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Comment · 3 months ago
Feel free to add @cihantas. I'm also developing my own Wayland DE, so hopefully I can give better feedback than just "it doesn't work". :-)
Comment · 3 months ago
Really appreciate your work.

Is there any way people can help? From your last sentence, it sounds like another PR isn't it and the opposite might be needed. But would love to contribute with testing if helpful. I'm regularly jumping between XFCE, KDE, GNOME, Niri, etc..

Comment · 3 months ago
I'm using Handy on macOS and love it. Unfortunately, hotkeys still doesn't seem to work on Wayland, which make it unusable.
Comment · 5 months ago
Can you also share the base model before fine-tuning on tool calls? Might be a great foundation for various fine-tuning jobs.
Comment · 10 months ago
Thank you. Not all parts are open-sourced yet. I published the first repo yesterday: https://github.com/cihantas/applib

Going to launch a few apps powered by AppLib in the next few weeks and then continue with the DE.

Comment · 10 months ago
I agree that displays and input changed. But if you think in fundamentals, like clarity, readability, affordances, you tend to arrive at the right answers anyway.

Those principles survived CRTs, TN panels, Retina, touch, trackpads. They’re not tied to a specific technology.

Can you give me an example of a change in todays UI that was motivated by change in display quality?

Comment · 10 months ago
I’m working on something similar for Linux. Would love to chat if this is interesting to you.

The idea is to bring the UX of OSX Snow Leopard back, adjusted for today’s possibilities (better developer experience, AI, etc.). I’m developing a DE, SwiftUI/AppKit-equivalent, and a bunch of reference apps I‘m personally missing in terms of quality (e.g. Raycast/Spotlight, Mail).

Comment · 1 year ago
Can you share a bit more on the small LLMs you've trained? I'm interested in the applicability of current consumer hardware for local training and finetuning.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are consumer cards also benefiting from the improvements or only datacenters?
Comment · 1 year ago
I've shared this example in another thread, but it fits here too. Few weeks ago, I talked to a small business owner who found out that Google's AI is telling users his company is a scam, based on totally unrelated information where a different, similarly named brand is mentioned.

We actually win customers who's primarily goal is getting AI to stop badmouthing them.

Comment · 1 year ago
The goal is not to use a similar tech stack e.g. GNUstep. Instead I'm focusing more on outcome - a desktop environment with a similar degree of polish and functionality without the need for third party tools.

To stay competitive and iterate fast I'm adding a high-level JS/CSS API on top of Wayland, think AppKit + SwiftUI. If you look over my shoulder it might look like I'm making a webapp, but on a custom browser.

Comment · 1 year ago
A desktop environment for Linux, visually inspired by OSX Snow Leopard with a touch of contemporary. Coming with compositor, apps like dock, finder, status bar, and a UI framework like AppKit. Scratching my own itch and would love to see if it can gain traction. Still in the early innings though.
Comment · 1 year ago
We (Geostar.ai) work with many brands and companies that have experienced near-death situations caused by Google's AI Overviews. The negative impact this feature has had on people's livelihoods is heartbreaking to witness.

Just today, I met with a small business owner who showed me that AIO is warning users that his business is a scam, based on bogus evidence (some unrelated brands). It's a new level of bullshit. There's not much these businesses can do other than playing the new GEO game if they want to get traffic from Google.

Who knows if Google will even present any search results other than AIO a few years from now.

Comment · 1 year ago
A desktop environment for Linux, inspired by macOS. Coming with compositor, apps like dock, finder, status bar, and a UI framework like AppKit.

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