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In this article, I try to understand why coding agents can be infuriating to use. I think the problem is their conversational UX: they behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don't learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do, which makes their repeated mistakes feel…
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A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download.
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
If vibecoding is what people say it is, the world should be drowning in vibecoded artifacts right now. Two years of access. Millions of people with the tools. The barrier supposedly fell, right? RIGHT? So where is everything?
Google DeepMind is transforming the mouse pointer into a context-aware AI partner. Move beyond the friction of traditional prompting with intuitive AI collaboration in Chrome and beyond.
This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.
Interaction models move beyond turn-based AI interfaces by handling multimodal, real-time collaboration natively across audio, video, and text.
I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS text-stroke property, but the results never quite matched. Because text-stroke accepts a single value, stacking elements was the only workaround I could think of, though it didn't seem to work.
Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.
There are lots of things that affect the quality of photographs. The biggest one is the skill of the photographer behind the camera.
I want to speak to your manager.
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The mythical, it's text, so it's accessible There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a te...
In the world of computing, we tend to abstract away complexity. Doing so seems liberating. It enables us to focus on the bigger picture. Unfortunately, in doing so, the fidelity of our understanding often decreases. We sometimes end up blinding ourselves.
I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m away from civilization. The most important habit I’ve found for not getting lost is to be very…
A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.
A note from a developer who keeps watching good design die in boardrooms.
This Spectrimage palette extractor started as a sidecar to image color analysis, but grew into its own feature.
Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.
Fragmented systems are brittle. Coherent systems are special-purpose. We need a new, general-purpose model so we can build coherent, multi-domain applications.
iPads should be radically touch only, and MacBooks should be keyboard-first
An attempt to detect AI design patterns in Show HN pages
We trained an MLP that predicts 58 body shape parameters from 8 questionnaire inputs. The trick: a differentiable physics loss. Mass accuracy: 0.3 kg mean vs 3.9 kg for Ridge. No GPU at inference.
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.
All characters fit within a 5 pixel square, and are safe to draw on a 6x6 grid. The design is based off of lcamtuf's 5x6 font-inline.h, which is itself inspired by the ZX Spectrum's 8x8 font.
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out.
