Articles by freetonik
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Related UI elements should not appear unrelated (exotext.com)

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LLMs turn an autistic communication style into a neurotypical conversation (hachyderm.io)

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Nvidia DLSS 5: AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games (nvidia.com)

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Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold (jsnover.com)

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How I made a shooter game in 64 KB [video] (youtube.com)

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Apple has a transparency issue [video] (youtube.com)

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AI is not another abstraction because god plays dice (exotext.com)

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Glide: A tiling window manager for macOS (glidewm.org)

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A font that renders Markdown (devpost.com)

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Nodebugger: CLI to inspect running Node.js processes via V8 Inspector Protocol (github.com/huksley)

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Server Survival: 3D simulation game where you play as a Cloud Architect (github.com/pshenok)

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Full Stack Quantum Computing Architecture (2024) [video] (youtube.com)

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It's not just you – the iOS keyboard is broken [video] (youtube.com)

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Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation (valetudo.cloud)

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Edge: Modal terminal-based text editor for GNU/Linux (github.com/alefore)

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Therac-25: one of the first documented cases of software bugs killing humans (wikipedia.org)

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Fastmail Desktop App (fastmail.com)

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Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps (data-star.dev)

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Lesser-known science fiction movies (exotext.com)

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A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad (kau.sh)

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Ask HN: How is hiring done in other industries?

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Examples Are the Best Documentation (exotext.com)

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Swinsian 3: The Advanced Music Player for Mac (swinsian.com)

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Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence (infrequently.org)

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Tools and a DSL for multi-level software architecture diagrams (likec4.dev)

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LinkedIn will use member data, profiles, and public posts to train AI models (linkedin.com)

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Benjamin Button Reviews macOS (exotext.com)

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Show HN: Dystopian chat where communication is edited and paraphrased by AI (skyshelf.app)

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Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation – Peter Whidden [video] (youtube.com)

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AI is not another abstraction because god plays dice (exotext.com)

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Towards a modern Web stack (2023) (docs.google.com)

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Rails World 2025 Opening Keynote – David Heinemeier Hansson [video] (youtube.com)

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Alexandria: A Lightweight Library Genesis eBook Browser (github.com/samin100)

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Eldiron: Retro RPG Creator (eldiron.com)

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A shell inside the normal editor widget in VS Code (matklad.github.io)

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Apple's Assault on Standards (infrequently.org)

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Senior SWE is sitting in a café when a client approaches and asks to make an MVP (twitter.com/freetonik)

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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (github.com/ghostty-org)

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xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app (techcrunch.com)

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The Library of Babel (libraryofbabel.info)

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Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language (cooklang.org)

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Charmstone: Spatial Switcher Launcher for macOS (charmstone.app)

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Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools (yle.fi)

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The weirdest HTML feature (or bug?): display your head (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run (atuin.sh)

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Why users cannot create Issues directly (github.com/ghostty-org)

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Show HN: I wrote a book about Clojure (leanpub.com)

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But what if I want a faster horse? (exotext.com)

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Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight (rakhim.org)

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Show HN: Textpod – local web-based note-taking app inspired by One Big Text File (github.com/freetonik)

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Freespin (youtube.com)

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Serenade, a tool for coding with voice: first community release after fork (github.com/sombrafam)

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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen (exotext.com)

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Lesser-known science fiction movies (exotext.com)

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Faircamp: Static site generator for audio producers (simonrepp.com)

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Randomly hearing a chime recently? It might be coming from your AirPods Pro 2 (reddit.com)

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Tactility: OS for the ESP32 Microcontroller Family (tactility.one)

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Real-Time Chess [video] (youtube.com)

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The Complexity Genie – Armin Ronacher [video] (youtube.com)

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Margin Notes: Automatic code documentation with recorded examples from runtime (geoffreylitt.com)

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I wish your bespoke React-Tailwind-etc. static site generator had RSS (exotext.com)

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CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops (github.com/samwho)

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Leet Heat: A Game Show for Developers (youtube.com)

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Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript (github.com/boardgameio)

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Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests (exotext.com)

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Full-stack quantum computing, from hardware to compilers and algorithms [video] (youtube.com)

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Why is every startup's website so darn useless? (jessitron.com)

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Gather: Local-first app for archiving and curating multimedia data collections (gather.directory)

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Rust library for building no-boilerplate CLI apps (crates.io)

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Convert any link into an episode of your private podcast (github.com/freetonik)

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Most used words on Bluesky in real-time (rakhim.org)

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Color Scales Builder (abelvm.github.io)

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Your minimalistic app is great! Can you add these 38 features, though? (exotext.com)

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macOS Apps That I'm Using (switowski.com)

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Why am I creating a new code editor? (raphamorim.io)

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Can Scrum Be Salvaged? (trevorlasn.com)

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Decentralized evolutionary computation with Clojure and ClojureScript [video] (youtube.com)

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We need real progress, not just syntactic sugar (prahladyeri.github.io)

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Linkding: Self-Hosted Bookmark Manager (linkding.link)

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Filter, Map, Reduce in 1.5 minutes [video] (youtube.com)

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Show HN: I made a local web-based notes app in the spirit of "One Big Text File" (github.com/freetonik)

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Gren: A programming language for simple and correct applications (gren-lang.org)

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Timeless HN: Random good HN stories from the past (rakhim.org)

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Website Carbon Calculator (websitecarbon.com)

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How Will Cryptography Survive the Rise of Quantum Computing? (2019) [video] (youtube.com)

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So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS (2022) (becca.ooo)

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An app that automatically reloads specific web pages in Safari on macOS (github.com/kukushechkin)

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Font Smoothing Adjuster: re-enable font smoothing removed in macOS Big Sur (fontsmoothingadjuster.com)

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Personalising VSCode for Dyslexia (jenn-hall.medium.com)

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BetterDisplay: macOS Display Utility App (github.com/waydabber)

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In Praise of WordPress (birtles.blog)

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Syntorial: Video game-like training software for learning sound synthesis (syntorial.com)

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Betraying Vim for the IDEs of March (ntietz.com)

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Naive performance comparison of a few programming languages (github.com/frol)

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Ask HN: Is Windows That Bad?

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Myths tech companies believe about the world (phsoftware.substack.com)

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Why programmers burnout into existential depression (phsoftware.substack.com)