yboris

I'm a huge fan of Positive Psychology and have read dozens of books (by Ph.D researchers of the subject).

My favorite academic summary is The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being by Michael A. Bishop. As a hyper-short summary: psychologists studying well being have used different definitions and approaches, yet what unifies them is positive feedback loops - behaviors and activities that beget more positive affect in the future. Think spending time with good friends, etc.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22897962-the-good-life

A classic read is Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. It shows how humans are systematically bad at predicting to what extent future events will make them happier or sad. His TED talk is a nice 20 minute summary of the book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56627.Stumbling_on_Happi...

I love your posts! The Social Filesystem is amazing!

https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/

A classic paper worth a read:

If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right

by Elizabeth Dunn, Daniel Gilbert, & Timothy D. Wilson

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10577...

Includes explicit recommendations (even in the short abstract)!

Related: Movie Print - make screenshots from your movies (with numerous options including facial recognition)

https://www.movieprint.org/

Meta: why are the scrollbars hidden / invisible? Awful UX :(

Video Hub App - 8th year update: browse, search, tag, rate, enjoy your large video collection! https://videohubapp.com/en/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/

Simplest File Renamer - just ported from Electron (130m install) to Tauri (3mb install) - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer

Simple Image Browser - browse your images in style (on PC, Win, Linux, and tablet /phone) https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser

Please normalize 4DWW - Four Day Work Week.

Whoever posts this monthly, please include the tag in your description. Employers need to know this is an in-demand feature we want. I for one will not be taking any non-4DWW jobs.

Super relevant: Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked? by Douglas Husak

One of my favorite philosophy papers. The author argues that because of the high crash incompatibility of SUVs, they are immoral - imposing needless harm on others. It's also ironic that on average, there is no net safety benefit to those who drive them -- because of higher rollover risks!

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23562447

Why are people parroting this meme?

For 8 years now, constantly updating to newest Electron, my Electron app has been using only about 150mb of RAM - (see Video Hub App)

JPEG XL aka .jxl is now supported by Firefox 152 and Chrome since 145 (behind a flag though on both).

JXL is the best image format we have - supports lossy and lossless compression, HDR, and much more!

https://jpegxl.info/

I have gone full "pocket forest" / Miyawaki Forest - planted 100 trees in my tiny back yard.

Technique developed by the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki: planting seedlings close together makes them compete for sunlight, thus growing tall quickly. Get a forest in under a decade!

https://www.creatingtomorrowsforests.co.uk/blog/the-miyawaki...

I heard in Germany when a vehicle is being inspected (yearly?) the headlights' angles are checked to not be beaming into oncoming traffic. Feels like useful regulation to include in every country.

I have blue eyes, it hurts to drive at night.

Weird they don't name Jon Sneyers - a person pivotal in creation of JPEG XL

Here's a blog post by him: https://cloudinary.com/blog/2026-the-year-of-jpeg-xl

Relevant write up about this: https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/google-mosquitoes

Google Mosquitoes - Debugging Florida

For piano, look at Pianoteq - 50MB of math code that simulates $100k+ pianos, letting you adjust and fine-tune numerous parameters (lid position, microphone placement, etc), no sound-banks used! https://www.modartt.com/

Please consider adding a screenshot directly into the README (rather than a separate link).

Also maybe a single paragraph at the top describing the project rather than jumping into `install`.

I've wanted to code a VR game for juggling but never found time for it.

Feels like it would be super-easy-to-code and probably would be lucrative. Implement "slow down time" so people can practice juggling in slow motion, add some other features like catch radius and bias towards consistent height of throws and you've got a great game!

My 8-year-old video browser software Video Hub App - shows thumbnails from video as you hover with your mouse. Working on adding minor improvements before I finally get to the (optional) facial recognition "search by face similarity" feature.

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

https://videohubapp.com/

Related: my favorite viewer is diff2html-cli which lets you see the diff in your browser:

https://diff2html.xyz/

I ported my favorite pre-2000 game into LÖVE -- was easy and fun

Gravity Wars - turn based artillery game in space (planets' gravity affect shot path)

https://github.com/whyboris/gravity-wars

I had someone steal my MIT open source software (that I sell for $5) and they are selling it for $11 or more. My software is 8+ years old; they are lying to the customers that they have been developing theirs for years. Very frustrating.

mine: https://videohubapp.com/

my GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

grifter: https://videocliplibrary.com/

JPEG XL is a superior replacement for JPEG. It is better in basically every way to JPEG.

TIL: JPEG XS - an image and video codec that offers both visually and mathematically lossless quality for low latency implementations.

Additionally, JPEG XS compressed content is indistinguishable from the original uncompressed content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XS

Got delayed on my 8th anniversary release of Video Hub App - hoping to get it out in March / April. I have some bug fixes and new features in my app for browsing and organizing video files across local and network drives.

https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Sortition may be what you're looking for: "sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample". No one can amass power because it's short term and random.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Link to save you time searching: https://www.retroarch.com/

Link for faster results: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

Thank you for the link. Great to see this news already spread to HN!

Walden Two is one hidden gem! I love this book.

REQUEST to include the 4DWW (Four Day Work Week) tag & text in the description to provide a clear signal to companies that workers are yearning for it.