@onlytruejohn

motion artist & tool developer. building https://xitter.cf/t.co/LAm4cnqe9D

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Joined November 2013
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animated vinyl player component, designed in @figma for jchd.me/carnet
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NodebookMD crossed 1,000 all-time downloads, woohooo !🎉🏆 #houdini #webdev
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Sunday pyro sim in Houdini! Simulated with Axiom, rendered in Solaris/Karma #houdini #3dcg
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Their root sidefx.com/llms.txt gets the format right. But the one it points to, /docs/houdini/llms.txt, is just a lacklustre version of the docs home page converted: an html table on line 3, an empty heading, no summary, and 64 ghost links
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All in all, very happy to see some shakeup inside of SideFX for Markdown conversion of the docs. We're not there yet, and NodebookMD remains better both for you as a human reader, and for your agent. Navigation is snapper, and the interface is a delight. nodebook.md

NodebookMD - The Houdini docs, instant and offline

A free, open-source desktop app for the Houdini docs. It reads the docs that come with your own Houdini install. Instant, and offline.

nodebook.md
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SideFX is now shipping Markdown docs ! I checked 1,027 pages against what I ship in NodebookMD 👇🏽 55% of them break their own apostrophes (« What’s »), none has frontmatter, and 98 of 99 VEX signatures sit outside a code block. A good start, but agents deserve better.
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Same pages, same checks. The content itself is identical (both versions cover about 85% of the words on the html page), but the issue is the shape: parameter names glued into their descriptions on 48% of pages, usd\_attribnames escaped in titles, <a id> tags in headings, …
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NodebookMD is now available on macOS ! 🍏✨ Same fast, offline Houdini docs, now native on Apple Silicon. The icon has been designed to match with your dark, clear or tinted style. Also look out for small QoL changes in this release! Free and OSS forever.
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New homepage, who dis ? Includes a fully interactive copy of the app that you can play around with :) Check it out over at nodebook.md #houdini #webdev
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At the request of SideFX, HoudiniMD is becoming NodebookMD ! 📚✨ The experience will be unchanged — this is just a cosmetic compliance change. The web mirror has also been taken down.
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HoudiniMD Beta 7 is now live ! 🔍✨ You can now zoom into images, filter search with shorthands, send pages to Obsidian, launch examples in Houdini, let your agent read the docs with the native MCP integration, and more Here are all the main features coming in this release 👇🏽🧵
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Lost in the sidebar ? Right-click the page name in the breadcrumbs, press R, and it takes you right back to it. Every item in the new right-click menu now has its own letter key for faster keyboard navigation.
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And a small one at last : pin HoudiniMD on top, so it stays right next to Houdini while you work ! 📌 All showcase videos captured by Claude 🟠 Download: github.com/JTCHE/HoudiniMD
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Claude Opus 5.5 working on pyro sim iterations through the Houdini MCP 🟠✨
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Noise along a surface R&D inside houdini :P
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Opus 5.5 should now yap way less than Opus 5. Thank god.
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@claudeaiSep 22
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Opus 5.5 communicates more naturally, addressing some of the most common feedback we heard on Opus 5. It puts the most important information up front and follows the writing rules you give it, which makes long sessions easier to follow.
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