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Re: Tldraw Computer

#111

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And ("vanilla") tldraw supports subpixel font rendering, unlike most of their competition (for example excalidraw or Miro).

How?

In tldraw the text is always in the DOM, so the browser can use your native font rendering (for example ClearType on Windows). In Excalidraw the text is only in the DOM while you're editing it.

Re: Tldraw Computer

#112
post #92

Looks like an interesting project for sure, but they make it really hard to try out. At first, this submission links to a blog post with information and in the middle, a bunch of demos laid out in a grid. I clicked on one of them, which took me to the actual app. When trying to click the button to generate something, it asks me to login/sigup. Fine, I signup. Then once finishing the sign up, I land on some sort of in…

I found the demos just under My Projects under the Examples section

And the rest of the blogpost/website? How can I access it without a private window? Seems gone

Re: Tldraw Computer

#113

First thought: “Pepe Silvia! Pepe Silvia! I got boxes of Pepe Silvia!” Second thought: is this meant to work in mobile as well or not really? Tried it on chrome IOS and could not move the tiles around.

Yeah mobile touch on the text editors isn’t working right and I couldn’t figure it out. But I will figure it out!

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#114
Anyone else experiencing projects reverting back to their default state? I'm not sure if this is just after publishing... two of the cool things I did yesterday (including one linked here) were wiped out today and simply show the default new project.

Re: Tldraw Computer

#115
post #107

This has been the best UI for my kids to get excited about AI and simple visual programming, they're having tonnes of fun playing around and creating cool image workflows with it.

So cool to hear how many folks are using this with their kids! My own 6yo got it right away when I was prototyping this and that was huge validation. (She quickly moved on to drawing the whole graph herself, combining images etc)

Re: Tldraw Computer

#116
post #31

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File > New Shared Project -- and your problem is solved. Remember to bookmark your work, since there is no login/account/automatic storage.

Well they should add accounts to the main product soon! (Even if yes, it is a demo and not a technical product, the dev package is.)

We will be!

Re: Tldraw Computer

#117

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So sorry Dustin. We'll have a new version of tldraw with user accounts in a few weeks that should improve things, but until then please no one clear your browser storage

a clear docstring would be great

That was fast. TLDraw now shows a dialog box clarifying project saving on first visit. Way to go!

Re: Tldraw Computer

#118

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Not immediately! This might turn out to be just a great demo, might be something worth continuing with, really depends on how the next few weeks go. Either way there might be something we can do with the developer community around data endpoints in the short term.

so exciting to see these ideas out in the world! i'm now imagining a Scratch-like playground for kids to explore end-user programming / AI in an accessible way, like some of the example apps you've shown there's been a rising tide of academic HCI work in a similar space, wonder if there will be cross-pollination of ideas along these lines (many more papers i'm sure but some off the top of my head): https://arxiv.org/…

Thanks for the links!

I should really share the design doc from when we started putting this together. The core idea here was a) making a little hobby machine on the canvas and b) using LLMs to “power” the widgets. Somehow that ended up looping back to “ai workflows” but definitely not where we started. I’m only catching up on the space now!

Re: Tldraw Computer

#119
post #92

Looks like an interesting project for sure, but they make it really hard to try out. At first, this submission links to a blog post with information and in the middle, a bunch of demos laid out in a grid. I clicked on one of them, which took me to the actual app. When trying to click the button to generate something, it asks me to login/sigup. Fine, I signup. Then once finishing the sign up, I land on some sort of in…

That redirect is a bug for sure, thanks for pointing it out. We have all those examples on the index page for logged in users but I can see how it would seem like they’d disappeared.

Re: Tldraw Computer

#120
post #110

After reading the blog post, I don’t really understand what this is. The blog post seems to go out of its way to only make allusions and not explain what this actually is and does.

Seems to be a node-based LLM-powered "computer". IMO the paradigm seems quite powerful.

The video on their homepage gives a good idea of how it will work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1016UnJIgA

My only refrain would be that it uses Google's Gemini, a very poor choice of an AI model collection.

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