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Comment · 1 month ago

Quite inline with what I had found with my Claude code sessions over the last year. I wrote about this a few months ago.

https://rahulmax.com/notes/how-i-keep-the-ai-bill-down/

In their case, context management pays off more the tighter your window. Their gap between managing and not managing is 35.7 points of success rate at 32k and 2.7 points at 128k. My version of that was a rule I stick to, as much as I can. I checkpoint a session at about 25-30% of the window, write the state out to a PROGRESS.md and a JSON file of the requirements, and start fresh. This restart costs me 30 seconds, since a bloated session doesn't get any cheaper the longer you stay in it.

Also worth knowing that the models are Nemotron-3 and Mistral-Medium, not the frontier models most people here are paying for.

Comment · 1 month ago

Love this! In the photography community, we had MIDI2LR (MIDI to Lightroom) (https://rsjaffe.github.io/MIDI2LR/)

I used Behringer Xtouch Mini mapped to Lightroom. This allows tactile controls, and also lets you keep your eyes on the photo being edited, instead of the constant back and forth between the controls and the photo.

Comment · 1 month ago

username checks out

Comment · 1 month ago

I generally agree except for these two things: IBM Carbon design system is quite neat. IBM Plex typefaces are lovely, as well. I'm a designer

Comment · 2 months ago

This is fantastic. Why do you say failed? Fellow 'skeuomorphist' here. (typestax.com)

Comment · 2 months ago

I'm going to try using this for enhancing my UI on http://typestax.com

Typestax is where you can pick and choose different typefaces and adjust it, preview them in a website and blog format, and also export your tokens in different formats.

Comment · 2 months ago

"Windows users are fundamentally willing to put up with more bullshit than MacOS or Linux users."

I read this circa 2010 and it stuck with me ever since. Also, have felt this way over the years, when I see Windows users work.

Comment · 2 months ago

Author of the tool here. Thank you very much for your detailed review. I appreciate the time and effort to go through to provide elaborate critique.

- The eyebrow one is a straight bug and I'm glad you caught it.

- Base range 8 to 32 is excessive, agree.

- Per-element overrides existing doesn't help, if the thing that loads first establishes uniformity. I'll fix this too

- About the the tracking, you're right that flat -0.02em across h1 to h6 is wrong. I think the proper fix is to make it size-aware

- I'll fix and curate the pairs more, and aim for half of what I have now.

Comment · 2 months ago

Thank you so much!

Comment · 2 months ago

Thank you so much. I'm glad you liked it!

Comment · 2 months ago

Thank you so much, your comment inspires me to create more of these!

Comment · 2 months ago

Thank you so much! I am from that era, and I remember, a few of these types of interfaces existed back then.

I was still in college at the time and used to be fascinated by how painstaking it was to build such UI in photoshop, and then putting everything in nested HTML tables to achieve this. Everything was rudimentary, CSS was in its nascency and everything broke in Internet Explorer 6

Comment · 2 months ago

Author here. Thank you very much for the kind words!

I'm a product designer and a design engineer and I love tactile interfaces and typography.

My goal was to challenge myself to build this purely by 'describing' the interface to an LLM, without giving it any image references. Being mosly working in Figma / Sketch for the past decade or so, the process was utterly painful and I craved to go back to Figma to polish and correct the interface, but I persevered and described the UI to the LLM and progressively built the UI.

The stack is Next.js / React / Zustand with zundo for undo/redo, Clerk for auth. I also made the LLM write 60-odd unit tests and playwright tests running against production. It was AI-assisted throughout.

chrismorgan's critique below is mostly correct. Thanks a ton! The eyebrow one is a straight bug. Base range 8 to 32 is indefensible. Word spacing shouldn't be a control at all. Those three are getting fixed today.

Comment · 2 months ago

It is quite mediocre. Nothing "fucking amazing" about the title cards. In the world of movie title cards, this one sits in the bottom half.

Midway through, the article stops being about Blade runner and becomes "people building things with AI are creating garbage", and Blade runner title cards is now a prop that substantiates that opinion.

It's fine if the typographic analysis holds up. It does not. I'm not able to see what OP is seeing. What am I missing?

Comment · 3 months ago

From a UX perspective, try exact first, then fuzzy. Add an AI-assisted search if you have the patience to build it, and a few bucks for the API cost.

I did the exact + fuzzy pattern on a project and it was so satisfying to watch people finding it useful.

Try it here. https://trustedgyn.com/ (a directory, for public good, hopefully you never have to use.) Make mistakes in the search bar and the model fixes it for you. For folks who are not native english, I found it helps a lot.