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Deeply frustrating - I felt like Mozilla was gaslighting me -- I spent 3 minutes double-checking that even after updating Firefox minutes ago the option is still not visible to me.

Making an announcement when fewer than 40% of your customers will see the feature fees like (unintentional) gaslighting.

LiteStep forever in our hearts ♥

Please normalize 4DWW - Four Day Work Week

Whoever posts this monthly, please include the tag in your description. Employers need to know this is an in-demand feature we want. I for one will not be taking any non-4DWW jobs.

I posted this 15 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314380

Glad to see HN visitors finally see it on the front page :)

You can refer to JPEG XL as its file extension `jxl` pronounced "jixel" ;)

TIL: wuffs - Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

https://github.com/google/wuffs

I'm curious about the memespace HN people inhabit. I've been hearing about Halloween is National DeFlock Day for a while -- anyone else come across this rapidly-spreading meme?

Counterpoint: Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole

Basically jury nullification

https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-al...

I'm curious how many HN people in 2026 have not yet heard of JPEG XL / jxl

I resonated with what seemed to be a portrayal of appreciation of daily life and work (even if it isn't glamorous or cushiony).

The daily pause the main character makes as he leaves for work -- looking up at the sky, to be present and notice.

I loved the concept depicted in several scenes of the main character interacting with someone unknown through a tic-tac-toe game: finding a whimsical connection rather than throwing out the piece of paper.

The depiction of tender relationships between people.

It's a quiet film, comparatively, almost nothing happens. I found it very beautiful.

I was thrilled to learn the word komorebi - sunlight leaking through trees.

Plus, virtually every convenience store in Japan has a clean and ready-to-use bathroom. And there is a very high density of convenience stores. Bathrooms everywhere!

They're all in Tokyo ;)

My all-time-favorite film is Perfect Days depicting days in the life of a sanitation worker overseeing toilets around Tokyo. A must-watch film!

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

My favorite source of graphs about this ongoing catastrophe: https://x.com/EliotJacobson - retired professor of mathematics and computer science

Example: https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/2091911667903041543

You are right about "almost never as fast as", but it is imperceptible to any human. We're talking about less than 100ms to render basically any typical UI, which then updates faster than 30fs. I said "identically fast"; I should have said "with respect to human perception".

Are you suggesting Electron is slow? What evidence do you have? There may be a +200ms start up time compared to a native application; is that so bad?

Besides a bootup that is no longer than your browser's, everything else inside an Electron app can be identically fast to a native application.

Please be a better filter - do not spread bad memes.

A better analogy would be if every time you played the video file, the mechanism hallucinated a little, bringing in your current feelings as input to change the emotional undertones (and possibly characters and events) depicted in the video.

Looks to be rendered to <canvas> ... interesting effect. I enjoyed. Have not worked with graphics enough to know how challenging this effect was to make.

The GitHub repository for this: https://github.com/robertcassch-dot/jpegxlconvert

Love this - references one of my favorite ever optical experiences Eclipse of Titan

https://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html

Since it's Electron why not have a Windows version of the app too?

I recently migrated a few of my Electron apps to Tauri -- was easy and fast in my case -- went down from 130mb installer to 3mb installer. Worth considering!

https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer <- 130mb to 3mb from Electron to Tauri

Please put up this or another screenshot as the first thing you see in the README - please!

I'm reluctant to clone a repository and spend time on it just to find out the project looks crap and I don't want to use it. A screenshot saves other people's time :)

Pretty! Really enjoyed it!

Releasing 3.3.0 version of my Video Hub App - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/ & https://videohubapp.com - 8+ years of development!

Working on 1.0.0 of Simple Image Browser - https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser

Releasing 2.0.0 of my Simplest File Renamer - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer - Electron to Tauri 130mb to 3mb

Releasing 1.0.0 of My Off Remote - https://github.com/whyboris/my-off-remote - turn off your PC from phone / tablet over WiFi

Plant(ing) related: I planted 100 trees in my tiny back yard, creating a pocket forest / Miyawaki forest - a technique encouraging fast growth through dense planting (3-5 trees / shrubs per square meter). Routed my gutters into a swale along the tree line - looking forward to watching a forest appear over the next decade.

https://www.creatingtomorrowsforests.co.uk/blog/the-miyawaki...

I'm a huge fan of Positive Psychology and have read dozens of books (by Ph.D researchers of the subject).

My favorite academic summary is The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being by Michael A. Bishop. As a hyper-short summary: psychologists studying well being have used different definitions and approaches, yet what unifies them is positive feedback loops - behaviors and activities that beget more positive affect in the future. Think spending time with good friends, etc.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22897962-the-good-life

A classic read is Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. It shows how humans are systematically bad at predicting to what extent future events will make them happier or sad. His TED talk is a nice 20 minute summary of the book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56627.Stumbling_on_Happi...

I love your posts! The Social Filesystem is amazing!

https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/

A classic paper worth a read:

If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right

by Elizabeth Dunn, Daniel Gilbert, & Timothy D. Wilson

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10577...

Includes explicit recommendations (even in the short abstract)!

Related: Movie Print - make screenshots from your movies (with numerous options including facial recognition)

https://www.movieprint.org/