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weeb commented on I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me) blog.notmyhostna.me/posts... · Posted by u/dewey

weeb · 2 months ago

Interesting how different people's brains work. I personally cannot mentally parse a month-based calendar - the distribution of weeks and weekends is far too variable. I print one of these in A3 every year [0] - easy to see at a glance how many weekends are booked up, any gaps where you need to plan something to look forward to, how many weeks of work you can slot in before a particular commitment, etc. Interesting I've never found the same concept anywhere else.

[0] https://www.calendarpedia.co.uk/download/calendar-2025-portr...

weeb commented on Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup) printcalendar.top/... · Posted by u/defcc

0xf3ffff · 3 months ago

This is exactly what I was looking for yesterday - a simple printable calendar that can fill an A4 or A3 page. However, I was more interested in a monthly version, rather than yearly. I tried vibe coding a simple Python script to generate a version that could suit me with Gemini CLI, but the results were comically bad (granted, I gave up pretty early on). I am sure there are plenty of similar solutions online, but I couldn't find one I really liked, at least from some basic Googling.

weeb · 3 months ago

Calendarpedia offers loads of options which are great for printing. I always print an A3 "rolling" format for the current year, which I haven't seen anywhere else - lets you see all your weeks and weekends at a glance.

weeb commented on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit... · Posted by u/linhns

wingerlang · 4 months ago

I’ve used SourceTree for a decade, Fork is the only one I’ve switched to partially (at work).

I probably will switch back to ST even at work because I dislike:

- I want the split view of ST where I can simply see the changes and not lose the commit log.

- “see only current branch” is super useful in ST to see only the current branch’s commit log.

(Partially writing this in hopes of someone pointing out ways to do this in Fork)

weeb · 4 months ago

You can do "see only current branch" with the little filter icon when you hover next to a branch. Although I do find myself getting lost amongst branches more easily compared to Sourcetree, I think there's some difference in how filters are combined that isn't ideal (but I can't remember specifics)

weeb commented on Empathy for Dummies quarter--mile.com/empathy... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

dogleash · 5 months ago

"Empathy" is one of those words that's used as a proxy for a lot of related ideas, but splitting those hairs can be interpreted by some as disagreement with those ideas themselves.

I've witnessed people extol the virtues of empathy to me, while on other occasions they talk about people they dislike with venom and disdain. A level of disdain that I have never held in my heart against anyone, but they throw it around casually. And they're gonna tell me about empathy?

Sometimes you just gotta agree with people out loud and figure out what you believe in offline.

weeb · 5 months ago

There are commonly used terms for different types of empathy[1] which makes these conversations a lot easier. People often generalise, or misinterpret a lower level of one type of empathy for another - for example, some autistic individuals have lower cognitive empathy but heightened levels of affective empathy. The definition in this blogpost focuses entirely on cognitive empathy, but I bet the people telling them to be "more empathetic" were talking more about compassionate empathy.

[1] https://embrace-autism.com/the-different-types-of-empathy/

weeb commented on VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model microsoft.github.io/VibeV... · Posted by u/lastdong

weeb · 6 months ago

does anyone know of recent TTS options that let you specify IPA rather than written words? Azure lets you do this, but something local (and better than existing OS voices) would be great for my project.

weeb commented on Show HN: Eyesite – Experimental website combining computer vision and web design blog.andykhau.com/blog/ey... · Posted by u/akchro

weeb · 9 months ago

Nice to see people getting interested in eye gaze. There are two things that you might like to look at that can help the UX.

1 - Calibration. Looking at static dots is BORING. The best idea I've seen is Tobii's gaming calibration where you look at dots to make them wobble and pop. This makes the whole process feel like a game, even when you've done it a hundred times before. I would love to see more ideas in this space to give a much more natural-feeling calibration process - even better if you can improve the calibration over time with a feedback loop, when users interact with an element.

2 - Gaze feedback. You are absolutely right that seeing a small, inaccurate and jumpy dot does more harm than good. Again, Tobii have led the way with their 'ghost overlay' for streamers.

For an example, see the following video. After calibration the ghost overlay is used to give approximate feedback. This is enough that some naive users are able to make small adjustments to a constant calibration error, or at least give feedback that the gaze is wrong, not that the UI is not responding.

https://youtu.be/mgQY4dL-09E?feature=shared&t=36

weeb commented on Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet agent-kilo.github.io/jwno... · Posted by u/agentkilo

agentkilo · 10 months ago

It seems your right alt key is actually the AltGr key. I didn't explicitly support AltGr in Jwno, so it freaked out.

Sorry for the confusion. I think switching to another leader key, such as LAlt or RCtrl, should fix the issue.

weeb · 10 months ago

Thanks, that's it. I really like 'gradually walk the UI tree', though I'm struggling a bit with the thing I want being obscured by the label (and me not remembering what was there). An offset would be nice, though I'm sure it's not easy to define a heuristic that works in all places.

The first thing I tried was in my browser, I asked for all the buttons and it labelled the 'x' to close each tab, but where the labels were laid out it just looked like an inviting right-aligned label on the clickable tabs themselves. Lost a few tabs before I realised, because you also don't see any feedback on the click since any UI feedback is hidden by the label. Hmm. Food for thought.

weeb commented on Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet agent-kilo.github.io/jwno... · Posted by u/agentkilo

agentkilo · 10 months ago

> Having tiling options that fit within a smaller part of the screen (e.g. still allow side by side or top/bottom split, but in a smaller total region) would be great.

Do you mean reserving screen space for the on-screen keyboard? If that's the case, you can try to "transform" the top-level frame (a frame that tracks a monitor's screen area), either in the REPL or in your config: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/cookbook/adjust-top-level-...

> Using example-config.janet I tried pressing RAlt or RAlt+K and I get the UI hint shortcuts list coming up, but none of them seem to do anything

Can you please file a bug report and attach relevant logs? You can write logs to a file by starting Jwno like this:

jwno.exe --log-file C:\jwno.log --log-level debug --no-console your-config.janet

There should be some interesting logs when you press one of the UI hint shortcuts.

> Fwiw, as a newbie I found it a bit intimidating/off-putting that it doesn't work out the box without choosing a config file. That's quite a lot of extra cognitive effort and link-clicking before you can try it out.

I totally understand. But I chose to not include a default config in the executable, because I thought a window manager is a... personal thing. It should evolve with your habits and workflows, so the default config will most likely get changed to something dramatically different anyway. I can be wrong though.

weeb · 10 months ago

Yes! transforming the top level frame sounds like the way to go.

I ran jwno with example-config and pressed RAlt and RAlt+K a few times, each time trying one of the onscreen shortcut keys (b, c, d, etc). Log at the bottom of this comment. At the end of the process I was left in a state where pressing Space triggered a context menu in my title bar, and I couldn't type space in the app (e.g. in Notepad or Terminal) which I think is due to one of the Alts ending up being held down? It persisted after leaving Jwno

Log: https://ctxt.io/2/AAB4W5O7Fg

weeb commented on Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet agent-kilo.github.io/jwno... · Posted by u/agentkilo

weeb · 10 months ago

This looks to have great potential for accessibility! I work with individuals who use eye gaze input, where a significant part of the screen is taken up by an on-screen keyboard (including various shortcut/macro keys as well as for typing). Having tiling options that fit within a smaller part of the screen (e.g. still allow side by side or top/bottom split, but in a smaller total region) would be great. Particularly as Windows 11 has broken vertical docking of appbars.

The UI hints also look promising, but I can't get them working. Using example-config.janet I tried pressing RAlt or RAlt+K and I get the UI hint shortcuts list coming up, but none of them seem to do anything, except in Notepad where I sometimes get the standard UI hints (that always come up here with a long press of left alt)

Fwiw, as a newbie I found it a bit intimidating/off-putting that it doesn't work out the box without choosing a config file. That's quite a lot of extra cognitive effort and link-clicking before you can try it out. And I'm left quite unsure what I'm missing out on. Am I able to access the different documented features with the config file I have? It's not clear.

weeb commented on The psychology behind why children are hooked on Minecraft bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/andsoitis

weeb · a year ago

I maintain an open-source interface that lets kids with physical disabilities play Minecraft using eye control[1]. When I started working on it, I was already familiar with what Minecraft offers as 'virtual lego' in creative mode, and the challenges of survival mode, but the biggest surprise for me was how much value kids get from just having a world that they are free to do whatever they want in. Just wandering round and punching some sheep or digging a hole, completely free of any adult-directed 'goals', is such a freedom for them. Try explaining that to the parents, though!

[1] https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/how-we-can-help/eyemine