msephton

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   by msephton 5mo ago

   Lots of missing words in this? eg. 11.
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   I use it, set and forget for audioscrobbling since forever. And I still track gigs using it. Recommendations are still great.
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   Long may it continue. I've used Last.fm since it launched to keep track of my listening habits (albeit incomplete since iPhone) and all the gigs I've ever been to (complete to the best of my knowledge!).
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   Only to be rivalled by the long-standing Elisa font (also from Japan, like the 04 font) https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/111533004449746944...
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   I loved the puzzle of thinking about the best semantic representation of content in HTML. Good times
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   This was a tough but fun read. It's my understanding that the three restrictions ensure, by way of overshooting, that there's no need to do any expensive if-tests. Everything can just go full throttle.
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   On the contrary, I think this is one big compromise. Sad to see them jettison such a solid native app for this. Most of all I don't understand why they released it half-baked.
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   Good point! It's a plain text outliner, but i use it as for tasks/todo. Most features were added for people other than me!
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   by msephton 5mo ago

   The comment has one downvote. The wider view is that TextKit 2 works out of the box and its up to the developer to mess it up, or not. I made an app using it, quite easily, it's selling very well, thanks! No tradeoffs needed.
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    I'm not being obtuse, on the contrary I am bright and focussed enough that my experience building an app around TextKit 2 was opposite to the premise of the OP. It's a few lines of code to add a TextKit2 component to an app, and i
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    Are you basing this opinion on feeling or science? This feels instant on iOS, and scientifically it's faster than almost all keyboards, which have latency between 15ms and 60ms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    So now it's personal and I'm the bad guy because I happened to have already done what the OP says is not possible? Deeply uncool.The price is not high at all, and it's not an opinion or theory because I've proven it by s
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    Beautiful work, as always! Great to see
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    That's cool, understood. Whilst I don't think you would be using my app to edit those files, it could do it. Though I haven't tested the multi gigabyte size on iOS.
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    I stand by the claim. But what do I know? ;)
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    I'm going from memory here, time marches on never-ending, so please forgive me. I conflated two things: my performance test results are from the first 5,000 lines of Moby Dick. Why 5,000? One user has a 5,000 line taskpaper note file.
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    It took me "8 months" because I had another job for part of that time, so I wasn't working on my apps for all that time. At the start of this year, I decided to tidy up the app for release...along with 20 others. https:&#x2F
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    You're assuming the text editor component alone took 8 months, but of course it did not! That would be crazy. There's a whole app built around the text component, which is what took my time, and the reason people are buying the ap
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    I recently launched a text editor for iOS that uses TextKit 2 and is highly performant with files of 5,000 lines (I tested with Moby Dick from Project Gutenberg). I made it between Aug 2025 and Apr 2026, development is ongoing. Every keystr
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    Astonishing work, on so many levels.
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    How I made a shooter game in 64 KB [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by msephton 5mo ago|1 comments
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    Even emulation is worthwhile (I use RPCEmu)
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    But most spreadsheet software today is closer to PipeDream than VisiCalc.
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    I used PipeDream on the Cambridge Z88, and only briefly tried it on other platforms under the PipeDream (Archimedes, MS-DOS) and Fireworkz (Windows) names. I think it was a great moonshot of an idea, ahead of its time when you consider Affi
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    Interesting, the source is (a subdomain on) the Ghost blogging platform.
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    PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes(stonetools.ghost.io)

    85 points by msephton 5mo ago|54 comments
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    by msephton 5mo ago

    I once read that PC-Engine almost used the Motorola 68000. I'm a nerd so I bookmarked the reference. https://archive.org/details/beep198807/page/n45/mode/2up "According to Mr. Nakamoto of
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    by msephton 6mo ago

    In 2024 I made something similar to this for Playdate, with mirroring and dynamic pen width and dithering based on speed of movement. It is fun https://gingerbeardman.itch.io/rorschach
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    by msephton 6mo ago

    Call it Nopepad++
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    by msephton 6mo ago

    Any chance they could make it less than 850 MB?