner than it would have happened. We should be grateful, if anything.CyBrainX
- Feeling so grateful.robthelad
- Not a high bar, “ofc”? Whaaa?monospaced
- If you have shit loads of money to produce shows, making it look "not bad" is not a high bar to clear. Of course.jagara
- Nah mean?jagara
- Longcopylover11
blog
Happy Birthday Continuity
(at least my Internetz sagt das)- Oh! Thank you, sir!Continuity
- Happy birthday chef!mort_
- Thanks mort!Continuity
- HBD Clintutopian
- Happy birthday bro!!!!_niko
- Happy birthday! What's a 'sagt das'?Akagiyama
- hbd man!renderedred
- Thanks fellas!Continuity
- alles gute !neverscared
- big belated hbd conty!garbage
- thanks garby!Continuity
- happy birthday
cake-that-looks -like-ramen .gifSquiddy - lol thanks Squiddy!Continuity
- HBD!Krassy
- TY!Continuity
- mort_7
- it think/ remember there are design pieces von designgraphik from the early 2001 which have the close to exact compositions like this.. with 3D elementsneverscared
- and graphics etc.neverscared
- Something king-fu about it I likemort_
- +++renderedred
- dope_niko
- 40 years ahead of it’s timePonyBoy
- Hadn't heard of him before. Just googled his works. Well ahead of his time, looks very futuristic and some very graphic and graffiti-likemicrokorg
- not my temporobthelad
