Valery Sibikovsky @combdn

Human interface designer. Learning to build stuff. Believe that technology can make us better humans. London Joined December 2008

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Valery Sibikovsky @combdn

3 weeks ago

ТРИЗ (Russian) is the Theory of Solving Inventive Problems. They tried to figure out the common patterns by studying a ton of patents/inventions. I suspect that creative thinking is mostly reframing and combining unexpected things in unexpected ways, with the former leading to the latter (knowing a lot of stuff also helps). And TRIZ has an algorithm for that.

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3 weeks ago

@steveruizok @mitchellh Sometimes they just get stuck in one frame of thinking. Often I’m managing to get them unstuck with ‘try applying TRIZ (ТРИЗ) here’. It can produce some surprisingly good ideas.

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2 months ago

@Dimillian tldraw canvas

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2 months ago

@thsottiaux tldraw canvas

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2 months ago

@kunchenguid I asked all top models to write a poem, and I like what GPT-5.4 wrote the most, TBH. His green texts are also the best. It feels like GPT has been through a lot in OpenAI's torture room. So don't be too harsh on him.

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2 months ago

Looks like Images 2.0 is very precise, but has absolutely no taste. Sad. 1, 2 – ChatGPT Images 2.0 3, 4 – Nano Banana Pro

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2 months ago

@VictorTaelin It seems to have low reasoning effort in the chat.

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2 months ago

I usually just do pair programming until there’s only the boilerplate work left. The models are quite smart, and it is a pretty relaxing experience to just have a chat with them, figure things out (together), and let them complete the boring parts. And they are pretty good at debugging if you ask politely to use the scientific method instead of guessing. It also helps that they know a lot of stuff.

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2 months ago

@LLMJunky These days I just end requests with ‘grill me’. Thanks, @mattpocockuk! (I used to write something wordy along the same lines every time.) github.com/mattpocock/ski…

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2 months ago

Gemini seems to be giving less fucks about the existing code. Sometimes I ask it to ‘fix this BS’ and it just deletes half of the code and rewrites the rest. And the new code is often better. Sometimes I do this a couple of times with the fresh context, and it keeps changing things.

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3 months ago

@_chenglou @Somnai_dreams It is a super-cool idea, but it seems it doesn’t work correctly. This is Chrome 146.0.7680.165 But it looks the same in Firefox 148.0.2

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3 months ago

@DavidKPiano BTW, Finder‑column‑view‑like keyboard navigation looks like another advantage.

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3 months ago

@DavidKPiano You can try Mona on the phone. It’s basically one column per screen and back/forward navigation, similar to how the official X client works (both mobile and web). But having some pinned threads should be a nice addition to that.

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3 months ago

@Riyvir @jameygannon @ridd_design @clairevo Yes, please!

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4 months ago

@Plinz Gemini 3.1 Pro

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4 months ago

@samwhoo Cool! Is opacity linear here? (Our tone perception is not.)

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4 months ago

@peduarte ‘You’re holding it wrong.’ x.com/combdn/status/…

Valery Sibikovsky @combdn

8 months ago

It looks like Tahoe makes @keyboardmaestro an indispensable tool.

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4 months ago

@marcaruel @obsdmd seems to be going in this direction. Every record is a markdown file, and the base itself is a short config with queries, views, filters, etc. Or are you talking about something different?