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rramon··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
Egui also has terrible defaults: https://github.com/emilk/egui

But a good design system does the trick. Artcraft apps use this library and their Adobe clones come very close to the original apps.

rramon··on Conductor is joining Meta
Could be a Laravel and PHP X bubble thing, former JS/TS only devs mostly seem to promote T3.
rramon··on We're training a Figma-fluent editing model
Canva designers tend to overcook everything, they lack taste. Easy win for Figma in the long run. That said, the open source Artcraft suite of apps (Figcraft is one of them) have a headless command layer that maps 1:1 to the UI, you can run the entire suite headless on a VPS and use your existing AI subs..
rramon··on Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World?
There are a couple of reasons modern design won I think.

Art Nouveau and classic styles from before are very expensive to build and maintain. Human population increased massively during the Industrial Revolution leading to more demand for cheap living space, and living inside is more important than looking at it from the outside.

rramon··on New iPad mini
According to my research, the new iPad mini does support extended desktop!
rramon··on Get Ready for Touch on Mac
A detachable switching to iPadOS would have been a lot better for artists I think (I produce music and draw and own iPads), but Apple wants to sell you on iPads AND Macs plus their iCloud syncing service so they won't do that and merge it into one device.

I also think both Touch and the new Duo phone size are vehicles to lock in devs into native frameworks and make native development more exclusive.

rramon··on New iMac with M6
There was a quad core Mini back in 2011. The old iMac was a good all in one package for designers, especially because you'd spend half or more for an equivalent quality screen.
rramon··on New iMac with M6
The new post Jony Ive design and limitation to 24 inches make it undesirable. I know a lot of folks with older 2007 - 2019 iMacs but none of them who upgraded from those have the new 2020+ one.
rramon··on New iPad mini
Is Stage Manager with an external monitor possible with this new iPad Mini or still artificially limited to M chips? I mean it’s more powerful than the M1 iPad Air which supports it.
rramon··on Booking.com faces EU investigation over scams and hidden ads
You just know something is utter trash when such an obvious domain is used.
rramon··on Developing Taste
Jony Ives goal or obsession is invisible computing that gets out of the way, so thinner is just on a trajectory towards that. No surprise he ended up at an AI company and works on voice interfaces etc.
rramon··on Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
Those are private label brands where the US or EU owners look for ready made low cost products within a category across different Chinese factories and slap their logo on top. Like SEO they game the product search engine and listings on Amazon to appear on the first search result pages, knowing that most impulse buyers don't have much patience.

The factories usually ship directly to Amazon warehouses and it is also fulfilled by Amazon (FBA).

rramon··on New Apple TV 4K
HomeView, HomePod and AppleTV should be one device. A powerful home server + a bunch of low powered clients and receivers all over the home. No need for 8gb RAM in all of them..
rramon··on Apple HomeView
This thing needs some legs or wheels so that it can follow you around a house, becoming a telepresence bot basically.
rramon··on Apple HomeView
Apple is literally cooking for non tech savvy seniors it seems. More or less a locked down foolproof iPad on a stand.
rramon··on A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
Only on the same local network I guess.
rramon··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Inevitable given that a lot of dev entrepreneurs are moving from high level CRUD to low level software, CAD and hardware now with AI. But it might move beyond Linux once AIs come up with their own programming languages.
rramon··on Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
I think because the foods aren't equally digestible and as such lead to a different supply of steady energy. Food cravings can distract.
rramon··on Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
Cool, I think there's a bug when switching themes in the web ui in Safari, the artifacts example with the dark red background isn't readable in light themes. Vesper would be a nice theme to add.
rramon··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
Topcoat needs an Inertia like React integration + Stylex (type safe CSS) on the frontend imo if you want make it as agent friendly as possible. HTMX, Tailwind etc. are still ok but folks who switch to Rust now do this mostly for easier and safer automation. So if you want to grow the framework better think about React.
rramon··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Depends a lot on the token budget I think, different situations for established businesses or strapped founders vs side hustles or hobbyists. So in a way you outgrow Rails or frameworks like it once you can afford a software factory on autopilot 24/7.
rramon··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Agents might pick up Topcoat (inspired by Rails) as the framework for those Rust apps.
rramon··on Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
MacOS GG didn't fit on my 16gb USB drives for a clean reinstall so I decided to upgrade from Tahoe and do a clean wipe afterwards, expecting that this leaves me with a clean GG install. But guess what, after wiping I was back on Tahoe after spending hours updating..
rramon··on Do people prefer traditional architecture?
I think people prefer to look at traditional architecture but prefer to live in modern architecture because at least inside it is better optimized for actual human needs (designed to maximize space, light etc).

The contradiction between outside (public space) and inside (personal space) is worth discussing as well.

rramon··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Whats the advantage over plain single html files/apps using colocated css and use the browser/web view local storage? Those could be saved as PWAs or not?
rramon··on Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
Missing out on flawless App Intents integration could be business risk for Shopify once people get used to doing everything from a central chat interface, including shopping. I guess it's the real reason for the switch.
rramon··on AirPods 5
You can't have a proper soundstage in a car no matter your setup, which kinda degrades a lot of music that wasn't designed for clubs. In a car it's basically background music when you're driving because you can't really give the music your full attention anyway (passive listening), where the lack of focus also masks a lot of details you'd hear on a proper stereo system (active listening).

Edit: to answer your question below, I like both, active and passive listening. But I wouldn't try to optimize for active criteria like details in a passive evironment like a car, so I'd spend more money on fun things like buttkickers instead of high end detail.

rramon··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
The timing is interesting. Stylex (Metas CSS in JS library) is taking off right now because it seems a better fit for AI driven coding in the long run.
rramon··on Claude for Commerce Agents
Preventing upsells won't fly with most smaller shops who depend on social media advertising and average order value (AOV) to make profits from ads.
rramon··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
Big chains are everywhere, including Iceland.
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