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I found their interactive onboarding very good. Shows you around the UI with a few intro scenes and you set/change different values.

Edit videos without reencoding

1. The one built into devtools
2. Easing Wizard to design curves while floating through space. Lot of customization controls. Also a great launch post where he filmed the trailer with his phone filming the page on an ipad in the dark.
3. easing.dev for x1/x2/y1/y2. Includes an easter egg
4. Nice simple one https://www.kvin.me/css-springs

a most beautiful tool

I also enjoyed his website

how to get your secret cyborgs to come out of hiding

We’re already doing things like decoding whale song with AI, or figuring out molecular structures of all proteins. But why stop with datasets that induce languages with “grammars” that can be rendered legible to us? Could you make a “Large Solar Flares and Sunspots Model” (LSFASM) and learn to talk to the Sun and ask it where it might flare up next? How about a Large Oceanic Model that allows ships to talk to ocean currents? Or a Large History Model that works as a Prime Radiant for Asimovian psychohistory? Maybe a Large Climate Model constructed out of weather data can talk to us and supply strategies for climate change?

for youtube/twitter/etc

fantastic written version of his talk of youtube.

I like his ethics point on respecting reader’s time - don’t publish things that take someone longer to read than they do to write. Also on the code one, though I’m looser on that since I don’t understand what my own code does.

llm CLI tool is fantastic.

another ai code tool to try

Hyperbole, but it is a pretty great editor.

Rough and incomplete working notes, to help me think through how to use this site. Intended primarily for my own use. But I will also share this with friends, as grist for conversations about how to best design a website to support creative work.

another image input tool

You don’t need a single device for everything, a single notetaking app, a single sync tool for all sorts of files, a single backup process, a single workflow.

You don’t need to do things a single way, or even a single time. You can write and rewrite without needing realtime multiplayer editing between your phone and your laptop, so you don’t miss ideas while walking. You can move or copy text from one editor to another one.

You don’t need a single copy of files, with symlinks and some elaborate normalization system for where the true copy of each file is stored. You don’t need a complete version control system for every file. Have copies, have out of date copies, have v2_final_backup_real.md copies.

Just use what works.

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• Good tools choose to be bad rather than being mediocre at everything.
• If found unbundling tools for thought very relaxing. That hyperlinking and cross-referencing every single idea you’ve had read or had is perhaps not especially necessary. Storing different things in different places works just fine.

Modal seems like a winner.

ffmpeg parameter gui

Another AI writing tool to try

more awesome web apps

More notetaking tools. This time with drawings!

A glowing rec from Beautiful Audio

So many good points. Tasks vs notes; not everything needs a checklist, some things are just notes. Thinking “I’ll do that later” is a lot easier than “I will select a date/time in a calendar popup to schedule a reminder for this task”. Todo apps are ineffective if having them is more work than the task you are trying to do!

A quote on HN about procrastination has also made be add Red Dwraf to booklist.

Might try this out for some project organisation. Reluctant to use this for all notetaking due to editor lock-in - I can’t use VSCode on this low-RAM laptop.

I love this, and have experienced it first hand too many times. But a single text file has worked well for me, and saved.

Some additional useful bits in comments (also a lot of ‘just use x’). Actual list has some gems in it: repgrep, podman, mdcat etc

This looks very useful. Full-text search and some other convenient integrations

Massive list of tools and SaaSes, some free, some with free quotas listed.