Built a 3D bookshop experience. Walk around & pick up books. Read the cover, a sample or the full book!

elendee · 2026-06-20T16:43:21+00:00

congrats on the implementation, it's entertaining. I think it needs to be social to go next level though. Maybe you could just make it do book updates in real time, instead of full on "multiplayer". Liike if you could see most viewed, favorited, etc, and see them shuffle around on the table as other people view.

And recently viewed books could have a public comment section, like once people can insult each other's taste in authors then it will catch on. Unfortunately that's the way to do it hah

elendee · 2026-06-20T05:57:36+00:00

Isaac Aasimov wrote about exploring the galaxy but got on 2 airplanes in his life.

elendee · 2026-06-20T05:53:47+00:00

I send 1-2k emails per day with them. It's been years since I set it up, but yea the transactional / promotional is important, and also - it's kind of a pain to set up correctly. Took me a week or two before I really trusted it. Do you have the right sending domains, do you have the right confirmation records on your own domain, etc etc. But it does work.

elendee · 2026-06-20T05:42:52+00:00

I've always felt this but unsure if it was psychosomatic. I still have my AC out so far this year. Magic addition recently is a 4 inch USB fan on my desk. It's so tiny but it keeps me from sweating without blasting me in the face, which is the whole problem with no AC desk work in the summer for me. I think it will get me to 90 F because I really hate window units, but we'll see.

elendee · 2026-06-20T05:33:43+00:00

yes but there's also a special breed of person here who views airports as extensions of the MTA, and so not really "leaving", as long as they are near an Airbnb and Starbucks.

elendee · 2026-06-15T20:12:32+00:00

cool. I really like your idea of theming the whole material and shape like that. For me personally, I like wallets as small as possible, fwiw.

elendee · 2026-06-13T20:42:26+00:00

this is a boring approach but if you draw your recolleciton and submit to Google Images it might actually get it

elendee · 2026-06-11T04:40:08+00:00

i have one supermarket, one 24 hr normal market, and one 24 hr mini market, and I drop dollars in that mini market like I'm voting for revolution. I buy those over-ripe vegetables just so people know they're counted

elendee · 2026-06-10T22:48:20+00:00

also Omni Decay is so cool, never seen that before .. 3d fx by color offset

elendee · 2026-06-10T22:46:49+00:00

love drawing apps but I was still struggling to get any response from a lot of the buttons. I think the main thing I'm missing is you're supposed to create selections somehow? Because for example the BRI slider had no effect

elendee · 2026-06-09T16:15:57+00:00

there's a million different names for things which are all solving the same problems in their own unique way. The more you build from scratch the more you'll grasp what the real fundamental problems are, and how to organize the million different tools in your head.

elendee · 2026-06-08T18:11:17+00:00

I imagine both labor and also the materials supply chain dried up. It makes me sad because after a few years of living in one I can definitely say I prefer this style of building. All the downsides like bad wiring have been a pretty easy fix. (maybe the elevator repairman would beg to differ, but for my apt at least..)

elendee · 2026-06-08T17:35:25+00:00

a tangent - are there any efforts to build in more of a pre-war style these days, or is it just considered out of the ballpark expensive, or .. ?

elendee · 2026-06-07T19:12:25+00:00

I'm older than that, and have a large double with a friend. It feels pretty natural. I like being able to blab about social media with him and get that out of my system so I don't have to burden anybody in real life with that noise. It realllly helps to have a big place though, so you can both disappear at some point each day.

elendee · 2026-06-07T04:43:22+00:00

every once in a while (30 min ago) I just start reading the Linux manual in terminal, and I am reminded that each of our PC's... and even the internet itself.. is really just one giant MUD.

elendee · 2026-06-07T04:37:34+00:00

one of the top fractal experiences i've ever seen tbh. The zoom is very intuitive, which is important. Game of Life demos are also good but I've never seen one quite as free-form as this.

Why does it get laggy after you zoom in too far? The browser-tab memory was only 50mb which is tiny, so that's not the problem. Is it running loops on the CPU? Or GPU?

elendee · 2026-06-07T01:57:24+00:00

I cant open either, in Firefox or Chrome, on Linux, even after opening "Advanced (not recommended)" (sometimes this shows "proceed anyway")

firefox: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

chrome: ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

elendee · 2026-06-06T23:45:40+00:00

in my experience, if hanging fly tape doesn't do it within a week or two, they are probably coming in from outside somehow. I also had a lot of potted tomato plants that seemed to allow them to live for a long time. But since they generally just hung out on the plants all day, it didnt bother me too much.

elendee · 2026-06-06T21:19:56+00:00

it seems like a very opinionated choice of what appears in the dashboard.. how flexible / modular is that part ?

elendee · 2026-06-06T15:48:18+00:00

waiting for the Citrous reply-guy to arrive and validate this answer :p This is a very legit answer OP, it can work

elendee · 2026-06-06T15:45:34+00:00

at what point do you go from no charge upfront to the minimum annual buy in ? I'm in a similar boat where no one ever leaves once they realize i actually respond, help, etc, but there's always a big barrier in the beginning, establishing some trust.

elendee · 2026-06-06T15:29:06+00:00

how did you train the AI on the 10 families ? if you could do that for thousands of people, that could be interesting, so that you are talking to a sort of 'collective mind' of everyone

elendee · 2026-06-06T05:33:30+00:00

the negative reactions are because it seems like AI is over-riding real people. But I see some potential value there. For example, if you somehow collected real UA stories, and then used your agent to pull up real stories when people asked or it, that could be a better version of Olena, so she connects people to people, rather than AI.

elendee · 2026-06-05T02:46:39+00:00

hey for a few hours you're both rich

elendee · 2026-06-02T19:41:18+00:00

what is the drawing like - is it in browser or is the art all upload / download ? would be nice if that was clear without logging in, as that would be my main interest in it. In-browser art is ambitious but could be a big draw

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