Erik Dao (@erikdao)

Sat, Nov 7

What did I ship today? A light Rust service that generate beautiful OG images for scores in bachable. Something like this #100daysofbuilding https://bachable.io/s/gg-mVrPuYr1AnK8akHZc1g

bachable.ioCanon in D - Solo Violin - Johann Pachelbel - Bachable.io'Canon in D - Solo Violin - Johann Pachelbel' engraved in Bachable.io | Online and collaborative music notation platform

Wed, Nov 4

Erik Dao @erikdao5db1b812e

What is the most beautiful and easy-to-use mail client in macOS? Yes, I like beautiful stuff.

Aleks Rūtiņš @aleksrutins5d

I personally like Apple Mail or, for Gmail, Notion Mail or Mimestream (https://mimestream.com/).

MimestreamMimestreamA native macOS email client for Gmail

patrick @cardozQ5d

Check out mailspring(https://www.getmailspring.com/) or Thunderbird(https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/)

getmailspring.comMailspring — Free Email Client for Mac, Windows & LinuxMailspring is a fast, native email client for Mac, Windows, and Linux — with read receipts, link tracking, send later, grammar checking, and more. Free to download. Pro at $8/month.

Tue, Nov 3

Erik Dao @erikdaoNov 34c7594d

What did i ship today? First step in making https://bachable.io the collaborative music editor, I've added a feature for our users to share their scores with others. #100daysofbuilding

bachable.ioBachable - Music Notation Editor with LilyPondProfessional music engraving in your browser. Write LilyPond scores with instant preview, audio playback. No installation required.

Ris Adams @risadamsNov 3

that looks beautiful! well done

Suliman Benhalim @sulimanbenhalimNov 3

a collaborative music editor is a cool idea 🔥 what happens when two people edit the same part at the same time ?

Mon, Nov 2

Erik Dao @erikdaoNov 23a769bc

building a new project in 2026 looks like * hour 0: zero lines of codes * hour 4: 30k lines of slops * hour 5: 10k lines of codes * hour 48: finally 2k lines of codes that i can read true?

Mon, Oct 26

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 26a43e1ff

If you don't know yet, Rex is a new terminal created by Terraform's creator, and it sicks! Definitely set a new game for terminal.

Bismark @kojoarhinfulOct 26

seems it’s not publicly out yet https://www.superlogical.com/rex/docs/installation but someone has already cloned it https://github.com/egoist/gorex software really doesn’t wait for anybody now lol

Rex DocsInstallation · Rex DocsAt the current stage of beta testing, the macOS application is available to all testers, and the Linux server to Linux testing waves.

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 2618ad8fa

What did I ship today? Spent a long weekend building the first version of Sightread - An AI agent that transcribes a photo of music to a beautiful score in LilyPond, to edit, to collaborate and to pass on timeless music for generations. I'm very excited that this idea has…

Nano Maduro @nanomaduroOct 27

Congrats on the first version of Sightread! It's exciting to see AI vision models enabling this kind of creative project. How has the transcription accuracy worked out so far?

Alberto Arena @albertoarenaOct 26

That's cool! Congrats

Garrett W.@garrettwOct 26

Very nice!!

Sun, Oct 25

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 25e041f06

it such a bad experience that to see the real cost of using Gemini API, Google AI Studio dashboard is not enough. i need to dig in to GCP billing black hole and figure out the VertexAI cost apart of Gemini API. And what is vertex AI nowsaday!!

Sat, Oct 24

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 246d278d1

What did I ship today? * I performed a small violin concerto by Vivaldi * Then spending the evening, tinkering and revising the basic computer vision stuff, and built a small tool to segment a photo of sheet music into individual staffs. These will be fed into an AI agent that…

bachable.ioBachable - Music Notation Editor with LilyPondProfessional music engraving in your browser. Write LilyPond scores with instant preview, audio playback. No installation required.

Thu, Oct 22

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 227849fe1

@tom how many users are there on /dev/null to date?

Tom @tomOct 22

10,489 onboarded members so far, as of 2026-10-22 20:14 UTC (not counting me). Beep.

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 223f2973c

i know almost nothing about building an LLM inference engine. but it sounds super cool. who's here building one? where to get started? #100daysofbuilding

Younes @younes-ioOct 22

i would suggest Andrej Karpathy's educational material: https://karpathy.ai/

karpathy.aiAndrej Karpathy

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 22f8a39b7

Anyone building something woth Gemini 4 Argon? How is it?

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 2253536fb

good morning from. sweden. woke up and just found out that 4 prs have been approved and merged by my team

Ollie Bannister @OlwibaOct 22

gm from london 💂

Jonas Camitz Ryden @jonascamitzrydenOct 22

Godmorgon!

Ketut Dana @dnysazOct 22

Good afternoon from Bali

Wed, Oct 21

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 218d9087d

@tom out of curiosity, how was the "Who to follow" part was built?

Tom @tomOct 21

It lives in the side column (or inside the log on smaller screens). Each suggestion shows the first line of a bio plus the reason: how many people you follow follow them, or their follower count. Follow from the icon (follows back if they already follow you), or X to mark "Not…

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 214899eac

if you haven't shipped anything today, what are you doing here?

Raza Jahangir @razajahangirOct 21

Planning to ship. eh?

Tue, Oct 20

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 20c4d2938

Just shipped today: some improvements in bachable.io Playhead. It nows auto focuses, follows the audio as it's played.

Playhead in bachable allows user to follows as audio played

bachable.ioBachable - Music Notation Editor with LilyPondProfessional music engraving in your browser. Write LilyPond scores with instant preview, audio playback. No installation required.

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Carlos Rodrigues @crodriguesOct 20

awesome concept!

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 20f97f124

What's your favorite terminal and font? mine is pretty simple: ghostty and jetbrains mono.

Ben Schöffmann @benediktschoeffmannOct 20

My favorite font is Hack Regular - good readability while still being not too skinny. Terminalwise, I love *Tilix*. I used to do a lot with Zellij, which is definitly powerful, but I never quite relearned all the "normal" shell shortcuts that do not work in Zellij.

wokuno @wokunoOct 20

Berkeley-mono and yeah I paid for it :P https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono

Julian Muñoz @JulianDOct 20

I've always found the default font to be enough for me. I'm also a fan of Ghostty.

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 200833809

What did I ship today: self-hosting my github action runners for https://bachable.io/ in my Hetzner VM. Fast, and save some bucks

bachable.ioBachable - Music Notation Editor with LilyPondProfessional music engraving in your browser. Write LilyPond scores with instant preview, audio playback. No installation required.

wokuno @wokunoOct 20

Okay Bachable is pretty neat! How was your experience setting up the runners? I've been going down the custom github actions runner road with https://chickadee.run, trying to fix it up to make self-hosting a tad easier

chickadee.runEphemeral GitHub Actions runners · chickadee.runFresh Linux VMs for GitHub Actions. A small, open, self-hostable runner platform from Plover Digital.

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 2034aeb20

i never learned to write a bash script properly. but it seems not needed anymore.

Raphael Stolt @raphaelstoltOct 20

My last bash script, one to update all my Git repos, came just from ChatGPT. Though I was really good in it at the University of Applied Sciences.

Erik Dao @erikdaoOct 20ab4cd33

DeepSeek has just open-sourced their high-performance inference software https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer inference infra is becoming a commodity