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adkaplanon ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space

Having replaced batteries on my pixel... The best trick ive found is a ziplock baggie full of near boiling water plopped on the screen until the glue loosens.

Use a thin tool to break the seal all the way around then peek under it like youre checking for spiders. Feels like most electronics these days have sneaky weak ribbon cables with ultra brittle connectors behind them.

This might be what all the youtube tutorials recommend as well I cant recall where I saw it. Of course the YouTube teardowns also show you in advance where the booby traps are.

adkaplanon I Started a "Dirt Notebook"

Yep im the same way. Tried lots of types, settled on the fabriano dot grid glued pages. Most of my pages are just this dirt style, but its also nice to sometimes rip out a page and these do so cleanly. Sometimes they fall apart... Thats okay, once i had a whole banker box full of notebooks the appeal of saving them all wore off. Now when theyre done theyre done.

adkaplanon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

I understand the need for this and like what youre doing. Ive tried to look before for a good app for this ans always been disappointed. I like the way you've deferred the map direction call so moving a pin around doesnt feel sluggish like other apps Ive used.

Suggestion if youre open to it: emoji or text badges for each stop (e.g., or )

I also think itd be helpful to have route leg times shown directly on the map as popout tooltips. Knowing stop 2 to 3 is five hours is critical, and how we plan.

Suggestion for your pay model: I think it would be lovely to be able to use this with no option to save. Or, maybe a single fee for an administrator that allows up to x users for one month with only one routr? I only do these kinds of trips yearly, so a monthly fee for three collaborators just wouldn't work. Would we all sign up then disable our accounts? Its hard to imagine that model working for me (RV road tripper with 3-4 people) I think Id be willing to pay the $5/pp that allowed me and x friends to all jump in. Having each person set up their own paid account feels like a harder sell.

adkaplanon The Free Universal Construction Kit

This kit is how I discovered zometool ten years ago and still find it fascinating. Its amazing! Check out vZome and its associated discord. FOSS virtualzome builder and symmetry study tool.

adkaplanon Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

For a look at someone solving a harder version of this problem with stretchy fabric deformation, check out pandafold.app

Admittedly an unconventional audience but its a curious problem space. Pepakura as mentioned here does this very well. The author of this software looks to be familiar with it

adkaplanon iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras

I've struggled with this too. I want to only use my phone but the quiet focus that a view finder gives me allows better attention to detail, the edges of the photo, and subtle alignments of parallax objects. I find it much harder on a phone or with live view on a proper camera. It's like -- for a moment, I am the camera and I'm about to make a record of a moment. I don't get nearly that feeling with a phone despite years of trying to convince myself its the same

adkaplanon Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

I think your method is perfect. Having to make notes and re-enter my settings is just the right amount of frustrating, that each time I'm tempted to buy it. I think most people who are less stubborn (cheap) than I would pay the second time they need the tool.

Having the free no-saving model as a public service is hopefully a win-win for you. The public has access to a financial planning tool, and if they need to take their finances more seriously they can start the paid model.

I also like the prompt you've added which says something like /hey, you lost your settings because you're using the free mode, but we can recover them to save you time/. Good detail.

adkaplanon Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

Amazing – congratulations. I've been using the demo version of your product every six months or so since I first saw your post here. I Really appreciate that you've kept it available, and hope you will continue to do so even as the cash continues to pour in. If I was anywhere close to retirement, I'd be a subscriber instantly, but I just like financial planning as a hobby. I recommend it to family and friends. You've created a great, intuitive product and absolutely deserve your success.

adkaplanon Deblur-GS: 3D Gaussian splatting from camera motion blurred images

https://web.archive.org/web/20240511220923/https://chaphlagi...

Down for me, archive above.

adkaplanon Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine

Appreciate the share. I've seen a compilation of these clips out of context and loved them. Never figured out where they came from. They really are amazing in striking the balance between organic and mechanistic. The Kinesin in particular are cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y&t=2s

This video shows it quite well too. EDIT: looks like someone else shared the same.

adkaplanon Apple Vision Pro review

Does ios not rely on hovering/mouse over for alt text or similar? Im mostly on windows but i wonder if theyll eventually concede a second gesture for "put cursor here"

adkaplanon Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models

some of these style illusions I've seen drawn by hand before, but the lithopane ones are new to me. I'm sure the 3d printing lithopane community will love them

adkaplanon I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

I think also the negative comments here are missing how commonly closets are built incorrectly without the correct depth for a coat hanger. Not every day, but there are enough people living in condos which had lazy architects/contractors and might appreciate the solution. I've lived in one and seen several others. I couldn't think of another solution besides kids hangers, which wasn't a satisfying compromise.

adkaplanon A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling

Interesting! I like your triangle square pattern as well. I haven't seen that before. You may already know that in the landscape architecture world your versaille-like tilings are frequently called ashlar patterns. I think they typically use periodic tilings. "AutoCAD ashlar drafting patterns" are available all over the place.

adkaplanon AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review

Also had a pair of headphones for 10 years, Sony MDR 7506. I've replaced the pads several times. I think a lot of good corded headphones will last forever as long as you don't crush them in a backpack.

adkaplanon Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software

this last phase in your coder evolution reminds me of a very rough translation of the wabi sabi view on manufacturing. "Nothing lasts, nothing is perfect, nothing is finished."

adkaplanon Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras

This was a real ad. i remember it too :) no clue who for.

adkaplanon Uber exec in March: “we shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”

Even this isn't true, though. 15,000 miles is 15 months of driving. I would bet a lot of people hit "something" that often, with a more serious incident every 5-10 years.

adkaplanon The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge

Something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYRfMzmWFU could be a happy medium. Shapes that must be 3d printed but forms that are less fluff and more function.

adkaplanon The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge

It seems MX3D had the same thought judging from their demo video

adkaplanon The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge

Check out the grasshopper primer. I haven't read it in a while but I used to claim it was written by programmers for non-programmers. Great getting-started guide. Rhino probably still has a demo available, too. Dynamobim.org is another option if you want to try visual programming without an investment. Dynamo is mostly visible for it's connections to other software, e.g., Revit, but can stand alone as in sandbox mode.

EDIT:Yes, it's that grasshopper https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper for a demo reel

adkaplanon Walk through a 3D model of Y Combinator

--To be clear, I mean it looks like, not is..

adkaplanon Walk through a 3D model of Y Combinator

Looks like the work of Autodesk ReCap.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/recap/overview