In Game Design, one of the greatest achievements is to get your player to enter flow. They need to be able to work in a problem space that they know how to navigate, that is somewhat defined, but leaves a bit of an opening for their (usually previously learned) expertise to solve the problems posed in a creative way with the means given.
In my youth I was able to consistently enter flow at will during multiple activities, but especially making games, and increasingly so as I was getting better at it.
That eroded away with time, and these days it's extremely rare I find myself on the other side of a flow state. I think it's because I have much more on my mind these days, so I don't allow myself to really fully commit to something for a longer while. So I feel you on the having to defend it aspect, but for me it wasn't really LLMs that prompted it. It's more growing up and extraneous circumstances.
Basically as soon as I got a real job in tech, and the business aspects trumped every other consideration, creativity went out the window, and there's only the occasional mildly interesting problem to solve. In contract work you are rarely incentivized for doing the best possible job. Doing a middle of the road job yields more billable hours. And that's just not an interesting problem to me.
So I find flow elsewhere in my spare time, as rare as it may be. But it may be high time for me to condition myself a bit to allow myself enter flow more often again.
(Btw. the colophon on your website has a typo. The font is called Inter.)
That I of course didn't test. Yeah, I'd expect them reencoding images to save on bandwidth, and they're probably doing so naively for JXL (maybe even converting to HEIC).
Actually, in my recent vibe coding adventures I tested making a ProRAW converter app that also applied the included gain map to the image and encoded via libjxl on device. Surprisingly, Photos.app was able to display the converted image with HDR, but the HDR tag in the UI is only displayed for images with the proprietary gain map.
There seems to be some support there, though I tested on iOS 26.
I don't see myself as that averse. To me, if they found a clever domain hack, or if the name is such that the TLD is part of it (like https://teenage.engineering) - sure, go for it. Happy to see it actually! Gives it character and shows that a modicum of thought was put into the choice. For the website of my gamedev team (called secret industries) I was happy to see .industries being a TLD. Quite long, but easy to remember if you remember the name.
For personal use, as long as the TLD has a decent enough reputation to use with email (https://www.spamhaus.org/reputation-statistics/), I'd be fine with almost whatever, too. I personally use a ccTLD, but things like Jeff Gerstmann's site (https://jeff.zone) are fun. There are tons of other examples, this one just came to mind first.
What does feel dodgy and fake to me is when I see a known name with the new gTLDs. Sometimes SaaS have their landing/marketing site on a different TLD than the app itself. If you find both via web search, that looks weird to me.
The city TLDs and highly specialized or non-English ones (like .kaufen, .whoswho, .abogado) and the tons and tons of paid subdomains are so rare that they always seem out of place.
In my youth I was able to consistently enter flow at will during multiple activities, but especially making games, and increasingly so as I was getting better at it.
That eroded away with time, and these days it's extremely rare I find myself on the other side of a flow state. I think it's because I have much more on my mind these days, so I don't allow myself to really fully commit to something for a longer while. So I feel you on the having to defend it aspect, but for me it wasn't really LLMs that prompted it. It's more growing up and extraneous circumstances.
Basically as soon as I got a real job in tech, and the business aspects trumped every other consideration, creativity went out the window, and there's only the occasional mildly interesting problem to solve. In contract work you are rarely incentivized for doing the best possible job. Doing a middle of the road job yields more billable hours. And that's just not an interesting problem to me.
So I find flow elsewhere in my spare time, as rare as it may be. But it may be high time for me to condition myself a bit to allow myself enter flow more often again.
(Btw. the colophon on your website has a typo. The font is called Inter.)