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14 Aug

Accessibility question: I rely on text-to-speech, but the Claude CLI's formatted output breaks my native TTS, and turning on plain-text mode strips all the visual structure. Anyone built a dyslexia-friendly wrapper that keeps the formatting on screen but pipes clean text to TTS?

25 June

I was job hunting recently, and one thing kept surprising me how many teams still build interactive prototypes in Figma. It became an early flag to watch out for in identifying teams that wouldn't be a good fit.

The problem is interactive demos. The second you prototype interaction in Figma, you're either doing the work twice or fighting messy cross-platform syncing to keep design and code from drifting apart, and fighting with their MCP tends to create more problems than progress.

25 June

So for me, code as the medium you design in feels more functional, but I'm curious how others are using non-code native design platforms in their own personal or team workflows.

The line between design and engineering has collapsed, and the designers who can express ideas in the medium they ship in are going to run circles around the ones tossing static files over a wall.

25 June

I'm not anti-Figma, to be clear. As a canvas for early scoping and exploring a vibe, it's great. That's the job it's actually good at for my own workflow, although Magicpath is starting to be my go-to for vibing in a canvas environment.

The friction to me came from how Figma gives you a dead artifact. It looks right, but it doesn't do anything and then someone has to translate the whole thing into code before it's real. That's just duplicating the work needed to ship.

10 June

AI tools really need to double down on system design. I know the pace of change is fast, but damn, the rate at which features move or are removed is wild.

5 June

why don't all headphones have a mute button?

19 May

I'm finding that I wish conversation threads in LLM tools worked more like tabs in arc, and just auto deleted after say 3 days.

19 May

I rarely go back to past chats and find that I will just ask a similar question a second time because in all likelihood the answer will be better the second time.

12 May

Anyone else noticing that search engine results are increasingly terrible?

Mirroring code-switching -- side-by-side reading was thinking more of each pair of book pages being connected. I was able to get into a good flow, but maybe the English should only be visible on highlight.

Mirroring code-switching on hover.

Interlinear code-switching -- more fully translation-focused, seeing both languages at the same time. When trying it, I find I need to focus more on not defaulting to the English, which feels like cheating.

Progressive code-switching -- translation progressed in complexity based on word frequency and book length. This still feels like the most appealing learning curve when trying it.

21 Apr

Strange Harvests has been a wild collection of rabbit holes. Would recommend.

20 Apr

石の上にも三年 (ishi no ue ni mo sannen) Stick with things even when they’re uncomfortable; steady patience turns “this kinda sucks” into real progress with habits, skills, or long-term projects.

19 Apr

Anyone come across research on Variation Theory for dyslexic learners?

7 Apr

Been thinking a lot about interfaces that promote learning in new ways what if you started reading a book in one language and finished it in another?

7 Apr

Not a perfect 1:1 translation, but a gradual introduction of a new language through inline context. Like how friends in college would seamlessly switch between multiple languages mid-conversation.

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7 Apr

202603 - How to use AI Updated my workflow for feature and v0 product creation. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/how...

3 Apr

just noticed that Mac Pro is gone rip

3 Apr

Starting to play with github.com/collaborato... its one the nicer solutions I have found for tracking agents across multiple projects at once.

2 Apr

love how old school html pages feels almost impossiably fast, modern web stack are so heavy 😅

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1 Apr

I have been finding the discussions around design being "cooked" with recent AI model changes to be a little exaggerated. Curiouse if this resonate with others. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/des...

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1 Apr

friendly reminder space things are happening today 🚀🌕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr4t...

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31 Mar

Looking for 30 people to test tiny.garden. If you ever used small victories back in the day this is very much similar but instead of dropbox for now its all based on are.na channels.

tiny.gardentiny.gardenTurn Are.na channels into websites

31 Mar

tiny.garden is ready for testing! If you have an arena channel you want to make into a mini website give it a try and lmk what could work better!

26 Mar

😱 me frantically trying to find an outlet before the agents loose power.

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Hannah Tardie

@delay7.bsky.social

24 Mar

The electronics faire schedule (keynote, workshops, and more) is now live! Excellent time for a visit to Philly <3 sites.temple.edu/efaire/sched...

25 Mar

Claude helping me clean up years of inconsistent front matter properties in Obsidian!

20 Mar

Trying to incorporate more natural systems thinking into my work. And realize there's a lot of functionality in using a tree ring to visualize data overtime.

dendrocode.vercel.appDendrocode — Tree rings for your code

23 Mar

Still playing with this idea but you can make one at dendrocode.vercel.app (still dealing with some github api rate limits but if you sign in it shouldn't be an issue.)

17 Mar

does anyone use or want a tea tracker? I'm thinking like post.cv but for a tea community.

16 Mar

Hot take: "thinking" isn't the right word for what LLMs do. Humans think. Models reason. He feels important that we keep these two things separate until machines do actually think.

6 Mar

Any scientists using Cursor for their work? I’d love to talk with any scientists using Cursor about an MCP service I’ve been working on. DM me please!

24 Feb

Sometimes I wonder how my plants feel about me drinking tea in front them.

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23 Feb

Over-applying LLMs is like driving to the corner store: you spend longer parking than walking. They’re great for teaching and cold starts, less great as an unmonitored end-to-end pipeline. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/whe...

20 Feb

Would be cool if Cursor's .md preview was a TipTap-style rich text editor. I always get a little frustrated when I try to edit the preview and it just opens the raw markdown instead.

20 Feb

After a few weeks with Claude Cowork, I've landed on three patterns that changed how I work: solving the cold start problem, building to learn instead of reading docs, and rapid visual exploration at scale. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/tho...

19 Feb

It's pretty wild how much I have learned in the last year just by talking to cursor.

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18 Feb

We have protocols for giving agents tools (MCP). We have protocols for giving agents tasks (A2A). What we don't have is a protocol for giving agents presence. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/obs...

17 Feb

Noticed a drone pod on the roof of my local fire department and got curious. No public flight logs from SFFD yet, but SFPD is required to log all drone flights and retain records for two years. #crafted-with-cursor

sfpd-suav-history.vercel.appSFPD Drone Flight Logs | MapMap of San Francisco Police Department small Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (sUAS) flight logs from DataSF.

17 Feb

The data isn't as detailed as I'd hoped (no flight paths to visualize), but it's enough to explore basic maps and clustering of where most flights are happening. sfpd-suav-history.vercel.app/

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Dan Hon

@danhon.com

16 Feb

"The chatbot is in the desert and dying. Why are you crying and helping it?"

Dan Hon@danhon.com

A sort of inverse Voigt-Kampff test that you can use to identify people who are fooled by chatbots.