Hacker News: thecolorblue

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

thecolorblue — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:34:42 +0000

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: MCP servers, agents, agent harnesses, LLM evals, javascript, typescript, python, SQL, Docker, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

I am a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience with javascript, 6 with typescript, and 5 with python and full stack development. I have worked in Biotech, life sciences, e-commerce, and SaaS. Currently, I am evaluating LLM output at Micro 1.

I am working on an productivity app that combines todo lists with pomodoro sessions, mastermind groups, and coaching. The android app is in private beta now. https://keelcoaching.app/

New comment by thecolorblue in "Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings"

thecolorblue — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:18:32 +0000

As an American, I can tell you mocking him just fuels his fire, both personally and his MAGA movement. You think you have helped by pointing out the absurdity, but you have only picked a side in his fake wrestling match. You are now part of the show, the ultimate audience participation circus act, where the only goal is to grow the audience and keep it going as long as possible.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

thecolorblue — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:39:29 +0000

Location: Cleveland, Ohio Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: MCP servers, agents, agent harnesses, LLM evals, javascript, typescript, python, SQL, Docker, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

I am working on an AI executive coaching app for mid career professionals to help manage professional, health, and personal goals. It uses text and voice agents to mimic the 1 on 1 sessions you would get from a career, health, or life coach. We are in private beta now. https://keelcoaching.app/

New comment by thecolorblue in "How the Elite See Rome"

thecolorblue — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:04:28 +0000

As much as rich people can do whatever they want if they hand over enough money, it seems like these people will not be rich for long if they fork over this much money for a single day experience.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

thecolorblue — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:08:22 +0000

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: MCP servers, agents, agent harnesses, LLM evals, javascript, typescript, python, SQL, Docker, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

I have been working on an AI harness for building desktop applications from SPEC.md files, along with some examples SPEC.md files I have tested, at https://specliotheque.com. The agent harness is available here: https://github.com/thecolorblue/bspec

New comment by thecolorblue in "AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier"

thecolorblue — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:28:24 +0000

I always come back to this quote:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

thecolorblue — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:41:03 +0000

I have gotten into spec driven development. Plan everything ahead of time. Sometimes I have the LLM help out, sometimes I do it all myself. It can include data models, business logic, or UI design. Sometimes I draw on a whiteboard, or in a notebook, and ask the LLM to convert the drawing into text I can put into a SPEC.md file. The more time I spend planning, the longer the LLM can work autonomously, and the less time I spend debugging issues or asking it to fix things that I didn't ask for.

New comment by thecolorblue in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

thecolorblue — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:08:32 +0000

Some people put significant time into their blogs. It is not cheap to add value through writing.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

thecolorblue — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:17:58 +0000

You could either go down the 2d isometric map route (something like animal crossing) or something closer to google maps (maybe with mapbox studio?).

The current map feels more like a menu to me.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

thecolorblue — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:51:52 +0000

I love it! I signed up to be the groundskeeper.

I really want a 2d world so I can see everything going on in the game. Even a static map would help visualize what the game is about.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

thecolorblue — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:57:59 +0000

I honestly don't understand this statement. What else besides healthcare could fix that? Are you arguing that Mississippi obesity is due to genetics and cannot be changed?

The only other thing I can think of that would affect state wide obesity is food security and quality. Proper healthcare would be my first pick for fixing obesity.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

thecolorblue — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:00:12 +0000

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: MCP servers, agents, AI harnesses, javascript, typescript, python, SQL, Docker, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

I have been working on a AI harness for building desktop applications from SPEC.md files, along with some examples SPEC.md files I have tested, at https://specliotheque.com .

New comment by thecolorblue in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

thecolorblue — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:59:41 +0000

PE profits sound like other companies opportunities. Unless there are barriers to entry not covered in this article, I would think other companies could move in, deliver a fire truck faster and at a lower cost, and at least take a portion of the market that is able to switch.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

thecolorblue — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:58:43 +0000

I am a software engineer with 13 years of experience with javascript, and 3 years at a full stack developer with python. I have experience with SaaS, deploying and maintaining ML models in production, Biotech R&D, and LLM workflows. My latest project is a LLM career coach that guides you through achieving your goals and keeps you focused, based on enneagram and emotional intelligence scores.

https://github.com/thecolorblue/coach-loop

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: react, typescript, python, postgresql, AWS, GCP, LLM agents

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

thecolorblue — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:43:15 +0000

I am a software engineer with 13 years of experience with javascript, and 3 years at a full stack developer with python. I have experience with e-commerce, SaaS, deploying and maintaining ML models in production, and Biotech R&D. My latest project was a LLM powered chrome extension that used webMCP and experimental chrome APIs to search amazon for products. https://github.com/thecolorblue/amazon_webmcp_demo

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: react, typescript, python, postgresql, AWS, GCP, LLM agents

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?"

thecolorblue — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:41:38 +0000

I have been working on my own language arts app for k-12 (https://snowdayacademy.com). In my experience, if it's not fun or rewarding, nobody is going to use it. Most of my users are parents that want their kid to get better grades, or the students want a better studying experience. So, for me its a combination of interesting content, UX, and better feedback than doing a worksheet.

I have been testing it with my two daughters and they make it very clear when its to painful to be useful.

The other thing that worked for me was talking to experts, in my case reading specialists.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

thecolorblue — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:03:10 +0000

https://snowdayacademy.com

Reading practice and assessments for k-12 students, with reporting and tracking for parents, tutors, and teachers. It uses speech to text and quizzes to assess the students reading ability. It picks up skipped words, substituted words, along with metrics on speed and pauses.

I have been testing it with my 2 daughters and its finally at a spot where I don't have to drag them to test it against their will and they are showing improvement. I am working on the marketing now. I have gotten some interest from private tutors but I have a feeling it will be great for the homeschooling community.

Thanks for any feedback! Please leave first reactions as the marketing page is what I am iterating on right now. Don't hold back!

New comment by thecolorblue in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

thecolorblue — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:16:17 +0000

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JS, typescript, next.js, react.js, python, pandas, SQLAlchemy, Fast API, SQL, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uuq8KB2uVcMB0l5zJR-8Nruc...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

13 years of experience with javascript, 6 with typescript and python. I'm currently working on launching a react native app. I have experience in e-commerce, SaaS, and biotech.

New comment by thecolorblue in "Show HN: LLM Choose Your Own Adventure"

thecolorblue — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:43:43 +0000

Hi, I'm Brad, software engineer, long time HN lurker. I have been working on this project for a while and I think it is ready for more feedback. I have been calling it Snow Day Adventures, an app for k-12 students home from a school snow day that beats watching YouTube or Instagram.

One of the things I consistently used chatGPT for is creating bedtime stories for my two daughters. They were never very long, but we could customize them and ask for edits. It was a fun activity we could do laying down before bed.

Fast forward to just about a year ago when an administrator at my daughter's school reached out about AI. We had a meeting where we talked about the basics but I really had no idea how AI would work in K-12 education. There were a couple apps that they use, which were fine, but I felt like they did not take advantage of the technology. At the same time, I was not qualified to give them advice.

So I started building little apps here and there. I would test them with my daughters. Usually they would get bored or it would feel to much like homework. Sometime this summer I focused on generating engaging stories and came up with a workflow for generating choose your own adventure stories. After a couple iterations, I got to where the app is now: turn any story into a choose your own adventure.

I have loaded a couple public domain stories to start with. The idea is pretty simple: pick a story, you will see the first page and at the bottom you will see a link to the original story the author wrote and three generated pages. Once you pick a generated page, you will only see generated options (and you will probably see the options take ~10 seconds to load). You can also click the refresh button which will replace that page with a new generated one.

The generated pages are never as good as the originals, but it does make it more fun. Going back and trying different paths creates endless amounts of content. I think the bigger opportunity is to customize the stories to the students reading level and language abilities. I did a couple tests with bi-lingual story generation, and generating from a strict lexile reading level; both showed some promise.

I know it does not technically need a user to log in, but I am a little worried about story generation getting out of hand from bots. If anyone has any ideas for preventing a search engine bot from clicking every link on a page that generates new content, I would be happy to find an alternative. Maybe you have to log in to generate new content but the already generated content is public? Let me know what you think.

Thanks for taking a look.

Show HN: LLM Choose Your Own Adventure

thecolorblue — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:43:43 +0000

Article URL: https://snowday-adventures.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759960

Points: 1

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