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Releasing 3.3.0 version of my Video Hub App - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/ & https://videohubapp.com - 8+ years of development! Working on 1.0.0 of Simple Image Brows…

Plant(ing) related: I planted 100 trees in my tiny back yard, creating a pocket forest / Miyawaki forest - a technique encouraging fast growth through dense planting (3-5 trees / s…

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…

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.science…

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 Fil…

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 f…

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 in…

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…

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 t…

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 i…

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 sou…

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…

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 peo…

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 (opt…

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/g…