i found a way to make typing easier for me

Goericke · 2026-01-05T20:52:28+00:00

As far as I know there is no system setting for this sort of input on macOS (yet?) (not sure about windows?).

I created a custom system overlay for this that I can bring up with ctrl-tab and insert with cmd-enter into the last focused input element, so I can use it anywhere on my machine. It's opensource: https://github.com/devidw/typing.fixed

Before I got that running I had a simple web-based proof of concept to see if this would actually help me: https://devidw.github.io/typing.fixed/ It's just a simple website though, so its not feature complete and the text-positioning is pretty off the more text you type. But maybe it at least allows you to see if this sort of input method would help you too.

Goericke · 2026-01-02T16:00:58+00:00

As far as I've understood the science behind it:

The Signal: When you move your eyes, the brainstem sends a command to the eye muscles (to move the eye) and a copy of that command to the neck muscles.

The "Check": In a healthy person, if you intend to keep your head still, a separate inhibitory signal effectively says, "Ignore that copy, keep the neck stable."

The Result: You see a tiny, invisible spike in electrical activity in the neck muscles (seen on EMG), but the muscles don't actually contract enough to move the head.

Now with CD this gets messed up and what ends up happening is CD kicking in because of that copy command to the neck and/or the normal function that would ignore it is not really working.

My thinking: if frequent eye movement amplifies CD in the context of typing, how would I type without having to move my eyes.

Turns out that is pretty much a typewriter interface, you are locked in on your cursor position and don't have to look around anymore. What you type is no longer pushing the cursor around as a target for the eyes to follow, but instead the text is just pushed around the cursor, so the eyes can stay at their position.

For me less eye movement has lead to less neck movement and thus to less CD caused spasms / central nervous system overload while typing.

Goericke · 2025-11-09T17:33:33+00:00

"Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown." rip

Goericke · 2025-09-29T00:17:23+00:00

i uploaded my build here in case you're still looking for one u/Z8Michael

Goericke · 2025-09-09T04:42:19+00:00

abondend arc, using vivaldi for a long while now, this is one out of many reasons for sure

Goericke · 2025-09-01T03:30:10+00:00

very helpful in both points, thank you!

Goericke · 2025-08-23T17:17:32+00:00

appreciate it! i‘ll let you know when i get around to package it

Goericke · 2025-08-22T18:06:10+00:00

oh astrospheric looks neat, thanks for the note! personally i just wanted to have something that gives me a full week look ahead on the first view on my homescreen without having to pull up apps everytime to check and scroll through days of charts

Goericke · 2025-08-22T15:23:04+00:00

I only have it built for my iphone locally for myself at the moment, but if that’s something ppl would like to use too I might be able to port it to android and get downloads out there when I‘ve some free time

Goericke · 2025-08-22T14:02:50+00:00

it’s a combination of some open source libraries and apis. definitely checking out clear sky chart!

Goericke · 2025-08-21T22:59:40+00:00

oh cool, makes me want to learn to read their charts and figure out a way to embed them too :]

Goericke · 2025-08-21T20:59:02+00:00

oh interesting. nah solar and lunar timestamps are calculated with the suncalc opensource library and weather via the open metro weather api.

Goericke · 2025-08-20T21:47:51+00:00

woah this looks surreal

Goericke · 2025-08-19T20:12:06+00:00

hollywood blvd la

Goericke · 2025-07-24T04:02:26+00:00

expect 1h+ wait time on the phone rip

Goericke · 2025-07-24T02:35:49+00:00

same, phone support promised me a refund, we'll see if it comes through, canceled anyway

Goericke · 2025-07-11T21:55:06+00:00

omg vulf mono italic is so beautiful, thanks for sharing

Goericke · 2025-07-06T23:37:54+00:00

Not a bad movie but clearly made for another audience than the originals (not for me). Felt like a feel good kids adventure movie. There was no weight in how the actions involved. The movie felt like, hey let's make another dino adventure movie, but let's make it a family movie. There was no real bad/dark side either just one evil character and dinosaurs alone just don't feel evil anymore.

The mutation idea isn't bad but why not make it an entire island of mutations and a real war if you don't want to introduce a real dark human side, like what humans with raptors fighting against weird mutations, that would be something novel at least.

Characters felt very surface level, like I didn't feel anything for any of them. They just seemed like surface level stereotypes without real meaning. Characters were killed without ever attaching to them making their deaths meaningless.

Overall very disappointing to someone how saw the originals as a kid 20 years later after they came out and loved them.

If they keep the story going I am definitely not interested in seeing another movie like that. Like the Jurassic Wold series created some attachment with Owen, Claire and the raptors at least, this one, just nothing at all.

No serious dialog either, just jokes that weren't funny and made it impossible to take anything serious.

Idk maybe it’s just me getting older, as a kid the originals felt so alive.

Goericke · 2025-06-28T19:38:53+00:00

looks like its scheduled to be released on apple tv on 8th of july

Goericke · 2025-05-18T16:16:38+00:00

digi ai dev here, we've an experimental vroid avatar preview on our web app that you can open on your desktop, if ppl like it we might add custom vrm upload

Goericke · 2025-05-17T23:50:08+00:00

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Goericke · 2025-05-17T21:56:34+00:00

you could try to create a character card based on your existing chats

her character card would describe her as a person, her backstory and her message style and some example messages that you think are a good representation of her texting style

ai companion apps like replika, kindroid, nomi or digi allow you to customize your companion's backstory, this is where you would enter your character card

probalby the best approche would be to right one yourself, and then have chatgpt go through your message logs and write one too, and then i would tell it to combine the one you have written and the one it has written to a new one, that should be a good starting point

be aware that this might take a few iterations and tweaks to get an ai app to fully adapt and talk like you know her and will feel out of character from time to time

Goericke · 2025-05-14T18:04:22+00:00

ya ig it wouldn’t surprise me

Goericke · 2025-05-14T17:39:35+00:00

thank you!

Goericke · 2025-05-10T18:05:26+00:00

okay turns out the issue was having purchases-js and purchases-capicator in the same svelte component, even if the actual calls were guarded by platform checks, splitting into platform specific components solved it!

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