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https://kintoun.ai
Ironically, Japanese menus almost universally have pictures of the food
For restaurants frequented by foreign tourists, yes. But for most ordinary restaurants, probably not. Handwritten menus with no pictures at all are still very common in Japan.
I work in food tech in Japan.
Yes! You are not alone. The name Mac OS X has always felt special to me.
Just wow! I’m speechless! Can’t think of any other word than “legendary”.
Anything similar for Windows users? My wife is suffering from car sickness as she works on taxi a lot.
I’ve been helping teams automating their routine work using https://aquablue.app , an AI employees app I built.
For example, syncing orders from e-commerce sites to their internal spreadsheets, generating invoices with custom workflow etc
Slightly off-topic: the old Aqua UI looks so much better. Not only it was much easier to see what's a control and what's text, but it also looked visually nicer (subjective, I know).
Exactly. I don't know why some people'd change the branding.
Exactly. Very clever name!
In case you don't know yet, there is a project that tries to bring the NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux:
Wow, this is very close to an app I’m building. My take is that the key part is not just generating the workflow, but making it reviewable and deterministic enough that businesses can actually trust it.
Absolutely!
I wish projects like nextspace could get more love.
https://aquablue.app - Business software without developers
https://kintoun.ai - Document translator that preserves formatting and layouts
https://ricatutor.com - AI language tutor for YouTube
Maybe I’m nitpicking but there is no such thing as “macOS Tiger”. It’s called Mac OS X at the time so it’s Mac OS X Tiger.
"Amaze, amaze, amaze!"
I wonder if there would be interest in an Asahi Remix spin focused on a more Mac-like out-of-the-box experience: cmd as the main modifier key, Mac-like keyboard shortcuts, theming, gestures, etc.
Of course, you can tweak any distro however you want, but I think a curated default experience is a different thing.
Nah, that was solved decades ago. We had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks, even with replaceable batteries.
Please bring back the 3.5mm headphone jack!
Removing it is one of the most annoying things ever in a phone. Yes, Bluetooth is getting better, but the jack always works perfectly. Why can't we have both?
I live in Tokyo. Today's quake felt pretty strong (maybe because I was on the 14th floor) and lasted a while. Haven't felt one this big in months.
This is great. Can Google also stop scroll hijacking?
https://aquablue.app - Simple, Reliable AI Automation
https://kintoun.ai - Translate Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with layout and formatting intact.
https://ricatutor.com - Your AI Language Tutor for YouTube
I can’t recommend another excellent free ebook enough: Zen of Palm.
It accurately describes the key differences between designing for desktop and mobile, which explains why PalmOS was so much easier to use than the various Windows-based mobile formats from Microsoft at the time. I even wrote a whole blog series about this book two decades ago (https://dingyu.me/blog/zen-of-palm-1).
I switched from a Dell Pocket PC to a Treo 650, and it was such a revelation. IMHO, this little phone is still one of the best in terms of simplicity, even today.
Very cool project!
When I was still working at a large corporation, I built an internal "social" radio station using Icecast2. I'd broadcast my favorite music like Pink Floyd and Radiohead to my coworkers via a simple Rails web app, and we'd chat about music, work, and everything in between on the same web app. That was a long time ago, and I no longer have that environment (a big company with lots of similar-minded young people), but live-streaming music with friends will always be a soft spot in my heart.
The UI looks so good. Why can’t we have good looking things anymore?
I spent hours each month looking for a way to bring back Aqua on Mac or Linux through theming or alternative DE but nothing comes close to the real thing.
If one day I have enough money I’ll just start work on a new DE to faithfully recreate Aqua. One can dream.
Typo: "after transition" -> "after translation"
Two things for my document translator https://kintoun.ai :
1. Trying to improve the translation quality by giving LLM more context.
2. Fixing the issue where PowerPoint slides layout may become a bit messy after transition because of different text density between western and CJK languages.
As a Chinese person, I smile every time I see this argument. Government-mandated censorship that violates freedom of speech is fundamentally different from content policies set by a private company exercising its own freedom of speech.
I've been working in Japan as a product manager/engineer for a few years. The market is indeed quite different from other parts of the world. It's hard to build trust and get sales in Japan, but once you do, your customers tend to stick with you for a very long time (sometimes decades or even longer - not in IT of course). Simply localizing your app is far from enough. You'll need a sales team, preferably composed of Japanese people, based in Japan. And you'll need to be patient.
Translation alone is simply not enough. You'll need local presence, Japanese sales people, and patience (a lot of them).
The icons...so this is what the future looks like under Steve Lemay?!
100% this.
Let's hope projects like https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace succeed.
Neat. I also used to make a simple "bookshelf" web page each year for the books I read, but mine were fully static HTML and nowhere near as fancy as this.
Side note: I once wrote about recreating Delicious Library: https://dingyu.me/blog/recreating-delicious-library-in-2025