phren0logy

I don't use Blender, so my admiration is from a distance but: Wow - what an impressive project. At least if I understand it correctly, this is a real pro-level piece of free and open software that's equivalent to thousands and thousands of dollars in closed-source commercial software.

What Apple laptop has “jet-engine fan noise”?

Is it really? A 9B model is equivalent? Honest question, as I haven't spent that much time with the 9B variant or Flash 2.5. But that seems like a pretty bold claim for such a small model. I assumed Flash 2.5 was considerably larger, but maybe I'm wrong?

Same, but the front is important for airflow in the Framework Desktop, so I don't think covering it with an e-ink screen would work. But maybe with some space between the screen and the fan intake?

Every time I see the word “admits” in a headline, I skip the article.

If this appeals to you, also check out the Plotter Art subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/

In my opinion - not yet. The local models are getting better all the time, but still aren't quite reliable enough. Also, hardware prices are absurd right now. Once the hardware market settles down and there's a little more progress on local models, maybe in a year or two, I expect things will be a bit different.

I'm running a Strix Halo with 128GB of RAM. It's fun to play with, but the real frontier models are just way better.

I was disappointed when this was not the command line prompt library

If you use Omarchy, the 3.8 update includes dynamic theming for Zed. It's very cool: https://github.com/APS6/omazed

Are you using that cmarker commonmark Typst package? Is it good?

https://typst.app/universe/package/cmarker/

I would think you could use this model inside of Presidio, right?

No, they don't, but I'd still take OmniWM over not having it.

If that’s all it took to deter you that thoroughly, I think you can confidently say that you are outside of the target market. Which is 100% OK!

If you are on a Mac, check out OmniWM, which has a Niri layout, in addition to one that's more like Hyprland. It has made my work on MacOS much more pleasant.

https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM

I posted about it a bit ago when I just started using it, and it's been really great. Highly recommended.

Are they zom-bees?

Having been ruined by Linux options like Hyperland and Niri, I’m digging my early foray into OmniWM - https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM

I am disappointed at the amount of negativity here. HN generally loves an experimental domain-specific language, no matter how janky. To be clear, I don't know if this is janky, but the knee-jerk anti-AI sentiment is not intellectually stimulating.

RIP Popular Mechanics

I'm not a coder, I'm a medical doctor. I see some interesting parallels in how medical students sort themselves into specialties by cognitive style to this new rift in programming with LLMs.

Some people like the deep work, some like managing a steady rain of chaos. There's no one right answer. But I'll tell you that my classmates who are happy as nephrologists are very different to the ones that are happy as transplant surgeons.

I tried it out a bit. Like SQLite, it can be used as an embedded db in a flat file. It will be interesting to see what Apple does with it. Their blog had some great examples using BAML.

Compared to what?

Most of this hype appears to be coming from grifters who aren't actually connected to the project. So, it's there, but not the fault of the people doing the work.

This has come up in a few recent statements by the project lead, including scammy memecoins and name-sniping. One source:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/clawdbot_moltbot_secu...

Gas Town has a very clear "mad scientist/performance art" sort of thing going on, and I love that. It's taking a premise way past its logical conclusion, and I think that's fun to watch.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that Yegge is proposing it as a serious tool for serious work, so why all the hate?

Still a compelling value. I keep eyeing it to see if I should switch from 1Password, but I also worry about the complexity of transitioning the whole family over.

I enjoy reading this the same way I enjoy reading "Boatmurdered" - https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Bloodline:Boatmurder...

I think I'll hold off before jumping in, but it's fun to watch from the sidelines.

I had plenty of oral exams throughout my education and training. It's interesting to see their resurgence, and easy to understand the appeal. If they can be done rigorously and fairly (no easy thing), then they go much further than multiple can in demonstrating understanding of concepts. But, they are inherently more stressful. I agree with the article that the increased pressure is a feature, not a bug. It's much more real-world for many kinds of knowledge.

I tried a number of distros and settled on Omarchy because it has a coherent design and nice aesthetics, but it has some weird quirks about messing with my dotfiles on updates. It's so new I suspect this will be ironed out soon.

The recent direction of MacOS has been a good excuse to try out a few new linux distros. As someone who was away from linux for a while, the degree of UI customization continues to be both amazing and a little overwhelming, but it feels more polished than before. Taking a look at Niri and hyperland, it's hard to feel satisfied with the UI of MacOS.

Heads up - there are a couple of screenshots in this repo, but no code. This is not an open source project. Cool idea, though.

Thanks for sharing, and am always interested in more Nigerian culture since reading Rosewater.