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Thanks duder! It's a fun project.

I've been working on a fairly complicated real-time app [0] for playing dungeons and dragons on a TV. It has to do a lot of complicated "Figma-like" things to keep the real-time na…

I mostly share Josh's opinion, but I think a lot of these posts that talk about Senior vs. Junior experience when working with AIs is kind of rubbish. Sure, you get better results …

> Guitars are not about aesthetics My wife used to work at Acoustic Guitar magazine. She said the most common sales line to sell a guitar at Guitar Center was "it looks good on you…

Gift link. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/andreessen-hor...

Counter Slayer uses the same UI library I hand built for Table Slayer[0], so it was a little easier for me to get that one going. I used to run design for Elastic, and built their …

This is why I'm so thankful I went with Lucia early. They sort of sunset their library and replaced it with documentation (and some small utilities) for how to manage and host auth…

The NYTimes did a nice write-up about how The Giving Pledge is dropping out of vogue. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/business/the-billionaire-...

Stores are now putting QR codes for pricing, not listing the prices out on stickers/paper. You check on your phone, and often times walk through "scan and go" making direct payment…

I find this essay from Roger Ebert pretty wild in context of the times. I always think about it whenever I listen to the latest advances in AI voice technology.

Hey, I'm the OP. I originally started with FreeCAD. There's not much to "hook up" to Claude. It can natively write for FreeCAD. You don't need to use the FreeCAD editor and can poi…

I'm building two things, both game related. Over the last year I've been hacking on Table Slayer [0] a web tool for projecting DnD maps on purpose built TV-in-table setups. Right n…

I have 2012 Sonos hardware. You can still get the original Sonos S1 controller, which works with old stuff. It's pretty annoying that all the new stuff is S2 (and that app is bette…

Yep. That's what IR frames do, and that's exactly the problem. What I've built actually works really well, it's just hard to justify that pricing.

There are so many kiosks out there though. It's more that I think because it's a commercial audience, the pricing hasn't reached down too much. All that said, it's still odd there'…

One place where "TVs" still remain fairly expensive is in large format touch screens. Outside of using IR frames, getting a large (40 inch) touch capacitive display still requires …

Fun anecdote time. I worked on (and very briefly ran) MP3.com after the CNET acquisition of the domain (CNET only bought the domain, which I think was for $1 million). It had nothi…

Hey all. I've spent the bulk of 2025 fiddling with Table Slayer, a virtual table top specific to in person play with a television. Although there are plenty of options for playing …

Small note that a lot of these tool makers allow sponsorship on GitHub. I use bat / fd almost every day. Happy to support https://github.com/sponsors/sharkdp#sponsors