Ostapondo

I like building more than talking about it.

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@jonathan_wilke Europe didn’t lose the startup race on talent. We lost it somewhere between VAT validation and invoice formatting.

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@sattyyouneed Hopefully, a reason to go outside

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Im such an introvert, even my social life is artificial

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@sama best commit message i've ever seen

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at this point your employer is just paying for a Claude subscription with extra steps

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@gregisenberg it always was. we just used to call the vibes "stackoverflow copypasta" and "mass renaming variables until tests pass"

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@pcshipp Swift.

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The loop never ends:

Get idea. Give it a few days. Ship. Get feedback. Move on.

By end of day I'm cooked. Wake up fully charged, new idea already forming.

I don't know if this is passion or a bug in my brain but I'm not fixing it

do you guys take breaks or just pretend to?

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@antonioripa TypeScript if you're building products on top of models. Python if you're training or fine-tuning them. Most AI dev work is the first case.

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@tomwarren Nothing exposes how much you've offloaded to muscle memory like a gesture that stops working. You don't remember swiping up, your hand just does it, and the second it fails the whole phone feels like someone else's.

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@dhh What keeps me off the Linux desktop isn't the OS, it's that the small tools my hands are built around aren't there. I write mouse/input software for Mac and Windows. Linux is the port I keep postponing because there's no one input layer to target. Fix that and a lot of us move.

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Source and downloads: https://t.co/fEBQsUIzwg
Try the recognizer in your browser first: https://t.co/hKvCklwnCl

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I never remember the shortcuts I use twice a month, but a shape I drew myself I remember instantly.

So: hold a mouse button, draw the shape, let go. Whatever you bound to it happens. Mine opens Warp.

Wandful, free and MIT, Mac and Windows.

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@rusabuilds they fizzle instead of guessing, a wrong shortcut is worse than none. But you see how close you got, like "closest was Terminal, 74%", and can bind that stroke right there if that's what you meant.

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every app has shortcuts nobody remembers. so I made a wand for mac: call it up, draw a shape, the shortcut fires.

tiny, open source, no accounts, no network. it's called Wandful

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@onirenaud Booting a whole VM just to act as a driver is either cursed or brilliant and I genuinely can't tell which

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@marclou every single one of those has revenue. Meanwhile, I'm out here shipping free stuff like an idiot 🫡

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@Naaackers Same boat. Ended up on a wired Logitech, killed the bluetooth lag for good and stopped caring about the shape. The only thing I miss from the Magic Mouse is swipes.

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@creative_yua The list is the problem: nobody keeps 20 of these in their head. What worked for me was drawing them instead. Check mark = mark all read, circle = open Terminal, whatever shape you can repeat. Made a small free Mac app for it (wandful, link in bio).

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@Joshua_WD Thanks, Josh. Curious what shapes you'd map first if you give it a go.

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under the hood: rust + tauri, $1 unistroke recognizer for the shapes, nothing is intercepted while the wand is hidden. hardest part was the overlay and global input on macOS, not the ui

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repo + install: https://t.co/fEBQsUIzwg brew install --cask ostapondo/tap/wandful
very early (0.0.1, mac only), feedback welcome