andrewchilds

That's so great to hear! Thank you!

I've thought about adding a spaceship mode where you can pilot around the system you made, do gravity assists and such. The foundation is there!

Amazing work! I've been actually working on a solar system / gravity sim for my son who has been getting a lot of enjoyment out of the PhET gravity/orbit sims, that has some overlap with your project. It's up at https://newtonsorchard.app

I haven't put nearly as much time into my project as you've put into yours - Galaxium is really polished and impressive. Well done!

read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and see if you still consider them “okish”.

> it looks sick

Personally I'll take a sedan or wagon with ample ground clearance any day: https://images.classic.com/vehicles/559a40ae72662e1ac71d2286...

I'm still very happily using Claude Code + Opus 4.5, and am distressed by the idea of losing access to that specific model in a few months. In my experience, 4.5 is very much worth $100/month, whereas 4.6 is basically worthless. I'm honestly not even interested in trying out 4.7. The unfortunate reality of these black boxes is that what makes a particular model shine is very hard to understand and replicate, so you end up with an unpredictable product direction, not something that is steadily improving.

I've found that Opus 4.6 is happy to read a significant amount of the codebase in preparation to do something, whereas Opus 4.5 tends to be much more efficient and targeted about pulling in relevant context.

You're not alone: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23706

Many people have reported Opus 4.6 is a step back from Opus 4.5 - that 4.6 is consuming 5-10x as many tokens as 4.5 to accomplish the same task: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23706

I haven't seen a response from the Anthropic team about it.

I can't help but look at Sonnet 4.6 in the same light, and want to stick with 4.5 across the board until this issue is acknowledged and resolved.

The word "iran" is currently mentioned exactly zero times on https://nytimes.com. Plenty of baking tips though.

Maybe it’s just me, but I have serious issue with Fastmail’s spam filtering. Meaning, it seems that I am the spam filter. I find myself considering closing the account on a regular basis because of it.

I am also extremely frustrated with Gmail’s AI features now being apparently impossible to disable.

Not the parent but my family also has a mac mini to offline TV setup - just a small bluetooth keyboard/mouse and the tv remote for volume. Works well.

As far as I know there are no remotes that work with MacOS.

My hope is this will lead to the reversal of the insane "HDR auto-brightness" behavior that causes any photo marked as HDR to go extreme brightness mode while the rest of the screen darkens:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254050878 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/436949/why-are-som...

If your definition of a return on your blogging/writing investment is how many likes you got, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

I am in no way a good writer, and I don't have an audience, however a few of the articles I've published on my personal site have resulted in a small number of extremely high quality responses from almost exactly the people I wanted to reach. For example, I wrote a review of an insulin pump and received a reply a few days later from a director at the company thanking me for the review and that he was sharing it with his team.

So I'd say blogging can absolutely can pay off, if you think of it in terms of making connections with the right people over time.

It’s not just David Lynch’s own coffee drinking. Making coffee (“there was a fish in the percolator!”) and drinking coffee was one of the most memorable aspects of the original Twin Peaks TV series.

You are free to do whatever you want with your website. This is about the limited number of platforms where communities exist online these days, and how those platforms knowingly using addictive and harmful UX patterns to keep people hooked. I think you and I deserve some level of consumer protection from that.

PR to add Vultr support: https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast/pull/61

It does not support Vultr currently, but it likely wouldn't be difficult to add. There's an open issue for it: https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast/issues/58

The point was that we should have some kind of social contract that pushes back against the worst known addictive product choices, and to create public awareness about them. Mobile Safari has some limited functionality built-in like "Hide Distracting Items" and reader mode, but it's not enough. iOS has Accessibility > Motion > Auto-Play Video Previews, but that seems to only impact Messages.

Totally agree. There should be a digital consumer bill of rights, that includes the right to disable autoplaying videos. Even the NYTimes home page is plastered with them these days, it’s awful. Another one is control over sort order, having the option of “most recent first”, vs. “most likely to keep you here”.

I built (and still use) a similar tool called Overcast 10 years ago: https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast

Meanwhile, Amazon is perfectly happy to sell/promote this "Boy and Tiger Adventure Blocks Set" which simultaneously rips off LEGO and Calvin & Hobbes: https://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Rotatable-Compatible-Charac...

TIL the pachinko connection perfectly explains the visual/sound/game design of the Sonic games.

I’m interested in reading the rest of this story.

Aside from being open source, how is this different from Stadium (https://stadiumcompete.com)?

> With such huge upfront fixed costs it only makes sense to build luxury.

You really believe that if there were less upfront fixed costs, that developers wouldn’t still default to building “luxury” as long as nothing was stopping them? The profit margin incentives are all still the same, regardless of the level of community/political opposition.

I say this as someone with an extremely negative opinion of Facebook/Meta/Zuck: there are communities that only exist on Facebook, in the form of private groups. If you want to reach those communities, you have no other choice but to meet them where they are. Same problem with Twitter/X...

There are a few made for people with diabetes that offer macro estimates based on a photo, e.g. https://www.snaq.ai, https://gluroo.com. I'm sure others exist that are for a more general or fitness-minded audience.

Especially true with the runes update. imo, it traded away the thing that made it unique and truly great in the market: the feeling that you’re just writing vanilla HTML, JS, and CSS.

I mean, do a search for "steal cookie": https://github.com/search?q=steal+cookie&type=repositories

This one has been up for two years: https://github.com/Aker490/Steal-Cookie-Roblox

It would be good to hear an official response from GitHub on where the boundaries are, since it seems like there's plenty of examples of clearly malicious repos hosted for years.