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Sander @klassika.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

@nikitonsky Oh also, if the system doesn’t recognize the extension we get the genius filename “model.step copy”. This is on Sequoia.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

“the new Macos is trash, so the file just remains in place” via t.me/grumpy_chat/168584

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Somebody should start making decently working apps for macOS because Apple can’t anymore. The bar is extremely, extremely low

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I guess it’s noon and I am at the equator because my macOS just started making screenshots without shadows

screenshot of multiple windows without shadows

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I wish modern designers discovered at least one more shape besides a rounded rectangle. I am so tired of these pills everywhere

Screenshot of Firefox Nova, where everything is very round

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The way macOS renders small previews of rectangular documents and then gives them a horrendous (relative to their size) corner radius, turning many of them into pills or circles... There should be a law against that

screenshot of finder where exactly this happens

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

As of 2026, centering in CSS remains unsolved

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I am not sure I am 100% happy about it, but it does finally feel like we live in the future

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

In other news: AlleKinos.de now has an optional dark mode! Sync with the system or override

Screenshot of AlleKinos.de in light mode

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

This is why I’m paying for top-tier macbook pro and high refresh rate monitor. Video is NOT slowed down

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Software updates will continue until the adoption of Harry Potter audiobook packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible improves via @grishka

Android System update screen listing changes including: Instantly customise your Pixel with Harry Potter audiobook packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible. One tap changes your wallpaper, icons and sounds with elements from the audiobooks. 2]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Are you as tired as I am of seeing scroll containers everywhere? That they make all interfaces wobbly and give a feeling of poor construction? Like you can’t rely on things if they are not stable and move that easily for no good reason

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

AI has advanced enough to suggest file name from its content, but not enough to support whitespaces

Screenshot of macOS GG offering file names during rename

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Leave it to Apple to illustrate “Design refinements” in the upcoming macOS with a curated screenshot where arrow is not even vertically centered. I am not talking about optical, it’s not even geometrically centered! Vibes all around

Screenshot of macOS Golden Gate toolbar with three buttons: Trash, folder and reply arrow. Folder is not optically centered, but arrow is way below the center line even geometrically

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Been using Zed for remote development and figured I should port Alabaster. IMO looks cute github.com/tonsky/zed-theme-alabast…

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Wait, codex knows about six seven???

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

My terminal app built on SwiftTerm also has a new theme picker, because themes were overwhelming. Looks fun, but the visualization are not quite as useful as I imagined it would be.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I will never understand regional salaries for fully remote teams. Why should a person in Europe get paid less for doing exactly the same job as everybody else?

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Sublime Text is so old you can’t even log into it. There are no accounts. Can you imagine that? Text editor with no accounts? Even Notepad has Sign in

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

With everything having notifications now, I’m waiting for someone to invent a notification that can have its own notifications

Messages icon with Notification dot that has its own notification do

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Clojure branding is so strong I thought this was some new Clojure startup

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Fun fact: in UTF-8, Unicode ellipsis (U+2026, …) occupies the same 3 bytes of memory as just three dots in a row (...) … -> E2 80 A6 ... -> 2E 2E 2E

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Let me click that microphone... Oops!

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Can an anti-affordance UI give you the same uncomfortable feeling as liminal spaces in Backrooms? I think it can reimar-servas.de/writing/2026-07-02… via @reimar

Bunch of buttons (apply, cancel, sign in) with wrong icons on them (lock, heart, hourglass etc)

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

“The thing that made open source maintenance joyful was that someone cared enough about your work to try to improve it. You mentored them. They learned. The code got better. The community grew. That's the social contract. AI slop doesn't add work. It replaces human connection with mechanized […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Another Youtube-to-podcast converter. At this point it’s easier to ask LLM to build exactly what you need than searching for an existing project that might or might not do what you want. github.com/tonsky/youtubecast

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GitHub - tonsky/youtubecast: Turns YouTube channels/playlists into audio podcast feeds

Turns YouTube channels/playlists into audio podcast feeds - tonsky/youtubecast

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Projection of a 4D cube to a 1D surface

White square with a single line in the middle

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Open AI has perfected the consent form

ChatGPT consent screen this is mostly empty, with my email and two big buttons: Cancel and Continue

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I’m writing a book. It’s a dictionary that translates HR English into Commonfolks English. Here’s what I’ve got so far: - X wants to talk to you → X has no clue about you. I want you two to talk. - It will be a sync → It will be a test interview. You will be grilled. - I’d like to answer your […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Browsers were made to display walls of text, it’s the one thing they do best. They can literally render the entire War and Peace as a single static HTML page, no problems. So why is your annoying React app removing (“virtualizing”) 8 paragraphs of a tiny 10-paragraph document the moment they go […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

How did Lidl build its supermarket chain? Lidl by lidl.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

LinkedIn made an interesting choice that neither Enter nor Cmd+Enter send the message. Both insert a newline

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Is this Umlaut even legal in Germany?

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