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There's a bunch of other apps in this space.

Previously I was using LeaderKey: https://github.com/mikker/LeaderKey - Free, open source, no longer being actively developed.

The Dev for LeaderKey evolved that into Tuna: https://tunaformac.com/pro - One-time $49 for Pro, Free in Beta - Has a bunch of new features and is activly developed

I stopped using LeaderKey because it wasn't going to receive continued support. I stopped using Tuna because the new complexity of the main app wasn't clicking for me.

So I returned to Raycast and set shortcuts to launch apps, but it doesn't have the nesting feature that I really enjoyed from LeaderKey/Tuna.

One thing to call out on the website. I wanted to see what this looked like and how it works, but on the website it asks you to press caps lock to bring up the interface. I have Caps Lock rebound to Hyperkey, so I can't see what this looks like. Maybe add an on-screen caps lock button or add some screenshots farther down the page?

Going to give this a try as well!

Thanks for posting this! Quickly turned off auto-update on Antigravity IDE. Don't really use it for coding, but it turned into my shell-scripting+data cleanup editor to keep that separate from my actual projects.

One issue is: when the Reminders app was simple, making a better reminders app just had to be a little more complex that a single developer could improve upon it and charge for it once and make a living. Now, the bar is so high, that it takes significantly more work/time to make a better app, and thus we have to pay subscription pricing in order to use it.

Instead of: let me buy this app for a few bucks and give it a spin, its now: even if I like this app, do I want to pay for it a few bucks a month for forever?

I think the idea of the Window Chrome "getting out of the way" of the user is a good concept, but we fail to consider what the user expects at arms length. We also have to consider the chicken-or-egg problem

In the example, we have a sidebar for the formatting in the newer example vs havign that in the toolbar in Lion. Was it that back then, people were more likely to configure fonts & formatting settings, and we've gradually as a society de-emphasized our formatting in word processing? Or did UI changes such as this, hiding formatting options push us towards a world where we care less about formatting? I'd like to think it's a bit of both; as the user-based broadened, you had less percentage-based people that cared so heavily about formatting, so UI changes were made to optimize for that, further pushing people in that direction.

On a different note, I want to call out just how badly the sidebar is laid out compared to the toolbar. In the Lion toolbar, there were unlabeled sections but it was pretty clear what the purpose of each group was. Then you have the sidebar, where labels are added in some places, excessive space given where uneccesary, tabs that are sectioned off from the settings they'll show/hide, collapsible sections that can also be shown/hidden, some dropdowns using up/down caret while others just use the down caret, most dropdown carets being right-aligned but not the gear one, and in the liquid glass versions, the overlay of toolbar buttons over the sidebar creating confusion.

Sorry to pile on, but I also think that changing the background color in the before/after feels like you're purposefully trying to make the before one look worse. Like when in weight loss photos people don't smile and pose nicely in the before photos but they do in the after.

Really boils down to the benefits of first party software from a company that has billions of dollars of funding vs similar third party software from an individual with no funding.

GSD might be better right now, but will it continue to be better in the future, and are you willing to build your workflows around that bet?

Many times your severance comes along with a non-disparagement agreement. And typically the people being laid off don't really have the insight into the operational costs to serve as a counter-point to that argument.

That's not to say the journalists shouldn't try. Having execs pushing their probably false or at least misdirecting narrative in order to control the optics without question or consequence means that they'll continue to operate dishonestly.

Abstracting away redundancy could make it harder to understand exactly what the code is doing, and could introduce tech debt when you need slightly different behavior from some code that is abstracted away. Also, if the boilerplate code is configuration, its good to see exactly what the configuration is when trying to grok how some code works.

You bring up a good point with snippets though, and I wonder if that would be good information to feed into the LLM for autocomplete. That snippet is helpful if you want to write on condition at a time, but say you have a dozen conditions if statements to write with that snippet. After writing one, the LLM could generate a suggestion for the other 11 conditions using that same snippet, while also taking into consideration the different types of values and what you might be checking against.

As for RAM/processing, you're not wrong there, but with specialized models, specialized hardware, and improvements in model design, the number of people working under such restricted environments where they are concerned about resource use will decrease over time, and the utility of these tools will increase. Sure a lower-tech solution works just fine, and it'll continue to work fine, but at some point the higher-tech solution will have similar levels of friction and resource use for much better utility.

They don't need Bun to make revenue, but they need Bun to continue existing and growing for their products to make revenue. Now they can ensure its survival, push for growth, and provide resources so that Bun can build the best product rather than focus on making money.

I think everybody here that is bashing Warp specifically as a terminal application probably spends a lot more time in the terminal than GUI apps.

For someone who don't, killer features:

- GUI settings - Regular text navigation - Just enough free AI for ffmpegging - Pretty nice theming, gruvbox + 70% opacity is chef's kiss - Command blocks are a nice - Restore sessions are nice - Input area error underlines, syntax highlighting, command suggestions

For someone who was never a big terminal user and now tries to use it occaisonally but still spends 95%+ time in GUI apps, this makes configuring, getting in, getting work done, and getting out super easy. When working on web projects, I'll usually run my apps in vscode for easier error logging & fixing workflows, and use warp for accessory things like installing packages.

iPhone Air 11 months ago

Yeah, the next one wouldn't be the iPhone 18 Air, it would be the iPhone Air 2.

Haven't looked into this, but along with that:

- Multiple replies

- Edits

- Scheduled send

- Voice message

- Tapbacks

- Message history

- Message order is reliant on notification order

- Delays in the notification system could be different than the messaging system

- Opaque nature of message going from notification system -> messaging system, difficult if message is lost/not sent with no indication of why

It's a comment on their monopoly position and how they can make it difficult at any point for a third party to run their business/app. Apple doesn't need to jump through these hurdles, but they can be placed in front of anyone else randomly, disrupting their business and income and at the very least, creating a worse user experience for those apps.

The article states that the alert had to be changed from:

"The camera will be used to take photographs"

to

"The camera will be used to take photographs for the app that you just downloaded to take photographs for."

"Spotify, why would you like to play audio? Please notify the users that you are using the speakers to play the audio for the app they just downloaded to play audio."

If they make using third party apps a little more scary, a little more dense, consistently, people will slowly gravitate to Apple's first party apps. You can see a similar pattern for MacOS where more and more restrictions are added to opening apps downloaded from outside the App Store.

While the outcome as it stands might be okay, they should still proceed with the request for more information so that they can better guard against removal of access in cases that they do not agree with.

What's to prevent them from changing their mind and blocking Epic again? What if Tim Sweeney says something else to hurt Apple's feelings in the future? Apple has too much free rein over removing access to this market, and while it may be a market that Apple has made, the EU is clearly requiring Apple to open up the market for others with the only restrictions being those where the app store or the apps themselves are damaging to consumers in the marketplace.

Workspaces is the first instance of synced tabs in a browser that actually works for me.

A lot of nice features are included in the browser, that maybe they are in other browsers now, but that hasn't always been the case. I was a Vivaldi user prior to switching to Edge, but here are some things I like:

- Tab groups. Vivaldi has this also, and has better tools for collapsing tabs by host - Some of the built-in features are nice. QR code, send to other devices, split view, capture & markup, easier profiles. - Bookmark bar has a per-bookmark option to hide title. Doesn't delete the title, so you can still use it for search. But this makes a really handy app bar. - Probably not true, but I expect it to be better optimized for Windows vs other browsers - Cross-platform w/ workspaces is great. I use a mac for personal and windows for work. Can't use Safari on Windows, and Vivaldi wouldn't sync tabs (at the time) - I expect Microsoft to integrate AI features in early and well, and I want to be on the cutting-edge to see what AI has to offer.

I agree, I hate all the tracking BS also, but I turned a bunch of things off and the rest is probably a wash with everything else tracking me anyways.

I really recommend you fire it up and give it a try. You're sure to be surprised, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

Edit: Feature that I'm missing most from Vivaldi - the speed dial page was just amazing, running through bookmarks. I've mostly supplanted by using the bookmarks bar, but it's still not a perfect replacement for me.