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tobr

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Patterncollider: Generate and explore quasiperiodic tiling patterns

github.com
70 points·by tobr·5 วันที่ผ่านมา·4 comments

Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting

studios.disneyresearch.com
62 points·by tobr·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·13 comments

Transparent Compression with Folder Actions in macOS

blog.gingerbeardman.com
8 points·by tobr·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Anthropic says US lifts export ban on Fable 5

bbc.com
18 points·by tobr·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·1 comments

The Serpent in the Grove

granta.com
3 points·by tobr·20 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Coding a Brick Tower [video]

youtube.com
20 points·by tobr·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·5 comments

Hyperblam lets you make music with HTML

hyperblam.how
2 points·by tobr·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Co/Core – An AI Cooperative

console.cocore.dev
3 points·by tobr·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

It doesn't matter if it works

henry.codes
28 points·by tobr·26 วันที่ผ่านมา·17 comments

Prop-for-that: CSS reacts, JavaScript just listens

prop-for-that.netlify.app
4 points·by tobr·27 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Splash Is a Colour Format

todepond.com
80 points·by tobr·เดือนที่แล้ว·116 comments

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

tomotama.com
142 points·by tobr·เดือนที่แล้ว·88 comments

Words of Type

wiki.wordsoftype.com
132 points·by tobr·เดือนที่แล้ว·14 comments

There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going

kottke.org
76 points·by tobr·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·80 comments

The 30 Year Game

remysharp.com
2 points·by tobr·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Inside Number 0 (2025)

johnfinnemore.blogspot.com
3 points·by tobr·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Excerpts from calls my dad recorded

emilyadel.lol
4 points·by tobr·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

ericwbailey.website
4 points·by tobr·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Referer Reality

robinsloan.com
50 points·by tobr·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·21 comments

Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems

joshuahhh.com
50 points·by tobr·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·6 comments

comments

tobr
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
This is not a game for me - I don’t enjoy scrambled letter games in the first place, and I don’t really respond to time pressure in games. That said, I don’t think you should change it. It’s conceptually clear as it is, and adding a forgiving mode would just make it wishy washy. The simplicity is appealing and it doesn’t have to be for everyone!
tobr
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
After writing the comment I thought about it some more, and realized when asking myself the question ”what letter comes after R?”, I didn’t immediately know the answer, but I heard ”MNOPQRS” in my head which gave me the answer. So I feel like I know it because I know the rhythm and sound of saying those letters in sequence.
tobr
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Is the alphabet really the same though? I don't feel like I recall it one letter at a time, as individual facts linking A to B, then B to C, etc, but more as a sound or a phrase. Not unlike recalling a melody. It just seems very different from figuring out what band someone is describing.
tobr
·23 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I disagree. If the monitor is mostly black (as close as it can be reproduced), shades of near-black gray are easy to distinguish, while shades of near-white gray blend together.
tobr
·23 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> But not perfectly and continuously

Isn’t that where the randomness comes in?
tobr
·25 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Probably because it’s displayed on a white background. A gray or black background would have shown the difference more clearly.
tobr
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
If you want to discuss the content of the page, it would be nice if you read the content of the page first.
tobr
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Is CARI part of the ”art world”? Where have CARI said that Frutiger Aero was ”the defining” aesthetic of 2000s? They are working to identify many different aesthetic trends that existed in parallel, not one that defines each decade.

Their description of Frutiger Aero explicitly includes Aqua, both mentioned by name and included visually:

https://www.are.na/consumer-aesthetics-research-institute/fr...
tobr
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I’m not affiliated with the site in any way, but it does not strike me at all as vibe coded. If you dig even just a little you can see that it is credited to studios and individuals who have their own separate web presence. And in fact, their manifesto explicitly rejects using AI even for translation because of quality concerns.

So please offer the evidence that allows you to confidently dismiss it as vibe coded.
tobr
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I expected a small tree in black and white pixel art.
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yes, but it’s not the topic of the article though. The article is about relocation. It describes the general problem and why New Orleans is particularly vulnerable. It would be nice to mention sinking land explicitly, but the idea that there’s some ”agenda” behind why they aren’t mentioning it is ridiculous.
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You can take your tinfoil hat off. In common parlance, ”rising seas” is about relative sea level (RSL), which is what actually matters regardless of the mix of underlying causes. This is how it’s used by e.g NOAA https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/faq.html#q1
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I was just reading about Metafont the other day, so this was quite lovely to come across.

Fig 9 stood out to me as obviously wrong. The two glyphs on the left are pixel by pixel identical, as are the three middle ones, and the two on the right. Quite mysterious though considering this PDF appears to be a scan.
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> This isn’t necessary fancy, just let me set some calendar events without knowing the magic words or tell it to open Overcast and play the new Gastropod episode. Better yet, for power users, let me set up reusable shortcuts using natural language.

Isn’t this the proverbial ”faster horse”? Ie let me do exactly what I can do now, in a very slightly different, possibly very slightly more convenient way?
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> maybe you're one of the 45 year old

> But for I, like most millennial Americans

Someone who turns 45 in 2026 is a millennial though.
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Came to ask this. I suppose if the edge of the sun glows in a different color than the rest, it would tint the edge of the shadow too? So maybe appropriate for sunsets, where the sky near the sun is red but the sun itself still glows bright white. Honestly just guessing.
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Kudos for engaging! It’s been a while since I used Photoshop on a daily basis, but my impression was always that the UI felt a bit stuck in time. Like no one had thought about how to make little things in the UI better in a way that improves daily work. You’d see new ideas crammed in on top, but very little refinement of what was already there. (Is the ”Wind” filter still only possible to apply left or right, not up or down?)

I think a nice outcome of this would be if Adobe recognized how much these things matter to power users, and that it’s possible to improve existing workflows without disrupting them, and without just adding something new that sits awkwardly side by side with the existing features. Maybe rather than fixing the issues that were introduced, you could aim for something that is thoroughly better, as you need to work through everything anyway.
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Same here, I need to turn off content blockers for the article content to load.
tobr
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
In the end, unfortunately, whoever sits on the most compute will have the power. It’s not going to be you and me.
tobr
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This says something about why LLMs simultaneously feel like incredible productivity enhancers and at the same time don’t have as clear of an impact on productivity in the bigger picture. It probably does increase productivity, but doesn’t widen the bottlenecks or reduce the friction of tech debt. Instead it pushes more work through the existing bottlenecks, clogging them up even more, and makes code even harder to understand as no person ever necessarily had to understand it in the first place.