2026-04-14T17:38:54.976Z

it spent 15 minutes "thinking" about that one
2026-04-14T17:40:09.910Z
it actually identifies the key insight in its summary:

Technique 1: Merge consecutive arc runs into one arc

When multiple arcs flow smoothly in the same direction with similar radii, they can collapse into a single arc spanning the combined endpoint. The individual radii (103, 108, 109) are so close that a single arc with the computed minimum R produces a near-identical curve.
2026-04-14T17:41:53.878Z
but there's a lot of visual differences between the SVG it created and the original one. besides the obvious orange bulbs, the white section has a bulge, the inner white curves were brought to the center, the endpoints of the white section moved (especially the left one), etc
it seems to have tried to do a ton of math to make it work, and since it's an LLM and for some reason didn't use a tool for calculations, it probably made a bunch of mistakes
2026-04-14T17:45:05.791Z
it also claims to have found some optimizations that look on the surface like easy wins but would actually cause significant visual errors. it doesn't look like they were actually made, though, or maybe they were later optimized away
I'm surprised that it didn't take the easiest optimization of all, combining the two paths into one with a cutout. I guess it got too focused on just the path data without considering the larger context of each path
or perhaps it just realized that it can't tell if it
's truly cutout or not because it can't actually see the image
2026-04-14T17:48:52.635Z
anyways the final SVG it created does share some similarities to my hand-optimized SVG, but it's basically useless except maybe as inspiration if you don't understand the techniques available yet
2026-04-14T17:49:56.027Z
was that worth the $1.23 in tokens? unlikely, but it was interesting
2026-04-15T00:47:27.003Z
I should think about the PlayStation Move more
2026-04-15T00:49:05.098Z
nice https://github.com/thp/psmoveapi
2026-04-15T01:58:23.306Z

no wrong image

on one hand, y'know, I would generally be considered "pro-ship", write whatever you like, etc
on the other hand, the ship in question is an absolutely terrible one
2026-04-15T04:31:01.846Z
👶👶👶⭕👍👶👶⭕👍👶👶⭕ℹ️💭🫵♾️🅱️⛏️⛏️
Ah, there's a typo in that, you get the point
Can't wait for the redesign when we can actually edit and delete posts without making manual API calls
2026-04-15T16:47:24.755Z
"we didn't lose, we had a win condition happen to the other team"
2026-04-19T18:19:24.208Z
idea: "X but Y" youtube video title but it
idea: "X but Y" youtube video title but it's a conference talk
2026-04-21T19:19:58.231Z
just made a 1.2GB 492239x538376 image
2026-04-21T19:29:36.178Z
aww, darn

??? where'd my screenshot go

2026-04-23T03:04:58.680Z
If there's anything that Magic: The Gathering has taught us it's that you can just name your product whatever and it's like fine
2026-04-23T17:42:47.602Z
Ubuntu 26.04 is officially out
2026-04-23T17:43:49.888Z
I'm going to try and see if I can switch to 26.04 in WSL because there's actually an application I wanted to use the other day but the functionality I needed wasn't in Ubuntu 24.04
2026-04-25T17:50:33.812Z
Haven't had this much free space on my boot drive in a long time

2026-04-26T20:18:26.043Z
Cleaned my laptop today
Took a couple hours as the back lid really didn't want to come off
But it definitely needed it

2026-04-26T21:27:16.449Z

2026-04-27T03:32:32.668Z

there's a couple irrelevant messages in the chain, but you get it
2026-04-27T17:57:54.516Z
Map of OSM background coverage in Ohio

why does this always happen

My definition of "background coverage" here is basically areas that color in the map
2026-04-27T18:00:02.421Z
So that's mostly landuse: things like forests, lakes and rivers, mapped residential and industrial areas, even buildings
I actually really should add parking lots
2026-04-27T18:14:52.077Z
POV: you're my Notepad++