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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 14/08/2026

Accessibility question: I rely on text-to-speech, but the Claude CLI's formatted output breaks my native TTS, and turning on plain-text mode strips all the visual structure. Anyone built a dyslexia-friendly wrapper that keeps the formatting on screen but pipes clean text to TTS?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 25/06/2026

So for me, code as the medium you design in feels more functional, but I'm curious how others are using non-code native design platforms in their own personal or team workflows.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 25/06/2026

The problem is interactive demos. The second you prototype interaction in Figma, you're either doing the work twice or fighting messy cross-platform syncing to keep design and code from drifting apart, and fighting with their MCP tends to create more problems than progress.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 25/06/2026

I'm not anti-Figma, to be clear. As a canvas for early scoping and exploring a vibe, it's great. That's the job it's actually good at for my own workflow, although Magicpath is starting to be my go-to for vibing in a canvas environment.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 25/06/2026

The line between design and engineering has collapsed, and the designers who can express ideas in the medium they ship in are going to run circles around the ones tossing static files over a wall.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 25/06/2026

The friction to me came from how Figma gives you a dead artifact. It looks right, but it doesn't do anything and then someone has to translate the whole thing into code before it's real. That's just duplicating the work needed to ship.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 25/06/2026

I was job hunting recently, and one thing kept surprising me how many teams still build interactive prototypes in Figma. It became an early flag to watch out for in identifying teams that wouldn't be a good fit.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 18/06/2026

Sunsetting this project due to the acquisition

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 10/06/2026

AI tools really need to double down on system design. I know the pace of change is fast, but damn, the rate at which features move or are removed is wild.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 05/06/2026

why don't all headphones have a mute button?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 19/05/2026

I rarely go back to past chats and find that I will just ask a similar question a second time because in all likelihood the answer will be better the second time.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 19/05/2026

I'm finding that I wish conversation threads in LLM tools worked more like tabs in arc, and just auto deleted after say 3 days.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 12/05/2026

Anyone else noticing that search engine results are increasingly terrible?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 23/04/2026

Mirroring code-switching -- side-by-side reading was thinking more of each pair of book pages being connected. I was able to get into a good flow, but maybe the English should only be visible on highlight.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 23/04/2026

Interlinear code-switching -- more fully translation-focused, seeing both languages at the same time. When trying it, I find I need to focus more on not defaulting to the English, which feels like cheating.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 23/04/2026

Progressive code-switching -- translation progressed in complexity based on word frequency and book length. This still feels like the most appealing learning curve when trying it.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 21/04/2026

Strange Harvests has been a wild collection of rabbit holes. Would recommend.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 20/04/2026

石の上にも三年 (ishi no ue ni mo sannen) Stick with things even when they’re uncomfortable; steady patience turns “this kinda sucks” into real progress with habits, skills, or long-term projects.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 19/04/2026

Anyone come across research on Variation Theory for dyslexic learners?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 08/04/2026

I think it could be interesting as a browser extension too.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 08/04/2026

a rabbit hole lead be to finding there are two better words for this: intercomprehension (understanding a related language you never formally learned) + translanguaging (one unified linguistic repertoire, not separate switches). changes how I think about picking up languages gradually.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 07/04/2026

Not a perfect 1:1 translation, but a gradual introduction of a new language through inline context. Like how friends in college would seamlessly switch between multiple languages mid-conversation.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 07/04/2026

Been thinking a lot about interfaces that promote learning in new ways what if you started reading a book in one language and finished it in another?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 07/04/2026

202603 - How to use AI Updated my workflow for feature and v0 product creation. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/how...

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 03/04/2026

just noticed that Mac Pro is gone rip

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 03/04/2026

Starting to play with github.com/collaborato... its one the nicer solutions I have found for tracking agents across multiple projects at once.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 02/04/2026

love how old school html pages feels almost impossiably fast, modern web stack are so heavy 😅

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 01/04/2026

I have been finding the discussions around design being "cooked" with recent AI model changes to be a little exaggerated. Curiouse if this resonate with others. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/des...

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 31/03/2026

the 'growing' is a little better now, and beta and featured site now get a 🐝 too!

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 31/03/2026

agreed, the sites now auto build on creation, and a cron check for changes once an hour. I'll increase the checking for change in a few days once i get a better sense of load tracking.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 31/03/2026

🤦🏻‍♂️ good catch! pushing a fix.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 31/03/2026

Looking for 30 people to test tiny.garden. If you ever used small victories back in the day this is very much similar but instead of dropbox for now its all based on are.na channels.

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Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 31/03/2026

tiny.garden is ready for testing! If you have an arena channel you want to make into a mini website give it a try and lmk what could work better!

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Turn Are.na channels into websites

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 26/03/2026

😱 me frantically trying to find an outlet before the agents loose power.

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Hannah Tardie @delay7.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The electronics faire schedule (keynote, workshops, and more) is now live! Excellent time for a visit to Philly <3 sites.temple.edu/efaire/sched...

Repair Electronics Faire Keynote Presentation by Dr. Edward Jones-Imhotep. Keynote starts at 2:45 PM on Friday April 10th, 2026 in the Charles Library Event Space in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 25/03/2026

Claude helping me clean up years of inconsistent front matter properties in Obsidian!

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 23/03/2026

Still playing with this idea but you can make one at dendrocode.vercel.app (still dealing with some github api rate limits but if you sign in it shouldn't be an issue.)

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Dendrocode — Tree rings for your code

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 20/03/2026

Each ring is one merged PR: center = oldest, outside = newest. Thickness ≈ files changed; Rougher edges ≈ more commits. What would you expect them to be?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 20/03/2026

Trying to incorporate more natural systems thinking into my work. And realize there's a lot of functionality in using a tree ring to visualize data overtime.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 17/03/2026

does anyone use or want a tea tracker? I'm thinking like post.cv but for a tea community.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 16/03/2026

Hot take: "thinking" isn't the right word for what LLMs do. Humans think. Models reason. He feels important that we keep these two things separate until machines do actually think.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 06/03/2026

Any scientists using Cursor for their work? I’d love to talk with any scientists using Cursor about an MCP service I’ve been working on. DM me please!

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 24/02/2026

Sometimes I wonder how my plants feel about me drinking tea in front them.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 23/02/2026

Over-applying LLMs is like driving to the corner store: you spend longer parking than walking. They’re great for teaching and cold starts, less great as an unmonitored end-to-end pipeline. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/whe...

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 20/02/2026

Would be cool if Cursor's .md preview was a TipTap-style rich text editor. I always get a little frustrated when I try to edit the preview and it just opens the raw markdown instead.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 20/02/2026

After a few weeks with Claude Cowork, I've landed on three patterns that changed how I work: solving the cold start problem, building to learn instead of reading docs, and rapid visual exploration at scale. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/tho...

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 19/02/2026

It's pretty wild how much I have learned in the last year just by talking to cursor.

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵 @gndclouds.earth · 18/02/2026

We have protocols for giving agents tools (MCP). We have protocols for giving agents tasks (A2A). What we don't have is a protocol for giving agents presence. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/obs...

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