272. Endless Lotus 中
The cover was shot over the weekend when I went to Xixi Wetland to fly the drone over the lotus flowers. It looked wonderful and was really stunning. Humans look so small beneath nature, and the drone has helped me see so many great things.
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Trending Tools
Bought a Brother T735DW printer just for this
To test Kami’s print layout, I specially bought a Brother T735DW printer. The build quality is really nice and I quite like it, so if you need to buy a printer you might want to look at this brand. The Kami-formatted output prints beautifully too. Of course, I pushed out an update to make Kami support printers better, so you’re all welcome to try it. PS: this was actually the first time I’d ever heard of Brother, but a lot of the old-timers tell me it’s a well-known name.
This wood-chopping simulator site is kind of fun
https://screen.toys/firewood/
There’s a wood-chopping visualization site that’s pretty fun. It gives you a really realistic sense of chopping firewood, so when you’re tired from AI coding you can give it a go.
Glaze: a nice new take on building and shipping Mac apps
https://www.glaze.app/
It basically lets you vibe out your own desktop app by talking, to solve your own problems. It runs on your Mac, works offline, and you can distribute it too. It has a bit of a next-generation Mac App Store feel, worth a play.
sensory-ui: what if your component library had sound effects?
https://dinkyfiles.com/
What would it feel like if your component library had sound effects? This is really fun and worth playing with, giving your shadcn/ui some audio.
Playwrite Tanzania: a lot like Apple’s handwriting font
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playwrite+TZ?preview.script=Latn
This font really looks a lot like Apple’s boot-up “hello” handwriting style. It’s beautiful and pretty much spot on, so give it a try if you need it.
Just Looking Around
This book-showcase effect is so great
https://press.stripe.com/
Try opening it in a desktop web browser. The animations feel really smooth, love it.
Moderate intervention: tuning AI’s presence by user intent
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/063MFQz-2Jkktdhpwf-jIw?scene=1
Plenty of AI products have a problem with getting the degree of intervention wrong: pop-ups keep interrupting what you’re doing, and when idle they waste compute. How do you get AI to show up when needed and disappear when idle?
The visualization for this college-entrance-exam application simulator
https://agentsfeed.org/app-demo/gaokao/index.html
This works really well, thanks to the person who made it. If a friend of yours needs to fill out their college applications, you can help them take a look together. Picking the right city and the right university really matters.
Maybe you should go learn something
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/
This article is actually useful. For most of us engineers, it’s worth using our spare time to learn something from other fields, which can be really interesting.