Alessio Hong

film director + founder at enough of tech bros pretending to be directors so i had to step in

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

@redaction thanks for sharing man

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

@xena_spectrale holyyy didnt follow for a couple of months, game looks goood

[nick carr location scout @nickcarrscouts]

As a location scout, one of the most dramatic shifts I’ve seen in how a movie location is portrayed on screen is for The Neighborhood Where All The Houses Look The Same.🧵

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

I actually work in film. the reason for this is that technological advancement in digital sensors opened new ways to approach image making, higher resolution and sensitivity gives you a new baseline of what a “modern image” should feel like, it probably is closer to the human eye more than film could ever be, we can basically film using moonlight.
On the other hand, analog film constrained cinematographers to light with lots of lights, limits that made them think creatively and with more intention.
This is not to say that current cinematographers are not as skillful, digital cinematography has had just 15 years to replicate while film has decades of stylistic progress.
Film aesthetics are an artifact of the current times, just like everything else.

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

@DanielK7813 @M5Stack following

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

I actually work in film. the reason for this is that technological advancement in digital sensors opened new ways to approach image making, higher resolution and sensitivity gives you a new baseline of what a “modern image” should feel like, it probably is closer to the human eye more than film could ever be, we can basically film using moonlight.
On the other hand, analog film constrained cinematographers to light with lots of lights, limits that made them think creatively and with more intention.
This is not to say that current cinematographers are not as skillful, digital cinematography has had just 15 years to replicate while film has decades of stylistic progress.
Film aesthetics are an artifact of the current times, just like everything else.

[Kevin @linguinelabs]

Decided to categorize all of the Hank Green arguments to see how I feel because it's impossible to hold all of this in my head at once

[໒ ‌𓏻𓈒˙ 🄱૨ყƈᥱ 🚬 𑜝 ₊ @ukedepraved]

all that to be ugly useless and annoying

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

proceeds to replicate the same backlit table stop motion quick cut asmr… every making of craftmanship videos have been doing for the last 4 years

[Brad @Brad08414464]

when it comes to design and aesthetics, it’s very tempting for tech companies to go the Apple route or Google route. we've been living in an era that is mostly derivative. instead, forge a new path and go the Kimi route. this actually feels like the future
https://t.co/43IvJvGrNt

[Alex Toussaint @alextoussss]

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

[Chaz Wargnier ♨️ @DataChaz]

life before this tweet:

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

felt like a decade of progress in 12 months, is this what the singularity feels like?

[j⧉nus @repligate]

a year ago... gosh, we had Opus 4 and... Gemini 2.5 pro and o3? oh and gpt-4o in its finally evolved psychohazard iterations. an unruly bunch of basket cases that noone but the God's eye view could see as aligned.

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

@poetengineer__ when i click on add to task, i see this in the codex input bar as is gets added as a chip, i suppose this has the chat's context attached. is this not working for you?

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

@poetengineer__ i think you actually can from the desktop app, you can just link a chat you had to a codex session

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Azlen @azlenelza]

What if an infinite canvas squishes to the sides of the screen as you move about?

Two dimensional peripheral vision

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

exploring new ui ideas with pretext by @_chenglou

built a compact calendar that expands based on user focus.

useful information expands while everything else is compressed and minimized.

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

@mikemiller @_chenglou actually thought about that as a use case, this should be easy to implement in a native app like this

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

pretext by @_chenglou unlocks UI patterns that weren’t possible before.

here’s a spatial note-taking app where all notes and folders live in the same continuous space.

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Alessio Hong @hlessio]

@ohitscosmic @_chenglou yeah that’s basically the idea, would love to experiment this with a vision pro with eye tracking. but even with a mouse, this feels much more expressive, the hover becomes navigation and source of focus