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by alin23 8mo ago
I love Kino! I film all my wood carving videos with it for my Instagram profile [1]. I'm so glad to hear it's getting updates this year. If you're open to feedback: I like playing with white balance a lot, and it takes just a
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by alin23 8mo ago
Damn, so this is the thing that caused all the floating windows to become unclickable and impossible to interact with... I'm the creator of the apps from https://lowtechguys.com/ and I was replying to 10-15 support ema
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by alin23 8mo ago
Notarization is mostly a glorified malware scan. There's no Apple engineer auditing what's being sent for notarization. Even clever malware can evade notarization scans and be distributed as a notarized binary, it has happened in
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by alin23 10mo ago
This is the hardest thing about selling wooden spoons and especially cups. Like you, most people think about the rough texture they felt when using cheap or disposable wooden utensils. My spoons and cups feel more like warm textured ceramic
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by alin23 10mo ago
Some people react very badly, some are immune. But to be honest I just don't like my spoons and cups to look lacquered and I don't prefer the process of application. Nothing wrong with that though, I like reading and watching peop
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by alin23 10mo ago
The problem with jojoba oil is that it doesn't polymerize or cure. It stays wet in the fibers. Nothing bad with that on wood that doesn't contact hot food and beverages. But if you put wood treated with non-polymerized oil in a ho
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by alin23 10mo ago
Author here! Since the article publishing, I have found a widely available finish that's very similar to what I'm doing called Walrus Oil Furniture Butter: https://walrusoil.com/products/furniture-butter It&#
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by alin23 10mo ago
Osmo Polyx is what I already had around from other wooden furniture projects, that's all. I try to not store too many cans of unused finishes around my house so I try to use what I already have first. Top Oil indeed seems very similar
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by alin23 10mo ago
Author here, it's not that it's not possible, it's just annoying to do. Indeed, two-component hardwax oils are close to perfect (although the resulting polymer is not ideal), but having to do the precise pouring and mixing, a
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by alin23 10mo ago
Author here, I also bought a dehydrator to keep my finished spoons at 70C (158F) for 10 hours to speed up the curing of the tung oil. It really works wonders! I prefer to keep the original color of the wood I sell, so lower temperatures are
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by alin23 10mo ago
Nothing, I'm just not a metal worker.
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by alin23 10mo ago
Thank you for the kind words! Do try to finish your cup, it's a great experience both to drink from something made by your hands, and to drink from a wooden cup if it's finished well. Make sure you do water popping after finishing
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by alin23 10mo ago
Author here, to address some of your points: - most finishes are indeed "food safe after curing", I'm aware of that. How they look on wood, how they perform when being dipped in hot soup or when drinking hot liquids from them
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by alin23 10mo ago
Author here, I was mostly referring to the practice of coating the wood in a layer of smooth plastic that makes the wood not feel and look like wood anymore. It's like something that you want to keep encased forever. I'm of the sa
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons(alinpanaitiu.com)
225 points by alin23 10mo ago|150 comments
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I'll quit my job and buy a farm(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)
6 points by alin23 1y ago|0 comments
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by alin23 1y ago
The Scanwatch Light seems to be very close to what I need. While they're priced reasonably for what they offer, they're crazy expensive for what I would need. I'm really not interested in fitness or sleep tracking these days
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by alin23 1y ago
Glad to finaly see someone in the low-power chip industry going in the open source direction. Thanks for the insight! When I saw rePebble be announced, I signed up for it right away. Only later I realized I actually don't want a smartw
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by alin23 2y ago
It doesn't keep everything as before, it's a new profile that started with no image, no description, 0 followers etc. This is clearly malicious if they recreated my account exactly as before, and it's also clearly premeditate
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by alin23 2y ago
It's probably more likely taken into a troll farm where an employee of that organization is doing these posts using an AI prompt for each profile.
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My deleted Twitter account was instantly taken over by crypto scammers
10 points by alin23 2y ago|6 comments
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Show HN: macOS app that brings the startup folder feature from Windows(github.com)
4 points by alin23 2y ago|1 comments
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by alin23 2y ago
I recently learned about swift-sh [1] which is the same thing as “uv run —script” but for swift files. I’ve been having a blast automating some macOS annoyances with small scripts that can use native macOS APIs directly, no more pyobjc. I a
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by alin23 2y ago
It was true for me, specifically for my workflow, the websites I use and how I leave some specific tabs in the background. I’ve used Chrome for many years before Firefox and it was always prioritizing JS responsiveness even when the app was
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by alin23 2y ago
I've been on Firefox Dev Edition for Mac for the last 4 years I think, and I can't remember more than 1 or 2 websites that didn't work correctly on it. It's been flawless, more battery and memory efficient than Chrome, l
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by alin23 2y ago
In case others are looking for a cheaper alternative to Formspree, I've been using https://formspark.io/ for all my websites [1] [2] [3] I paid $25 a few years ago (can't even remember when) and I still have 47k o
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How I made my SwiftUI calendar app 3x faster(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)
5 points by alin23 2y ago|0 comments
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Making my own sharpening blocks(alinpanaitiu.com)
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by alin23 2y ago
Something in the runtime JS is really slowing down the page. Here's a demo video with scrolling after the page has loaded (really choppy) and scrolling after stopping the JS with Firefox's slow-script-detection-thingy (smooth): h
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by alin23 2y ago
Oh that’s great to hear then! Good to know there’s a snapshot already. In my case, I only encrypt the code related to Pro features. There are still plenty of free features and improvements that I add and that I know people will benefit from

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