Your app represents a future that I, an old, actually love. When I see projects like this, I don't think about ongoing support or if the project will be abandoned. I think, "Woah, I hadn't thought of that. Now I'm going to try it. Because why wouldn't I try to get all the value I can out of my $20/month Claude subscription?"
Even though I've been a developer for 30+ years (and a nerd for longer), I've never felt so motivated by the potential of a technology to make an individual's life richer. Thanks for sharing it.
And if you wrote it by hand, my hat's off to you for sharing that, too.
Codex did it and flashed it in 1 minute.
I'm all for AI safety, but this sounds more like corpo preference safety to me.
The more people do stuff like this, the better. Subscription based e-waste is awful.
When I'm doing stuff like this, I always have this thought in the back of my head like "man, this is awesome- I bet they try to stop people from doing stuff like this soon". Like there'll be an in-built "do not assist in reverse engineering or circumventing subscription-based services" instruction.
I'm sure if the field hadn't been moving so fast they would have tried, but it's kind of already decided unless they take away general computation.
Claude now refuses to reverse engineer games to fix compatibility issues on Linux/Proton, particularly in relation to anti-cheat software. Codex still works, and while Claude is still useful for other types of work, I am considering a migration to GLM and DeepSeek.
Of course, I had to assuage the clankers fears by setting up a fake scenario before sending the one-shot, but I assume everyone does that nowadays.
DRM for the agentic coding age
I presume it's some internal steering neither it nor I are privy to, but the "whatever fuck it I'm not listening" was kinda hilarious at the time.
But enjoy it while you can, because for all their singing the praises of how it empowers people now, as soon as it actually, you know, empowers the people, the establishment will start shutting it down on one side while enshittification starts eating it from the other.
Both of those trends have already started, they're just being outrun by the pace of progress and the need for revenue. But both of those things will eventually pass.
the concept of safety can't really exist independently of who gets to decide what is and isn't safe
LLMs are realizing the potential of the computer revolution.
Those heady dreams of Xanadu, Xerox PARC, Douglas Engelbart, and Bret Victor today? They're finally possible.
Or alternatively... why wouldn't the device OEM add support for <new feature> on <ancient garbage> if it's just a few tokens away.
>Even though I've been a developer for 30+ years (and a nerd for longer), I've never felt so motivated by the potential of a technology to make an individual's life richer. Thanks for sharing it.
Working in industry killed my desire to do any sort of computer stuff on the side. With AI handling the grunt work of setting up tooling and writing the bulk of the code I've started doing stuff again.
Luckily, the free market is still functioning, and Chinese models will continue to exist (at least for a while), so we can continue to enjoy competitive rates.
But, as you saw with the crash of the AI stocks at the moment of the midterm results, a left leaning administration (for better or worse) will probably slow the US tech sector down with more regulation, of various types, raising those prices up. It'll be interesting to see if the capabilities are also restricted more, through regulation.
Will this stop operating if you unsubscribe from claude?
Will add-on work from chatgpt or Kimi or Qwen require starting from scratch?
Obviously, the answer is 'no'. So regardless of the "do you understand the code" purity test, this is still a net good, both for this customer, and others who can make use of this work.
I know people get a bit salty about outsiders coming in and showing stuff they 'built', and it does feel a bit like they shouldn't get the praise for something they basically spent a few evenings prompting into existence, but I think the better way of looking at is this: They had a need, they solved it, they shared it. Hopefully this helps other people as well.
I can understand the feeling of 'this isn't fair' if you're a lone third party developer who spent months of work developing an alternative that you sell for $30 a seat to a market of maybe 10000 people. Still, though. Plenty of occupations have gone through the same thing. Seamstress, farrier, lamp lighter, travel agent. I don't think the solution is trying to make occupations into gate-kept guilds.
That said, > I know people get a bit salty about outsiders coming in and showing stuff they 'built', and it does feel a bit like they shouldn't get the praise for something they basically spent a few evenings prompting into existence
Let's not jump to conclusion about someone's motivation.
This is why I started saying I've directed a thing instead of saying I built it.
Why aren't they forming their own planetoid?
A from scratch embroidery program could lift all of these options to the top layer UI where they belong, but understandably rebuilding the whole editor part is a lot of code.
Seems very promising. I have a home recording studio, and there's a small revolution going on with people cloning subscription-based stuff. Some brands are notorious for making expensive equipment which they just stop supporting after 10 years, sometimes rendering them obsolete. Or tacking ridiculous licensing mechanism onto the equipment.
That is the hope; although we'll end up with either companies doubling down on cryptography to prevent this (though they will inevitably leave some holes), or changing business models, where the hardware loss leader -> subscription is no longer a thing, so hardware costs go up
I think that one was built with Claude (he wanted to embroider cats on merch, and didn't like the expensive subscription software's ancient UX).
It seems a lot of the magic comes from Respira (https://github.com/jhbruhn/respira), there were already open source softwares to avoid using the subscription app.
Also the $300 price was probably secondhand/on sale because that machine is usually 499, not 300.
Still a cool project, but you'd think this was reverse engineered from scratch from the description whereas this is more like a downloader wrapping yt-dlp
The one that happens any time you drive straight without turning (like... say... on an interstate) because it's about driving straight not a tactile steeringwheel sensor?
In addition to the digitizer, I am building my own set of heuristics that give designs a "better" outcome but things are really a work in progress right now.
Embroidery is a really fun hobby for me so i'm basically optimizing for "what I need" as I learn more about it!
Life was better before the internet which allowed companies to remotely put their hands in our pockets.
I’ve been using InkStitch, but learning vector graphics for non-technical people is not user friendly. An upcoming app that is quite promising is StitchPencil, developer by a German engineer. Looks solid!
Btw I believe nowadays you can easily let Claude build you software that replaces the subscription entirely.
So you're saying you put a pin in it?
Many apps/products can be freed and owners can take ownership of what's theirs. It doesn't even need to be a community effort as you can make something fully tailored. It also frees you from gated app stores as distribution channels, and all the unnecessary tracking.
It will take years for many nasty apps/companies to catch up, so nerds should enjoy this new superpower.
About a year into doing this, they patched it so the license server would save your HWID and would not run in a VM anymore. I decided to just give up on the hobby right there.
Maybe this will finally get me to pull the machine out of the garage and get back into it!
> Not yet run against a real Skitch.
So it possibly doesn't work on anything.
There is already prior art like anything Google (phones, Fitbit)
Also don't forget Linus him self wrote one of the embroidery machine drivers for Linux.
I used to use the Melco and Pantagrams digitizing software and operated kiosks doing custom embroidery.
People always asked "can I get anything on a hat?" The reasons I said no before no longer exist.
Punching out a DST is not the same as clean sewouts and NewHat attempts some machine emulation and classification of generated designs. They're virtually sewn and ranked for some reinforcement learning.
Cricut's software is such a bloated and dysfunctional steaming pile of garbage but the machine itself seems well built.
I'm curious, how do you make sure that the embroidery files are valid of the file type (.exp) for example, and that B) things aren't done in such a way that cause the needle to break, stiches to overlap too much, etc etc that would otherwise harm a machine that reads the file?
https://www.libembroidery.org/
Always room for another though.
So.. eh.
I mean it's cool and all, and at least claude did do proper attribution in the code, but your post kinda does not and neither does the readme.
That's not exactly in spirit of FOSS.
what machine would you recommend to someone looking to get into this as a hobby?
What benefits (if any) does the subscription offer?