late december i built an extension (chrome, firefox, ios) that let’s u do just that and anything else ftm. clickremix if u want to give it a spin

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revived an ipad mini 2 (2013), rooted it and ssh-ed in and let claude handle the tailscale setup, terminal emulator selection, and prep work. perfect form factor and can test web apps via browser.

tried tmux but realized claude/gemini/codex's --resume works great and have since started using a single chat for all small work projects

Yes, but you can't leave it running and working on something and then resume from wherever that left off that way from wherever you are.

Or are you saying you can resume a conversation that is still open in another terminal? What happens to the old terminal if you accidentally type into it? Will it overwrite the conversation?

Thanks. Decided on a CF worker to keep costs low.

so not only me! 8K passes generated since the show hn post.

Cool, so 8k stolen passes!

People have zero f'ing reasoning skills, I swear.

open-source BYOK coming right up. with your permission i'll ping you on you profile

Yeah, please do!

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my use case is a loyalty barcode for a major retailer here. they provided a digital version but you had to download their app or take a picture. apple wallet is convenient, u just double tap and the Wallet loads on screen with full brightness to make it easy to scan. i dont have to keep anymore.

but on apple wallet u can't create your own a pass from a simple scan. creatign the ".pkpass" need a signature from a apple developer account.

i should've been clearer: while browsing i found multiple apps that do this. most use AI to extract data from images and are much more feature-rich - you can photo your boarding pass and it goes straight to wallet. however, i noticed that AI sometimes gets details wrong. for example, when i uploaded just a barcode image, it couldn't create the pass because the model also wanted a "name" field.

When I’ve done similar things in the past I found there was always a library for barcode/QR use cases before such things ended up being built into the OS/Framework I’m in.

https://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/ seems browser friendly?

Generally I agree with your point on AI fuzziness here not being useful.

Millions of barcodes are scanned every second, and has been for the past few decades. So it seems very strange that there aren't any solution readily able for your app, which isn't AI.

I have to scan bar codes every once in a while with an app on my iPhone, which definitely doesn't use AI. It will instantly recognize a bar code before I've had a chance to line up the camera properly, and the error rate is zero.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det... Chromium browsers have native support for reading many barcode types!

Could you add Codabar?

edit: oh, I guess you can't, because Apple Wallet doesn't support it.

i think there's a way but it's hacky. instead of using the barcode property it would add an image based on your inputted codabar.

That would be pretty great. I have half a dozen codabar-based cards.

Try Pass4Wallet from the app store. It's free and supports a huge array of barcode types, including codabar. It's been my go-to custom card app for a number of years.