Juraj on Nostr: I had a QR code generator app I liked. It was never updated and only ran as an Intel ...
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2026-10-31 10:17:00 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "I had a QR code generator app I liked. It was never updated and only ran as an Intel Mac build, so I wanted a new one.\n\nI built it twice: first only with free models that need no credit card, then with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, which was free on OpenCode Zen.\n\nThe first run took hours, models kept changing, free quotas ran out and the clipboard never worked. The second one just works.\n\nToken poverty, free tiers and what they can and cannot do:\nhttps://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/10/31/token-poverty-can-you-use-freely-available-ai-to-do-productive-work/\n\nThe app: https://jooray.github.io/qrencoder/\nZapstore: https://zapstore.dev/apps/io.bednar.qrencoder\n\nhttps://blossom.primal.net/6196a2160cc41ef60c0f02f629c49326df16196df34bd6f8f1352a6ac472eb35.png https://blossom.primal.net/0bb77cf5794af38d0bef2bb49f1ef2da18a89967c41b0e3e3b1dd79b06621d45.png https://blossom.primal.net/f1e55cac81152b5b75674abfea82fe546aaafa4e00acaffbfc4193d718fbc614.png",
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