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Is it open source? They mention something about the Apache License but I can't seem to find a link to GitHub or something.

Stupid question, but what are trackers?

Also reminds me of the work by Adam Magyar, high-speed filming of people as the train arrives:

https://vimeo.com/123336197

https://www.magyaradam.com/wp/?page_id=596

Key quote:

“When we started the log analysis, we first used frontier models behind commercial APIs. This did not work: the analysis requires submitting large volumes of real attack commands, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts, and these requests were blocked by the providers' safety guardrails, which cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker.“

I keep being surprised of what you can use/abuse the terminal for...

Hey, cool, that's using my library: https://opentype.js.org/

It's nice to see it pop up in so many places!

This came from a piece by Margaret-Anne Storey on "cognitive debt", picked up by @simonw, and which I personally also encountered. While building a synth engine from scratch, I kinda lost the plot. Then I let Claude document each "phase", and from that I generated Remotion videos. It worked quite well, and I learned a lot, much more than I would have from just reading the source code!

Code for synth and Remotion setup is open source: https://github.com/fdb/vamos

It's on Lovable so you can just fork it and take a look (the prompt is in supabase/functions/transform-render/index.ts):

Transform this idealized architectural rendering into the most brutally realistic, depressing photograph possible. This is the WORST CASE scenario - what the building will actually look like in reality:

- Set on a dreary, grey, overcast late November day with flat, lifeless lighting - The sky is a uniform dirty grey, threatening rain - All trees are completely bare - just skeletal branches against the grey sky - The landscaping is dead, muddy, or non-existent. No lush gardens, just patchy brown grass and bare dirt - Remove ALL people, the scene should feel empty and abandoned - Any water features should look stagnant and grey - Add realistic weathering, dirt streaks, and construction residue on the building - The building materials should look how they actually appear, not the idealized clean version - Include visible utility boxes, drainage grates, and other mundane infrastructure usually hidden in renders - The overall mood should be bleak but realistic - this is what buyers will actually see on a random Tuesday in late autumn - Maintain the exact building, angle, and composition, just strip away all the marketing polish

The goal is honest truth, not beauty. Show what the architect's client will actually see when they visit the site.

A great podcast about this is “If Books Could Kill”, where they critique these type of self-help books.

Hmm, it seems Claude Research is only available for the Max plan:

> Research is now available in early beta for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans in the United States, Japan, and Brazil. Simply toggle on the Research setting in chat.

Janelle Shane’s work has been really inspiring. Her talk at Strange Loop from a couple of years ago — right before DALL-E, before ChatGPT — was a turning point, and very funny:

https://youtu.be/yneJIxOdMX4?feature=shared

Which treadmill do you have?

As a HyperCard fan I was struck by this quote from Bill Atkinson:

“I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard,” he said from his studio in Menlo Park, California. “I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I’d grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.”

Same here. I observed it making up functions in d3 (`d3.geoProjectionRaw` and `d3.geoVisible`), in addition to ignoring functions it could have used.