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I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

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5 min read
I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

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Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

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Hush: I Hid 10 Emergencies in My Own Notifications. An On-Device Gemma OS Found All 10.

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Hush: I Hid 10 Emergencies in My Own Notifications. An On-Device Gemma OS Found All 10.

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5 min read
Bill & Document Sloth: A Local-First AI Paperwork Manager with Gemma & TabPFN

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Bill & Document Sloth: A Local-First AI Paperwork Manager with Gemma & TabPFN

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SlothSRE (NapOps): An Overnight Gemma 4 & ADK Agent That Compresses 418 Lines of 3 AM Alerts into a 2-Line Morning Digest

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

SlothSRE (NapOps): An Overnight Gemma 4 & ADK Agent That Compresses 418 Lines of 3 AM Alerts into a 2-Line Morning Digest

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8 min read
I Wanted a Guardian. I Kept Building Things I Had to Babysit.

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

I Wanted a Guardian. I Kept Building Things I Had to Babysit.

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7 min read
Sloth Organzier

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Sloth Organzier

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6 min read
SlothList: a grocery list app for people who refuse to think about groceries

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

SlothList: a grocery list app for people who refuse to think about groceries

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4 min read
Slowly: Catch Up on Group Chats Without Reading Them, Fully On My Phone

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Slowly: Catch Up on Group Chats Without Reading Them, Fully On My Phone

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4 min read
Snooze Desk: a local Gemma reads my GitHub notifications while I sleep

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Snooze Desk: a local Gemma reads my GitHub notifications while I sleep

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6 min read
I Taught a Sloth to Clean My Downloads Folder (Offline, with Gemma)

I Taught a Sloth to Clean My Downloads Folder (Offline, with Gemma)

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3 min read
I taught my release checklist to wait for me

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

I taught my release checklist to wait for me

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7 min read
paste-sloth: Ctrl+Space+V pastes your clipboard back tidied, by a 1-bit Gemma

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

paste-sloth: Ctrl+Space+V pastes your clipboard back tidied, by a 1-bit Gemma

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4 min read
My clients explain automations in rambling WhatsApp voice notes. Now my laptop answers with an n8n workflow

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

My clients explain automations in rambling WhatsApp voice notes. Now my laptop answers with an n8n workflow

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6 min read
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