Posts tagged: thought

Tiny Tool Town 🏘️ A delightful showcase for free, fun & open source tiny tools. Stupid-delightful software made with love. Tiny Tool Town · tinytooltown.com [1] Learned about this one from the @stipete interview [2] @scotthanselman did on YouTube. This is proof that the internet is alive. It’s such web 1.0 nostalgia to see that people can just build things! Did you know that you can literally just build things and make them exist? You don’t need users, You don’t need a big platform, you can just make something into existance. It seems like something we have forgotten through web 2.0 where everything as become 4 major apps all linking to each other and trying to hoard all of the attention. Scroll through tehre are some really cool apps, probably nothing that has the polish you want, or is going to change your world. What these apps have more than anything you’ve probably used in the recent years, is inspiration. Its xyz, but the way I wanted, or with my little twist. And no one else has to like it but me because I’m the user. References: [1]: https://www.tinytooltown.com/ [2]: https://youtu.be/Wm7tsiJ1nIo?si=_qvZaR5SPWozBjrY

FancyGist fancygist.com [1] I saw this in @cassido’s newsletter this week and had to give it a run. I despise that there is no dark mode and it insists on burning my retinas 😤. But really this is an absolute beate of a web based markdown editor, I love the command mode to press slash and it just pops out in this whimsical animation ready for me to pick what I want. Your browser does not support the video tag. [2] References: [1]: https://fancygist.com/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/74f0ac1e-ac50-4939-8bba-4698a8043b25.mp4

Reply guy The latest scourge of Twitter is AI bots that reply to your tweets with generic, banal commentary slop, often accompanied by a question to "drive engagement" and waste as much … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] I had no idea there were such things as “reply guy” as a service. I can see this as a really genuine thing where brands want to genuinely engage with their communities, quickly being taken over by slop bros to ruin everything. References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/reply-guy/#atom-everything

Smaller and dumber If I can make it smaller, I should. daverupert.com · daverupert.com [1] Important things to remember in the age of cheap code. More code, not always more better. More code mean, more risk, more maintenance, harder to change. References: [1]: https://daverupert.com/2026/02/smaller-and-dumber/

- THIS, THIS is how most people are feeling about AI right now. Theres lots of “oh ai bad”, “but ai help”, “but ai company sleezy”. Cassidy did a fantastic job summarizing how most of us are feeling. Ending with well at the end of the day, I can’t do anything about the bad, the best thing I can do is learn how to embrace the good cause it aint going away any time soon.

castpixel ⚧️⚢ (@castpixel.bsky.social) I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my … Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1] This is a wild way to build prototype pcb’s, so cool and creative. References: [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/castpixel.bsky.social/post/3mf52azn5oc2h

Session: Skate Sim (@SessionGame) on X Our long-awaited Skate Core Update is now LIVE 🛹🔥 Peep all the changes in our dev blog → https://t.co/GB0de8ebPj Don’t own Session yet? Fix that here → https://t.co/JseSvy5DML X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] Had 10 minutes to play with the new session updates this afternoon and it feels so much smoother. I can definitely feel it even as a casual user. References: [1]: https://x.com/SessionGame/status/2024469214396838140

trash (@trashh_dev) on X loving the state of development right now X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] There are so many config files right now, glad to see some standards coming in around Agents.md, but so much is still specialized to a whole host of tools that have not been standardized on yet. References: [1]: https://x.com/trashh_dev/status/2024476878015468027

Silksong: Demastered by Nekodot Hollow Knight: Silksong in the classic NES-style! itch.io · nekodot.itch.io [1] This is an abolute banger of a game on itch. It nails the nes aesthetic while keeping true to the modern silksong movements. You can play through the first boss Moss Mother, and where you start the first ascend into Bone Bottom. I was in shock when I discovered the little climb effect hornet does when you just cant quite make a jump, the hold jump for height is on point. Her downstrike with the hunters crest is perfect. References: [1]: https://nekodot.itch.io/silksong-nes

Blueskii (@LayoutPerson) on X this underground creator named "sN0UK" made Queens Garden from Hollow Knight In GD! 🗡️🕸️ X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] Wyatt would absolutely love this banger of a level. [2] References: [1]: https://x.com/LayoutPerson/status/2023551519375900957 [2]: https://x.com/i/status/2023551519375900957

DHH (@dhh) on X I've really come to love Tmux's programmability. Next Omarchy will have a "nic" function that starts current directory with this 3-way split: Neovim, Opencode, Terminal. Everything a programmer needs! X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] To the untrained eye this passes as any normal gui editor. [2] References: [1]: https://x.com/dhh/status/2023710298201350606/photo/1 [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/86d45a22-9ed4-4f14-8070-5f0cadee9bad.webp

uvx.sh | Astral Install Python tools with a single command. Powered by uv. uvx.sh [1] astral silently dropped a clever uvx.sh to help builders reach a wider audience, no longer does a user need to have python installed prior to installing a python cli. It does have a hard requirement on having curl or wget available. References: [1]: https://uvx.sh/

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- We are living through the js framework wars for agents and llms now. We will look back on this with clarity, and wonder why we wasted time with things like graphql, and why we couldn’t see the real winners from the start.

- Such a good interview @lexfridman is such a talented interview. It’s so cool to see the other side of this. For weeks we’ve heard about the story of the name change, we’ve seen everyone shitting on the security model, buying up all the mac minis in existance, fear mongering not to install this thing. @steipete [1] has such a cool story from the beginning talking about making this thing fun and exciting. Giving it a personality that is not “You are absolutely right”. The story of changing the name twice, and getting pwnd on every step the first time and nailing it the second time is incredible. Dude is having fun trying to make the thing he wants in the world exist. References: [1]: https://steipete.me

Naya Connect – Hackaday Hackaday · hackaday.com [1] The idea of adjustable key caps to mutate your board into something that really fits you, how you type, how your fingers move, is an absolute banger. References: [1]: https://hackaday.com/tag/naya-connect/

Background Patterns with CSS `corner-radius` – Master.dev Blog You might need to know this someday: you can style a div, put the div into SVG, then put the SVG in to CSS and use it as a repeating background. frontendmasters.com [1] These patterns are really good. I like a good repeating background on a website. Takes me back to the old days of web, but with a nice crispness that was never there on sites of old References: [1]: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/background-patterns-with-css-corner-radius/

The shovelware cometh In September of last year, I covered a post by Mike Judge arguing that AI coding claims don’t add up, in which he asked this question: If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive usi… jerodsanto.net [1] Not surprising theirs a lag, between the models getting better, the tools getting better, and the masses getting better at using them, it takes time. This is still quite a hockey stick. I’m wondering how many are not posting on Show HN embarrassed they built something they know nothing about and afraid to get questions. I have no idea how anyone would get this ratio, but if I were a betting man, Id bet the ratio of build/show went way up. Plus we are probably getting a ton of people who have never heard of HN start building cool bespoke things for themselves and thats it, they use it, they love it, they might tell/show a friend. References: [1]: https://jerodsanto.net/2026/02/the-shovelware-cometh/

The shovelware cometh In September of last year, I covered a post by Mike Judge arguing that AI coding claims don’t add up, in which he asked this question: If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive usi… jerodsanto.net [1] Not surprising theirs a lag, between the models getting better, the tools getting better, and the masses getting better at using them, it takes time. This is still quite a hockey stick. I’m wondering how many are not posting on Show HN embarrassed they built something they know nothing about and afraid to get questions. I have no idea how anyone would get this ratio, but if I were a betting man, Id bet the ratio of build/show went way up. Plus we are probably getting a ton of people who have never heard of HN start building cool bespoke things for themselves and thats it, they use it, they love it, they might tell/show a friend. References: [1]: https://jerodsanto.net/2026/02/the-shovelware-cometh/

dax (@thdxr) on X finally got around to setting up an always on opencode server so i can run sessions on any device from anywhere takes a few minutes - showed it off here X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] I tried this flow [of running an opencode server on tailscale] on day one of getting opencode, I wanted to prompt from my phone while were were running lights at the theater. It kinda worked, but the ui was really bad on phone, hard to use and the experience overall–it felt buggy. Happy to see they are making improvements and it might now be ready for some real use. https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9065fcb2-5e40-479c-967e-498bc9bb6a4f.mp4 References: [1]: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2017691649384620057