Maker of Things. He / Him. 🧍 tarwin.art 👤 @tarwin@mastodon.social 🦋 bsky.app/profile/tarwin.art

San Francisco / Melbourne
My 20 year old self (and current 40) are excited for this!
Nice 🐘 elephant to ⭕️ circle transformer. Noted for the future ...
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Got some love, and constructive criticism on Reddit: teddit.net/r/javascript/comm… Excited we are now at over 250 stars on Github. And even more excited for the first public PRs and bug fix suggestions from @favasconcelos + @WebReflection which are now in the latest release v0.41.1
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Heya @lababidi I took your Disk Inventory update and updated again ... they both seemed broken. disk-inventory-z.tarwin.art/ In case you want a working one.
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Disk Inventory Z It's WinDirStat ➡️ Disk Inventory X ➡️ Z Simple. Works. Free up SSD space. GPL. MacOS only. Notarized. disk-inventory-z.tarwin.art
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Latest version of AMP is released and includes my new favourite viz, as well as a viz editor and a way to load them from URL. Come join the viz party! Even works with your fav internet radio like @NTSlive or @vintage_obscura
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Back of the Bus Made with Blender and splats Deliberately messed up training + hanging my arm out the back of a bus window = super bounce cam
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Turns out writing apps for an ESP32-S3 in TSX is pretty fun. Built a tiny runtime for it - edit, save, and watch it update on the physical board and other stuff 👀 Still early, but this is starting to feel like something 🔥 github.com/Remeic/tsx-lvg @steveruizok
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Alright. I want you to read this. Earlier today, I released a new component. What you see is the finished result. What you don’t see are the days of planning, research, testing, designing, simplifying, throwing ideas away, and trying again before I felt it was ready. Within hours, it had been copied and ported to another framework by pointing an agent at my code. Of course, it’s open source. They were allowed to do it. And I’ve been around long enough, with multiple successful products, that I don’t care. But what if this was someone’s first product? What if they spent months building it, launched on Friday, and by Monday it had been cloned by agents, repackaged, and made free? What happens when your second product is copied? Your fifth? Your tenth? What happens when every new idea immediately becomes the next prompt? What happens when your roadmap, your changelog, and your launch announcements become someone else input prompts? What happens when models become good enough to copy bigger ideas? What happens when “just execute better” stops being the answer? What happens when “just build bigger” or “think wider” stops being enough? What happens when both ideas and execution become cheap? What happens when the creator pays the full cost of creativity but everyone else pays nothing to reproduce it? What happens to creativity when AI makes copying effectively free? What happens to the will to create when AI makes copying effectively free? Look, copying is not new. Copying at this speed, cost, and scale is. People will tell you to think bigger. But nobody starts "bigger". Every one of us here started by making something small. You keep going because, somewhere along the way, the work is rewarded. Maybe people use it. Maybe they pay for it. Maybe they simply recognize the thought, effort, and care that went into it. Copying once demanded effort. You had to study the work and understand it to copy it. That effort created appreciation for the person who made it. Not anymore. Creativity begins with small steps. If we make those first steps feel pointless, we don’t just lose small products. We lose the people who might have gone on to build the big ones. We are uniquely positioned here. We get to use and experience this life-changing technology before almost everyone else. How we use it will set the default everywhere else. That default will spread to writing, design, music, research, and every other field where someone still has to take the first creative risk. We can use AI to build great things. Or we can use it to strip every new idea for parts. We decide.
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Hi @obsdmd - I love you. But your download is quite large. Maybe you'd like to try out a silly little thing I made: TinyJS ? It does 90% of what Electron does but is only ~6mb. Truthfully it's only MacOS, Windows and Linux - so no Android / iOS. But it might just work for you.
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Replying to @obsdmd
Would love to know your thoughts at least.
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tinyjs.app/ Why ship 150mb when you can ship 5mb? TinyJS is web apps, small. System web view + QuickJS. MacOS. Windows. Linux. Arm and x86. Check it out for examples apps - some even useful 💯 #electronjs #quickjs #wasm @electronjs #desktop
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heya @thespite would you like to make a vizualizer for my silly winamp ripoff? or allow me to rip to said? totally get if "noooooope" :D
Geiss HDR and butterchurn visualizers in my Winamp style app now. Also added autoeq.app Full credit given in app and readme. @jnberg16, geisswerks and jaakkopasanen please let me know if I've done this correctly. github.com/tarwin/tinyjsapp-… Again, tnx @saghul !
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Geiss HDR and butterchurn visualizers in my Winamp style app now. Also added autoeq.app Full credit given in app and readme. @jnberg16, geisswerks and jaakkopasanen please let me know if I've done this correctly. github.com/tarwin/tinyjsapp-… Again, tnx @saghul !
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New release. Platter: play local files or @Spotify (have to create dev app) like a record player. No distractions. No skipping tracks. Enjoy your music.
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Replying to @jnberg16 @saghul
Latest release now includes podcasts, an a new viz. Podcasts work. Need a little love. The new viz is a homage to @flight404 amazing "Magnetosphere". Mine is nowhere near as mind-blowing as the original. I hope to get it close one day. (Magnetosphere was iTunes visualizer)
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Replying to @jnberg16 @saghul
New version even includes live radio stations ... #radio so you can listen to @triplej from your desktop again in style.
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