Marek Gibney

@marekgibney
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Building https://www.gnod.com, the global network of discovery.
3D printing experiment: I designed a little adapter to add a flashlight to my Swiffer. I call it the "Swiffer Explorer" now.
And it is fixed!

There is an issue tracked for it now:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/457203705

And this seems to be a suggested fix:

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7111998

Interesting to see how this takes its course.

Chromium

The Chromium team is now aware of it:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40101963#comment109

Holding my breath for it to be solved as multiple of the web-based tools that I use daily depend on it.

Chromium

Did a recent Android update break the File Access API in Chrome? On Android 16 with Chrome 142.0.7444.48 I get:

"Failed to execute 'showOpenFilePicker' on 'Window': The user aborted a request."

Google's own FSA demo also stopped working:

https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/

Text Editor

Text Editor - Demo for the HTML5 File System Access API.

Today I felt inspired to write some words about the current state of LLM-based coding. And about a prompt coding experiment I am conducting:

https://www.gibney.org/prompt_coding

Prompt Coding

In the era of AI, the intelligence of a country will be equal to

electricity * chips * software

Not sure how it will look on the chips and software front. But in terms of electricity, China seems to be hard to catch up with.

The html-editor with instant preview is still my favorite tool to do HTML/CSS/JS experiments on the go.

https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/

So I added a some more features today to make it more convenient.

HTML Editor

SQLite makes for a really nice document store with the json arrow functions. Assume you have a "book" column that is a json blob, then selecting the names of all books is just:

SELECT book->>'name' FROM books;

The only thing I miss is auto increments.

Without an additional "id" column, inserting a new book with a unique id becomes cumbersome.

I started adding additional infos on the https://www.productchart.com item pages when hovering the data fields with the mouse.

The iPad Pro has a nice aspect ratio of 1.33. Most tablets are at 1.6. I think the more squarish, the better for coding.

It is also nicely lightweight at 578g for the 13 inch version.

Product Chart