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"Burning through pages" is a great way to put it. No need to worry about sheets of paper lying around or scanning and document what you do. It's all there. I especially like that, with the "fineliner," strokes are vector polylines (as opposed to shapes in other brushes) that can be used later to simplify, redraw, and animate documents.

The digital medium often strips human expression when capturing input.

Devices such as the Apple Pencil are getting better at capturing pressure and highly-detailed paths, which inturn are encoded as vectors and can gather information that is lost in physical mediums, such as coordinates, drawing order, and temporality, even capturing things not present on paper such as hover gestures and pressure.

Yet it's common practice to reduce gestures and clicks to points, lines, or curves - two clicks from thousands of users in a CAD environment may output the exact same line from point A to point B - which often forget about the expressiveness of pencil strokes on a sheet of paper, features which could be used by machine learning algorithms to discern intent in the input of different users.

I greatly enjoyed the read.

Here are my highlights.

https://nono.ma/the-making-of-toy-story

It'd be great to see how a Laravel app could run on FrankenPHP and see if there are speed gains.

My current setup is a DigitalOcean Droplet with Nginx and php-fpm.

"By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows to apply them to image modification tasks such as inpainting directly without retraining. However, since these models typically operate directly in pixel space, optimization of powerful DMs often consumes hundreds of GPU days and inference is expensive due to sequential evaluations. To enable DM training on limited computational resources while retaining their quality and flexibility, we apply them in the latent space of powerful pretrained autoencoders. In contrast to previous work, training diffusion models on such a representation allows for the first time to reach a near-optimal point between complexity reduction and spatial downsampling, greatly boosting visual fidelity."

Nice!

A solution could be to OCR the site and overlay the actual recognized text on the site as HTML items that can be hidden but useful for Google index the contents.

I can see the pain and friction that doing that manually would entail though.

I'd go for the SVG format instead of rasterizing to PNG. It's going to be lighter and give you a similar crisp feeling.

Have you tried passing the pages through a OCR transcription system like tesseract? You also get this with the text-parsing feature of the reMarkable 2 for free, and I was thinking you could use the [link title] syntax to mark links and have some sort of automatic mapping to the links so you don't have to specify the links "by hand."

Anyhow, great idea. It's a bit small to read on iPhone.

A cool idea would be to convert each word to an individual image and put each of them inside of an inline div to make the article responsive.

The README says you can pipe this "matrix feed" to Zoom by using OBS Studio's Virtual Camera feature. I've used this virtual camera on Zoom meetings before and, especially on macOS, it can be laggy.

I discovered today that Adobe is introducing Project Shasta, a web-based AI-powered audio recording and editing tool. You can request access now [1].

It seems their intention is not only to provide AI-based audio editing and recording but also to cover the ground of what Riverside already offers.

Remote recording - Recording with others is as easy as sharing a link. Everyone’s audio is recorded in high quality locally, then Project Shasta syncs it back together in the cloud automatically.

"Soon to come features" list things we can already find in Descript, such as filler word removal or speech enhancement. And features already available in the beta include microphone checking for optimal quality and microphone distance, AI-powered audio, remote recording with guests, and project templates.

I was waiting to see what Adobe's take on AI-based audio editing and recording was, and it seems it's here. At the moment the project is referred to as Shasta; I imagine these capabilities either format a new product offering or are integrated with existing tools like Audition, Premiere, or After Effects.

What do you think?

[1] https://pages.adobe.com/shasta/request-invite

I'm not sure if you've tried Descript, but their ML-based "Studio Sound" filter makes bad audio sound like it was recorded and edited nicely.

Interestingly enough, I can't copy this to the clipboard on iOS. It automatically converts into http://1.0.0.1/.

You have to write it manually.

https://0x1000001

I used Dropbox Paper heavily but ended up migrating all of my documents to Notion.

We almost canceled (!).

It doesn't seem like the call service was down but their website, the service that would route you to connect to the call, thus Zoom links are broken. Indeed, I was able to join a meeting at 10:57 but nobody was able to join the same meeting two minutes after that.

I love how my initial title was "Zoom Is Down" but it got updated to "Zoom was down" by moderators after the issue was solved. =)

Our scrum master created a Teams meeting but we ended up using Slack huddles.

Back online now.

It's been 25–30 minutes since I first encountered the error and posted it here.

https://zoom.us/ is back online (here, at least).

https://figma.zoom.us/ - Showing Nginx error

We are falling back to Slack huddles for team standup.

Zoom is returning a 502 Bad Gateway error, and, in some workspaces, it's returning the following Nginx error.

> An error occurred.

> Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable. Please try again later.

> If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

> Faithfully yours, nginx.

Visual programming tools, such as Grasshopper 3d, have created a microworld of custom-made plugins and user interfaces, mostly to generate 2d and 3d geometry, but often used to achieve other programming feats.

There are even explicit plugins that let users create UI components to control and visualize program inputs and outputs.

It seems Elgato already added OBS Studio 28 support to their Stream Deck plugin.

https://help.elgato.com/hc/en-us/articles/8815141056013-Elga...

I've been using daily builds for a while with an M1 Mac. But this is the first official release for Apple Silicon Macs—and it works great.

Now it's time for third-party plugins to add support. (I'm looking at you, Elgato.)

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

Agreed. We're all different and there aren't one-fits-all methods. Yet it's worth understanding what has worked for others and experiment with what works for yourself. I don't think we should give Newport's advice for granted.

I'll share here a quote from Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism, which I mentioned in another comment. Our brain's so-called default network, the one that fires "when thinking about nothing, […] seems to be connected to social cognition."

> Because the subject wasn’t engaged in a specific task, it was easy for researchers to think of the default network as something that comes on when you’re thinking about nothing. A little self-reflection, however, makes clear that our brains are hardly ever actually thinking about nothing. Even without a specific task, they tend to remain highly active, with thoughts and ideas flitting by in an ongoing noisy chatter. On further self-reflection, Lieberman realized that this background hum of activity tends to focus on a small number of targets: thoughts about “other people, yourself, or both.” The default network, in other words, seems to be connected to social cognition.

I enjoyed Cal Newport's point in Digital Minimalism, that "solitude is necessary to thrive as a human being."

In his book, Newport argues that modernity is at odds with solitude and talks about the disadvantages of solitude deprivation.

Hey!

It's still in development. I built a proof-of-concept from scratch almost a year ago, which I just open-sourced at the following link.

https://github.com/nonoesp/note-parser

I intend to develop it a bit more and host it online.

A previous prototype, really barebones, is at https://expensed.me.

The idea is to drag and drop (or type) a plain-text note and visualize the data as a scatterplot or other charts.