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itomato··on AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA
Apologists. MAGA's single purpose is upheaval. There is no upside.
itomato··on Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
I'd be into something as useful as Quartz Composer was for Desktop Widgets, but not a full skeuomorphic desktop.

Indigo Magic or CDE is as close as I'd want to go with that concept.

2004 was a long time ago, and I suppose what is old can be new (again).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQPTtdzBig

itomato··on Doory – Open-Source Canva
Self-critique is absent today.

I have recently thought and written about the things shipped today that my grade 7 clique would have ground into powder and cast into the wind like so many ashes.

Where there is a lack of artistic critique and application of the scientific method, there is slop for slop's sake.

It's making me suffer, and my art is improving for it.

itomato··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
Is it a legit summary? Does it derail you?
itomato··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
0:04 for the first , 0:02 for the second. I'm personally all done with that.
itomato··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Cool. I did something like that so agents and people could communicate with a Jira instance using Websocket-aware IRC and a browser-based client based on superchat.

Put the issue context in a #channel and invite external parties/entities, bring the results back to the work.

I have tested it but the complexity didn't justify the results in my experiment. I couldn't get it accepted into Atlassian Marketplace, either.

itomato··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
You're telling me all those laptops with the keyboard, trackpad and screen askew are tainted in another way?

Who is buying these?

What forecast suggests these BOMs are profitable?

itomato··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
I bring this up every decade because I haven't been able to find (many) supporting studies.

Chilis. Nibble a Thai bird chili instead of facing a nicotine fit. Sip some Tabasco if you must.

I quit this way, and the point is not burning your mouth or the heat. It’s the endorphin complement.

Tobacco products out. Capsaicin products in.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10742298/

itomato··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Notes - It’s got what clankers crave.
itomato··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Cool - now do Lotus Approach
itomato··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
If you have ever looked at a kite and said to yourself, "that is as good as a hang-glider. maybe better.", you might be subject to the perils of one-shot AISDLC
itomato··on Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser
DingusPPC fork: https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc
itomato··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
You can delete this now.
itomato··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Yes, and then delete or edit the comment.
itomato··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
"It's only a problem if your definition of done makes it one".
itomato··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
Lowered the barrier to entry, but also raised the stakes. My money is on dedication to the high-stakes problem.

How old was this bug? How much energy has been devoted to RE of this proprietary console? Not enough, apparently.

itomato··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Yes it was a speedrun. Fresh kicks, more clicks.
itomato··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
When the counterfeiters came, that's what they chose to put in the box.

They have been reduced to pleather collectibles.

itomato··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Yes, for running mountain centuries and ultras.

Karl "Speedgoat" Meltzer broke the Appalachian Trail record in them, and whoever was doing marketing then really blew a big bubble with that result.

Trad brands didn't stand a chance against that sole and backstory.

https://thewalkahead.com/2016/09/21/karl-meltzer-crushes-at-...

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/run/clown-shoe-th...

itomato··on Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”
itomato··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
TIHI
itomato··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I've been working on PCB generation projects with MCPs, mostly with KiCAD because of the ROI.

- Flexible rp2040-based instrument tuner

- Stratocaster-style PCB art pickguards

- NeXTBus experimentation board (not that I'll ever use it, but I'll be darned if I don't understand the nuances between NeXT and Apple's NuBUS implementations better now)

This extends to firmware and emulation projects like Doom and the Quake trilogy running in Jira Cloud (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/3372062249/doom-for-j...) and a fork of 86box dedicated to NeXTstep systems (i want an emulated object.station, darnit)

itomato··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
Yes, it's like an seeing an issue of "Space Jam" from the original treatment
itomato··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
I've been struggling with this for a few years for Yoto LED icons. Design rules didn't cut it, but a pymagick workflow did, more or less.

I have abandoned the work I was doing, but if you provide the image constraints along with some examples and descriptions of those examples using the terminology of your constraints, you should get something iterable.

itomato··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
"I don't know why all the other shops turned me down..."
itomato··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
No but it can write a tool that can.
itomato··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
npm run art

https://github.com/wjkennedy/stratopcb/tree/main

itomato··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
I got a flexpcb that validates in JLC and PCBWay DRC tools from the KiCAD MCP Server and Codex.

I have yet to order any or program it, but it was enough to make me push on with a PCB art project for ST-style guitar pickguards - no netlist, no problems.

I'm also foolishly toying with NeXTBus dev boards for the Cube. Is it cursed? Probably. https://github.com/itomato/NeXTBus-Dev-Board

itomato··on Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
If the kid lacks curiosity that’s not something a kit can fix.

“Why??!” doesn’t come in a bottle, and that’s the X factor here.

itomato··on Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
All it takes is for someone who knows how to make regular tech bend down and say "this is for me." not to dumb it down beyond recognition.

Logo was a Programming Language, not a blunt-edged primary-colored disposable plastic blinkenlight.

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