Loved the design and the grasshopper had me pawing at my screen to make it go away!

The use case for less capable software is that it is cheaper. Why buy a mansion when all you need is a bedroom?

Because fully fledged software is dirt cheap already. Even Photoshop is only $20 per month. That is nothing to a professional who needs the tool. People who care about that kind of money will never pay any money at all for software, they will look for something for free.

The very real alternative now is: $0 to custom-code the one workflow you need, then $0 to fix it in four years when the dependencies break.

Don't get me wrong. If you need PS, you need PS. I have a neighbor who is a photo retoucher. She is not vibe coding the tool she spends 8+ hr/day in.

I think there's only two real world scenarios:

1. People buy and use fully fledged applications like Photoshop or get Affinity.

2. People ask AI to do their image editing / creation tasks.

The number of people who will have AI make programs for image editing is so small as to not even count. And they will only do it for tinkering reasons to make a vector image of Tux the penguin and then never use it again.

So in your mind, there is no scenario where people ask AI to create a more focused (even single-purpose) image editing app, and either make it free or charge a small amount?

Because I'm seeing that happening more and more. Just as one random example, I've lost count of the number of vibe coded captioning apps I've seen for FCP, because it's a known pain point in the software.

Sure, but there isn't much of a business in it I would say. People who are too cheap to pay for Photoshop aren't going to pay for a small tool either. And Affinity is already free and very powerful.

Just saying… Canva started as a "small tool" that was in no way competitive with Photoshop.

$0 is a little low.

maybe $3?

For the moment, there is a free tier on every major AI provider, which is more than enough to vibe code a single graphics workflow.

It seems doable and cool to me. Glad your working on it!

nettirw yb namuh

Well crafted! Thank you.

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This sounds (pun intended) really cool. nettirw yb namuh

A CLI to replace bookmarks in my browser because I noticed some tracking code lurking in my Firefox bookmarks. This is just personal tool for my own use. https://codeberg.org/Marking-Time/marksan

Tell me more about the tracking code

From the "Manage Bookmarks" applet within Firefox[Menu|Bookmarks|Manage bookmarks] choose the "Import and Backup" option at the top of the applet. Choose the "Export Bookmarks to HTML" option and save the file. This will create a HTML file on your device containing all your bookmarks.

Open the HTML file in a code/text editor. Look at one of the anchor tags and you will see the contents of "HREF", "ADD_DATE", "LAST_MODIFIED", "ICON_URI" and "ICON". Only the "HREF" is necessary to make the anchor tag functional. All of the others serve other purposes. Most of the others makes some sense, but seem obsessive to me. The longest, sometimes hundreds of characters long, is the "ICON" item. That long string of characters concerns me and looks suspiciously like the traffic I see when I use network monitor inside Inspect. To me it looks like a tracking code.

Of course I may be wrong, but none of that stuff is necessary except the HREF. The script I wrote strips off everything except the HREF, puts it in a new anchor tag, and it works fine. Really this is just old school HTML.

About six months ago I was walking home from the grocery store in Sparks, NV and decided to stop by the local swap/meet. I had all my groceries in bags that I was carrying. During my time there I was jostled by the crowd and felt a little uncomfortable. When I got home I dumped out my groceries and found _two_ boxes of Girl Scout cookies that I didn't buy (I hadn't even seen any for sale). I had been reverse pickpocketed! I'm going to remember that for a long time :)

Love this