Ben Holmes

I should really try it! There's something fun about the old-school vibe of stickies. I'm sure Raycast notes are infinitely nicer to edit and search... but dang it can they just be a yellow square?

🔥 The MacOS Stickies app is so underrated.
- Little floating windows to take notes throughout the day
- Can pin/float on top of whatever you're doing
- Can color-coat to organize thoughts

...Probably hasn't been changed since the 90s, but you can't knock stable software

Get that. Lucide is a gold standard. Just found mingcute to be a bit more expressive. Not for every app, but it fits my style :)

I have not! I'll check it out

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🔥 Mingcute has been my go-to icon library for a while.
- Open source and open license
- "Cute" and bubbly icon style with more options than most
- Really nice Figma plugin
- Iconify support to use in any web project

an AI confidently stating that “Option + 2 produces ⌘” (Command symbol) on a Mac keyboard, then—after being told it’s a US English layout—reversing itself and claiming with equal certainty that “Option + 2 should produce the ™ (trademark symbol), not ⌘.”

Good morning Taravangian. I see we have failed the intelligence test today...

Yep, it's a bummer. I made a library to handle KeyboardEvents for that exact reason 😄
github.com/bholmesdev/k...

On top is the hubble logo with the text "hubble," and the floating Hubble avatar in a cartoon outline style. Below is the app logo as a rounded square with just the Hubble avatar's eyeball. It appears 3D with shadow effects

Hubble app logo shown in a MacOS sidebar alongside other icons like Reminders and Messages

Adapted my app logo to a desktop icon. What do we think?

Adam, CSS is three letters. Even with justify-content: space-between

I thought Firefox was capped at 15fps

🙄 Your CSS box-shadows could look better...

Check out this Beautiful Shadows plugin I found on Figma. Lets you play with elevation, brightness, and distance for fancy, multi-layered shadows. Copy as CSS to plop in your project or your Tailwind theme!

Amaze amaze!!

But it hasn’t come out yet

🕷️Hurry up!

Okay I’ll wait faster

🕷️ Sarcasm!

Project Hail Mary Check out this great listen on Audible.com. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN • Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christo...

Okay, I freaking love this book. From the guy who wrote the Martian. Interesting science facts, good story, lot of humor. But I keep saying “amaze amaze amaze” to myself when my code compiles now

www.audible.com/pd/B08G9PRS1...

Rust code demonstrating the use of let Some(window) = app.get_window("main") else to conditionally extract a value or return early, showcasing Rust’s let-else syntax for early exits.

💡 Rust tip: TIL you can put `else` on the end of a `let` block.

It's like a `null` check in JavaScript but as a one-liner. Another reason I love optional types in Rust

💡 Did you know @raycast.com had a color picker?

Just selects a color and copies to your clipboard. Map to a shortcut like opt+P to pick from anywhere

Jokes on you. Making a PR to Astro docs right now

Guess you’ll need a Nuxt Nightly and a Nuxt Morningly now

You can explicitly check for Ctrl instead of CmdOrCtrl on MacOS. You can also match different shortcut strings depending on the platform with the isMac() util:

keymatch(event, isMac() ? “Ctrl+V” : “Alt-V”)

GitHub - bholmesdev/keymatch: Utility for matching browser keyboard events across platforms Utility for matching browser keyboard events across platforms - bholmesdev/keymatch

This also helps you match single-letter actions, without having to check that all modifiers are unset. Useful for Linear-style apps that use "E" for Archive, "U" for Unread, etc.

As always, it's open source:
github.com/bholmesdev/k...

💡 Ever need to match keyboard shortcuts across platforms, like "CmdOrCtrl+Enter?"

Electron has this, but I weirdly couldn't find a package for web-standard KeyboardEvents. So I made one!

> npm i keymatch

Ha, I actually tried Iosevka first and thought “wait, that’s Erika’s font isn’t it”

Well Zed pivoted from Iosevka as the base to IBM Plex according to the readme, so it looks pretty different now

I looked at them side by side and they look very different to me. Zed nailed it

GitHub - zed-industries/zed-fonts: The Zed Mono and Sans typefaces, custom built from Iosevka The Zed Mono and Sans typefaces, custom built from Iosevka - zed-industries/zed-fonts

Downloaded the zed-plex dir here:
github.com/zed-industri...

A Svelte component (LinkPopover.svelte) open in Cursor, showcasing code styled with the “Zed Mono” font. The font features clean, monospaced letterforms with slightly rounded edges and generous line spacing

TIL the @zed.dev font is open source. Loaded into Cursor and it looks awesome, in a retro sort of way

mommmm five more minutes .toISOString()

Hubble v0 - can use it daily • bholmesdev I'm building a Markdown-based notes app called Hubble. There's so much this thing can do, but I want to strip down to a 6 week timeline so I can start trying this right away. Scope: you can open an...

Using it to track progress in public for my own side project: Hubble note. More on that soon
github.com/users/bholme...

💡 Did you know GitHub has a built-in kanban board?

It's called GitHub projects. Each card = an issue on a repo, and you can track as many repos as you want. You can also make boards private or public. Cool way to pretend your 50 dead side projects aren't actually dead!