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Has it gotten any better in the past 6 months on Mac (UI glitches, password management)?

I really want to use it but basic things like password management kept breaking (I even tried switching between different options, like BitWarden - no luck).

I think "through writing" / "write to think/feel" a lot (usually in a mix of 1st/2nd person, 5-6 pages of text per day on avg.). Think: stream-of-consciousness writing, journaling, but also just keeping a screen with disappearing text notes at hand (append-only) where I ramble.

That being said, not many things can compete with talking at your dog for an hour or so.

Another meaning that is becoming more common, esp. among gen-z/booktok folks: overly verbose/poorly structured/flat writing. The example being Duma's Count Monte Cristo.

Yes, although I don't think this effort is futile as you seem to be implying.

A more interesting question is how much effort we're willing to put into making those choices. My answer was posting here and doing a bit of research. Maybe I'll stick with Mullvad for the time being, maybe I won't and I'll help a few people make the same choice. It's better than shrugging and being defeatist, cynicism is cheap.

(Adobe subs weren't https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/alternatives-to-adobe/)

Asking for a friend, who is in a somewhat similar predicament — it wasn’t Portugal, was it?

Might be useful: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/natural-gradients-in-css/

Irony deficiency

OK, I'll clean it up and post it in a few days

The lack of colour is actually quite cool (and it’s a fun creative constraint). But the lack of backlight and usb (iirc) is annoying. The first because you can’t use it in bed and I like to play something cosy/silly in low light (https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/obsidian-for-vampires/).

The second - because now I need a companion app/script to handle comms over WiFi (bonjour). You can use cable, but if I could pair this with my phone… as a personal assistant - that would be amazing!

I mean it's 100-160 mHz CPU, 16 MB RAM, 4 GB storage -- you could run diablo 1 on it!

Playdate (the came console) is amazing for this! I was really bored once and built a Claude Code remote control for Playdate.

Voice recognition was done via parrot + handy.computer Basically: different key combos were tied to different actions, e.g. \

    - hold A to speak
    - move the crank slowly to navigate
    - crank super fast to send the prompt

(I can share the source -- just let me know if this is actually useful)

Also, I feel like the author and me have similar hobbies. A few years back I almost won a (re-sellable on Ebay) award for https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io !

(I lost to a gallery of 3d sandwiches)

A wooden / e-ink version of enso.sonnet.io (working title "writer's log" or "writer's block")

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In my experience (PDF contract sent by a house seller), copy paste was broken.

That said, after 15 minutes of gently massaging the PDF with claude, it was pretty easy to drop the substitutions and restore the original text.

Greg! I love this!!! Just last night I was trying to rewatch the x-files and was telling Luna that I would need to get a TV filter/shader/overlay thingy to see it the way it was meant to be seen.

You mind reader you

The cost is your attention, your mental health, as well as buying things you didn’t know you needed or didn’t know you didn’t need. It’s not a level playing field.

Thanks!

Just checked their site, but I don't see "jump to a tmux pane / browser tab" in the features there...

WM psychosis time:

My current "WM workflow"/window management keyboard shortcuts is:

    neovim → tmux → Ghostty → Rectangle → OS

    so moving to the left window/pane is (depending on the "nesting level"):

    ctrl+h, ctrl+a + {number}, cmd + [, option-ctrl-left, ??

A global fzf / rectangle / alfred shortcut for all "windows and panes" would be great.

Unfortunately, at this stage, my overthinking/poor ux induced psychosis reached the point where I control Claude using voice and a Playdate console with a crank and I'm day dreaming about just looking at the pane I need and making a click sound with my mouth to select it (like Neddy in Adventure time).

Is it different from Rectangle? (I've been using it for ages)

Forums, engaging with people directly still works!

And between ads, cookie popups, newsletter popups, notification permission popups, websites with a high Time to First Byte, and all the useless filler around the content, websites are a nightmare to browse

Yes, but most of these things are results of adtech having so much impact on the web/how we publish/consume/get paid for the content we create. I'm a bit bitter/sad about this.

I’m working on one! It’s early stage, but it’s relatively low latency e paper writing tool with my writing tool Ensō.

I’m calling it Writer’s Block. (I love carpentry and want it to look a bit like a wooden pencil case.) the prototype will be a literal log of wood (guess the name). It makes sense because the larger form factor allows for faster prototyping!

Ha, my almost neighbour from Kraków (from the times I still lived there)!

Artificial Intelligence, Actual Intelligence, Artificial Intelligentsia - I’d argue that one of them is not real.

I’m of a similar opinion, Lynch created a better depiction of it in twin peaks season 3.

My version of your list: Excalidraw, Git, Ollama/rarely Claude Code, Handy.computer, Obsidian Clipper

Making a proper product page for my stream of consciousness writing tool Ensō (preview.enso.sonnet.io)

(I’ve been procrastinating on marketing basics for seven years, so it’s… fun but still intimidating :) )

Hm, for this - yes I think it would make sense. That being said there are libraries that apply proper dithering without relying on SVG filters.

Also, I haven't tested this with canvas which I imagine would be much more consistent.

If I were to do this... more seriously, I'd keep some parameters exposed in the shortcode/component rendering the dithered images (or data-attrs) so that I could fine-tune them on a case-per-case basis. (I originally wanted to replace the bio photos on my site, like this one https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/wislawa-szymborska/)

There's a ton of articles about this but for something more fun and even better looking I recommend the Coding Train video on Weighted Voronoi Stippling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxdt6T_1qgc

I’ve messed with a similar idea here: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/just-some-innocent-gradient...

(The linked web app doesn’t work on mobile in portrait mode, sorry!)

The biggest issue with this trick is that different engines calculate the filters differently, thus turning an okay-ish image into something that looks like a glitch.

I can finally use this little brain worm that has lived in my head for more than a decade now: IcedCoffeeScript has existed for ages https://maxtaco.github.io/coffee-script/ since well before ES got it.