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Niki Tonsky

@nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy

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Fira Code, Clojure, DataScript, Humble UI 🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

Assembly code between iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1. It's basically the same except one instruction points to a different address.

A lookup table tweaked between 4.0 and 4.0.1.

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

on vacation, don’t @ me

photo of a person in pirate outfit on a might sky background

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4d

green electricity

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Startups are hard

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@yurikrupenin.bsky.social очень странный тренд

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

If you don’t know, thing on the right might look newer:

- ~50% more compact
- Less, smaller holes
- Round edges, easier to hold
- Fits in a hand

Current iPhone photographed next to iPhone 1 from the back

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

TIL reader conditionals in Clojure are order-dependent for no obvious reason

Clojure chooses the first selector that matches

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6d

macOS Tahoe version number—26—is the year when it will first become usable

(Just kidding, we all know it won’t)

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@doekman I am affected! https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115254378305841706

Niki Tonsky (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Freaking Tahoe is making my own life worse even without me installing it :(

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 7d

JWT should’ve been called JSONWT. Acronyms should not be compressed

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I just clicked “Remember me” and “Trust this browser” 6 times total over the course of 5 minutes. Loggin in into the same website on the same browser

Who are they kidding?

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Have you ever seen a drunk interface? Windows 10 stock Calculator at 125% display scaling

Screenshot of calculator with very uneven gaps between buttons

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@yurikrupenin.bsky.social нормально, Порфирий встал бы как влитой

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Quick! Which dot is purple?

visual illusion of 9 purple dots on blue background. Only the one you are focusing on appears purple

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Modern computers: can play multiple 8k videos, render millions of triangles every millisecond, transcribe and translate voice real-time, think.

IntelliJ Idea: we draw a line at 5 temporary buffers

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@yurikrupenin.bsky.social люблю запах головы дениро по утрам

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13d

This is art

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Imagine 18 mm thick sheet of paper

Shot from a promo of a e-ink reader saying “and a paper-thin 17.9 mm design”

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@siracusa we’re in!

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@siracusa thanks! Reported https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/8869

macOS icon has wrong border radius on Sequoia · ghostty-org ghostty · Discussion #8869

Issue Description Icon’s inner border radius doesn't match outer border radius on macOS before 26 Related: #7564 Workaround: https://mastodon.online/@[email protected]/115254777998751676 Exp...

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Freaking Tahoe is making my own life worse even without me installing it :(

Ghostty icon is made for Tahoe and has wrong corner radius on previous macOS versions

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Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@doekman you mean butt dial?

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d

New haircut announcement

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@doekman also easy to undo, no?

Niki Tonsky @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Noooooooo! Mastodon added quotes in the worst possible way, copying Twitter: in a dropdown menu on a button.

Come on, be better! Just add one more icon.

Clicking on retweet and instantly retweeting was one of the better parts of Mastodon experience

Top: clicking on Retweet shows dropdown menu with “Boost” and “Quote” options. This is how it works right now

Bottom: Boost and Quote has their own separate icons

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