Former co-founder of Volition (govolition.com) and Plethora (software defined CNC factories).
I'm into retro computers and homebrew pinball machines.
San Francisco by way of Pittsburgh, PA
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- I use never-ending notion pages like this and now they have grown so large that they crash on mobile / tablet so I can only access via desktop.
If anyone knows of a good rich markdown / block based editor that can handle huge pages let me know!
- shameless plug for a similar site which a friend built, but for dozens of TV shows and movies:
- same for me, but I've never found a 7 leaf (which is extra annoying as a futurama fan)
- I've been able to find four-leaf clovers easily since I was a kid. Like the OP they seem to just "pop out" at me as I quickly scan the ground, but I do not have the same background with synesthesia.
Since four and five leaf clovers tend to grow in patches, I transplanted a patch I found and have kept it in a planter on my deck so that anyone who has never found a four leaf clover can find one!
I wrote about my lucky clover patch here: https://jherrman.com/four-leaf-clover-patch.html
- I'm interested in how these old IDEs were used during the transition from assembly to high level languages. It seems especially topical given the LLM integration into today's IDEs.
Back then was it common to have a split or interleaved view of high level and assembly at the same time?
I'm aware that you could do something like the following, but did IDEs help visualize in a unified UI?:
A quick search shows that Borland Turbo C (1987) had in-line assembly:$ cc -S program.c $ cat program.s # look at the assembly $ vi program.c # edit the C code
From the 1987 Borland Turbo C User's Guide [0] "This construct is a valid C if statement. Note that no semicolon was needed after the mov x, 4 instruction. asm statements are the only statements in C which depend upon the occurrence of a newline. OK, so this is not in keeping with the rest of the C language, but this is the convention adopted by several UNIX-based compilers."myfunc () { int i; int x; if (i > 0) asm mov x,4 else i = 7; }[0]: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/tur...
- Unifi G4 Doorbell Pro [0] is a great self-hosted option. I've been very happy with mine over the last year, but I was already bought into the unifi ecosystem with a UDM Pro SE and U6 mesh APs.
0: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-doorbells/collec...
- Overall yes (with some caveats below), it's comfortable enough to wear for a few hours. I'm usually in the window seat and I try to be discreet, so nobody has really asked me about it.
All of the features work well even with no internet (for linking the mac & vision pro). Travel mode takes care of issues with the plane's movement and the sensors work excellent for gesture / tap detection even in complete darkness, and there's never a need for big sweeping arm gestures with the vision pro - you can operate it in a small space.
I bought the belkin headstrap to help distribute the weight, and I imagine the success of that type of accessory is what prompted apple to introduce the new dual knit band. With that extra support I can wear it for a few hours but I definitely have goggle marks on my face for a while afterwards - like you would have after skiing.
- I've had the Vision Pro since launch, and the only thing that keeps me coming back to it nearly daily is the Mac Virtual Display for my MacBook Pro.
It's just so useful to have a huge display wherever you want it - no hunching over looking down a small laptop screen. This is especially useful on a plane where I'm not even able to open the laptop completely due to the tight space.
My main gripe is: Why do I need a separate Mac at all? Even the original M2 Vision Pro has more than enough horsepower to run the virtual Mac inside of the headset, so it seems like a fake limitation.
I'm looking forward to it being lighter weight and smaller, and for them to make the Mac Virtual Display native to the Vision Pro experience without the need for a separate computer.
- author here - I made this comment elsewhere, but I still think apple made the right call even if it leads to a bit of confusion at first.
As others have pointed out, sliders have limits & knobs don't, so I do think they have their place on touchscreens.
If a digital knob needs to be turned several times (e.g. 1080º, common in DAWs), the "default" way to interact with a knob on a touchscreen - circling again and again - is slow and uncomfortable. Adding "slider" gestures on top of the default behavior is a nice way to perform many turns quickly and easily.
I'm curious - what UI mechanism would you use instead?
- author here - I was specifically talking about digital knobs on touch screens having both spin gestures AND horizontal/vertical slide gestures.
If you can point me to a DAW besides Garageband on iPad which was on a touchscreen with those three gestures I would love to try it out!
- author here - fair point but I still think apple made the right call even if it leads to a bit of confusion at first.
If a digital knob needs to be turned several times (e.g. 1080º, common in DAWs), the "default" way to interact with a knob on a touchscreen - circling again and again - is slow and uncomfortable. Adding "slider" gestures on top of the default behavior is a nice way to perform many turns quickly and easily.
- oh wow this is my article! wild to see it pick up traction after 13 years.
I guess I should probably publish more of my drafts...
Thanks for reading/commenting!
- depends on what abstraction level you enjoy being creative at.
Some people like creative coding, others like being creative with apps and features without much care to how it's implemented under the hood.
I like both, but IMO there is a much larger crowd for higher level creativity, and in those cases AIs don't automate the creativity away, they enable it!
- I don't get why people are downvoting this due to the parametric claim.
Yes, STEP files don't have a feature tree and cannot be parameterized. I read it as OP saying that under the hood there __is__ parameterization before the final export to STEP.
This means that they could expose this in the future, say if they chose to output to FreeCAD FCStd or even some proprietary format like Solidworks (via $$$ CAD translator packages).
This is just my read - I'm not affiliated and have no internal knowledge to Spectral or SGS-1, but I have worked deep in building CAD plug-ins and custom software for manufacturing automation.
All that said, the demo model quality has issues and many are unmanufacturable (with subtractive means at least) - so there's still along way to go. But I don't think the presentation of their capabilities is disingenuous.
Congrats on the launch of v1, keep going!
- sounds interesting when are you planning on making more info publicly available?
- bloomberg had an article last week which has a nice overview of how to manually open doors from inside teslas without power:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-dangerous-door...
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/QCuQJ
Screenshots of instructions: https://imgur.com/a/96ckdjv
- beautiful site!
- thanks!
- woah that's a new one for me too! great find
- "Infinite Loop", a Haiku for Sonnet:
Great! Issue resolved!
Wait, You're absolutely right!
Found the issue! Wait,
- well done! I also made one, but for the mac control panel.
- (and I also did the hack of reading raw images to get the binary pattern :-D the source for the converter is also in this repo)
- Two years ago I vibe coded a recreation of the Mac Desktop Pattern Control Panel to change a website's background.
Demo here: https://jherrm.github.io/classic-mac-desktop-pattern/
Source: https://github.com/jherrm/classic-mac-desktop-pattern
- Pen-based handhelds designed around writing seem to gravitate to larger form factors than phones.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the similarity in size to the Apple Newton MessagePad from the 90s:
Original MessagePad: 184 x 114 mm (7.25 x 4.5 in)
reMarkable Paper Pro Move: 195.6 x 107.8 mm (7.7 x 4.24 in)
No comparison in thickness though, with the Newton being about 3x the thickness of the reMarkable (19 mm vs 6.5 mm).
- totally agree - they all need a human in the loop at this point. I'm constantly stopping gpt-5/sonnet 4 and steering. Unfortunately with grok it completely misses the plot constantly
- fast but not smart. Fine for non-critical "I need this query" or "summarize this" but it's pretty much worthless for real coding work (compared to gpt-5 thinking or sonnet 4)
- thanks for making this! I'd love to use the microphone key (fn + mic) to trigger Handy but even after turning off dictation it doesn't seem like the system allows that key to be used (I get a dialog prompting me to turn on dictation).
- Set the monitor to color and the date to September 20th, 1989. Then boot while holding ⌘-⌥-C-I to see an image of the dev team.
- I know this book is a first hand account from Esslinger himself, but aside from your quoted passage, I've never seen Snow White refer to a specific color, only to the design language itself. Even the other mentions of Snow White in his book refer to the design language, not a color.
The first product to feature the Snow White design language was the Apple IIc, which featured a color known as "Fog" which is distinct from the Platinum used in Apple's products from 1986-1999. For a good side-by-side comparison, check out this image of an original Apple IIc (1984) and the Apple IIc Plus (1988): https://i0.wp.com/lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/iic-and-i...
I'm more excited to see 3 Flash Lite. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite needs a lot more steering than regular 2.5 Flash, but it is a very capable model and combined with the 50% batch mode discount it is CHEAP ($0.05/$0.20).