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xinjs-ui 0.4.0’s graphical table filter

The main reason xinjs-ui exists is that I wanted to have a really good table component I could just plug into projects. It would be easier to just use something off the shelf, but virtual table...

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nova vs code

Can an indie software company compete with a free product from Microsoft that seemingly everyone, myself included, uses… as well as other well-regarded indy products such as Sublime and BBEdit? I’m a...

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nova vs code pt2: snippets

Note: this is a continuation of my earlier consideration of Nova. It seems that the recurring theme of Nova is that if a feature of Visual Studio Code or TextMate is sufficiently important, it (a) has...

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Sensible Gun Laws

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything overtly political, but I just listened to the third and fourth episodes of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest series of his podcast, Revisionist History. Even though...

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A Fire Upon the Deep, Revisited

(This is an AI-generated image linked in a reddit thread talking about generating this image using AI, so I don’t feel too guilty using it.) I recently discovered I had collected a lot of credits in...

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Nova… reconsidered

I’ve been using Panic Nova pretty solidly for over two months now. I’ve been using it for both my personal work and for my “day job”, and today I got sufficiently frustrated with it to switch back to...

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2kW

I remember some time ago that an environmentalist group in Switzerland had calculated that if we were all going to live sustainably at similar standard of living (i.e. not burning A/C in McMansions in...

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Meta Quest 3—First Reactions

It occurred to me that there’s no real way to develop for mixed reality without a mixed reality headset. The idea of trying to build a Vision Pro app that’s more than just an iOS / macOS app floating...

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Meta Quest 3—Part Two

Text Entry 😒😕😱🤷‍♂️… There are at least five ways to enter text on the Quest 3 (also the Quest 2). In rough terms these options are bearable, awful, awful but in a whole new way I had never previously...

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Meta Quest 3—Part 3

Browser Performance The CPU of the Quest 3 is supposedly about twice as fast as the Quest 2’s and it definitely shows in the performance of the browser. WebGL-powered widgets like map box and...

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Meta Quest 3—The Ugly and the Awesome

I was prompted to write this post by major frustrations in dealing with the Quest 3. The sad thing is these frustrations are part of something I accomplished using the Quest 3 that I really wanted to...

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CSS is great… but it’s often not obvious

The “front-end” is fundamentally driven by three core languages: HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Each of them is absolutely fantastic in its own way but also has a lot of baggage. The thing about baggage,...

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Pi 5

One of the things I did early during the COVID shutdown was buy myself a Raspberry Pi 400 (the one built into a keyboard) along with the camera module and some lenses. I did not realize that the Pi 400...

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Pi 5 follow-up

So far mostly so good. The not-so-good. Random Aside—Vector Editors Those of you who for some reason follow my blog will know that I am a former heavy user of Adobe products and became disenchanted...

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André Braugher, RIP

Never been lonelyNever been lied toNever had to scuttle in fearNothing denied to —Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time” I first remember André Braugher from his performance in Glory where he played...

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BBEdit 15. Still doesn’t suck!

I launched BBEdit 14 today and was duly informed that there was a major upgrade. This means a paid upgrade. And for most apps this means, deciding whether to (a) continue using the App as is, (b)...

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VisionPro, Netflix, and Osborne

Apple’s stock price fell a bit (relative to other big tech companies with which it is perpetually associated) because Mac sales tanked in Q3. Gee, I wonder why? The usual suspects suggested that...

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VisionPro… the way forward

I don’t have and haven’t used or even touched a VisionPro, but I am working on building software for it so I can build software with it. I’ve been thinking about augmented reality as a leap forward in...

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Nova: long-term review

I’ve posted previously about my experiences with Panic Nova, an IDE I want to love from a company I’ve loved ever since I complained about timezone support in v1 of Transmit and Cabel wrote back to me...

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The Benefits of Cross-Platform Development

The Raspberry Pi 5 is about 40% as fast as an M1 Macbook Air, which means its not much slower than my old 2013 Mac Pro. I/O speeds aren’t great (I’m thinking of ordering an M.2 hat for mine to see how...

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