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Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

lab174.com
119 points·by merelysounds·há 5 meses·30 comments

Recursive Islands and Lakes

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by merelysounds·há 6 meses·0 comments

Is this the longest time anyone's taken to update an app?

lab174.com
1 points·by merelysounds·há 9 meses·0 comments

The overlooked benefit of publishing unfinished pet projects

lab174.com
1 points·by merelysounds·há 9 meses·0 comments

Newest beta backtracks on an iPadOS multitasking decision (SlideOver added back)

arstechnica.com
3 points·by merelysounds·há 9 meses·1 comments

Join-calculus

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by merelysounds·há 10 meses·1 comments

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merelysounds
·há 18 dias·discuss
Note, they say it is based on their existing helmet[1].

[1]: https://www.canyon.com/en-de/clothing/helmets/canyon-cfr/can...
merelysounds
·há 18 dias·discuss
I wish they showed videos with a human model or the retractable mechanism.

At first glance the visor seems large enough to cover the face, but based on the HUD simulation I guess it only covers the eyes.
merelysounds
·há 18 dias·discuss
To be fair the ~150MB is for the CEF scenario (when chromium gets bundled); and eventually they want to introduce a shared CEF runtime across apps.
merelysounds
·há 18 dias·discuss
In the long run it could spread from commercial to consumer scenarios; perhaps extra fast if there was adoption in the services sector.
merelysounds
·há 19 dias·discuss
If you want image nonograms (as opposed to randomized nonograms), you can try Nonoverse[1]; I made it for the same reasons.

[1]: https://lab174.com/nonoverse
merelysounds
·há 26 dias·discuss
Nonoverse[1], a nonogram puzzle game.

I’m prioritizing user experience and QoL features, I’d like to build something calming and user friendly.

I recently added support for user generated puzzles - here’s a nonogram that I drew just now[2].

[1]: https://lab174.com/nonoverse/

[2]: https://lab174.com/nonoverse/play/custom/N4IgbiBcCMA0IGcogHR...
merelysounds
·mês passado·discuss
> Every reasonable variation of the company name as a .com/.net/.org was taken, including <companyname>company.com

Even then it seems better to come up with a different prefix, or suffix (or both!), just to stay with ‘.com’.

Of course hindsight is 20/20 and I did the same, my personal homepage used to have a ‘.xyz’ address.
merelysounds
·mês passado·discuss
> I’ve curated some sites about how to (...), or different ways to tie your shoes.

Perhaps Ian's Shoelace Site[1], a very informative and user friendly website that has been continuously updated for two decades at least. I'm now curious what are the other curated websites.

[1]: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
merelysounds
·mês passado·discuss
I hope they are working hard on the xpro4!

Retro styled cameras are only gaining in popularity; the competition is increasing, but Fujifilm has a big head start.

And still many concepts to try out. We have yet to see true manual focus confirmation in stills mode (something a retro nikon zf has been praised for), or an autofocus capable lens with a distance scale (leica q style).
merelysounds
·há 2 meses·discuss
An image logic puzzle game about nonograms[1] called Nonoverse[2].

I’m automating App Store media creation; both screenshots and app preview videos can now be recorded automatically; this way they should stay up to date and show correct content for a given locale.

I’m also adding translations; if anyone would like to help (with translating or testing new locales) let me know!

Early results are already live in the App Store page.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram

[2]: https://lab174.com/nonoverse/
merelysounds
·há 2 meses·discuss
Surprisingly, there were DRM games praised for good UX, only these were hardware releases.

When Switch 1 launched, it got re-releases (eg: Diablo 3) that were: 1. complete editions with DLCs, 2. came on a cartridge that one could swap between devices or sell, 3. supported offline play.

Online game stores were supposed to offer better UX than hardware releases. I find it interesting, and perhaps a sign of how bad the online experience can get, that the opposite can happen too.
merelysounds
·há 2 meses·discuss
I guess the modern day equivalent (technology that’s relatively new, unsafe and unregulated) would be electric scooter polo? I found no sign of a sport like this though.

I think kick scooter polo exists. And bike polo[1] is well known.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcourt_Bike_Polo
merelysounds
·há 2 meses·discuss
I couldn’t find information about discontinuation in the article - did I miss it or is there another source?

Edit, I found this: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/29/apple-vision-pro-m5-flo... - seems like rumors; but perhaps as close to an announcement as we’ll ever get.
merelysounds
·há 2 meses·discuss
This bus route has its own Wikipedia page, well deserved too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_se...
merelysounds
·há 2 meses·discuss
I guess we don’t know what the agent would do after seeing these warnings and a request for extra action.

Perhaps it would stop and rethink, perhaps it would focus on the fact that extra action is needed - and perform that automatically.

I suppose the decision would depend on multiple factors too (model, prompt, constraints).
merelysounds
·há 3 meses·discuss
Fastlane is a local, open source CLI tool.

> 100% open source under the MIT license

See: https://docs.fastlane.tools/

It doesn’t support App Preview automation, this is something that I had to script myself.
merelysounds
·há 3 meses·discuss
This is very useful in mobile projects.

App stores require screenshots, but generating N images for NUMBER_OF_SCREEN_SIZES times NUMBER_OF_LOCALIZATIONS can be a chore.

In the past I wrote my own scripts for that, today tools like Fastlane[1] help.

I use Fastlane for my logic puzzle game Nonoverse[2], you can see sample screenshots in its App Store page.

I also automated App Preview video recording, complete with multiple scenes. If anyone wants to read more let me know, perhaps this is a good topic for an article.

[1]: https://fastlane.tools/

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nonoverse-nonogram-puzzles/id6...
merelysounds
·há 3 meses·discuss
Bonus: reasonably accessible replaceable batteries double up as a hardware off switch.
merelysounds
·há 3 meses·discuss
Looks like there is also a client side solution for that, at least in Firefox; it's possible to prevent a page from modifying browser history:

> Open the about:config page in Firefox

> Search for "pushstate"

> Double-click "browser.history.allowPushState"

source: https://superuser.com/a/1688290
merelysounds
·há 3 meses·discuss
UI for image logic puzzles (nonograms), I’m working on making them prettier and more user friendly.

Some prototypes are already live in my app. Screenshots in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/nonoverse-nonogram-puzzles/id6748... (the patterns in the puzzles in the dark mode screenshots, i.e. 4th and 7th).