Hacker News: jpsimons

New comment by jpsimons in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

jpsimons — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:30:05 +0000

I'm getting pretty darn close to doing a "Show HN" about my new macOS paint app, called Mojave Paint. I just posted a feature tour video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61FJ2xzUiIU showing how to make halftoned edges, which happens to cover a lot of of the basics including layers, alpha masks, selections, foreground/background color, gradients, etc.

I would say Photoshop is awesome but expensive (if you can look past how invasive it is for your machine), Affinity is free but "meh", I'm going for the "awesome and cheap" square of the quadrant. Find it at https://skullrocksoftware.com

New comment by jpsimons in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

jpsimons — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:47:41 +0000

I'm building a macOS image editor -- no AI here, just Metal textures, compositing, blend modes, all that mathematical raster goodness. It's getting closer to a Mac App Store release and has a preview version on https://skullrocksoftware.com

New comment by jpsimons in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jpsimons — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:50:59 +0000

Thanks! I'm hand drawing all the icons which is slow going, but I'm drawing them in Mojave Paint. Nothing better than eating your own dogfood.

New comment by jpsimons in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jpsimons — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:19:22 +0000

I'm building an image editor for macOS. Don't really like Affinity or GIMP so thought I'd go ahead and make my own. https://skullrocksoftware.com

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

jpsimons — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:29:48 +0000

I keep hoping someone will release a nice monitor that’s monitor shaped (16:10) instead of TV shaped (16:9). That’s part of why early 2000s Cinema Displays are so great. Not to mention the last great Mac laptop before it all went south — the 2015 MBP

New comment by jpsimons in "Monosketch"

jpsimons — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:04:14 +0000

I was describing to Claude a SwiftUI panel layout and it responded with an ASCII diagram confirming what I want. This could allow that type of communication to go both ways?

New comment by jpsimons in "Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser"

jpsimons — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:33:01 +0000

It's like Obamacare -- deeply flawed but hey at least they're trying to do something.

New comment by jpsimons in "The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year"

jpsimons — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:41:00 +0000

If only we had the original 1909 copyright laws, this would be public domain by 2022!

New comment by jpsimons in "A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system"

jpsimons — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:06:11 +0000

They lost me at "css-loader". How about just import your components and they style themselves? The whole philosophy of React is JS-first and really, JS-only.

New comment by jpsimons in "No Paint"

jpsimons — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:12:23 +0000

Here's my fine art. I don't like the "softie" brush.

https://royalbarrel.com/static/nopaint.png

Toggling between unified and split diff with CSS Grid

jpsimons — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:11:45 +0000

Article URL: https://royalbarrel.com/diff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459728

Points: 2

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New comment by jpsimons in "Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective"

jpsimons — Tue, 26 May 2020 04:36:21 +0000

The problem is, these are the Node team's stated goals for ES Modules:

> It is worth mentioning that many of our design decisions were made with two primary goals. Spec compliance and Web Compatibility. It is our belief that the current implementation offers a future proof model to authoring ESM modules that paves the path to Universal JavaScript. Please read more in our documentation.

Sorry guys, those are the wrong goals! Just make CommonJS and ESM be mix and match interoperatable. ESM wasn't designed to be a local disk build system. Just have CommonJS behavior with ESM syntax for god's sakes.