jpsimons

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by jpsimons 2mo ago
Here's what I _wish_ someone was working on, I'd build it myself but I'm too busy with other projects. A browser extension that's not a popup blocker but a popup minimizer. So any popup (newsletter, cookie notification,
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by jpsimons 2mo ago
I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge nicely. Does this have a better story there?
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by jpsimons 2mo ago
Jumping into this "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint.app
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by jpsimons 2mo ago
And I just discovered there's a group in Seattle called XCoders ( https://xcoders.org/ ), I'll drop in on their social next week and maybe learn more about the Swift/Apple ecosystem.
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by jpsimons 2mo ago
Honestly Swift is a pleasure to read. I love the guard statements and the enum values starting with a dot.
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by jpsimons 2mo ago
Thanks, yep comes in at 3 MB. It's all Swift and Metal. I'm a web developer by trade, done that at a high level for 20 years including Amazon, Google, other big tech, but this was my first native app and first time using Swift. At
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Show HN: Mojave Paint for macOS, edit images like it's 1999(mojavepaint.app)
3 points by jpsimons 2mo ago|5 comments
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by jpsimons 3mo ago
I quit my engineering job at Apple in 2023 to buy an aluminum Olson-Grumman step van, and start a mobile knife sharpening business, in Seattle. burlyburr.com Each knife takes maybe 5 minutes and I charge $2/inch, mostly working on summ
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by jpsimons 3mo ago
Got my first in app purchase for my first Mac app, a photoshop like image editor with layers and blend modes and a pretty retro look and feel. $8 in revenue so far! https://mojavepaint.app
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by jpsimons 4mo ago
Not vibe coded exactly, but certainly AI assisted: https://mojavepaint.app
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by jpsimons 4mo ago
I always thought the old Date is kind of elegant... increment anything with an overflow and it all wraps around correctly, like `d.setDate(d.getDate() + 100)` to advance a date 100 days. "March 208th" is interpreted like you'
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by jpsimons 4mo ago
I got my app in the Mac App Store! It's a layer based image editor, which as a developer has been a nerd's paradise to develop. How should disparate blend modes work with "merge down"? What does it mean to have one color
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by jpsimons 5mo ago
Sure, but at least on Node 22 I think I have to pass `--env-file=.env` option to make it pick up .env.
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by jpsimons 5mo ago
Claude did write me a simple wrapper so I can keep using tagged template literals in the same way with Node.
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by jpsimons 5mo ago
I just spent a couple hours migrating my knife sharpening website backend from Bun to Node. Feels good to avoid that lock-in. I was initially gung-ho for Bun but increasingly unsure about it. Things I'll miss for sure: - Querying sqlit
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by jpsimons 5mo ago
Location: Seattle Remote: maybe Willing to relocated: No Technologies: web frontend, JS, CSS, Svelte, Swift Resume: ex-Google, ex-Amazon, see linkedin.com/in/jpsimons Email: coolcucumber@gmail.com
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by jpsimons 5mo ago
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 half
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by jpsimons 5mo ago
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://
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by jpsimons 6mo ago
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.
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by jpsimons 6mo ago
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
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by jpsimons 7mo ago
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 — th
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by jpsimons 7mo ago
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?
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by jpsimons 6y ago
It's like Obamacare -- deeply flawed but hey at least they're trying to do something.
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by jpsimons 6y ago
If only we had the original 1909 copyright laws, this would be public domain by 2022!
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by jpsimons 6y ago
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.
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by jpsimons 6y ago
Here's my fine art. I don't like the "softie" brush. https://royalbarrel.com/static/nopaint.png
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Toggling between unified and split diff with CSS Grid(royalbarrel.com)
2 points by jpsimons 6y ago|0 comments
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by jpsimons 6y ago
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 cur