Though it was done roughly 1-2 months ago, a very busy work / private life kept me from finally releasing it. Interesting to see this being released on the same day. Though Pixellect has a different mission. Its not a clean room photoshop clone but more between Pixelmator and Photoshop and also features (I think) a bit more AI Integration. However Photocraft looks much more complete in terms of typical Photoshop features.

It was only 4 months ago that AI development was in question because there were no vibe-coded Photoshops. Here they are, and I think more will come.

For the past months I've been vibe-coding a free Photoshop editor for macOS (Native using Swift and a bit of Rust). It has many features that I've always wanted in such an editor (but was unwilling to pay the Adobe tax).

I did try open source solutions such as Gimp but they never worked for me. In terms of features I'm not gonna list all, but I'm very happy it has:

- A proper canvas where text and vectors keep their quality when zooming in - Layers (vectors, text, pixels, color adjustment, effects, reference layers, mask layers, layer groups and so on) - Many effects (including unusual things like dithering or NTSC) - All the tools you'd expect (brush, paint, repair, etc) For some of these tools it uses local models - Selection operations via local models (e.g. select all red cars) - Import / Export PSD, SVG and many others. - Support for tracing images to vectors, text to beziers, bezier editing, etc.

Most importantly (I think), it has a optional AI integration via a agent harness which lets a model remote-control the app for you to build a document out of layers & effects & brushes etc. This is really powerful because in comparison to typical genai flows this allows you to make changes, hide things and easily scale them up (if most elements are vectors). There's also support for genai operations (e.g. if you want to embed a genai generated SVG or image as a new layer).

Would love to get feedback:

https://pixellect.app/

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Living in the EU, I suspected as much. Still sad. I understand it is because we voted in a bunch of imbeciles, still sad though.

Cappuccino improved upon javascript by using a different language (objective-j) that added many features js didn't have, and it used the same (mostly) well-honed api as AppKit. In comparison to other js UI frameworks of its time, it was lightyears ahead.

Imagine someone trying to make the case that riding bicycles is a terrible experience and their whole argument is that they took a random cheapo bike with flat tires and rode it for 3min and that wasn't fun. Sure, but if you buy a 25k carbon bike you will have a different experience. I'd not trust that person. If someone told me they have 10 bikes they ride daily and can explain the differences, in detail, between their bikes, and what they excel at. I'd trust that person's opinion.

((75 watt / 2 [faster models]) / 2 [faster chips]) / 2 [half a day of usage]) => ~ 10 watt.

AI for everyone does not imply pC mAsTeRraCe for everyone.

> On the 17th of December in 2004, the company announced the QIP LP PCIe where the QIP meant Quad Information Display. This was the industry’s first PCIe x16 graphics card, and it was a derivative of the Parhelia. [...] The card could drive four displays with a maximum resolution of 1600 by 1200 per display,

I think we had 4 of these in one system and it was the only card on the market that allowed for this. We ran this on Linux and getting the bios set up correctly to support this was a nightmare. My memory is fuzzy though

https://github.com/terhechte/Cormac

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/

- Apple Appstore Connect (gazillions of forms of metadata to release an app) - AWS - DigitalOcean - Google Play Store

Whenever I dread logging in because I know the simple sounding task requires me to click through countless menus I use an agent browser. With confirmations of course. However, while the agent clicks through these (oftentimes dog slow) UIs I can do other things. Once it requires permission, I read, decide and act.

It works very well, the integration is much easier than before, users have model choice. So happy that this exists!