Wow. I was pondering this exact thing when I was thinking about the scourge of ugly graffiti tagging where I live. Sample the wall color and cover it instantly.

That is ineffective at stopping ugly graffiti, especially tagging.

There is an honor system at play: pieces over throwups over tags.

Anyone tagging on someone else’s piece is ridiculed in the community, and serious graffiti writers will start seeking and painting over their tags.

The solution is not to provide another empty canvas, the solution is to get someone famous in the circles to paint a huge mural.

what

Sound beam aimed at person in the way.

Bell costs more than the bike is ok?

Bike is optional extra

Read this on my third screen while waiting for 4 Claude sessions to finish.

Ah, the defocuser 3000.

I can't stay "in the zone" while waiting for Claude. On the other hand whenever I'm blocked on something, I just ask it and get my answer way earlier than I would if I used a search engine.

It's quite the dilemma.

The pause in replies also suggests he's not around the corner.

I'm guessing that if Apple can get it right with the next LLM based Siri, generating or editing Shortcuts may get easier anyway.

The biggest problem IMO is the loooooooong animation delay built into every UI interaction. It's so hard to get into a flow state or even maintain a train of thought when you have to wait for everything on the screen to stop sliding, wiggling, wobbling, jiggling, refracting, distorting, and flashing.

I’m guessing you might know already, but just in case you don’t, “reduce motion” in the accessibility settings menu is essential to productivity and sanity.

There needs to be a happy medium. I don't like reduce motion because it amputates many of the spatial arrangement metaphors inherent in the iOS UI.

My biggest problem with authoring shortcuts is that the editor goes out of its way to obliterate context while you're working. Full-screen editors to change a setting lay on top everything else you're working on. Placeholders for variables, which themselves have no actual names. It's a mess.

This does nothing to remove the loooooong animations. Much of the interface still jiggles, wobbles, slides, etc. It just replaces a fraction of those with fade animations that are just as long. It's just a high-latency interface all throughout.

It does seem like the logical automation platform to prepare repeatable tasks that the end user might want to do.

The permissions and secure app integration models are all there, and it’s reasonably stable.

It was always puzzling why there was never an exportable scripting language, just shareable links. I think I ended up sharing screen shots with Claude last time I wanted to troubleshoot something.

Can't use it yet because I need cmd-f find.

Done.

The adoption of, or adherence to an "identity" is a very western habit. The thought that you or your value derives from a mental construct or external idea.

It's limiting and dangerous. Limiting because you're relying on a relatively small network in the brain, governed almost entirely by your conscious ideas to provide a set of features of who you are. And dangerous because if something else comes up, if you discover something new about yourself, you change, or your circumstances, or the world around you changes and it affects one of your "identities" - that alteration can leave you lost. As the author seems to be saying.

Instead of these quips of, "you need to know who you are", "who are you?", "know yourself" - we should rather be trying, continually, in a never ending process, to discover ourselves.

Love this take. Clinging to a particular identity is a path to suffering.

They need to enforce this with very large fines.

Almost all businesses need email, contacts, calendars, live chat, video calls, docs, sheets, and presentations. Ideally all linked. Where is the open source foundation for this package that everyone needs?

Where are the businesses setting up and donating to an organization/foundation to pay for development of such a package?

Aside from email I think nextcloud (+ jitsi integration) covers most, if not all, of those requirements.

Nextcloud is great !

Nextcloud is not great, it's just the only available package that approximates an all-in-one GSuite experience. In practice, the UI is really janky and unpolished.