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Posts by Rob Lillack

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Added interactive mode to my command-line image comparison tool imgap: github.com/roblillack/i... 🐶

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Can’t fathom that shit is still this bad in 2026. We’ve had all the pieces to standardize on some kind of declarative build workflows for so long, yet we’re still writing shell scripts with extreme vendor lock-in. 😔

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Screenshot of some specification document rendered in dark mode. It contains multiple small flow charts explaining differences in Gantt chart task dependency types.

Screenshot of some specification document rendered in dark mode. It contains multiple small flow charts explaining differences in Gantt chart task dependency types.

Pretty sure, @dossie.rs v0.5 with integrated Mermaid.js and svgbob support is going to be a game changer for our spec process—especially for dark mode users.

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“An everything app tries to do everything. An everything ecosystem lets everything get done.” ❤️
Great intro to the Atmosphere ecosystem and at:// protocol.

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If computers are the bicycle for the mind, then AI is the automobile. It doesn’t diminish the joy of walking or cycling—it simply lets you go farther, faster.

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roblog. Rob Lillack's blog.

Goal for 2026: more posts than last year! 🤞🏻
site: roblillack.net
feed: roblillack.net/index.xml

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New in Gantt charts: overlapping tasks can now be layered within the same row. This makes dense timelines easier to read, reduces visual clutter, and keeps your project plan compact, without changing how your data is structured.

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The Clicks Communicator might not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for me Clicks might have cut its teeth developing add-on keyboards for various smartphones — first iPhone, then Android — but its latest announcement appears to be its most promising yet. The Clicks Communicator feels like the first real minimalist device to potentially provide a substantial improvement over your daily driver, even if many of us might feel it’s better as a secondary device rather than a replacement for whatever you already own. more…

The Clicks Communicator might not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for me

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No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).

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Unser Stundenplan: A Family Timetable Viewer A web application that displays school schedules from the 'Beste Schule' platform on a kitchen iPad, making it easy for families to see their children's daily timetables at a glance.

Rolling through my holiday task list:
☑️ Hit 5000 km cycling for 2025
☑️ Eat lots of Thuringian potato dumplings and vegan roulade
☑️ Share the kitchen iPad app that's been running our mornings for a year: roblillack.net/unser-stunde...

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My analysis of the leaked #GDPR overhaul proposal. Some changes are great. Some risk decreasing privacy protections.
The changes are very far‑reaching. Tread carefully! Some of the proposals are very risky. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...
blog.lukaszolejnik.com/european-com...

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Finally we can show delicious pie charts in the terminal with Rust! 🥧🦀

📊 tui-piechart — A customizable pie chart widget for @ratatui.rs

💯 Supports labels, legends, colors & high resolution braille mode for smooth curves

⭐ GitHub: github.com/sorinirimies...

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #dataviz

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This is nice!

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I Accidentally Built a Web Browser For twenty-five years I tinkered with a personal wiki system, an XML parser, and an email client. In 2025 they converged in Rust, and I accidentally built something like a web browser.

Oops, on Halloween I built a browser. 👻

roblillack.net/i-accidental...

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OpenBSD/arm64 on the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G6 Following up on my review, this article lists the current status of OpenBSD's support for Lenovo's ARM-powered 2024 ThinkPad T14s (Snapdragon).

Updated my ARM Thinkpad support table for today's OpenBSD 7.8 release. TL;DR: CPU power management supported now; display still in limp mode; network, audio unsupported. roblillack.net/openbsd-arm6...

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"Squeal ite!"

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Book recommendation: EATING ANIMALS by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Book recommendation: EATING ANIMALS by Jonathan Safran Foer.

8 months ago 2 0 0 0
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It took me more than 20 years to learn that SQLite is pronounced as “S-Q-L-ite” not “S-Q-Lite” 🫣

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This is so awesome. 🤯

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Paris kühlt sich während der Hitzewelle dank der Begrünung ab Die Vegetalisierung von Paris durch Bürgermeisterin Anne Hidalgo vermag die Temperaturen deutlich zu senken, wie sich vor allem während der sommerlichen Hitze zeigt

Stadtumbau lohnt sich und Paris zeigt, was geht:

✅ Beim Ersetzen eines Parkplatzes durch 70 Bäume: Eine gefühlte Temperatursenkung um 2,5 Grad.

✅ In einem Pariser Viertel mit 300 Hektar Begrünung sinkt die Temperatur allein schon deshalb um 0,5-1 Grad.

Rettet Leben, schützt Ökosysteme.

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Katy Cowan | How Online Publishers Can Survive in a Post-Search World It seems ironic that I’m even typing this, but the very thing I’ve deliberately moved away from over the years — putting my face to my brand — has now become absolutely essential. If Creative Boom...

Wow, we certainly see an increase of traffic from AI sources, but I didn't realize that publishers are already losing ~50% of their organic traffic, due to Chat GPT etc. I guess that's a good thing, because we're talking about SEO filler content?

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From the README: “this is not a Google product”

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Finally! 📊🔒

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Four icons in Window's taskbar (Slack, WhatsApp, Todoist, Telegram) each having a different style of notification.

Four icons in Window's taskbar (Slack, WhatsApp, Todoist, Telegram) each having a different style of notification.

Proposal for interview question for a new UI designer at @microsoft.com: "What does an app notification badge look like in Windows 11?"

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Screenshot of an extremely colorful Microsoft Store home screen, using up essentially all space for advertising TV streaming and gaming offers with a bit of AI stuff mixed in.

Screenshot of an extremely colorful Microsoft Store home screen, using up essentially all space for advertising TV streaming and gaming offers with a bit of AI stuff mixed in.

And you wonder why the selection of professional software in @microsoft.com's app store is that sparse? This is what the home screen on my "Windows 11 Pro" computer looks like. Why would anyone take that seriously?

1 year ago 3 0 0 0
AM Radio

AM Radio

Teach the children why radio buttons are called radio buttons

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The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

Jeff Atwood’s “the road not taken”: blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not...

1 year ago 17 4 1 0
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Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car? YouTube video by Mark Rober

Fairerweise muss man dazu sagen, dass in den Tests immer nur der TESLA versagt hat: youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ

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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

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