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joshmarinacci

1,775 karma · joined December 6, 2011

developer evangelist, engineer, UI advocate.
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joshmarinacci··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
That is an incredibly annoying grunge font. And what is the point of the hidden image in the background that reveals under your mouse cursor.
joshmarinacci··on Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
Wow. Maxime’s site is gorgeous.

Thank you

joshmarinacci··on Mini Micro Fantasy Computer
True , but if it had a real ISA underneath then we could write custom emulators for them.
joshmarinacci··on We let AIs run radio stations
Didn't this already happen in the late 1990s when the telecom act de-regulated radio ownership?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_homogenization

joshmarinacci··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
I’ve been vibe coding a Figma like clone and it’s fun but slow going. Creating real Photoshop clones is still a ton of work with no monetary payoff.
joshmarinacci··on A Preview of the Future
Realtime interaction is magic.
joshmarinacci··on Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS
Curse you! Now I have to go clean out the attic to find mine.
joshmarinacci··on I hate soldering
Where did you buy your populated boards from? I want to make a small in and not deal with SMT at all.
joshmarinacci··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
You’re in Eugene!? Me too. I’d love to meet up some time to talk about your software over coffee.
joshmarinacci··on Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler
I’ve been following the Ohm project for years and it’s the best way to build parsers I’ve ever seen. I’ve used it to parse many program languages and even markdown. I’m happy to see it get even faster.

https://joshondesign.com/2021/07/16/ohm_markdown_parser

joshmarinacci··on So where are all the AI apps?
That is an excellent question. For me the answer is yes, but I'm unusual.
joshmarinacci··on Nmap in the movies (2008)
Yes. A reference to the real author who’s work inspired the cyberpunk chapters.
joshmarinacci··on What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
This too shall pass.

Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things:

* Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated

* A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen

* after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.

joshmarinacci··on Font Rendering from First Principles
Hugged to death?
joshmarinacci··on Fun with Shell Emojis
There's a lot of other cool unicode glyphs besides emojis that can liven up your shell. I use the Block Elements a lot in my command line tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

joshmarinacci··on The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
How does this technical issue affect the economy and politics? In what way would the world be different just because we used a better linker?
joshmarinacci··on The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf]
Yes. There is a direct path from modern Squeak to the original image from Smalltalk 78.
joshmarinacci··on Skeena Indigenous Typeface
This article went much deeper than I was expecting. Wow. I always wondered what native peoples alphabets looked like since the Latin alphabet was imposed on them by colonialists. Fascinating.
joshmarinacci··on Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk
Ooh. Tell us more.
joshmarinacci··on Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
I'm impressed. It runs my dev blog quite well. Some of the CSS alignment is off and it doesn't load web fonts, but it looks basically the same as Chrome. Even the syntax highlighted code snippets work.

https://joshondesign.com/2025/09/16/embedded_rust_03

joshmarinacci··on DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)
I don’t hate the C language. I hate the C compiler (and the rest of the toolchain). Anything that helps me not interact with the C compiler is a huge win.
joshmarinacci··on DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)
You can do exactly this in rust using non public fields and accessor methods.
joshmarinacci··on Tactility: An ESP32 OS
I’m currently working on a browser targeting the T-deck in pure Rust. It’s effectively a text mode command line browser good for reading pages with links and nothing else. There just isn’t the ram for anything more. Interestingly, The slowest part is actually SSL connections.
joshmarinacci··on TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV
Netflix wants you to watch their own shows, not TV from the 90s that they have to pay licensing fees for.
joshmarinacci··on What are OKLCH colors?
Blame Google and SEO
joshmarinacci··on Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
Incidentally the size of sockets and screws (including the Allen wrench) is very much a technology. William Sellers pushed standards in the mid 1800s specifically to benefit American industry through interoperability. Standards we still use today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sellers

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3102001

joshmarinacci··on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator
If you are using the lilygo tdeck, I’m working on Rust support here.

https://github.com/joshmarinacci/rust-tdeck-experiments

joshmarinacci··on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator
Not really. This stuff is heavily NDA and patent encumbered. You’d be better off setting up a local wifi network and using an IP based audio call system.
joshmarinacci··on Technology Trends Outlook 2025
I would really like to see some historical analysis of McKinsey reports. These things always seem like breathless marketing for their clients. They are wildly over optimistic and I don’t think hold up well when measured against reality. Ex: where are we with the smart home revolution?
joshmarinacci··on Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version
In one sense this is logical. A HomePod with a screen and an iOS variant. On the other hand, what is this for? What uses do these smart home devices serve? We are a decade plus into the “smart home” era and most of these things are more trouble than they are worth.
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