every window gets its own palette that drifts over an hour. i think it's beautiful without being distracting.

thank you mitchell and contributors for implementing and supporting animated shaders! thank you to the folks who have shared their shader code in public so i could build this! it was so much fun to make and i use it everywhere

https://github.com/mfelix/chromadrift

stay gold, shine bright

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https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

for me it strikes the balance of good, fast, and cheap for everyday transcription. macwhisper is overkill, superwhisper too clever, and handy too buggy. hex fits just right for me (so far)

It works like this:

1. Codex reviews your document and raises issues/opportunities

2. Claude responds to the feedback and revises the document

3. Codex checks if the revisions actually addressed the concerns

4. Repeat until consensus or max rounds

The adversarial setup catches things a single-pass review misses. Codex tends to be nitpicky about specifics, Claude tends to defend or over-explain, so the tension between them surfaces real problems.

You can focus reviews on specific aspects (--focus "security and error handling") and resume sessions if you want to iterate further. Try it out like this (no install needed):

npx @mfelix.org/quibble docs/plan.md

Requires the Codex and Claude CLIs on your PATH. Sessions are saved to disk so you can inspect the back-and-forth.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mfelix.org/quibble

gh: https://github.com/mfelix/quibble

thanks for reading and checking it out!!!

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The magic moment was watching my kids use voice dictation to talk directly to Claude Code. My 8-year-old asked for a "purpler" tractor beam and watched it change in real time. She wasn’t coding, but she _was_ driving: describing what she wanted, testing the result, and iterating fast. It was really cool to watch... later on she asked me what javascript was and we dug into the source.

Since then we've added a UFO Shopping Mall between waves (spend UFO bucks on power-ups), bombs, laser turrets, a dodge roll called "warp juke," and a top 100 leaderboard. There's also in-game feedback where you can submit and upvote feature requests. Building all these little features has been a great excuse to put in reps with AI coding tools and try out new stuff like Gastown.

You'll need a desktop and keyboard to play. Try to beat my high score! Would love feedback on what to add or what's broken... we'll ship the best suggestions. Thanks and have fun!

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Bug report: Both of the two links in the top right (Docs and SSOjet) give me a 404

“Go outside on the front porch and hit your weed vape, look at some clouds and trees, then come back inside and try again.”

This works about 90% of the time for me and gets things flowing again. No shit, I’m not joking, this works and I don’t know why.

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[0] http://www.spicynodes.org

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I think it's optimizing for learning versus revenue, which don't have to be mutually exclusive. Sometimes you need to start with one to get to the other.

On one hand, it’s a clever and fun way to show off what we can do with the web these days. The way it is presented hits just right... the demo is dead center of the page, with debug tools and more info within reach. I particularly enjoyed reading the "how it's made" page to understand how it was put together. I like how all of this extra stuff was not front and center when the page loads. Even the design language of the CAPTCHA box itself felt just right.

On the other hand, it's a satire of what we have done to the web. The bad guys (like the monsters in the game) have won. I'm a flesh and blood human, but here I am having to click on fuzzy pictures of random objects before I can do the task I actually wanted to accomplish. Behind the scenes, my human insight gets licensed and used for whatever purpose (nefarious or not). Just like the DOOM demo here, it's hard and cumbersome, but for whatever reason we all accept it as the way it has to be. We all shake our heads and say "what a shame, what a shame."

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we lost something unique in the pursuit of true usability and reliability. however, i don't disagree with where we've ended up, i think it's a better interface for any human to pick up and use, but yes, i agree, in comparison it is... boring. but is boring really better?