Alexandru Ică

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Alexandru Ică

Alexandru Ică

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Drawing things on the screen @Rayonapp

Romania Katılım Ocak 2022
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Alexandru Ică
Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@antirez The closest I got was a full-text search over a DB but it's not quite the same thing (I really want grep).
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Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@antirez I am working on a knowledge base full of legislation, and IIUC this is _precisely_ what I would want. Markdown files, where the agent can grep through everything trivially. Thank you for this. I was searching for a solution for a long time.
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Nik
Nik@nikxda·
New blog post: Compositing & Blending! 🥳 I spent the last few months reading all about blend modes so you don't have to: You'll learn what compositing and blending are, and what is actually going on under the hood when you apply blend modes in CSS 🎨 nik.digital/posts/composit…
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Eurora Labs@euroralabs·
Eurora Desktop already has the context. No copy and paste. No context-setting. No explaining. Just ask. One assistant. Every browser on every desktop across macOS, Windows and Linux. Articles. Videos. Docs. Threads. Just ask away
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Frontend Masters 💻✨@FrontendMasters·
Flexbox Masonry Layout (Explained with Math) Flexbox has a very specific algorithm for determining how to deal with remaining (or lack of) space in a row. Let's use actual math to understand it then apply it to a masonry layout. frontendmasters.com/blog/flexbox-m…
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Wiedy Mi
Wiedy Mi@wiedymi·
libghostty-vt + text-shaper + webgpu = native like performance in web environments! Almost pure TypeScript unless libghostty-vt, it uses wasm.
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Adam Rezich@rezich·
@SebAaltonen If only the guy had written and published some sort of book that explained his negotiating methodology in great detail, then, perhaps, we could begin to make sense of his seemingly nonsensical actions—but alas!
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Sebastian Aaltonen
Sebastian Aaltonen@SebAaltonen·
Trump is going nuts. Complains to Norway that he didn't get a Nobel prize, and threatens about Greenland (which is not owned by Norway). He said that the EU doesn't defend Greenland properly. So EU countries sent more troops there. As a response, he's threatening these countries with tariffs if they don't withdraw the troops. First, he wants the EU to defend Greenland, and then he doesn't. Makes no sense whatsoever.
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Alexandru Ică
Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@bekacru @thdxr Not just that, but I’m also responsible for that code. If things go south it won’t be pretty to fix.
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Beka@bekacru·
@thdxr This. I think that what makes it hard for me to use them for any new feature I would want to add to a library. It works well if it’s something small or fixing bugs but no way I would do it that way. And I really care about the code since it’s meant to be consumed directly
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dax@thdxr·
as good as LLMs have become at understanding instructions and solving the task, they still don't produce the code i would their solutions are always the 2nd or 3rd best way of doing something you think this doesn't matter because so are yours
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Eli Heuer
Eli Heuer@eliheuer·
I'm finishing up a first pass at variable font support for Runebender Xilem. You can now: - Load .designspace files - Switch between UFO masters in the edit view - Switch between UFO masters in the grid view - Save .designspace files This was the last major feature preventing this from being a full Glyphs replacement for me.
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Alexandru Ică
Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@threejs TSL is amazing. Tools like ShadeUp and TypeGPU are nice as well. So easy to run things on the GPU.
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Three.js@threejs·
So why TSL you ask?
Chase Davis@Chase_Davis_

my understanding, which is limited and still developing: - full IDE support for JS/TS - statically typed so many bugs found at compile time instead of runtime - first class authoring paradigm for the new node materials, which are meant to compose much better than glsl (though, some people had their own systems for this) - compiles to both WebGL and WebGPU - functions, consts, objects etc can be imported and used like js modules - hot reload - console.log intermediate values - automatic uniform / binding Probably more, I haven't played with it too much. There are definitely drawbacks though, like runtime compilation, bigger bundles, ecosystem maturity etc. You can still write shader code though!

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Ben Visness
Ben Visness@its_bvisness·
The write-up of my new graph layout algorithm for SpiderMonkey is now live. We built a custom layout algorithm for JS and WASM that follows the structure of the source code. No more spaghetti nightmares from Graphviz, and thousands of times faster.
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Alexandru Ică
Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
One thing I love about digging into rabbit holes such as PDF parsing is stumbling upon phrases like "schizophrenic PDF files".
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Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@geofflangdale Hmm but is it really annoying? Even if it’s addressed by content, I think a show/hide detail would still be useful no? Because there might still be multiple functions which could be used. There is a programming language which works like this (IIUC) called Unison.
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Geoff Langdale
Geoff Langdale@geofflangdale·
actually wants their call of frob() to be reinterpreted based on whatever is going on in the environment might regard such a UI-based approach as ridiculous or annoying. Not pushing one opinion or another, just curious how people think about this.
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Geoff Langdale
Geoff Langdale@geofflangdale·
Language design idea/concept/random question: designing a text-based programming language conflates "convenient shorthand" with "serious feature". Take name lookup. I can call function frob() with a pair of integer arguments. To what extent are we saying "look, I want this ...
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Alexandru Ică
Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@AgileJebrim @FFmpeg @xXshaurizardXx And you end up splitting the curves anyway. I have tried it this way and I did not like it. It’s too error prone and when artifacts come it’s a PITA to solve, if it’s even possible. I prefer simpler primitives.
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Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@AgileJebrim @FFmpeg @xXshaurizardXx That’s true, and not even uncommon for our use case. But it’s not just that. Cubics can have cusps for example. These make the curves non-regular even mathematically speaking. I am almost certain problems will arise if curves are not split at the extremities.
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Alexandru Ică@vg_head·
@jezell IMO Impeller does have its niche, but it would have been useful to make it general, not just for Flutter. Skia has other problems (like its complexity). I wish we would have seen a fresh take on it. Maybe that’s the plan? I don’t have the whole context though.
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Jesse Ezell
Jesse Ezell@jezell·
The problem was never Skia. The problem was that Flutter didn't lean in and take full advantage of it. React-native-skia being used by tons of top tier apps is evidence of this fact.
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