Agree that ComfyUI Manager is super helpful for custom nodes, Yup, haven't found anything that'd work out of the box yet. It'd be helpful to even just have a marketplace where you can bring your own API and sell calls from the platform, abstracting away the user management and billing. I was able to put some of my ComfyUI workflows behind an API so that it runs on 'serverless' GPUs, but am still stuck with the rest of the stack to build from the ground up.
I realized that a lot of companies have some sort of annual learning stipend/continuing education benefit, but tons of folks (including me a few times) wind up leaving $$$ on the table by spending it on nothing, letting it expire unused by EOY.
Over the past few months, I've asked my friends about their favorite purchases they've managed to get approved and built stipends.fyi to start to compile them [still a WIP].
Let me know if you have any other helpful (or questionable) purchases you've managed to expense and I'll add them—hope you find the list useful! Even if you don't find anything interesting on the list, hopefully this reminds you to expense a book or class you've been eyeing.
Note: most of the links are affiliates, which give me a few % commission if you wind up using them, half of which I donate to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the other half of which I selfishly use to buy more books for myself :)
This is great, thank you for sharing! I wonder what the reverse would look like. More and more nowadays, I find myself first looking on YouTube for tutorials and walkthroughs, even if they wind up being more verbose than their written counterparts.
This is really cool! Would love to see a version for Pokemon and Yugioh to revive my childhood.
Because the relative consistency of card formats, AI-generated trading cards seems like a great use-case, with some gaps depending on the type of card. For Yugioh, I imagine generating believable images is easier since the card art is extremely varied, but it's probably a bit harder to come up with meaningfully complex card effects/descriptions. It's probably the opposite for Pokemon, where there's a much smaller set of known Pokemon so AI-generated ones are easy to detect, but the moves that each one possesses are usually pretty simple (unless that card game has gotten way more complex from what I remember)
There’s a baklava place in SF called Baklava Story that is hands down the best baklava I have ever had and probably will ever will have. The owner, Tolgay, travels to Turkey each year to source pistachios and milk to make butter with from specific farms each year. With the residual milk from making clarified butter from the Turkish milk, he makes soap, and gives it to customers.
Every single one of his reviews on Google and yelp are 5 stars. I deeply admire folks that invest so much of their time into one craft (especially if it happens to be edible) to become the best
This is one of my retirement dreams. Not baklava, but take a food item that I cherish (I won't divulge which one!), and execute on it as well as I can possibly imagine, vertically integrating as much of the inputs as possible. I love his minimal waste approach with the auxiliary soap output.
Basically, the Unix philosophy applied to cuisine.
Moved to Vegas a few years ago and hadn’t met the neighbors ahead of time. Turns out they’re Turkish and their cousin brings us a full pan of homemade baklava once a quarter. Mixes the types up. Perfect neighbors! Also, Summerlin farmers market has a baklava seller that even makes Hawaiian Baklava with reduced pineapple syrup.
Don't say than, until you've had Lebannese baklava. Both the Turkish and Greek varieties are oversweet. Lebanese baklava on the other hand is finer, more refined and does not drip syrop.
Ah yup this is something that happens every 1 in probably every 20 or so times. Planning on adding a few layers of parsing after generations to prevent this from happening!
