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I just discovered xr glasses.

I was looking for glasses with screens I could code on.

It seems like the market has been heating up. There are a few available around $500 that can do a lot more than I expected.

I’m more interested in a comfortable pair with good screen quality than the actual xr features.

But it looks like the environment and integrations are quickly expanding and there will be opportunities to create new types of applications on affordable hardware.

I use this occasionally, discovered it in the Linux software repository.

I think it’s worth checking out the UI paradigm, it’s very keyboard friendly.

My main gripe is that it has no app icon in my toolbar on Mint, and that causes it to render as an invisible sliver, not even a full size button.

I’ve had a 38” ultrawide for about a decade.

I’d say monitor position and ergonomics matter way more than screen size.

Navigating a stack of apps with alt+tab, ctrl+tab is extremely efficient. I only miss the extra space when looking at spreadsheets or comparing things in different windows.

Some laptops have a pitiful screen height, avoid those.

Ultrawide is an extra screen size that many web devs forget about. Good design can take advantage of it. But some fluid designs look terrible without constraints.

I ran a vertical setup, with a monitor above my laptop. Not a bad way to go if you want more space for auxiliary apps.

Focus is essential for productivity. Do whatever it takes to get there.

Ahhh this is my life. Trying to make things simple and usable, but ending up at the bottom of a rabbit hole.

I keep wondering if this knowledge is still useful, or if ai generated code will just account for the quirks.

Somebody has to understand it well enough to advance the standards, right?

This is highly impressive from a technical standpoint. All back end tech you used to need in a server for now lives in your browser.

I see this as an example of being able to build complex apps in a browser, which are much more portable than system apps.

First, make me care 6 months ago

I can’t click on any links on pages (the header works).

Using brave on iPhone.

Firefox and Safari works…

We’re going to have AI building Drupal sites soon. The platform is well architected for this. Most of the work is generating configuration files that scaffold the site. There are already AI integrations for content. The surface area is relatively small, and the options are well defined in code and documentation. I would not be surprised if we pull this off first. It’s one of the current project initiatives.

The coding part is still a hard problem. AI for front end and module code is still pretty primitive. LLMs are getting more helpful with that over time.