Nikita Shimkus

Building (GUI for AI), @klavakeyboard & up adding it, and by it I mean let's just say shareholder value

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

I made a keyboard that takes you to @meetgranola app from any place on your iPhone by just holding the logo key.

Ultimate goal now: obtain the Apple Watch strap, take my Granola spoon, whip out the keyboard and thus flex the full gear

Btw keyboard is out for free in @KlavaKeyboard

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@jacobtechtavern That's super cool! I did a similar mechanic for a Granola theme in @KlavaKeyboard

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@JollaHQ Awesome stuff!

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

If one had to compare Grok @bot intelligence to the Roman Empire we definitely speedran from year 117 under Trajan to 1453 fall of Constantinople in just a week

Very sad, @elonmusk pls advise :(

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@Mokhalil01 Cause bussin

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@apenwarr N🧊

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@chardidathing Super cool! Sailfish OS is another awesome thing to try on this phone

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@proximalcoast That's what @clickskeyboard are doing, and they are cooking awesome stuff

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

This might be my finest keyboard design work to date. I love my BlackBerry Passport, but doesn't this look awesome on an iPhone Duo?

[Klava @KlavaKeyboard]

Klava Keyboard now has a theme inspired by the legendary BlackBerry Passport. The latest update recreates the aesthetics and functionality of the Passport on iOS, and just feels great to use

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@getpeid

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@cjpedregal glorious, simply glorious

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@elonmusk @bot Limits are fine to live with, but the intelligence took a huge F vs last week :(

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@BluePixel2017 @nfzeroxapps @UseCorgi Haha, I was so waiting for this sort of stuff too - Mario64 was ported by https://t.co/otdtVAqldh! I focused on PocketJS, and making Fruit Ninja, PvZ and WIP Angry Birds working alongside some other tweaks

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

Super Mario 64 running on iPod Nano 7g is quite insane

Repo here: https://t.co/04ZAPD7JXK

Built on amazing work by @nfzeroxapps and https://t.co/otdtVApNnJ

Thanks @UseCorgi for ambient background noises

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@bot

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@meetgranola The top secret is finally out

[PocketJS @pocket_js]

Introducing Omarchy Pocket. Real Omarchy Linux on a $99 dual-screen handheld.

We rebuilt the Wayland GUI with PocketJS Applets, made it fluid on hardware that can’t even run Android, and rethought how Linux should work across two screens.

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

@RobertJBye @KlavaKeyboard about to fix it

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Repo here: https://t.co/04ZAPD8hNi

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

Jailbreaking and playing Minecraft on an iPod Nano 7G from 2012 feels silly & surreal

[Nikita Shimkus @nikitashimkus]

Great Q. TL;DR: sort of why not with a hint of market need down the line.

Main rationale is quite prosaic: I think I'd just love it. Been obsessing over different OSs and hardware for years now, so building own would be very fun personally (even though hard af naturally - I've been following your SmallAndroidPhone project since the beginning, Rabbit, Jolla, obscure stuff like LuneOS, etc. just shows how tricky it is)

More practically, am def a big believer in AI-driven personal software and human<>AI interactions that OS would have to accommodate. Noone knows how they would look in practice, could it be the current duopoly? Mayb. But hypothetically just like iOS / Android dethroned Symbian et al. which dethroned Palm et al. (and their respective hardware) there is a world where UX will need to change in some shape of form to get out of the box of current OSs while (somehow) keeping services on. Do completely agree on your ecosystem & hardware point - as much as I love Jolla's Sailfish OS it's pretty hard to daily drive it without apps, or with a ton of tinkering. On Android launchers / ROMs for existing hardware do the trick of new UX while keeping the app ecosystem and UI streamlined vs wild west and it's a great start.

But hey, maybe in 1 year I can build beeper in 1 day solo, get my Wallet working with little tinkering, and share it all with friends. Sailfish OS is a great playground for that actually - if the community now vibe codes a ton of apps for the virtually non-existent native app ecosystem that solve a problem for them then it could be done at scale! So yeah, I want things customised for the sake of customising, but true AI-first customisation might need different software and / or hardware. Fun to think about