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mbjorkegren

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mbjorkegren··on Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos
+1 for this! Some considerations I thought of: 1. smaller keyboards don't easily have access to upper octaves. 2. User might frequently change the transpose on their keyboard.

Could there be a Create Bookmark Now button in the app as a fallback?

mbjorkegren··on OpenAI integrates metadata in DALL-E 3 images (ChatGPT and APIs)
GPS location, depth, exposure settings, focus distance could be incorporated into the signed data. Also if the image is high enough resolution you could pick out individual pixels/subpixels in the screen.
mbjorkegren··on Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
Cool! Do you have any links for this? So far I found this video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jmNLNnqSM&list=PLSab5V2CnI...
mbjorkegren··on ShaderGlass – Overlay applying retro shaders on top of Windows desktop
Could this be used by colorblind people to remap hues? Like for red apples on a green tree, you could remap red to orange.
mbjorkegren··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Encoders are great for this too. Music hardware often uses mappable encoders with LED rings to indicate the current value, and/or with the screen showing what the encoder is controlling.

https://www.ableton.com/en/products/controllers/apc40mkii/tr...

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keyb...

mbjorkegren··on 1 TW of solar to be deployed annually by 2030
Here’s another interesting one, storing energy in heated metal, and later converting the emitted light back to electricity using specialized PV cells: https://youtu.be/Gn7pfYKB7DA
mbjorkegren··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
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mbjorkegren··on Touch-typing feels good but isn’t for me
One option if you're on a laptop, is to use a Dremel to remove the labels from each key.
mbjorkegren··on Show HN: Pol.is – a new commenting system powered by machine learning and D3
It works for any language, though we haven't localized the UI yet. Here's a recent conversation that ran in Taiwan.

https://pol.is/8bfzc9

(We feel ok about sharing this since the owner posted it to Twitter)