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mobile
four design mockups of a music player mobile app. songs featured: Local (Girls like us) by underscores & gabby start, Taking over the Dancefloor by Nadia Oh, Infatuation by SOPHIE, and Guilty Pleasure by Chappell Roan. the album art is prominently featured and its dominant colors spill over the screen. there are lyrics and queue management views that allow other people in the same listening session as you to add comments to lyric lines and queue items. when listening with others, a capsule containing everyone's avatar appears as a sort of "balloon" attached to the playhead in the seek bar.
July 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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i'm still writing my text editor (really slowly)

today i got tree-sitter queries working and did a lot of boring API design for variable line height support, but now i can make `null` appear in 64pt Zapfino complete with a disgusting shadow
June 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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May 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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sidebar
a sidebar to a music player interface, presenting the following navigation options: Recently Added Artists Albums Songs within a section named Recent: - Twin Fantasy (by Car Seat Headrest) - Gnarly (by KATSEYE) - Fancy That (by PinkPantheress) within a section named Playlists: - New Playlist… - sophie slayage - Top 50 Most Listened - RAFIE BUBBLING UN… - シティ・ポップ within a section named Friends: - two gay ass furries are listening to Magic Clock by f5ve together - BRAT by Charli xcx is displayed with a comment that reads "wtf did she do to the cove…" and 4 other users - Quote (from Cave Story) posting a review of Evangelic Girl is a Gun by yeule
May 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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i am working on a music app with delightful springs
May 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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apparently i am literally an AirPlay destination now so that's cool i guess
airplay routing popover showing "iPhone", "Skip R.", "Skip's AirPods Pro", and "Skip's Bedroom" as options
January 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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enjoying bluesky
screenshot of the bluesky ios app running on an ipad but the app doesn’t properly support ipads so the view is restricted to the size of an iphone
January 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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this happened in my first game
screenshot of balatro: 3,621 round score
January 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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December 29, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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he requires surgical procedure
also an unbalanced rrb-tree but even worse and in the other direction
December 28, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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this is my child, his name is RRB-tree, he is very sickly and does not know what to do
an unbalanced rrb-tree
December 28, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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i can be trusted with the swift compiler
@discardableResult @inlinable @inline(__always) func measureAsync<T>( _ label: String, @_inheritActorContext _ operation: @isolated(any) () async throws -> sending T ) async rethrows -> sending T {
December 23, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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a mysterious looking program that's drawing many copies of sqlite3 amalgamation source code on top of each other in variously colored panes. some nondescript debugging information is present
December 23, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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constraints #macdev
Code: import {run, useConstraints} from 'capstone'; import {useReducer} from 'react'; function App() { const [counter, increment] = useReducer((count) => count + 1, 0); function handleClick() { console.log(':3'); increment(); } const views = useConstraints((c) => ({ container: {width: c.gte(300), height: c.gte(200)}, button: {}, })); return ( <window title='hello, capstone'> <view ref={views.container}> <button ref={views.button} onClick={handleClick}> {String(counter)} </button> </view> <constraint let={views.button.centerX} eq={views.container.centerX} /> <constraint let={views.button.centerY} eq={views.container.centerY} /> </window> ); } run(<App />); A native macOS window is shown off to the side, with a button that reads "5".
December 16, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Cocoa + React = capstone

github.com/slice/capstone
December 15, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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peak
December 15, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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also today i instrumented chrome to find out why it was hanging & found out it spent 100ms on the main thread fetching the name of my display because of lock contention from some other, separate, chrome process that was wrecking havoc on SkyLight. nice
December 12, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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tried my paw at bevy today and i implemented a tree ui view, luckily it was only conveniently possible with features from the newest release (0.15), seems
December 8, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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even as a complete beginner to graphics programming, being able to point to a pixel and seeing the corresponding neighborhood in the sampled texture, ostensibly across all color attachments, is amazing. and it has print debugging
tracing how a fragment was shaded with the metal debugger. when a texture is sampled and incorporated as part of the input, i am able to inspect the neighborhood of values around the sampled pixel, as if i had sampled that area myself. useful!
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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their debugger is some insane shit, and to my understanding it's state of the art (when it doesn't crash)
metal debugger in action tracing how a vertex was calculated on the GPU. the shader source code is interleaved with each line's actual calculated value. i'm able to inspect the scene geometry in a 3D view
November 25, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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i know my code can be questionable but that's a bit much
macOS alert dialog Malware Blocked and Moved to Trash “Goalie.app” was not opened because it contains malware. This action did not harm your Mac.
November 25, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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current status:
xcode metal debugger showing a metric shitton of overdraw occurring (stuff being drawn outside of the view)
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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@radiatoryang.bsky.social wowow, this section of level design book felt uncannily apt and basically articulated my own feelings to me - why i'm obsessed with source engine and hammer, and why modern FPSes don't appeal to me as much as quake/doom/CS era FPSes
This reality would've been utterly unthinkable back in the golden age of level design. Imagine going back in time to 1993 and telling celebrity rockstar level designer John Romero that the most popular first person game of all time in 2011 does not rely on professional level designers building content in a level editor tool. This genre framing was inconceivable back in the 1990s, but in the 2010s it is the new normal. The contemporary games as a service (GaaS) model emphasizes huge monolithic landscapes that go through dynamic seasons and demographic changes, instead of streams of static level content. Planning individual rooms is now safely below their concern. Is that still level design, as understood for the past 30-40 years? Obviously no. This conception of world design, community design, season design -- it's bigger than a video game level, and demands a very different skillset. Thus the postlevel designer is less like an architect, and more like a city planner, festival organizer, TV show runner, or climate engineer. https://book.leveldesignbook.com/culture/history-level-designer#:~:text=This%20reality%20would%27ve,or%20climate%20engineer.
November 24, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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"white girl save me" meme but it says "5K 27″ 120Hz mini-LED" instead
November 22, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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this is a VERY tired thing to say but it's getting incredibly difficult to ignore the sharp drop in software quality coming out of Apple
screenshot of macOS System Settjngs with "Accessibility" in the search field. it's not showing up in the results despite being a dedicated section in the app
November 19, 2024 at 10:17 PM