Skip Navigation
37 comments

  • Photopea.com, a free online Photoshop alternative

    • Photopea is just amazing and has a lot more depth than people realize. I just wish it wouldn't struggle so much with high resolution pictures! Sadly it gets pretty sluggish at resolutions higher than 4k.

      • It's browser based which means there's no bare metal CPU or GPU calls in can make. It all has to go through the browsers interpreter. That massively limits it's potential.

  • Not necessarily useful but really cool and I'd love a digital watch face that does this. https://sunclock.net/

    Essentially it's just a 24 hour analog clock's hour hand over colors representing what the sun is doing. It really helps me understand when the sun is going to set so much more than a number.

    I believe analog clocks are more useful for understanding the flow of time than digital clocks. Digital clocks have this thing where a few.minutes before the top of the hour can still feel like an hour (or at least somewhat) before the hour. Meanwhile with an analog clock it just looks really close. Heck, you might even misread it as being past the hour mark. So take all of that brilliant fuzziness and overlay it on a graphic representing what the sun is doing and it all just really comes together into a beautiful tool.

  • I never thought I’d say it but, Bing chat.

    Gets nearly everything I need done first time which is worrying for the websites it’s learned from, I hardly click through.

    • @BigVault

      As someone who has never heard of this what do you use it for? What does it do?

      • @Hikyuri

        It's Microsoft's take on ChatGPT powered search and as an example, I asked it what it was for you - this is the output:

        Hello, this is Bing. Bing Chat is a new feature for Bing’s search engine that lets you talk to an AI chatbot rather than simply filling out search queries. You can ask questions, get answers, and create content using natural language. Bing Chat is powered by ChatGPT, an AI system that can generate realistic and engaging conversations.

        It's now my go-to if I get stuck on anything and as another example, I asked it:

        write me a program that says helllo Hikyuri in different colours in sinclair basic.

        here's what it spat out:

        I’ll try to create that. Here is a possible program that says hello Hikyuri in different colors in Sinclair BASIC:

        10 REM This program prints hello Hikyuri in different colors
        20 FOR C = 0 TO 7
        30 INK C
        40 PRINT "Hello Hikyuri"
        50 NEXT C
        60 END

        It really is clever. Google also have Bard to do the same but it doesn't seem as good which is a first for me

        https://bard.google.com/

        Sure, here is a Sinclair BASIC program that says "hello Hikyuri" in different colors:

        10 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
        20 COLOR 1
        30 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
        40 COLOR 2
        50 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
        60 COLOR 3
        70 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
        80 COLOR 4
        90 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
        100 COLOR 5
        110 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
        120 COLOR 6
        130 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
        140 COLOR 7
        150 END

37 comments