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kelsolaar··on JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development
I would really like Air to be closer to an agent / terminal multiplexer like CMUX / WMUX: I would for example like to be able to basically type "claude" or "codex" to launch my harness with the CLI args I need. The fact this requires dedicated API keys from the LLM providers makes it a no go at both home and work.
kelsolaar··on PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in
> As of March 2021, the game has sold 5 million copies worldwide for the PS4 and PC platforms. > By April 2025, Death Stranding had reached over 20 million players worldwide.

This is surely more than $60M-$120M earnings.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Stranding

kelsolaar··on ALMA Reveals Long-Lived Hotspots on Betelgeuse's Bubbling Surface
ALMA is a radio telescope, i.e., does not measure visible spectrum / light.
kelsolaar··on I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI
What would be great was if those scanned books were made available in their entirety for public consumption if they are old and rare.
kelsolaar··on My Microscope Is a Dashcam
Really painful to read, I stopped after the first paragraph.
kelsolaar··on Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim
I did the tutorial, it was good, I think that what would help is maybe have the arrows where people need to look at have some animation, e.g., pulsating scale or colour, something elegant but hard to miss, took a little bit at times to find them.
kelsolaar··on Show HN: Lucen a Python compiler that parallelizes for-loops via comment pragmas
This should be part of the Standard Library if so efficient.
kelsolaar··on You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
Insightful video, never thought that such complexity was hiding there. In a hindsight, it makes total sense.
kelsolaar··on Dithering with CSS
It feels and looks like threshold-quantized Perlin rather than actual proper dithering. Cool stuff that said!
kelsolaar··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
Great writing, thanks for the summary and timeline.
kelsolaar··on Dark Castle
The download links are all dead.
kelsolaar··on DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]
The video could be a shorter, some of the goofiness might not please the most pressed people but that is also what makes it fresh and stand out.
kelsolaar··on Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing
I came to say exactly this, keyboard navigation please and automatic playback!
kelsolaar··on Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf
Modo was also really good, ahead of its time in many respects. Excellent UX, the material system was quite good, especially for rapid prototyping.
kelsolaar··on Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf
Modo was a DCC software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modo_(software)
kelsolaar··on Rendering the Visible Spectrum
If you are interested in this topic, we have a fully feature colour science Python package that can of course render the visible spectrum: https://github.com/colour-science/colour?tab=readme-ov-file#...
kelsolaar··on Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
Quite enjoying the idea as I have been looking for something like this for a while but it is reallllllly slow for our medium sized codebase, I have like 2 or 3 fps on my M1: https://github.com/colour-science/colour/tree/develop/colour
kelsolaar··on Top Open Source Authorization Libraries (2024)
> In this article, you will learn top 6 open source authorization libraries ant <-- their key factors that you should consider when choosing an authorization library.

Typo on first sentence.

kelsolaar··on Show HN: Zenflow – orchestrate coding agents without "you're right" loops
The app is really good, gave it a quick spin earlier, quite like it!
kelsolaar··on A year without caffeine (2013)
I used to not drink coffee, joined the high-end VFX industry, started to drink a lot, e.g., 3 big dark mugs at work each day. We had top-of-the-line espresso machines and great coffee so it was easy. Something I noticed is that on weekends, I had systematically huge migraines, those were soothed by drinking more coffee...

The issue is that caffeine has a vaso-constricting effect on blood vessels [1], which then, when they re-expand by lack of caffeine creates the migraines.

One day, I decided to stop, I had an horrible week, constant migraines, it eventually stopped and I never really had coffee since then. Only 2 times during conditions where I needed which added the benefit that the caffeine had a really strong effect then.

I'm certainly missing the taste and ritual, so I replaced coffee with green tea, not as good but no migraines!

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2748160/

kelsolaar··on Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates
Beautiful website!
kelsolaar··on Dark Mode Sucks
It absolutely depends on what you do, for any work involving computer imagery, a dark surround, i.e., dark UI, around the area of interest, e.g., 3D Viewport, 2D Canvas is a must so that to not bias the work. This one of the main reason why Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Autodesk Maya, Blender, The Foundry Nuke, Autodesk Flame, Baselight Filmlight, etc... all have dark themed UI.
kelsolaar··on Blender 5.0
ACES 1.x was quite old and released at a time where HDR displays were pretty much non-existent. ACES 2.x is not perfect but trying to provide display rendering transforms that hit contradictory requirements is really hard, e.g., need to have a really nice rolloff and desaturation towards white whilst being able to reach corners of the gamut.
kelsolaar··on LED types by color, brightness, and chemistry (2021)
sRGB is not wide gamut enough to represent most of the LEDs, you would need a Wide Gamut display and use a space like ITU-R BT.2020.
kelsolaar··on Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window
As you point out, Sam Altman is not exactly an altar boy: https://fastcompany.co.za/business/2025-11-07-sam-altmans-tr...
kelsolaar··on Multi-Core by Default
Ryan is the author of the RAD Debugger: https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger
kelsolaar··on ACP Brings JetBrains on Board
Why not using the best of both worlds?
kelsolaar··on Conare: Ship More with Context Management
Related: https://repoprompt.com
kelsolaar··on Show HN: A visual AI interface to understand papers/books/topics
As an Obsidian user, I wish this was part of it! Awesome project.
kelsolaar··on Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code
How does this compare to Vibe Kanban?
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