elliotbnvl

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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
That is wild. Hahaha.
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Ok, got Cranach's in (plus some more "famous" signatures, about 10 more). Cranach's might be my personal favorite signature of the lot. Dragon imagery, minimalism, cool backstory. There were no SVGs of it available onlin
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
This was surprisingly tricky, but fixed! The issue was that short tap strokes were being fed through the stroke-rendering library (perfect-freehand), which applies start/end taper over a configurable length. When the total stroke dista
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Ahh good one, I added this in! That is amazing.
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Good catch, missed that. edit: went through and de-LLMified it, mostly, just for you :)
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
The latter, but now it’s going to be the former because you just nerdsniped me with the precision of a Navy SEAL.
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Made this last night because I needed a signature drawing tool but a Google didn’t reveal any mobile friendly pages with a <15s interaction and no email gate, to get a nice looking signature. The historical signatures were a nice touch C
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Famous Signatures Through History(signatory.app)
53 points by elliotbnvl 8mo ago|32 comments
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Thanks! And yeah, that's pretty much what I did. I liked the additions it made of the research (some of which I wasn't aware of) and analogies, in case ideas which were intuitive to others weren't intuitive to me. But I'
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
:sweatingemoji: I'm still working on it. I'll yeet out those sentences. But I'm more interested in conveying the idea...
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The OpenClawification of the Web(elliotbonneville.com)
1 points by elliotbnvl 8mo ago|5 comments
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
This is an idea that my dad and I, who have set up dueling OpenClaw agents, have been tossing around a lot lately. It's been so much fun messing around with OpenClaw, but at the end of the day I'm writing this post because I don&#
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Oh good catch, fixed.
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Um... can we talk? :D
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Yeah 100% there's more legit stuff than ever, but there's also just more stuff than ever. So it becomes a discoverability problem. To be honest this is what is discouraging me from writing more novels right now. The only reason I&
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
I am not cashing in on AI hysteria. I am AI hysterical. lol. Kinda joking but kinda not. How do you have chill while the world is crashing down? I’m young so that’s probably part of it, only ~12 years into my career and haven’t experienced
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
This is a compelling assertion. But who among us has truly original thoughts? How much new stuff can there be? If all the same-y stuff is losing value (but most stuff has value because it's FOUND not because it's unique) then isn&
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
I got mouths to feed, so... yeah.
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
The followup thought / concern that occurs: what if the number of hard things is going down?
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
I used to agree completely, and a part of me still does. But the part of me that's scared that this isn't true is getting louder and louder. I'm a novelist and software engineer. The value of one of those skills is trending t
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Ahhh that lines up with a thought I had recently: you get out of life what you put into it. I am beginning to believe that there's some kind of metaphysical rule here that is true everywhere, all the time. So maybe the solution is: fin
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Thanks for the feedback, I really like Bonfire, I'll check it out. ...but I am probably not going to be able to get my mom to use it. And no joke a big part of why I'm trying this out is for something my parents and my family can
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The only moat left is money?(elliotbonneville.com)
278 points by elliotbnvl 8mo ago|383 comments
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
I've been mulling over and refining this essay on the problems with social media for the past few days and I feel like it's grown into something sharp and true. Would love more input on it, and also to validate the solution I sugg
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Social Media Is Dead(joinkith.com)
3 points by elliotbnvl 8mo ago|4 comments
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Thanks! And yeah, right, exactly my concern. That's why the invite tree – and being able to remove a whole distrusted branch in one fell swoop – is hopefully the counter to that.
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Cool! That's what the platform I'm envisioning in the link does. Does it click for you or did my wording/explanation kinda fall flat?
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
Yeah on further thought I totally agree. Between your comment and the other comment on this post I think I need to tighten my thesis: social media is dead, not the Internet. I think the core idea probably will benefit from the increased foc
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
I love that point and it’s a really good reframe. But I feel like so many people are relying on AI to do everything for them already that this is a really really hard problem. I love your piece though and the call to action: “Make the inter
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by elliotbnvl 8mo ago
It’s a bit of an omai wa shinderu situation, to be fair, the Internet is already dead but a lot of people don’t know it yet. I think that leaves us a short window to organize alternatives. Who knows, maybe it’s already closed. But we have t

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