Hacker News: shortformblog

New comment by shortformblog in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

shortformblog — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:31:53 +0000

The problem is less the color than the weight. If it was 500 rather than 300 it would be perfectly fine.

New comment by shortformblog in "Claude Composer"

shortformblog — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:01:38 +0000

Curious to see how this worked, I tried this on Deepseek using Claude Code Router, following the author’s guide, with two small changes: Make it an emo song that uses acoustic guitar (or, obviously an equivalent), and it could install one text-to-speech tool using Python.

It double-tracked the vocals like freaking Elliott Smith, which cracked me up.

New comment by shortformblog in "Laying out the 404 Media zine"

shortformblog — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:05:19 +0000

Quick add: I tested VivaDesigner on some old InDesign docs and I found it did not handle color blend modes very well, which is kind of an essential for a risograph project like 404’s. Nonetheless, the fact that it was able to open an InDesign doc more or less intact makes it a useful tool for a switcher.

New comment by shortformblog in "Laying out the 404 Media zine"

shortformblog — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:05:03 +0000

Thanks for pointing out VivaDesigner—I’m surprised in the many obsessive searches to find something like this, it never came up! (I will note that there are a lot of pretty obscure layout programs out there. At my first newspaper, I was brought in to help with the transition to CCI, which was a full-stack publishing tool popular with newspapers of the era. As a result of this, I was introduced to their old system, by Harris, which relied on Windows NT 3.1. Fun times.)

This project is probably a no-go with it (for kicks, I did try importing a PDF of the final doc) but I will keep it in mind in the future from an analysis standpoint.

The other point I’d make is kind of a tipping-point argument. While VivaDesigner can export into IDML it looks like, Affinity has gone just mainstream enough that it won’t be turned away at print shops, which is a real risk. PDFs can get you most of the way, granted, but some print shops want to edit the file, which makes sense.

New comment by shortformblog in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

shortformblog — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:45:34 +0000

Claude can't properly count the number of characters in a sentence. It's asking a lot to assume it can get pixel perfect.

New comment by shortformblog in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

shortformblog — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:34:57 +0000

I followed the same steps the Verge reporter did: Downloaded GameHub, connected my Steam account. The initial boot was lengthy, but it worked.

New comment by shortformblog in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

shortformblog — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:02:04 +0000

I downloaded an unoptimized game and tested it (Stray, a few years old at this point) and got some graphical glitches, but between 10-20 FPS on a three-year-old phone. That it’s even possible is impressive, and I imagine it will only get better as more games get optimized.

Grokipedia Cited My Article 43 Times in One Post. Not Cool

shortformblog — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2025/10/29/grokipedia-content-citations-aggressive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110467

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shortformblog in "Canva is considering porting Affinity to Linux"

shortformblog — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:01:22 +0000

Affinity I believe is C++ with C# used for the front end on Windows.

The code doesn’t have nearly the legacy of Adobe’s code, so the result is that Affinity already runs very well in WINE thanks to some passionate fans that really want to see this use case.

New comment by shortformblog in "I hate screenshots of text"

shortformblog — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:33:45 +0000

This poor man is in a losing battle with modern computing.

A Man Who Keeps Predicting the Web's Death

shortformblog — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:12:06 +0000

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2025/10/25/web-dead-predictions-george-colony/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45754804

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shortformblog in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

shortformblog — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:01:59 +0000

They mention Hollow Knight in their update, but I should note that Silksong also works on my M1 Air flawlessly. Games with more 3D graphics also work to some degree. I tried Bakeru on it and got decent results though the texture load time was significant.

Asahi has been fun to watch, and I’m happy it’s still moving along, even with the messiness of the past twelve months. I rarely boot into MacOS on the machine these days, and while I’m mostly using a PC these days, I am debating getting a used M1 Pro or Max for the battery life benefits (and access to Mac graphics programs on the rare occasions I need them).

The fact that M3 is technically possible, even if likely a while off, is promising.

RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers

shortformblog — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:26:20 +0000

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656247

Points: 60

# Comments: 34

New comment by shortformblog in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

shortformblog — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:10:43 +0000

Thanks for the reminder that what the Internet Archive did in its case would have been legal if it was in service of an LLM.

New comment by shortformblog in "Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation"

shortformblog — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:45:38 +0000

I use Craft CMS’ GraphQL capabilities with my Eleventy site. Works well and helps me keep my page loads static. I would also recommend Directus for this, as it has some nice quality-of-life benefits.

To manage deploys, I have used Cleavr, which does a good job at it without being too user-unfriendly. That’s a paid service, about $6/month.

Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing

shortformblog — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:40:02 +0000

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2025/09/02/apple-macintosh-clones-history/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106429

Points: 64

# Comments: 17

New comment by shortformblog in "Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever"

shortformblog — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:50:01 +0000

I like the spirit of this, but I just think Mavericks is a bizarre break point for this type of approach. At least hit Yosemite so you can benefit from NVMe. For me, Mojave feels like the neatest break point, but if you’re rocking Nvidia, there’s also a case for High Sierra.

The Node-Driven Future of FOSS Image Editing

shortformblog — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:42:35 +0000

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2025/08/16/foss-photoshop-alternatives-pixieditor-node-procedural/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44924967

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shortformblog in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

shortformblog — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:27:16 +0000

You’re describing socialism (wealth redistribution to be exact). At this point, just make that money a tax and give it to the publishers directly. Cut out the middlemen.

New comment by shortformblog in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

shortformblog — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:52:16 +0000

LOL, you don’t. You really don’t. As I told you like four hours ago, ads are impression-based. Just because you bought something that helped them buy an ad doesn’t mean you did shit for my website.

In fact, you did the opposite.