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Re:Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:54PM (#49114123)
Exactly, thats what makes it work with FUTO stt!
Re:Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:39AM (#49106414)
For now I didn't find anything that really works better than using termux on android or echo on ipad, ssh into my desktop with tailscale where I have a tmux session I can attach to. "Input" seems to be the biggest struggle for me versus a normal desktop+keyboard setup. On ipad I use a nuphy bluetooth keyboard which works pretty well and on android I use FUTO Keyboard with voice input.

Overall I think I don't even want to start coding too much on the go with a setup like this but it's nice to have options :)

Great post with some nice insights I could've used a few days ago!

I was trying to create a simple "mascot logo" for my pet project. I first created an account on Kittl [0] and even paid for one month but it was quite cumbersome to generate images until I figured out I could just use the nano banana api myself.

Took me 4 prompts to ai-slop a small python script I could run with uv that would generate me a specified amount of images with a given prompt (where I discovered some of the insight the author shows in their post). The resulting logo [1] was pretty much what I imagined. I manually added some text and played around with hue/saturation in Kittl (since I already paid for it :)) et voilà.

Feeding back the logo to iterate over it worked pretty nicely and it even spit out an "abstract version" [2] of the logo for favicons and stuff without a lot of effort.

All in all this took me 2 hours and around 2$ (excluding the 1 month Kittl subscription) and I would've never been able to draw something like that in Illustrator or similar.

[0] https://www.kittl.com/ [1] https://github.com/sidneywidmer/yass/blob/master/client/publ... [2] https://github.com/sidneywidmer/yass/blob/master/client/publ...

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:59AM (#45873967)
Just launched the beta of Yass - an open source Kotlin implementation of the Swiss national card game.

https://play.yass.gg/

Re:Swiss voters back e-ID legislation on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @05:00AM (#45423426)
Apparently the team is actively working on a solution to allow for rooted phones (just shows you a warning) and alternative stores.

I was really torn on what to vote but went for a yes in the end - only time will tell if and how this will be abused.

https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch/eidch-android-wallet/issue...

Re:IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:16AM (#42681550)
This is a fun one to look at: https://www.desktopmasters.com/ I love how the download for Java still links to JDK7 :)
Re:High School Student's First App – NWS Weather Report on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:08AM (#42304611)
I really like the effort they put into the user manual [1]

[1] https://weatherreportnow.com/weather-report-manual.pdf

It seems like there's a little pay to win even in a simple game like 2048 nowadays :)
Re:Command Line Tools I Like (2022) on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:35AM (#41798186)
I always try to predict what tools are mentioned in these posts and this time I was pretty close to get them all :)

I recently started using forgit and find it really usefull without having to change my workflow too much.

And instead of tldr i just do `curl cheat.sh/tar`

I'm in the same boat as you and after 15 years of coding I finally switched to the US layout 3 weeks ago. Got a Wooting 60HE and installed the EuroKey layout and so far I'm super happy about the switch and many default shortcuts make a lot more sense (e.g. no more acrobatics needed for ctrl+b+[ to enter tmux copy mode).

The first few days are a little rough to unlearn all the muscle memory but I found this neat site to practice typing with your own public gists: https://www.codetyper.io/