I am pretty sure the cute little thing where Claude Code tells you it's "going to be about 4 weeks of work" is a deliberate, time-release humble brag.

Still works! #IYKYK 🐣

“It’s great seeing this design work at low fidelity.” “This is not low fidelity.” 💀

I wonder why Apple even allows apps to spawn app-store review prompts that don't use its built-in logic. It might be too hard to prevent. You could at least prevent it by policy and then ban for non-compliance. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

"This was an entirely unforeseeable usage of the tombstone functionality of Oregon Trail. If anything, our zeal for the social sharing of sensitive medical information was way ahead of its time."

Haven’t been much of a Gatorade fan since the days of glass bottles, but this Lower Sugar stuff is really good. Only 50 calories for 28 ounces, nice mild flavor, no gross aftertaste. Could even dilute it down another 25% if you wanted.

Even *this* guy knows how to concede.

"Everything that can be figured out based on disparate clues scattered across different documents *will* be figured out, in the next few years." www.thediff.co/archive/long...

New favorite protein bars. 16g protein, 160 calories, 6g sugar and no other sweeteners. Tastes like the biggest marshmallow you ever ate. All flavors good. a.co/d/0bu0jJJY

"What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves." (via @anildash.com) www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...

Updated this post so it plays the '80s music if you click on the section headings.

Should you stay or should you go? I wrote a little post about how the job description for designers is changing and what you can about it. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

Easter, to me, is about one thing: remembering Pope Francis getting hella real on Twitter for a hot second in 2015.

I like an LLM that shares my exact definition of "fine".

Excited for the release of noon.design today. If you feel like we are at a transitional stage right now where no design or development tool feels “just right” for the new age we are in, you are not alone.

Still can't believe no one has made an excellent savory protein bar yet. Just start with peanuts, add some whey, and spice it up with cayenne and soy sauce. Basically like a Bear Bar but with some actual protein: bearbar.com

The National Design Studio is really doing some bang-up work.

"We are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s. It is an ideology that steals from us relationships and connections and eventually our selves." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Paradise on Hulu is worth watching for the 80s covers alone. 🔥

I feel like I have heard two or three more wildly different uses for this phrase.

"We are entering the industrial age of the digital age." A nice reflection by Greg Knauss about what we're losing in the age of generated software. We all feel this, whether we talk about it or not. www.eod.com/blog/2026/02...

A dinner conversation this weekend helped catalyze why love and play are uniquely human and, just maybe, the whole point. behzod.com/blog/be-roma...

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The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

The Seahawks are going to be such an annoying team for the rest of the league to deal with for many years to come. Feels inevitable. The beginning of the beginning.

The beginning of the beginning. #GoHawks

I don’t know how this is playing on TV, but what an amazing Super Bowl so far. Wonderful halftime show too 🙌.

One more to go. Bring on the Patsies. It’s demon exorcising time. 🙌

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

November is now the ICE election. You’re either with federally-sponsored murder or you are against it.

Amazing write-up on Sid Sijbrandij's battle with cancer. Sid has taken extraordinary steps that are not available to others, but there is no doubt in my mind that this approach will lead to widely available cures for all sorts of diseases within only a few years. Inspiring! centuryofbio.com/p/sid

Didn’t know Mendoza was rejected by the University of Miami. “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” 🙌🔥

The Seahawks could have knelt on the ball every single possession in this game and still won. Has that ever happened before? 🙌

The San Francisco 49ers needed 60 minutes to score one less point than the Seahawks scored in the first 10 seconds of the game.

Vibes.

The inventor of the cute little arrow indicating what side your gas tank is on, James Moylan, has died. Funnily, I was driving a 2012 BMW X5 last week and they completely screwed up the arrow. What side is the gas tank on here? Astounding design incompetence. www.roadandtrack.com/news/a698789...

One of my favorite things about Pocky is how precise the serving size is. You may have exactly 17.

Found this great site over the holidays which stocks a ton of your favorite sunglasses from decades ago. Found my very favorite pair of Revos ever, brand new! Look for the "Traveler Lens". Designed by a NASA engineer, there is no lens like it today. www.vintagesunglassesshop.com/speed_revo.h...

People talk a lot about the FedEx logo, but for my money, the best use of negative space goes to the cleverly hidden buttcheeks in the Levi's mark.

Some great new podcasts in here: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Respectfully sir, you have not seen my engineering workflows.

The 2026 Pantone Color of the Year is: Ibuprofen

I have no idea if the science holds up here, but people’s obsession with bottled water has always seemed crazy to me. Even in places like New York, SF, and Seattle which have amazing tap water.

@mikedugar.bsky.social About to buy the book. What format gives you the biggest cut of the sales?

That’s a helluva beer can right there. 🙌

TIL: The reason that a 10 and a 10.5 shoe are often the same size these days is that some factories use inner padding to make the 10 feel smaller. Seems like even the employees don't know this.

When I am elected president, I will be setting up an Airstream on the lawn with a couple of Womb chairs and a Noguchi table. Get out of here with this stuff! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Half completed vibe-coded projects are the new domain names.

In Finland, traffic ticket fines are a function of your income. Before you find this €121,000 ticket to be outrageous, think about what a $300 fine does to someone making minimum wage. (via @kottke.org) www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...