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Show HN: Pet Reminder – A macOS reminder app with a desktop pet
22 days ago
- Set custom reminders with flexible schedules to never miss important moments.
- When a reminder triggers, a cute pet appears on your desktop to accompany you.
- Choose from various cats and dogs, with more pets available via in-app purchase.
- Customize pet appearance, behavior, and sound effects to your liking.
- Lightweight native macOS app with full Apple Silicon support, optimized for performance and minimal resource usage.
- Features adorable companions like elegant cats, chubby companions, playful dogs, and more with unique personalities.
- Designed for macOS users to download and enjoy pet companionship during important moments.
We're All Managers Now: My Journey into AI-Assisted Development
23 days ago
- The author left a FinTech job to take a sabbatical and explore AI tools, concerned about falling out of date as an engineering manager.
- Initially skeptical about AI for programming, the author was impressed after Claude successfully completed a complex task using niche libraries, leading to regular paid use.
- While using Claude full-time for a startup, the author shifted from real-time monitoring to reviewing output post-generation, emphasizing the need for clear upfront requirements and design.
- To utilize Claude's processing time, the author experimented with multitasking across up to three tasks but found context-switching challenging beyond that limit.
- The author compares working with AI to management roles, highlighting increased context-switching and the importance of communication feedback loops over hands-on coding.
- Software engineering is undergoing a major shift, requiring professionals to adapt and learn new AI-driven methods to avoid becoming laggards.
Moby Dick Workout
24 days ago
- The 'Moby Dick Workout' is a test using the novel 'Moby Dick' to evaluate app performance.
- Key test steps include opening the file, scrolling, resizing, editing, and checking memory usage.
- The test aims to ensure apps can handle user-generated content without performance issues.
- Test files like MobyDick.bike, MobyDick.opml, and MobyDick.markdown are provided for different app types.
Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface
a month ago
- Author created a custom Pebble watchface to help with personal issues like depression, task initiation, and hyperfocus management.
- The watchface provides calendar overview, task initiation support, and alerts to break hyperfocus.
- Design evolved from a clean style to a comic book style with non-uniform event geometry to maintain visual interest.
- Features include moving events towards 12 o'clock to indicate urgency, a countdown for ongoing events, and a work timer with warm-up periods.
- Alarms require steps and taps to dismiss, aiming to force breaks; different alarm types have unique visuals and sounds.
- Step counter uses achievement badges instead of exact counts; battery and connectivity status are displayed with badges.
- Next task from Todoist is shown; an app allows toggling work timer and managing tasks via watch buttons.
- Edge markers show reminders, end of day, sunrise/sunset, and manual alarms for additional context.

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Show HN: Pet Reminder – A macOS reminder app with a desktop pet

We're All Managers Now: My Journey into AI-Assisted Development

Moby Dick Workout

Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface