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Mostly in ChatGPT Canvas/Claude Artifacts or the like?

simonw 1y ago
Yes exactly - usually in Artifacts, which I then copy and paste into the GitHub web editor in order to ship them via GitHub Pages to https://tools.simonwillison.net/ https://tools.simonwillison.net/
- edoceo 1y ago
  From your phone?! With that tiny screen?
  - simonw 1y ago
    I always buy the iPhone with the largest screen, but yeah.
  - lucb1e 1y ago
    Depends what you call tiny. I've only found one "tiny" phone (that is, a normal smartphone size ten years ago) with a modern chipset (so I don't need to replace it in <=3 years) and that's the Jelly Max... but it's only purchasable directly from China and their warranty page is broken so I don't want to throw my coins into a slot machine. Can't find even a single other model, no matter the price. Xperia 5 V comes close but is only available second hand; Xperia 10 VI has a pretty slow SoC. Everything else is a size that people amusedly called "phablet", or was literally a tablet Phones are definitely usable as desktops nowadays, especially if you stick it in a cardboard and can actually see (make use of) most of the pixels on the screen. People just haven't gotten used to it yet. They're not slow either, and for some workloads apparently very fast: I recently also noticed my phone is faster at certain ffmpeg codecs than my laptop!
  - archerx 1y ago
    I feel like the touch inputs are a bigger hinderance than the screen. Manipulating text with a touch screen keyboard is torture.
    - cess11 1y ago
      I find PentiKeyboard to strike a nice balance. You get six circles sized depending on where you put your fingers, and they contain most of what you expect from a regular keyboard, plus convenience chord for Ctrl+b to hasten tmux actions, in-keyboard cheat sheet and a character lookup and picker. Ergonomically it's quite good, your fingers end up in a convenient place and when you want to reallocate your body you remove and reset the circles to new positions. The drawback is that on a phone you need to use both hands to type, but if you're doing something like programming or text editing you'll likely be rather involved anyway. It's also nice that the keyboard doesn't hide half the screen, instead you can look through the circles or touch outside of them to temporarily hide the keyboard entirely. Edit: Right, forgot to mention perhaps the best functionality, the sixth circle repeats the last bytes it sent, so if you do some action you have a button to just do it again and again. Comes in handy all the time. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.software_lab.pentikeyboard&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.software_la...
      - archerx 1y ago
        Wow that’s interesting but I don’t think I would ever use that. I can actually type really quickly with the touch keyboard but the problem is going back to correct things. On iOS getting the cursor to move back to a previous part of the text to fix an error is and adventure in frustration. Even holding down the space button and draggging the text cursor around is awful. A lot of the times it’s just faster and easier to erase large chunks of text and rewrite it.
        cess11 1y ago
        Yeah, I really missed Penti when I had to use an iOS device for work for a while. I'm mostly in a terminal, commonly in vim, where the 'regular keyboard' experience makes text and code editing quite convenient compared to the usual software keyboard suspects. In web forms and the like it's also fairly convenient, one can send move left and then hit repeat until the correct position (or any number of arrow key equivalents for moving rows). I hardly ever move the cursor by pointing somewhere in the text. It took me something like three weeks to become really fluent in Penti, back in 2017-2018 I think.

Yes exactly - usually in Artifacts, which I then copy and paste into the GitHub web editor in order to ship them via GitHub Pages to https://tools.simonwillison.net/ https://tools.simonwillison.net/

edoceo 1y ago
From your phone?! With that tiny screen?
- simonw 1y ago
  I always buy the iPhone with the largest screen, but yeah.
- lucb1e 1y ago
  Depends what you call tiny. I've only found one "tiny" phone (that is, a normal smartphone size ten years ago) with a modern chipset (so I don't need to replace it in <=3 years) and that's the Jelly Max... but it's only purchasable directly from China and their warranty page is broken so I don't want to throw my coins into a slot machine. Can't find even a single other model, no matter the price. Xperia 5 V comes close but is only available second hand; Xperia 10 VI has a pretty slow SoC. Everything else is a size that people amusedly called "phablet", or was literally a tablet Phones are definitely usable as desktops nowadays, especially if you stick it in a cardboard and can actually see (make use of) most of the pixels on the screen. People just haven't gotten used to it yet. They're not slow either, and for some workloads apparently very fast: I recently also noticed my phone is faster at certain ffmpeg codecs than my laptop!
- archerx 1y ago
  I feel like the touch inputs are a bigger hinderance than the screen. Manipulating text with a touch screen keyboard is torture.
  - cess11 1y ago
    I find PentiKeyboard to strike a nice balance. You get six circles sized depending on where you put your fingers, and they contain most of what you expect from a regular keyboard, plus convenience chord for Ctrl+b to hasten tmux actions, in-keyboard cheat sheet and a character lookup and picker. Ergonomically it's quite good, your fingers end up in a convenient place and when you want to reallocate your body you remove and reset the circles to new positions. The drawback is that on a phone you need to use both hands to type, but if you're doing something like programming or text editing you'll likely be rather involved anyway. It's also nice that the keyboard doesn't hide half the screen, instead you can look through the circles or touch outside of them to temporarily hide the keyboard entirely. Edit: Right, forgot to mention perhaps the best functionality, the sixth circle repeats the last bytes it sent, so if you do some action you have a button to just do it again and again. Comes in handy all the time. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.software_lab.pentikeyboard&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.software_la...
    - archerx 1y ago
      Wow that’s interesting but I don’t think I would ever use that. I can actually type really quickly with the touch keyboard but the problem is going back to correct things. On iOS getting the cursor to move back to a previous part of the text to fix an error is and adventure in frustration. Even holding down the space button and draggging the text cursor around is awful. A lot of the times it’s just faster and easier to erase large chunks of text and rewrite it.
      - cess11 1y ago
        Yeah, I really missed Penti when I had to use an iOS device for work for a while. I'm mostly in a terminal, commonly in vim, where the 'regular keyboard' experience makes text and code editing quite convenient compared to the usual software keyboard suspects. In web forms and the like it's also fairly convenient, one can send move left and then hit repeat until the correct position (or any number of arrow key equivalents for moving rows). I hardly ever move the cursor by pointing somewhere in the text. It took me something like three weeks to become really fluent in Penti, back in 2017-2018 I think.