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With AI helping me untangle a 2017 Stack Overflow conversation, I finally understood the reply—and remembered the translation struggles, downvotes, and person who helped rewrite my question.

Kindness from Nearly Ten Years Ago

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After trying Astra, I used Doro and the goofy cats I like to explore unfamiliar 3D work, and tried video generation too. Later, I posted on Xiaohongshu and got roughly 3k likes. The notifications made me happy.

I Tried AI Modeling and Became a Xiaohongshu Creator for a Few Days

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I wrote Vido by hand with Vue 1 in the summer of 2016. Ten years later, version 2.0 is playing videos in my blog, with its own colors and a little avatar.

A Video Player, Ten Years Later

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Koe grew out of mimi as an attempt at general-purpose offline video captions. Which part of a long video to process, how to get its audio, and which player the captions belong to turned out to be difficult questions.

Koe: the browser subtitle extension that didn’t work out

I first added ten yuan to rent a GPU and set up the software, then tried hosted workflows on AutoDL.Art. These are the costs and waits from both attempts.

Two Ways I Tried Making AI Video on AutoDL

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Find the text, recognize the Japanese, translate it, and put it back. Column breaks and painted-over backgrounds can still make the page awkward to read.

Putting AI-Translated Text Back into Manga Bubbles Wasn’t So Simple

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Changing the vocal sound of an existing performance with RVC: separating vocals, preparing training data, extracting features, training a model, and building a retrieval index. I got everything ready, then stopped during training.

How an AI Cover Changes the Voice

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Around H3’s launch, a transformation video on Bilibili made me try one with Gwen. Six splash illustrations became five transitions, joined and given sound afterward, for a finished clip of about 26 seconds.

Trying MiniMax H3 Video Generation for the First Time

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mimi turns system audio into live captions and translations. Words can change after appearing, but waiting for them to settle can miss the scene. I’m still working on that trade-off.

Subtitles for whatever my computer is playing

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At a company AI hackathon, we combined video frames into a grid. It helped with debugging, but sampling could skip an order number that appeared only for a moment.

Putting video frames together for AI

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A small server and the sites my wife and I use led me to build nido. Frontend releases and SPA deployment grew into version history, shared scripts, pages, and site management.

nido: Frontend Infrastructure on a Small Server

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AI helped me make projects I had kept putting off. Once the code runs, I still want to know whether it does the right thing. I don’t know whether checking it will always need me.

Can I Trust the Code AI Writes?

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My iPhone 12 still had trade-in value after five years. The service wouldn’t take my high-end MacBook once it stopped turning on. Wanting a replacement doesn’t have to mean waiting for the old device to break.

My Old Phone Had Trade-In Value. My MacBook Was Rejected.

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In January I connected an iPhone Shortcut to my ledger, X, to read a payment screenshot and let me confirm the entry.

Logging Expenses from Payment Screenshots

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There is nothing particularly wrong with my life now. I just rarely start anything on my own. Writing Ashita again is one small attempt to change that.

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# Life & Thoughts

Kindness from Nearly Ten Years Ago

Can I Trust the Code AI Writes?

My Old Phone Had Trade-In Value. My MacBook Was Rejected.

Writing Here Again