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Vim Vim Revolution 2 months ago

Made this Vim rhythm game this past long weekend. I felt I didn't have any proper pressure to get faster at Vim motions while coding, so a rhythm game felt apt. Try it out!

Thanks for the kind words! As I briefly mention in my video, my teammate actually had guitar tabs going, with lyrics chords and even web scraping/search. I think a bit of refinement and better hardware and we'll get what you're looking for

Agreed! These glasses do look very normal - only tell is that at a certain angle you can see the green of the screen, and the part near the ear is a bit bigger (but easy to conceal with hair)

This would make the most sense, since MuseScore is notoriously litigious about usage and redistribution of their library/MusicXMLs, so a collaboration would be necessary to get a usable music catalog for smart glasses

If I were designing around this limit, I would put enough memory to be able to store a nice buffer of bitmaps in either direction and then do sends that don't change what's currently displayed. I feel like that memory probably exists, I just don't have access to the firmware sadly

Yeah, it's a big deal for sure, I was bugging Mentra all hackathon to try and lower it, and also reached out to Even for suggestions (which Mentra is implementing). Regardless, I made it work and next gen hardware, firmware and software are all definitely going to be better for bitmaps

I use stirling-pdf for this, ran locally with

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -e DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false --name stirling-pdf frooodle/s-pdf:latest

Lots of features, OP you should definitely check this out

Another huge time sink is rotoscoping, e.g. in my video I rotoscope the legs of the piano bench and its a cool effect but it took almost an hour for those few seconds. AI has come far here, but afaik there's no great, free workflow yet. Would love to Docker compose something on my computer, open a webapp, drag my clip in and export segmented videos.

For me, it's still easy to mess up for complex sections if I'm not peeking at the keyboard every so often. Its true that muscle memory takes over after you reach a level of familiarity but not quite to the extent of biking

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A fun first attempt I made at putting sheet music into smart glasses, collaborating with Mentra (YC W25)

I'm a (new grad) software engineer by trade, but for the last 8 months, I've been working on this amateur short film about impostor syndrome, which I think would resonate with a lot of you. At least for me, I was never the best programmer or mathematician in any class I took, but I managed to get to where I wanted to be regardless through hard work, sacrifice, and the support of my friends. I hope this film resonates with some of you! P.S. I can't make any money off of YouTube because of my TN visa, someone teach me how to get an EB2 visa

I wanted to make a Bad Apple video and I decided to try out the software 3Blue1Brown uses to make his amazing math explainers. My scope crept unbelievably hard until I was revisiting my 4th year electrodynamics textbook to create one of the visuals, and the result looks pretty great in my opinion.