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Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by emptybits »

esskay wrote: post #34
louthy wrote: post #33

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Sure, but getting the right environment is a prerequisite. In my case it’s a Herman Miller Embody chair [1] that stops me getting into a bad position (it’s not impossible, it just encourages good posture). [1] https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/office-c...

Totally a tangent here but it amazes me how a company as big as Herman Miller could screw a product page up so much by not even having a picture of the damn product.

Lol, I see the image fine but if I click the red "Buy Now" button, I get a 404.

Fortunately, I type this, sitting in my wonderful 15 year old Embody chair so I don't actually need to buy now. Everyone is different and I never raved much about Aerons but the Embody has been very good to me, whether my posture is textbook "good" or "badly" slouched and reclined ... it supports and makes me want to sit and work. :-)

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by PlatoIsADisease »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #130
borzi wrote: post #88

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Great contrarian indicator for when people say that vibe coding is not "real development work" or economically viable/a job in the future - here is someone asking if another person can vibe code something for them that is single file of swift, the prompt could be as simple as "convert this to linux".

I don't think Linux has an equivalent of Apple's vision API, and if it does I guarantee it's not as robust and isn't baked-in to every Linux distro (the way Vision is baked-in to every Mac released after X date). That alone will likely prevent this from just being a "convert to Linux" vibe session ... which is unfortunate, as I would LOVE to have this on Linux.

Yep, this is the bottleneck. Otherwise I would have done the prompt myself.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by iwontberude »

oarfish wrote: post #138

I guess it's technically cool, but one should be aware that there is no such thing as "good posture" or no accepted definition that lends itself to good science. slouching isnt bad, remaining in the same posture for a long time is, or at least it can lead to discomfort. people that sit up straight all the time still get back pain. i slouch all the time and i don't. The popular attachment to specific configurationa of…

I spend most of my time at work on a medicine ball switching between switching, kneeling and standing. At home I switch between reclined, semi-reclined, upright and standing. I think its been working great.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by simsla »

avalys wrote: post #44

You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am. Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture? I’m doing nothing, maybe looking through System Preferences to change the system highlight color. Sliding down in my chair like jelly, with my shoulders where my butt should be and my head resting on the lumbar support? I’m building the next iPhone and it’ll be done by 2 AM.

This was me, and now I have horrific back pain almost every week. Fix what's broken before it breaks you.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by victor106 »

tjohnell wrote: post #119
rdslw wrote: post #62

Congrats on the app. I'm seeing that "great-ai-unlock" is happening. I see in last month a lot of new software being codeveloped with claude/codex/gemini/you-name it. Before, it was too costly to do sth like the Posture app: here, you would have to know Swift and apple apis to write such tool. Would you be C# (very good) programmer with free weekend, and an idea: no cookie for ya. These days, due to "great-ai-unlock"…

Thanks rdslw. I mentioned something similar on my blog post about this app here: https://tomjohnell.com/posturr-a-macos-app-that-blurs-your-s... I love coming up with fun ideas and only having to worry about the fun part - not the toil. I would never have made this app without llm support.

Neat app. Any tips on how you used Claude Code to develop this?

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by tom_ »

altern8 wrote: post #108
peesem wrote: post #94

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you have to go into your Privacy & Security settings and scroll down until you see something like "Posturr.app was blocked to protect your Mac." and then press "Open Anyway"

Ohhh... Thank you! Is this new? In previous version I could just right-click and it would open it.

Looks like this changed for Sequoia: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40616/15.0/...

And looks like Sonoma was the last version to support the right click menu: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40616/14.0/...

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by wowzaa »

jaccola wrote: post #124
avalys wrote: post #44

You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am. Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture? I’m doing nothing, maybe looking through System Preferences to change the system highlight color. Sliding down in my chair like jelly, with my shoulders where my butt should be and my head resting on the lumbar support? I’m building the next iPhone and it’ll be done by 2 AM.

Funny, I’m the same. I also like taking walks to think but I’ve found that I must have my head pointing almost directly down (I.e. looking at my feet). It’s also how I stand thinking in the shower, with the warm water hitting my angled neck. Maybe something beneficial about that position of the neck, or maybe just habit! I will also have conversations in my head during my walk, I’ve done this my whole life and I’m no…

In my case, though walks help declutter my mind somewhat, for deeper thoughts, I have to write it down sitting or laying in the bed in the worst of positions. Thinking too deeply while walking only leaves me anxious in the end as I tend to get sidetracked a lot in conversation and always have to restart the conversation over and over again.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

duckruu wrote: post #89
jasonjmcghee wrote: post #46

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Yeah- this and the upcoming steam frame seem like the best options today. There's something very attractive for me personally about the sunglasses form factor. Safer in public, draws less attention, more portable, less headset fatigue, etc. But obviously trading quality and features. Also AVP is like $3k, steam frame will probably be $800+, xreal are like half that

> But obviously trading quality and features. For me it’s like settling for a CRT after trying a 4k TV in terms of visuals, but with the form factors reversed.

Except the form factors are swapped, but yes.

Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Post by tjohnell »

victor106 wrote: post #145
tjohnell wrote: post #119

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Thanks rdslw. I mentioned something similar on my blog post about this app here: https://tomjohnell.com/posturr-a-macos-app-that-blurs-your-s... I love coming up with fun ideas and only having to worry about the fun part - not the toil. I would never have made this app without llm support.

Neat app. Any tips on how you used Claude Code to develop this?

My first prompt was:

"Help me develop a MacOS app that blurs my screen the closer my mouse is to the top of the monitor"

That was my PoC to see if there's APIs Claude could find that would make this easy to do. Once I proved that worked, I asked it to instead help me devise a way to adjust that blur based on my posture. It suggested the vision framework and measuring head height.

Just kept iterating, one step at a time. Any toil I experienced, I asked it to remove or automate.

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