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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
I use the iPad Blink Shell app, it can have multiple windows and renders using the VisionOS UI, making it sharper than mirroring a Mac's display. It helps that I have optimised a great part of my workflow due to me liking tablets. Like
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
I love high dpi displays as I like text (and other details) to be crisp and clear. Vision Pro is approaching a quality that I feel is acceptable, somewhere between "flawless reality" and a decent screen. The virtual environments a
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Coding in Vision Pro(willem.com)
361 points by willemlaurentz 3y ago|454 comments
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
At first I thought it would be weird, but after a few minutes it all felt very natural and a deep work focus was achieved without me really realising it. I tried to grasp some of the awe I experienced in this blog post.
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Should you wear a health tracker?(willem.com)
2 points by willemlaurentz 3y ago|1 comments
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Given some enthusiastic new year's resolutions..., I find myself in an ever growing mountain of health and workout data. What is enough? Love to hear HN's philosophy on health and fitness data!
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
In the shadows of the great fee software contributor giants here on HN, this is just a very small (and humble) beginning: I share a little tool I made to rotate backups: rsync-backup-rotator It is available as free software under GPLv3, in
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Make more tools (and share them) – I'll start with: rsync-backup-rotator(willem.com)
3 points by willemlaurentz 3y ago|1 comments
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Dank je!
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I purposefully write about "talking" to strangers. But, in the book Jeo Keohane actually goes a long way to have more meaningful, deeper, conversations. By offering yourself as attentive listener, ran
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
> I have often felt like the nectar for a hungry extravert to feed on, and when they are done with me, it turns out they never actually cared about ~me~; they just needed to feed on the social interaction with me to gain energy for thems
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
I am sorry if my post came over as if I wanted to tell you to change; that is never my intention. Please be exactly as you want to be. Taking your feedback into account I will try to get this nuance better in my writing, but please forgive
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
This, exactly. The funny thing is that once you start reading body language (as in paying attention to it) - somehow other people pick this up, too. The author (Joe Keohane) in the book that I mentioned in my blog post noticed this too, onc
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
And here we are, exchanging views on the subject, for which I am sincerely grateful you took the effort to write your take on "my precious nugget' (love the metaphor!) Perhaps it is good to add that I do try to gauge other people&
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
This is so cool! In the book that I described in my blog post, the author (Joe Keohane) explains that sometimes people need a sort of "permission" to engage, your events fulfilled that. Another well accepted context for strangers
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
This. Thank you. > "Where are you going?" It is good to add that this is not my first question. Like you suggested, it is better to start with something that can be perceived by both parties (the author in the book refers to t
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Here in Limburg folks speak in their own dialect. They immediately hear that I am "not one of them" (although I understand their language well). Sometimes that's an advantage (as it invokes curiosity), but moreover they'
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for something to eat ignored the person standing at the counter, preferring to order through a digital kiosk. The crazy thing about this? They ar
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Hello, stranger – Talking to random people(willem.com)
128 points by willemlaurentz 3y ago|153 comments
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced by a smartwatch with LTE. This week I did this, leaving my iPhone in a bag and letting an Apple Watch take the helm. Many hail this as a liberating escape from our attention-seeking digital
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Apple Watch as Phone Replacement(willem.com)
3 points by willemlaurentz 3y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Installing dynamo powered lights on a road (racing) bike(willem.com)
2 points by willemlaurentz 3y ago|0 comments
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Since 1912 they are organising a 11 stedentocht for bycicles. A single day event, compassing 235KM. According to locals I've spoken, this gets about "10%" of the vibe of the tour on ice. Still a lot of fun, I completed this y
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
The OP makes points I recognise - the iPad is constrained in its potential. There are however some positives I came to appreciate after using the iPad Pro 11-inch for some years now as main computer. You'll find them here, with screen
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
Thanks for the idea! I never considered it to be an option outside chromebooks.
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Ask HN: Any tips for using a 15-year old ThinkPad as main computer?(willem.com)
4 points by willemlaurentz 3y ago|6 comments
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by willemlaurentz 3y ago
As an experiment, I think there is a lot to learn about the ‘modern way of working’ by doing exactly the opposite. Therefore I have switched off my modern gear and intend to use an old X200 with a minimal Debian/GNU installation to see
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by willemlaurentz 4y ago
The game sparsely shows ads - just enough to keep things running. I personally hate (over)monetised apps, and therefore made sure the Snake app doesn't bombard the player with ads. Part of the game's (organic) growth is (kindly +
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by willemlaurentz 4y ago
I created Snake '97, the retro phone game remake that has gained some traction on Android and iOS (50M downloads): snake97.com On how it got where it is, including a fun back story, I wrote a blog post: https://willem.com&#x

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