Unrelated to Icosa, but I spent way too much time in

strace

today, and I did a bit of yak shaving to implement something similar to rainbow parentheses for numbers, which might be useful if you're ever in a similar situation. https://github.com/mikeage/highlight-numbers.awk/tree/main https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803747594378936361/1366732681316143144/after.png?ex=6812047f&is=6810b2ff&hm=173a0083e17c3b0c2e1c47672b61a356db66852ca7b1811ca20989b52b81490c&

i can see something like that being useful. also didn't know about rainbow parens!

I think it started in Emacs, but now it seems like most editors have it as an option / plugin / extension. I find it quite useful in nvim.

That's tube brush.

In the browser.

Without any unity code involved.

@mikesky ☝️

coaxing openai codex to port to javascript gradually. it balked at doing the whole thing but it seems to be handling a gradual piecemeal approach

haven't looked at the code so no idea if it's even close to being a sane approach but it's something i can do inbetween "real" tasks so no harm in prodding at it

this is the branch: https://github.com/icosa-foundation/open-brush-stroke-gen-only/tree/pqy7eg-codex/port-c%23-code-to-javascript-for-three.js

i have a hunch it's just reimplemented tubes rather than actually porting tubebrush. it did say it was a "simplified version". it's using CatmullRomCurve3 from three rather than the algo that open brush uses

yeah. it's just calling three's "TubeGeometry" constructor.

Nice! Figures AI would cheat a little 😆

who is Marva (Mina) Abouei?

She's a UX designer who contacted me out of the blue and wants to help out.

where did you spot her?

LinkedIn request. A bit... presumptuous, I think https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803747594378936361/1405527121517871174/Screenshot_2025-08-14_at_15.22.34.png?ex=689f26a3&is=689dd523&hm=e630f1b8a5aa7458c8206357eb44954b24c5ef313b81ac3770de4dfd728ff341&

but if that's a commitment and not a claim, I'll be appreciative 😉

i'll share a doc with you. she's done some good work already

cool! I didn't know, which is why I wanted to ask before I assumed

my only problem with her initial work was that nearly everything she highlighted (which were all good points) were things that we haven't changed since google!

so my initial feedback was "we'll put all that in the backlog. how about the things we've made worse?"

that should make it easier not to take (even constructive) criticism personally!

yeah - but i want a bit of tough love! I've asked her to look at the icosa integration next. the stuff in beta

the main benefit of knowing a ux person is looking at stuff is that it's had a profound effect on my motivation to fix UX issues!

from a quick skim, it looks like a really nice list

https://discord.com/channels/783806589991780412/804251629993197618/1407117119535185973 This looks interesting!

1000 stars! 🎉 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803747594378936361/1411095042449342566/image.png?ex=68b3682a&is=68b216aa&hm=729b5b82e7f40e46a8e9c980531f020f6acb7af2915fb1a4f551fe21639ae815&