Illarion Koperski

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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:

Because you can provide arbitrary image data to the encoder for the progressive passes, you're in full control over what those passes look like.

In this example, I've created a pass that's blurred except for the 'focal point' of the image (I'm not sure it's a good effect though).

I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶

Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything.

Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: https://elenajs.com

Elena | Progressive Web Components

Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.

Elena

In celebration of 2MM I made a "Hard Mode" alternative version, idea courtesey @jaffathecake

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd-hard/

What's My JND? Hard Mode

Hard mode: find the odd square out of nine. No gradient hints, just raw colour perception.

Built because I’m bad at negotiation: BidWix. The point is a fair price, not “meet in the middle”. Buyer submits a secret max, seller a secret min; if they overlap, it suggests one fair price. Free, no ads, no account. https://BidWix.com
The fast, fair way to agree on a price — BidWix

One-shot negotiation without back-and-forth. A bargaining mechanism where honesty is your best strategy.

Открыл для себя, что Gandi (которые были лучшим регистратором доменов) был выкуплен мутной компанией, которая вскрутила цены.

Сейчас ищу хорошего регистратора, чтобы были .es-домены, двухфакторка на аппаратных ключах и в Европе (скорее всего будет Netim).

There are two problems in computer science:

1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all

More people need to know about lit-html. (It’s not a framework or a web components thing.) https://lit.dev/docs/libraries/standalone-templates/

You get to render HTML like this:
```
render(
html`<h1>Hello</h1>`,
document.body
)
```

and then to update it like this:
```
render(
html`<h1>Hello <b>world</b></h1>`,
document.body
)
```

It takes care of all the diffing, patching, and memoizing. The performance is good. You get to structure your program around it any way you like. It’s great.

Using lit-html standalone – Lit

Simple. Fast. Web Components.

lit.dev

I don't believe the "it's coming for all programming jobs" story of AI.

AI is like a musical instrument, in that it's a creative tool and it's the people who use the tool that determine the output. A piano is capable of beautiful music with a skilled pianist. With me, you get chopsticks.

Remember, just because code works doesn't mean it's maintainable.

Copilot successfully implemented Redis caching for Bredbox, but the code is too difficult to follow. So, I'm redesigning it and putting Copilot to work implementing the new design.