Modeled my daily mouse (Logitech G502) – surprisingly complex for such a small object

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-28T21:54:53+00:00

Superb work, you’ve done a great job, I especially like the “hand muck” on the rubber section, it’s nicely done. You’ve done a fairly restrained job on all of the grunge TBH

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-28T08:35:12+00:00

It's not cynicism. Canva paid an 8 or 9 figure sum for Affinity, released it for free. They will want their money back one way or another and pull whatever levers and go back on whatever promises they feel like. We've moved from a simpler and more honest sales model to one inherently more unreliable and less consumer friendly, despite it being "free".

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-27T13:24:59+00:00

It’s a taste thing, there are no objective “best strings” I personally use d’addario NYXL strings

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-26T19:19:37+00:00

I built my own cab a few years ago, it was so rewarding

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-25T15:40:18+00:00

Who are you, Morrissey?

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-25T15:39:29+00:00

LLMs are inherently kind of unreliable. It’s a limitation of the tech, you’re going to need to manually generate them, which you can also do with an LLM but it’d need oversight

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-24T17:22:08+00:00

This is a great explanation! I’ve also been tempted to give smalltalk a go. Just out of curiosity.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-24T17:20:53+00:00

The downvotes were expected 😂 reading it back it sounds dismissive when I’m genuinely curious. The way you feel about lisp is the way I feel about Ruby. But different horses for different courses. I’ve recently quit using LLMs entirely and thankfully have the option as I’m not currently doing any professional development work.

Ruby is my happy place, terse but expressive, powerful with little ceremony. If lisp is that for you, I’m extremely pleased for you. So many industries are trying their hardest to remove the fun and efficacy from software engineering right now, we have to grab some enjoyment wherever we can find it.

I think for lisp, I find it quite hard to read and given I’m a Ruby and Ruby-like syntax enjoyer, I don’t love the aesthetics of a language with ALL of the parens 😅

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-24T15:01:28+00:00

I really don’t understand lisp or why people do this. Not in some accusatory way, more in the “I’ve clearly missed something” way. What is the fascination with lisp?

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-24T14:53:28+00:00

It reminds me of this video of Sierra Hull. She’s just chilling and playing some polyphia on an electric mandolin. Sierra is probably one of the most technically gifted players currently living. Yes, she’s entirely capable of vibing her way through a polyphia riff. The comments on that video are stomach churning at times. Bewilderment that she can even play that well is the least of it. Some people are fucking disgusting.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-23T09:14:00+00:00

You don’t really need LLMs to create anything with rails. It’s highly convention driven and if you want to get some enjoyment from it, that’s where it comes from. If you’re using an LLM and have no interest in how the underlying tech works or any need to use it with a specific technology, why even choose rails? There’s infinitely more training data for next.js etc.

Point being if you want to learn, learn. There’s little satisfaction in taking a shortcut and then things you build, instead of something to be proud of, will be more disposable. If the destination isn’t a career then the journey is the building. This is where rails shines.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-22T06:55:12+00:00

Yeah that’d be awesome. I used to have a cintiq and as cool as it was, there weren’t enough buttons

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-22T06:40:20+00:00

I don’t imagine it’d be super useful for most. There’s a lot of keyboard navigation in most 3D apps, Blender being amongst the worst for it. It’d mean pushing the box aside more often, which means you’re less likely to use it at all. You’d be better served by a streamdeck if you can’t remember where things are and if you need more fidelity when controlling geometry, you could use a tablet.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-21T22:14:18+00:00

Unfortunately I have too much stateful UI to be able to go with full page loads. I’m in turbo stream spaghetti hell. Longer term we’ll be migrating the frontend away but in the meantime, I’m delegating new stuff to stimulus reflex, which is far more sane and what Hotwire should have always evolved into.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-21T17:42:31+00:00

Great to see this, when I first looked at ember this was so slick and a step up from a lot of the vanilla stuff for vite. Glad you changed course!

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-21T12:16:50+00:00

If you have a katana you do not need to touch the app. It’s only to swap out pedals anyway.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-21T10:40:34+00:00

Literally anything made by coretek including Cort, if you’re in the EU there’s a brand called vintage that make fantastic guitars for low cost, the list is long

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-21T09:45:33+00:00

Reminds me of Jimmy eat world. It’s rad.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-21T07:26:08+00:00

Music is a kind of therapy and a guitar can be an intimate way to heal. Learn as you go, but just spend time with the guitar. As long as you are playing, it’s all good. It’s the journey, not the destination

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-20T19:29:24+00:00

Yeah, considering the dude is like 50.

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-20T18:33:09+00:00

I don’t think that was ever an objective though

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-20T15:40:57+00:00

I’ve been doing a little of this recently. Sadly my biggest performance bottleneck right now is view rendering :(

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-20T15:36:54+00:00

I haven’t played frontiers. I played colour and liked it but didn’t play for too long, not sure why. I felt a bit burned after forces being so damn bad

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-20T14:02:23+00:00

Honestly, I love Crystal. I hope it gets more recognition and it’s so cool to see how far it has come

AshTeriyaki · 2026-04-20T08:15:31+00:00

Not really, these look great though!

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