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Pouya Kary — Kinda a researcher.

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pmkary··on Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with Wikipedia
Moron with an army of imbeciles following....
pmkary··on Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling (2003) [pdf]
This + shaders + expanding/deexpanding UIs like folding in Xcode...
pmkary··on VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
This is technical people at their finest! There couldn't be any news more important than this—or more anticipated by the community. For so many years people wished for this, and they announce it this low-key in a forum! This is so awesome. Thanks to Steinberg & YAMAHA, I guess so much good is to come out of it.
pmkary··on Zoxide: A Better CD Command
To know haw bad CD, is to realize it's the second time in half of a year that Zoxide is featured in the main page.
pmkary··on GNU Midnight Commander
Miguel de Icaza Rocks So Hard. And whatever he makes rocks as much.
pmkary··on Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
When I git Arc, I thought "how are they going to monetize this?" Red flag I just didn't take seriously. Then I saw remains of the chromium branding, they hadn't even changed the icon. I thought this isn't time consuming, why they haven't done such a thing? And honestly it felt like one of those ADHD brains that go to many ideas and never finish any, Arc was exactly one in every sense. I knew this was huge red flag but then the beautiful interface (which till this day is—after Apple's—the most crafted and beautiful one) made me break my lines. I knew this could not keep going. Arc Search is a horrible browse, and I actually always used it because it was syncing with the desktop, the desktop was broken in so many different places that I cannot name (just try to open the downloads and you see). And well Arc is just another browser with some ideas borrowed from here and there. I mean it's still some sandboxed web frames, nothing integrated, no special new feature and infrastructure to make the browser an OS. My whole point with this is that it astonishes me how they never finish anything (Arc, Arc Sync, Arc Search, Arc Windows, Easels...) and they actually sell big time and have all of this hype around them
pmkary··on Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes
The man is almost always right about everything.
pmkary··on Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
I wished for years I could know how to make this! I can't express my thank you enough!
pmkary··on Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
Your designs are so god damn beautiful. Thanks a lot for this.
pmkary··on Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)
Back when autocompletion and stuff were only available in Visual Studio/Xcode/Other bug IDEs, I was forced to use Ruby and fell in love with it. It didn't matter what I used as my editor was Sublime. But when VSCode came and language features became democratized, I never touched a type-less language again. Why should someone opt for a language with absolutely no features where one can have autocompletion, typechecking, deep data type exploration, jumping to definitions and implementations? I really think it's a bad choice of Ruby not to care for types. And well we now have Crystal which again makes me question why Ruby? And it’s a shame no language is as beautiful as Ruby, not in features choices, design elegance, balance, beauty of the syntax, joy of programming mindset, not even in the name and logo. I wished Matz rethinked this part.
pmkary··on This Month in Ladybird
You guys are hugely on fire. Who would have thought someday a new engine rises in this climate, and then who would have thought it would be a small team, without a trillion dollar giant behind them pouring hundreds of millions into its production? This is truly one of the greatest things I have seen in my lifetime.
pmkary··on This Month in Ladybird
You guys are on fire!
pmkary··on Atlassian terminates 150 staff
I actually have seen a very random company who fired its employees by SMS in the middle of the night... And not a single penny of severance packaging. They only got their last payment and that was it. It's a shame I forgot the company name to have them face some shame here...
pmkary··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
If someone came, stole your land, raped your women, killed the children, and occupied town after town, and then forced you and rest of the survivors into a town, built walls around you, imprisoned the whole city, didn't let you do anything, brought the most racist thing upon you, silenced your cried for help in the world, payed all media to portray you as animals and dehumanize you, and all of your acts of civil conduct by one of your friends Arafat didn't result in anything, then don't get angry like Hamas and don't play the only cards remaining for you since every thing else literally is taken away. Just stay so that they can kill all of you and erase you from the face of planet. (I'm not supporting Hamas, but do you see how this is made by a world that sees the whole Palestine as something to be removed? erased?)
pmkary··on Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
As I said: genius "idea" not
pmkary··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
I wonder why they should make iOS specific engines. To be honest only two things come to my mind: Shortcuts Integration and WebExtensions. Currently Orion is trying to bring extensions but I think there is a lot to be done for that to be considered operational and if that proves to work, then only remains Shortcuts which only lets you inject JS, or say get the content of a page from a "Safari" web page (while I think every webview is basically a Safari page).

That brings me to this: Chrome extensions are valuable and we know as early as the rumors of Apple being forced to open up, Google started working on iOS port, but really, is there any justification for bringing a browser engine to iOS? I really don't understand how will it be beneficial when the user probably will notice anything.

Also we only have like four players to enter: Google (which will come), Mozilla (broke and miss-managed as hell), GNOME Web (will never come), Ladybug Browser (they are crazy and will definitely come someday, but it takes a long time for them to be an actual player)

So my question is: Will all this effort even fruit?

pmkary··on Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
What a genius idea.
pmkary··on What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
There never is anything more satisfying than to see maestro Victor, or maestro Kay being up voted in the hacker news.
pmkary··on Zorin OS
Basically every linux marketing ever: a polished desktop theme that is familiar to windows users and works on old machines, also never mentioning this is a linux.
pmkary··on OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract
For the rest of you at the end of adapting the "OpenAI is Evil" spectrum.
pmkary··on GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world
This is insane!
pmkary··on Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game
One of the most "old but golds". I smile every time this makes it into the top here.
pmkary··on If nothing is curated, how do we find things
Thanks for the great post.
pmkary··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
No more "Swiss-Privacy" then.
pmkary··on The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
This was something I really enjoyed reading, having suffered greatly from the same conditions. It made me realize I’m not alone, and for that I hugely thank you, and everyone else in this thread who commented.
pmkary··on The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
I went down this road and it doesn't free up time, you just get to fix many many more problems.
pmkary··on I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
This is gold :) I wished you share more of this stories
pmkary··on A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People
I had too, and it was the only reason I was with that company.
pmkary··on Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly
Wow, I mean for a TV app, wow
pmkary··on Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
What a sad thing to read. Loosing. What will remain of the internet if even IA is destroyed the rich?
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