Mastodawn

Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏

It's called TinyStart, and it's a lightweight Launcher and Emoji picker for macOS!

Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don't need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.

Oh and yes, I think the Emoji picker is pretty good too. It's everything the default macOS Emoji picker isn't: it's fast, it lets you insert Emojis in any text field, it isn't picky about keywords, and it learns your favorite Emojis over time.

Get TinyStart at https://tinystart.app: it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free!

also I made a lil' video to show you what it looks like:

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Bram Mar 28

One of the best habits a person can have: Sunlight before Screenlight ☀️

“Build for the web, build on the web, build with the web” Harry Roberts rock! #WebDayOut

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

Bram Mar 1

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

— Frank Herbert, Dune

@mrtnvh 👀

Isn’t this causing a lot of overhead? Basically every component loading every global css file in their adoptedstylesheet?

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Bram Feb 19

Got the same mail, I reacted with:

“I'm not interested in “vibe” coding.
Yes, I use AI in my work, but I won't let a machine take away the fun parts of my job and leave me with the boring stuff (reviewing).

Besides, I don't trust companies that are switching their entire workflow to AI. Especially when they are fully immersed in the AI ecosystems of American tech companies.

Hard pass on these kinds of assignments.”

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