This week I reflected a bit on what being a "designer-who-codes" looks like when agents can write code. Turns out, even in midst of rapid changes, core things remain the same. And I might even be somewhat optimistic? www.augmentcode.com/blog/designi...

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

Hi @rich-harris.dev & @svelte.dev team. Been working on a codebase vis thing at @augmentcode.com, and would love to get some eyes on it before it goes, just to make sure it isn't wildly off base! Sneak preview attached. All that green are ... tests?! #dataviz #svelte

I'm almost there it's so pretty!! 😭 this is the first time I've made extensive use of complex numbers in shader code, which has been fun! it's an analytic 2D lighting system through piecewise conformal maps representing angular light/"sky" exposure, which means you get fully analytic penumbras!

Provides 2 [Silicon Wafers] as a luxury resource. Civilizations with access to [Silicon Wafers] gain +50% [Combat Strength] for all Information Era units. Civilizations at war with the controlling civilization pay double [Production] for Information Era units.

Legit argument that TSMC could be a Wonder of the World in civ (or at least the last civ I really played which is I'm Old years ago)

Data vis in the wild.

Brilliant sweepthestrait.com

I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu

Hi internet friends! What do folks use for terminal access (CLI coding agent access really) on their phones? Blink? Echo? What do you like or not like about them?

YES! After a few hours searching, I finally dug up a high-quality scan of the first (known) color choropleth. From haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/fulls... Thanks to @datavisfriendly.bsky.social & @infowetrust.com who helped with the search. #cartography #maps #dataviz

Mamdani's team should be saying "we've had the most effective snow cleanup ever, and it's thanks to the high awareness about shoveling jobs due to the right-wing pretending not to understand how hiring for city jobs works." @mayor.nyc.gov be sure to credit their lies for helping get the word out.

✨ I just published a new blog post about a nifty lil’ animation technique: sprites! Sprites are used all the time in video games, but they’re less common on the web. We do have the tools to manage it in CSS, but there’s a gotcha. In this post, I share some of the cool use cases I’ve found:

What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.

Nothing about connecting computers to one another made wikipedia inevitable.

Before: Here’s data. After: Here’s what the data means. “Data visualization best practices haven’t changed. But now anyone can apply them.” data.blog/2026/02/10/f...

Grateful blink.sh + TailScale + my Mac Mini (not pictured) set up. I’m cooking. My agents are cooking.

New work! Been working on this with @wattenberger.com and others since Sept! www.augmentcode.com/product/intent It has all the buzz words! - Spec-driven development! - Multi-Agent Orchestration! More seriously though. Agent-based coding is sorely missing a coordination UI. Would love feedback!

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - George Orwell, 1984

Luigi Perozzo's stereogram is coming to America. Subscribe to Chartography.net to see it first.

I’ve long marveled at this graphic, without really understanding how it works or why it came to be. Aesthetic appeal held my admiration—it’s like something from a steampunk future that never was. www.chartography.net/p/bellissimi...

Long long overdue. Finally migrated r2d3.us off Heroku (and an out dated Flask app) to CloudFlare Pages + Astrojs. Finally checking off a New Year’s resolutions from … 4 years ago? 🫠

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Anyway, here's my Etsy shop, for all your cholera-at-Christmas needs www.etsy.com/shop/3DArtMaps

12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

Leadership Hack #7: Build a list of your favorite humans. Check in with them frequently.

Perozzo's stereogram over the years: 1880 Annali di Statistica (Perozzo) 1885 Statistical Society Jubilee (Levasseur) 1888 Teoria generale della statistica (Gabaglio) 1939 Graphic Presentation (Brinton)

Wonderful to receive this utterly beautiful 3D printed diorama of "Snow's map of cholera" by @alexselbyb.bsky.social. Exceptional attention to detail. Simply stunning. Dare I say better than the original! Thanks Alex.

✨ It's new samwho visual essay o'clock! ✨ Reservoir sampling is one of my favourite algorithms. It allows you to sample from a set without knowing the size of that set. I try to assume no prior knowledge, and use no scary math notation. Just beautiful visuals. Let me know what you think! ❤️

I’ve been really into these “deep structure” readings on history lately, so it was a delight when this popped up this morning open.substack.com/pub/uncharte...

A little typographical joy in a kickstarter project www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle... - they are *almost* there with about 2 days to go!

storytelling with chart www.reddit.com/r/wallstreet...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

I wrote a short interactive article👆 It uses simulations to demonstrate how different cardiac arrhythmias can develop. Try it out! (It has defibrillators ⚡️) jenevoldsen.com/posts/excitable-cells #medsky #cardiosky #cccsky #emimcc

Geeked to see RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com talk about his work and celebrate the launch of his remastered book Info We Trust at @letterformarchive.org! An essential read for thinking about data storytelling (and recommended for you too, comics peeps!)

I'm releasing a new latent space explorer 🧭🎨 — a creative tool for generating and evolving images. It's tree-based and designed for creative flow and open-ended discovery, using image mixing, branching, and editing. You can try it out now! www.artbreeder.com/tools/splicer2

Here's a striking visualization of sea level rise that I just made for Key West FL, which has a 112-year history. The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean). I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊

"The spectre of AI does nothing for growth if it gives away what we own so that we can rent from it what it makes." - that's some extremely skilled political rhetoric, really great speech writing (Prior to the Lords she had a long career as a film director in the UK, which I think shows)

@almossawi.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen this www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m... - I thought of you immediately

Remarkable chart by @data.ft.com Many readers won't fully understand boxplots. At a quick glance, they don't add much information here. But then, look at the lower end of the 2024 whisker (or 2015 for the previous El Niño)! Also: I just love the aesthetic 🤩 #dataviz www.ft.com/content/fd91...

On some of my pages, I'll share state between interactive diagrams. Here's an example: the position of the square in the first diagram is the same as the position in the second diagram. www.redblobgames.com/x/1730-spati... I do this when I want to compare two computations with the same input.

Exciting news! 🎉 I’m pressing pause on my work at CBC News for the next three months to focus on a passion project: www.code-like-a-journalist.com. It’s a free, open-source online course designed to teach data analysis and visualization using TypeScript. 🚀 Stay tuned!

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

Just got a great first impression running Open WebUI - took one command to get it up and running (uvx --python 3.11 open-webui serve) and it noticed I had Ollama running and automatically gave me a UI to interact with those models simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/27/...

Finally getting time to dabble with code... and immediately got sidetracked into building a tool for AI-assisted code dabbling. Spent the evening building a #ModelContextProtocol server that allows Claude to run vitest and tsc ... so that it can do that in another project I'm working on 😂

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2024 Pudding Cup! Show them some love 🫶 on this thread 🧵, and check out all of the winners and honorable mentions here: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/