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New comment by nanapipirara in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

nanapipirara — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:53:34 +0000

I use a Wacom Cintiq with touch, it is only useful for testing during mobile gamedev because it can simulate touch easily without leaving the editor and having to export a build to my phone or tablet. Quite an expensive trick. I wouldn’t purchase it again if it broke. (I would buy the same model without touch and save some bucks)

New comment by nanapipirara in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

nanapipirara — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:09:55 +0000

I think this is true.

A lot of AI believers (me too fwiw) seem to forget it’s a lot harder to ‘close the loop’ on non-code projects. I think this is because they are usually coders.

New comment by nanapipirara in "Free the Icons"

nanapipirara — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:02:08 +0000

Someone posted an old MacOS screenshot on Reddit and it was immediately obvious that the icons without a silhouette were the worst out of all of them.

Like iTunes / Books / App Store. And that's basically what they went with eventually...

Dashboard and Launcher are fine, but they have a reason to be a circle. (Well Launcher less so maybe)

Chrome is terrible, it represents nothing. But I guess it's just a brand.

I wish we could go back to this instead of squircles...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/s/9MZsGioCG6

New comment by nanapipirara in "Your ePub Is fine"

nanapipirara — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:30:54 +0000

I’m supposed to be able to lend ebooks from my local library. Adobe makes it impossible as their software doesn’t run on my macbook…

New comment by nanapipirara in "Shantell Sans (2023)"

nanapipirara — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:04:57 +0000

Amazing work! I am using this for a project immediately, it has so much joyful charm while still being readable. I reworked my personal website to use it too :) The bounce and informal options are just what I was looking for for years. https://www.lukaskrepel.nl

New comment by nanapipirara in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

nanapipirara — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:02:33 +0000

For sure.

The other thing I really love about HN is that titles are all supposed to be boring and to the point. The guidelines[1] for titles are excellent and I wish more of the web and honestly legacy media too would behave that way. Things that are of no interest to me are not trying to waste my time and attention.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by nanapipirara in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

nanapipirara — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:29:55 +0000

Yeah yeah, whataboutism.

I'm very happy they're taking a stance. I've seen too many messed up kids and there's no doubt the addictive design plays a big role in the problem.

New comment by nanapipirara in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

nanapipirara — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:49:35 +0000

Claude helped me immensely getting an image converter to work. Giving it screenshots of wrong output (lots of layers had an unpredictable offsets that was not supposed to be there) and output as I expected it helped Claude understand the problems and it fixed the bugs immediately.

New comment by nanapipirara in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

nanapipirara — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:42:53 +0000

I actually volunteer to take care of parts of the trash in our neighborhood. Like with a proper garbage truck. And the amount of volunteers so big that I only have to do it a few times a year. All the money they make with recycling goes to the local school. It is fun to do, even in cold rain. The garbage truck driver gets paid, but I am sure in an IBU world even drivers would chip in if they could afford it. People want to contribute and feel useful.

New comment by nanapipirara in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

nanapipirara — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:29:11 +0000

https://www.lukaskrepel.nl it's my personal portfolio of animation and videogame work, I hope it's as simple and straightforward as I think it is, while also being playful and a bit like the old web.