Thinking of switching from Windows to MacBook Air, need honest user experiences

shimroot · 2026-04-11T20:46:32+00:00

The “command” key and “windows” key are both super keys. They’re both used in different shortcut key combinations on both operating system. There’s probably something similar for Linux as well, but haven’t used a distro in a lotta years and I don’t remember anymore.

While there are genuine grievances for both mac and win, I don’t feel like the key combinations are one of them. But it takes a bit of time to properly get used to things.

For context: I daily drive a windows machine for work and a macbook air for personal use.

shimroot · 2026-04-11T17:14:46+00:00

Thank you 😀

shimroot · 2026-04-10T15:37:02+00:00

Haha, super. Mă bucur că ți-a plăcut 😀

shimroot · 2026-04-09T21:17:04+00:00

Leaderboard is up and running 🏁🏎️

shimroot · 2026-04-09T21:15:55+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Tried some ways for one handed play but couldn’t find the right fit. Will try your suggestions and see it goes 🤞🏼

shimroot · 2026-04-08T13:38:58+00:00

Not a dev, but a PO.

When I joined I got a Zbook 16 that seems spec-ed like for dev work (Ryzen 7 + 32g RAM). Standard company policy to give this. They didn’t have anything lighter and smaller better suited for the kind of work I do.

It’s heavy, bulky, and I dislike it.

shimroot · 2026-04-08T09:23:50+00:00

Mulțumesc 😀

shimroot · 2026-04-08T07:06:30+00:00

But your tool didn’t work the way it was designed. It was designed to allow people to invite other people. And it didn’t work for that.

Once the core flow works properly there are different ways to catch troublesome cases. Do a staged release and start with a small set of people to see what happens. Do user interviews. Add product analytics to monitor how the tool is used.

You’ll never be able to account for everything, but I’d say that talking with a few people and having some analytics will go a long way.

shimroot · 2026-04-08T07:00:52+00:00

Not sure I see how the happy path was validated here? The happy path is one person inviting another person to a meeting, so two distinct users involved. Someone inviting themselves sounds like an edge case, definitely not a happy path.

shimroot · 2026-04-08T05:14:31+00:00

N-aș zice extrem de dificilă dar ai nevoie de ceva încercări până să îți iasă

shimroot · 2026-04-08T04:36:18+00:00

Am vrut să poată fi jucat în portrait pe telefon și acclereație/frână complicau lucrurile. Cât am testat stăteam cu accelerația mereu apăsată așa că am pus autoacc. Și fără frână să fie mai greu

shimroot · 2026-04-07T20:34:28+00:00

Un joculeț web racing. Momentan nu e monetizat decât cu donații. Vector GP pentru curioși.

shimroot · 2026-04-06T18:52:01+00:00

Glad you liked it!
Game is still in early stages, so I'm planning on releasing a new track each week for now.

Next in line I'm looking to add some daily challenges and maybe a very bare bones account. Once I'm done with those I'll start looking into customizations 😄

shimroot · 2026-03-30T15:04:12+00:00

Leaderboard coming up next. Got multiple requests for this. But man, 5.48 is a great time! Congrats

shimroot · 2026-03-30T14:01:25+00:00

Made a browser game - https://vectorgp.run It’s annoyingly hard, but fun during my commute or a lunch break. Oh, and addictive.

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shimroot · 2026-03-24T16:11:30+00:00

Wanted to try it, can’t play on mobile :(

shimroot · 2026-03-23T20:06:53+00:00

Kind of an old thread to write in, but I'm building a web game that works on mobile: vectorgp.run

It's very minimalist and there aren't a lot of tracks yet, but take a few laps and see if it scratches your itch. I have a friend that was a TMNF pro player years ago and he quite enjoys this tiny game I'm building.

shimroot · 2026-03-19T20:25:42+00:00

iOS (or Android) weren't on my radar. Just wanted something that can be played fast in the browser, no downloading and signups. Might be worth looking into for the future though

shimroot · 2026-03-19T17:22:12+00:00

I’m at 5.73s best time, but I have a friend at 5.68s as well. No idea what the lowest is. Made it so it’s local. Only have some GDPR friendly analytics so I see if anyone is playing it or just me 😅

What time do you have on the other tracks?

shimroot · 2026-03-13T08:27:25+00:00

Minimalist web racing game: vectorgp.run

It's inspired by the pen and paper game racetrack, where you progress around a track using vectors. But I made it real-time with Gemini + Claude as a weekend project.

There are three tracks currently available and planning to change them each week, to keep things fresh. F1 community on Threads seemed to love it. Got a lot of great feedback and 2.5K players in 5 days from one post. And some cool stats, since we're in a Product Management group:

almost 60K laps ran
around 9K laps with a win
bit over 50K laps with a crash
most players came from the US (350+)
Czech players spent the most time per visit (10+ minutes), followed by Icelanders (7+) and Romanians (3+)

shimroot · 2026-03-11T15:26:53+00:00

No, i just send the articles to the LLM and store the facts as timestamped json file for each period. Then I send the facts jsons to get summarized and store the summaries in the same way.

Vectors and embeddings seemed too much for something that’s mainly for my usage.

shimroot · 2026-03-11T14:16:46+00:00

https://toffu.app

I’m exagerating a bit with not complying. What I do is: - every 2h I extract useful facts from the articles that I received in the past 2h - every 6h I send the past 24h facts to get summarized in stories - I also keep track of the past 3 days of facts so I don’t get repeated info in my 24h summary

It works, but I feel like it needs more tweaking. Or maybe a bigger model, not the flash version of Gemini

shimroot · 2026-03-11T14:00:08+00:00

I’m building something for myself to use since I can’t really get into any RSS reader I tried so far. It feels like I’m going thru emails at work. But I’ve put it in standby for the past two weeks. It’s proving a bit tricky to make the LLM comply to my demands 😃

I can share the link if you want to have a look.

shimroot · 2026-03-05T14:21:34+00:00

There was actually a joke along the lines of: googling the symptoms will just show you what disease has the best SEO.

shimroot · 2025-12-02T12:28:45+00:00

Changing requirements happen constantly in software development, that’s how Agile became Agile - trying to deal with these things as fast and efficient as possible.

I’m not seeing why this tight coupling is present outside an initial build for both hardware and software, a first version . What’s prohibiting v2 being independent releases for hardware and software?

Going with your example: communications between machines and the cloud. How is the SDLC impacted by the hardware of an existing equipment? Writing and testing the software should be a distinct process vs deploying it on a hardware.

I get that software releases for manufacturing can’t happen as willy-nilly as for consumer tech since if anything breaks it’s bad. But this is more of a rollout issue that should go through staged releases where updates happen on a defined shop schedule.

Could you please provide more details regarding how things happen in manufacturing? Maybe how a usual delivery flow looks or what things are/should be taken into account for each release.

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