miguel-muniz

This seems to suffer from what a lot of vibe coded projects suffer from, which is just a whole lot of unnecessary text everywhere. I find one shot outputs always have a lot of jargon, extra "micro copy" and displays the same information multiple times in multiple places. It makes it difficult at a glance to understand what you're looking at.

I'm not sure what in the training set causes the models to do this, even in my own experience I'll be specific about the feature I'm building and the model will add an unnecessary status message for no reason.

I was also very confused. I started a medium puzzle and was immediately thrown off by the borders. Thicker borders are usually every 5 cells, but here it looks like they've been added just to equally divide the puzzle into 3 chunks.

Missing small details like these makes it fall into the uncanny valley. It looks like a typical puzzle on the surface but when you try to solve it all the mistakes stick out.

I have a similar complaint every AI chat product I've used. There's no way to multi-select conversations and delete them in a single action. It's either delete all or click on the delete button and confirm for every single one.

With many leaders in tech claiming that AI agents have drastically reduced the time and cost of shipping features, how do such small usability problems still not get fixed after years?

I had an "oh shit" moment when I used the computer use feature in Codex. There's something eerie about how it can completely control applications in the background with it's own dedicated mouse cursor. Now it can even do it while the computer is locked. Makes me feel like an alien intruding on very own computer, it's Codex's now.

I think it's a damn shame we finally have the technology to make really good small computers but the consumer demand for small computers is gone.

A lot of those behaviors aren't their decisions, they're specs from the W3C[1]. The tab behavior may be an oversight though, the W3C page specifies subsequent tab presses should move the focus outside of the tab list, but it could also be an exception. I'm not an expert but sometimes there are exceptions made due to the realities that operating systems, browsers, and screen readers all have varying degrees of support for accessibility features. Accessibility is a very deep rabbit hole, which is why these kind of libraries are popular in the first place.

[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/toolbar/

[2] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/tabs/

We've been in a vicious cycle where advertising has gotten less lucrative for websites, so websites start pushing more ads, which makes the websites less desirable to browse, which means less traffic, and the cycle continues with more ads.

It's no wonder LLMs are the new search, the user experience is much better and you get an answer that is "good enough".

Now any website that doesn't feel hostile requires you to download an app, log in with an account, or sign up for a subscription. Much like how streaming has had repercussions on traditional cable, AI will have repercussions on how we traditionally expect the web to function.

We've taken the open internet for granted.

As much as I would like to use this, $7/month seems like a lot when Clip Studio Paint has similar 3D pose tools[1] and a marketplace full of free models/poses for $4.49/month. Plus you get an entire professional art program...

[1] https://www.clipstudio.net/en/characterart/#:~:text=Learn%20...

I've turned into a bit of a data hoarder lately, I have a folder with over 43k images. Finder and File Explorer both struggle to even open the folder and load all the thumbnails, but XnView MP can load the folder without much issues.

It's a shame the system file managers feel so ignored, I would love to manage collections of files and folders rather than putting all my data into dedicated black holes with better viewing features such as Raindrop.io, Apple Photos, and Eagle 4.

I've created a bookmarklet that just appends a date query string (?date=05112026) to my current tab's URL. My bookmark manager Raindrop will recognize this as a completely different page, so I can easily create a duplicate entries for the same page. I don't think many people mention it, but Raindrop creates archives of every entry, so I end up with sort of my own personal Wayback Machine. The author has successful thwarted me though.

https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

A similar project but this one works entirely in the browser and can connect to clients beyond your local network with "public" rooms

I do a bit of graphic design for friends and family and am more than willing to spend like up to $100 on a nice typeface from smaller creators. It's just unfortunate many professional typefaces from the big foundries will charge you thousands of dollars for an entire family with strict usage limits. Like I'm just trying to make some holiday cards...

I get that they're trying to make their ROI back from enterprise customers who can justify paying thousands a month for their specific corporate font, but I would like to see more personal use, project based pricing that's affordable for hobbyist use

TVs have just become a commodity, there's very little incentive for the technology to continue to get better. Everyone just competes on size and price, and every manufacturer has turned their TVs into marketing platforms. The state of the market is so sad.

Multiple thoughts on this:

1.0 Creating a software bundle is the expected play by a company that keeps trying to grow their subscription revenue, but lots of creators are fed up paying an arm and a leg for software they'll never own that they need to do their job. Canva turned a lot of heads and got new people into Affinity just by making it free, I would have liked to see Apple lead with the same pitch rather than make just another bundle.

2.0 I feel like this is a u-turn on what made buying Apple hardware so great. You paid a pretty penny for the hardware but you would get high quality software with more care and attention paid to it than their competitors. This has changed in recent years, with many of the iWork products languishing with only minor updates as the market has evolved towards simplified cloud-based tools. Although there's still free functionality and the subscription provides a more affordable way to get into their pro tools, I fear the free versions will become second-class.

2.1 The same has happened to their stance on advertising as well, with the App Store getting ads and Maps being next in line to get them too. Microsoft and Google are still much worse than Apple in this regard, but I thought they would hold out for much longer than cave to growing pressures to grow revenue.

3.0 I'm not a fan of putting generative AI as a selling point in a product called "creator studio". Many artists are against the usage for various reasons, and Apple has a long history of aligning themselves with creative individuals. Seems like a misunderstanding of what their audience would want.

4.0 No Garageband or iMovie feels like they've abandoned them. Which is a shame for tools that have started so many creator's careers. There's still a need for simplified tools for creators early in their careers or with simpler needs, something that CapCut has shown.

5.0 There's still gaps in their bundle. There's no software for UI design. I could see Apple acquiring Sketch, they would just need to reach feature parity with Figma. There's lots of organizations getting squeezed by Figma's enterprise contracts, and most product designers I know are already on Macs. There's also no drawing or animation software. I could see them acquiring the team behind Procreate and Procreate Dreams to fill it. That software already sells iPads, many artists have gotten their start with digital art with it. Another gap is publishing, although they could probably add functionality to Pages or buy Swift Publisher.

6.0 Who is this for? Every organization under the sun already pays for Office 365, and I've never known a designer who's used Pixelmator for their day to day work. Affinity felt like a much more compelling alternative to Adobe, and anyone with simple enough needs to use these tools is probably already using web-based tools on their Windows laptop. I suppose hobbyists, but I'm not sure if a subscription is compelling for them.

Every piece of presentation software will eventually flake out on you, I learned long ago that there should always be a plan B. I just make it a habit to always export my presentation as a PDF or PNGs so in the worst case, I can just open it up in Preview and flip through slides.

when you could just type a question into a chatbox and receive a well thought out, nuanced response instead of having to click into multiple ad-ridden, seo ""optimized"" websites just to find an answer isn't it obvious why one is winning over the other?

for many people, they just want an answer to their question. whatever means they get that answer doesn't really matter. the new trend of locking your website content behind a sign in wall or app download is only going push more people to chatbots.

I wish there were an offline environment like that built into firefox

Webmaker[1] isn't built in, but it does offer an offline code playground

[1] https://webmaker.app/

Back then i noticed something, it was quite tedious to easily sift and search through knives based on length, steel, brand, and what not to find the knife for me

A lot of hobbies have this same problem. Dunno why there isn't a self-host solution. Something like https://pcpartpicker.com/ but flexible to any type of product/community

Something else I wonder is how have we managed to convince generations that smoking is not only horrible to your health and frowned upon but alcohol is acceptable?

Don't know what happened with iOS 16, but Spotlight has been painfully slow. Results used to be nearly instant, now it can take 6+ seconds to show an app I searched for

+1 for News Explorer. Took a bit to configure, but I use it every day with no issues. Even use the Watch app sometimes

Base components are a pattern really only used by designers building UIs in Figma.

The idea is you create a "base" component (let's say a button), then create more components that wrap the base component and apply overrides on top (like a different background color). If you want to adjust the size of all your buttons, you edit the base component and your changes propagate to all the other components. [1]

This of course leads to a tangled mess of dependencies when you start building complex UIs in Figma, but it is the only way to make mass changes without having plug-ins automate it, or doing the tedious task of manually updating a bunch of components one by one.

[1] https://youtu.be/vVPSYSziRFY

To be fair, even smartphone apps these days will send you BS notifications.

Shopping apps will ping you throughout the day with "recommended" products, ride share apps will ask you to ride with them during the holidays, social apps will ask you to checkout the newest trend.

All sad attempts to get you to open their app. The worst is when apps don't even let you opt out, so you either get useful notifications and advertisements or nothing.

Hydration is a technique where the content is rendered server side then client side JS attaches the necessary event handlers to make the UI interactive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration_(web_development)

https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html

I've been using News Explorer and I've been pretty happy with it. There's no subscription and it even has a tvOS/watchOS app

I figured that industry would use Clip Studio Paint EX?

Teams has been an awful experience for me on MacOS:

1. There's plenty of times I open the app and just see a blank screen in the chat window, I have to click away or close the app to get it to work again

2. There was a weird issue where I would get access to their internal debugging menus

3. Sometimes I paste an image and the image disappears. I get an error that they "lost my image". I'm not even sure how that is possible

4. Sometimes a single message will completely fail to load. Just recently this even happened with a code snippet

5. Scrolling a conversation loads in messages too slowly, and if you scroll back all you see are placeholder messages. It makes trying to find something in an old conversation incredibly frustrating

6. I never found the search to produce useful results

I would take Slack over Teams any day. The only Microsoft software I like is VSCode

Has anyone here used Apple's built in Voice Control[1] feature in MacOS? I imagine having something built in the OS is better than third party software, but I haven't used any so I don't know

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210539

What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers?

It is incredibly difficult to build a web browser because of the sheer complexity and scope. You are essentially building an entire platform on the scale of an operating system that must support legacy features and behavior from decades ago. Users expect everything to just work, and if you can't make it work, then they have little incentive to use your product. Just ask Microsoft[0].

[0] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge/blob/7d69268e85e198c...

Fortunately a new generation of design tools are coming that are built on HTML/CSS renderers

These days I spend more time in browser devtools than Figma, and honestly I'd prefer a more visual way to edit code directly. Something like Webflow but without all the cruft behind it. Preferably built into devtools, maybe as an extension