If I ever hop on the personal computing trend, I'm building myself an app that helps me do language leaning through hip hop/rap lyrics. Kind of a mashup of (Rap)Genius and Yandex translate -- which is a billion times better for actual.language learning than say, Google translate.

Are there ways to quantify the quality of e2e tests/test coverage? I only have experience assessing the correctness of e2e tests given the maturity and other factors of product via vibes, aka informed human judgment and reasoning. What other ways exist? Does it always come down to this?

Historian in me is wincing at asking a question about firsts/origins, but anyone have a sense of the first-ish examples of voicemail/answering machine msg as a sample in music? Prefer to ask humans for this rather than a machine -- would love further thoughts about this as a cultural thing too. :)

Was thinking ab how hard building an organization is today and realized that it's possible that universities only work to the extent that they do because the rules are relative to everything else, exceptionally explicit and immalleable. Otherwise imagine trying to get that many ICs to be productive.

Starting to think that some of the accounts behind some of the more ridiculous AI takes are actually bots. Which would be hilarious. Like the one I just read that just said that a best case scenario for LLMs in coding is copying simple scripts that you can also Google up.

The best way to make an interface look fancy is to make it unrelentingly consistent. -- me (this morning)

Something they don't tell you in designer school is that, although it is not fair, you cannot expect people (non-designers) to trust you based on your words/trust your words. Only after people see results can you expect trust. Accepting this will make your life easier.

Art is challenging to define but its definition is def. not the expression of personal emotion or of the self. Beauty is a philosophical concept; there is no necessary relationship to art as a material practice. Aesthetic perception is function of socio-historic context (field: art history)

The announcement post on this on Twitter has 44k likes in one day. Hardly any mention of it here. Looks amazing.

Making a t-shirt, I ❤️ Deterministic UI, who wants to pre-order?

Re: cursIve debates, I had to write in cursive thru 5th grade + also was not allowed to write in pen w exception of final drafts of reports for which we were required to use dip pen + ink. (We wrote the drafts in pencil + once words were finalized we re-wrote in ink) Draw your own conclusions. ;)

Tonight's hot take: An org has got to decide where in the process of software eng it will not use AI. Obvs code review is a common place, but honestly I think it is really really bad to use it for ticket writing. (Especially when ppl write tickets for work outside their area of expertise)

Congrats to Mike Sunday for being my first and only Tik Tok follow. These videos are soooooo good. Also if for some reason this gets you interested in the history of blue tint Costa-Gavras's State of Siege (1972) is incredible for that. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bqc9dr/

Starting to see all <input>s as a place for a prompt. (As opposed to a filter, for example) Slightly bonkers to feel how you/one/I see change so quickly.

Ate my first ever Sweetgreen lunch (I know) and feel like I can now credibly claim that I work at startup.

Anyone have recs for good accounts here from ppl maybe trained as graphic designers who do slightly "avant garde-y" stuff? Anyone whose work seems fit for a B2B SaaS app is not it. Need a dose of visuals that will make me stop and think; accounts I used to follow on Twitter haven't migrated.

New, from me.

Missing the quaint days of 10x dev discourse.

Prediction that I have very little confidence in :) : Paying an external party to redo your vibe-coded frontend, producing a lightweight design system w strict linting and agent skills needed to (mostly) maintain it moving forward will? may? become common, like paying for a marketing page.

Peter Binoit, Still Life with Letter Cookies, c. 1615 (Groninger Museum) #earlymodern #foodhistory

This is absolutely gloating, but god I love my 15 minute walk/6 minute bike commute.

Be warned: if you go to Singapore I am going to want to talk to you about it for, at the very least, three months.

I feel like the same thing that can be said about writing code with AI also applies to technical writing -- if you do not understand how to do the thing that the writing is describing yourself, it generally doesn't end well nor is it actually more efficient to just have AI spit it out.

Wow I hate the combination of shadcn and tailwind and other people's vibe-coding.

I have a retweeting joke, but this is Bluesky.

It's ironic that it's called Russian because personally my progress in this language is frankly slow as fuck.

Composition over Inheritance: How Bay Area Immigrant Communities Revamped American Cuisine

Would love to spend time researching/thinking ab the rise of composition in food (bowls etc). The historian in me knows that a single origin is too clean but I can't help but think that it traces back to Bay Area burrito places (which led to Chipotle which lead to...etc).

So many interesting things here. (N.b. I get to think ab interfaces for this this all day long at work :)) One thing I find interesting here is how similar the real work of science is to that of the humanities, both of which are centered around human judgement ab what is relevant and interesting.

Adorno and Horkheimer

TFW you work with a bunch of science and math people and you realize you should no longer say things like "well-defined" ever again. :) (It's not a bad thing, I appreciate the challenge to be painstakingly precise. "Explicit" is a good substitute.)

I miss a lot of things about Angular. (RxJS, Signals, standard ways of doing things, cleanliness and order...)

My design for AI thought of the day is that agentic AI can be thought of as a stream of events, and like say, video (a stream of info), it should have a rewind button. (That also enables frame-by-frame replay)

Sadly The Onion just lost all of its Chesapeake Bay affiliated readers by making the dateline on this...New Bedford, MA??!?! 😁🦀😁

I’m really curious what’s above this store

If I owned a company that offered printing services, I would probably use a different image for my ad.

In case anyone was wondering, trying to build something in React without React Query was an excellent learning experience. Not a feel-good experience by any means (more a I-hate-this-this-is-so-fucking-annoying experience), but very worthwhile.

Most interesting space in AI right now for me personally is how models will handle spatial relationships (and bridge with language relationships). LLMs alone aren't it.

Today I realized: One day ChatGPT 4.0 aesthetics, complete with the worst emojis everywhere (🧠🎯), will be back in style in a retro/nostalgic way.

👏Content👏needs👏to👏be👏 determined👏in👏context.👏

The weird thing is that most people seem to understand what an architect does -- and even the process of design. Sure, people may want you to validate their dislike of modernism/brutalism/the local gehry building, but it is not fundamentally misunderstood.

My conclusion: there are like three people in the world who aren't designers who actually understand the process of designing. ;) (This thread helps explain, people still won't get it.)

Rediscovered this in my feed while searching for something else and can't help bumping it to the top. S/NS

Along these lines (things I've tried that work): Cardamom bitters in iced coffee

Honestly one of the most important comments in CSS is def // Eyeballed

I'm sure I have a million similar blind spots, but I am constantly amused when smart people think things must be described by what they look like under the hood rather than using new terms to create a different/more holistic mental model for the user.

I threw all the AI I could (Claude calling inkscape and pillow, Figma image edits) at the most simple vector graphics work you can imagine and I still had to resort to... .ai (Illustrator). Always interested to see where the biggest fails are still.

Me writing a how to write like me skill: **You MUST adhere to the following:** - 70% of sentences must have dependent clauses. - If three or more sentences in a row have fewer than 20 words each, you must combine two of them. - At least 40% of sentences must be in the conditional or subjective.

New fun game just dropped

Is there any way to actually *search* for things that people are writing on the web about design/dev topics these days? For example, I read someone's post about design for AI and two column layout that talked about Augment Code's trace/log outputs. I cannot find it for the life of me.