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New comment by agys in "Click (2016)"

agys — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:50:05 +0000

This is another gem by Amsterdam based Studio Moniker, the guys behind “Radio Garden”.

Some of my favorite projects:

https://studiomoniker.com/projects/radio-garden

https://studiomoniker.com/projects/do-not-touch

https://studiomoniker.com/projects/do-not-draw-a-penis

New comment by agys in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

agys — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:38:15 +0000

I buy mostly music on Bandcamp and iTunes/Music is my sole driver for my 30k local song files. It's unfortunate that it has been neglected over so many years. There is a plethora of well known bugs and the sync with iPhone works most of the times, but not always and is in general quite cumbersome. The UI has become ridiculous over time (for example: it features two search/filter fields). It would be an easy mark to simply fix and polish it a bit. Sad.

New comment by agys in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

agys — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:26:29 +0000

Ess two is less than less than three, but also a classic.

s2 < <3

New comment by agys in "Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)"

agys — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:59:33 +0000

It’s a strange feeling to zoom in until the cracks of the paint fill the screen.

New comment by agys in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

agys — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:19:33 +0000

Such a shame that it was cancelled!

New comment by agys in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

agys — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:36:23 +0000

The three finger drag is an ergonomic marvel, combined with tapping (vs. clicking) and a couple of four finger gestures it’s perfect. I don’t use (or drag around) a mouse since very long; not even when heavily using Photoshop and similar pointer-heavy applications.

New comment by agys in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

agys — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:17:05 +0000

The name gives it away :)

New comment by agys in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

agys — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:15:27 +0000

It feels very nice on the eyes to have it at a certain distance.

New comment by agys in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

agys — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:45:06 +0000

I think I’m absolutely the target audience: I’m a designer, programmer, animator. Crispness at 4k is still quite good at 1m distance from my face. I’d buy it without hesitation if it came much, much larger.

New comment by agys in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

agys — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:33:43 +0000

Indeed! The big monitor is about 1m from me, the median a bit below my eyes. The laptop on which I type on sits in-between and the two screens align almost perfectly (optically). This setup works well for me and I feel it’s very ergonomic. That's why I can't go back to tiny (<32") screens anymore.

New comment by agys in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

agys — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:46:08 +0000

Too small… I got used to my 4K Philips OLED 42" that I hung directly on the wall in front of my desk (no stand at all)… USB-C cable also charges the MacBook. This size is so good to work with; so much screen estate.

A game engine based on dynamic SDFs [video]

agys — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:40:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522627

Points: 4

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New comment by agys in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

agys — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:15:05 +0000

Everything but the Metric System: “The new YASA axial flux motor weighs just 28 pounds, or about the same as a small dog.” :)

New comment by agys in "Dithering – Part 1"

agys — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:29:47 +0000

I used different types of dithering (ordered, error diffusion) in many of my design projects as a visual language, static or animated, mostly for projects related to tech/computers/blockchain, sometimes combined with ASCII art.

There is a certain warmth (or maybe it’s just nostalgia) of these older techniques that can be harvested and combined with new ideas or new takes.

(Apologies for the Instagram links).

D.Y.O.R.:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DH1AjFzi3c6

D.Y.O.R. (printed):

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjfzy23sCOg

Titles:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHITpNYiWtF

Experiment on controlling the amount of dithering:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYO_h9Yh18e/

New comment by agys in "Pointer Pointer (2012)"

agys — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:24:52 +0000

This is an old project by Studio Moniker (Amsterdam)… I was once at a presentation of their work at Resonate in Belgrade (memories…) and they explained that the slight delay before the reveal of the underlying image is added artificially to add a bit of drama.

Btw, the correct image is loaded through a Voronoi diagram.

New comment by agys in "Why is choral music harder to appreciate?"

agys — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:04:25 +0000

One of my favorite is “Deo gratias” by Johannes Ockeghem: a 36 parts canon!

The textures emerging from the the overlapping voices is just amazing…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJQMEa9_2I

New comment by agys in "I made a floppy disk from scratch"

agys — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:28:23 +0000

How beautifully designed was the IBM floppy disk box, visible at the beginning? Great piece of design and branding!

New comment by agys in "FFmpeg 8.0"

agys — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:11:56 +0000

LLMs and complex command line tools like FFmpeg and ImageMagick are a perfect combination and work like magic…

It’s really the dream UI/UX from sience fiction movies: “take all images from this folder and crop 100px away except on top, saturate a bit and save them as uncompressed tiffs in this new folder, also assemble them in a video loop, encode for web”.

New comment by agys in "At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)"

agys — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:33:28 +0000

Meta-reading! I couldn’t stop inspecting my own reading mechanism while reading through the article.

New comment by agys in "150 years of Hans Christian Andersen"

agys — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:22:31 +0000

I really love the less famous stories by Andersen that involve objects or insects… A needle, a coin in a foreign land, a teapot that feels empty, a tree (that wants to be cut down!) have deep inner thoughts; a butterfly in love! In all those stories the last sentence introduces some sort of a final twist.