3/ My impression: In *some* ways, tech has peaked: Do we really need to constantly surveil, measure and control every last aspect of our lives? Do we really need the constant notifications, upgrades and quickly outdated devices?

design events for this week and next ⤵︎

some great events heading into the bank holiday weekend - I am most excited for Pagemasters Zine Fair!

some good stuff in London for designers this last week of April!

lots of events for designers in London this weeken

Made paneer from scratch using coffee filters

The writing is what you want to say. But also. The writing is the process by which you figure out what you want to say.

Props to the Granola team on having excellent Series C swag. go.granola.ai/chris

Refraction, dispersion, and other shader light effects by @maxime.bsky.social blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/refrac...

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the best bit of interfacecraft.dev - dialkit skill (you can easily make this skill yourself - but this is what I think the best bit of 'vibecode' prototypes is, making a little console panel for yourself)

first day as a product designer at @meetgranola.bsky.social

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

I guess the only spark of hope to be found in that is the fact that it doesn’t make sense to us because we aren’t wired to think of human lives as acceptable collateral damage in the quest to get richer, and I would rather be that kind of person no matter how painful it makes living in this world

@joshwcomeau.com Hi Josh! Did you ever write a blogpost about how you did this course branching styling? Swear I saw it somewhere once upon a time but struggling to find it right now

@ericmigi.com pls can you consider doing a good pebble round 2 in the wider strap option!!! I promise there's demand (me) 🥰

an Android app I made is now live on the Google Play store. it solves an incredibly specific problem for a very small group of people: if you use Scrivener on Windows or Mac but don't have an iPhone, and want to capture your ideas directly into your .scriv file, this app let's you do so

The yeast doesn't care about your schedule. www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...

makin wreaths 🎄 and cuttin lino ✂️

You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com

superwhisper + cursor + m3 pro MBP = crazy fast

Anthropic releases the Tool Search Tool (www.anthropic.com/engineering/...) When robots learn how to name things so that humans don't have to, we're really cooked

Really enjoyed this post by @gerireid.com It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI. Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required. gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...

after all this time www.theverge.com/news/822492/...

Anyway, now you know how intense battle zones can be

thank you AI

one for the Londoners: londondesignevents.com

take me back (to the sail bag)

what’s cookin

I am so grateful that my app for listening to silly songs is trying to sell me on a 1 hour to AI Proficiency course!

if you know you know

using cursor to ship lots of fun interactions to my website: 1. the motto marquee in the footer that updates when you click on it 2. the photo gallery that updates every time you visit 3. the hero text that updates to include my name after a few seconds

this video I shared last month just passed 30,000 views! youtu.be/gACXOi_Hq9A

"I I lost count of the number of children who switched from tentatively inching closer to asking, mere minutes later, if they could keep some as pets. Their instinct to care for and take responsibility for other animals is so strong." substack.com/home/post/p-...

"vibe shipping"

this from @basedash.bsky.social was really interesting www.basedash.com/blog/what-is... as a power Descript user I respectfully disagree - AI totally is the product (transcript-based editing!) it's just so invisible that you don't even realise (they ofc also have the slapped on AI bot too)

grateful to be featured by Big Fig @figma.com

make sure to watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF...

ultimately it takes what was intended for the transactional and makes it personal, as a new medium for friendship

iykyk (ºkºk)

building

I tried out every different one-shot AI design tool I could get access to over the past month. I wrote a detailed prompt to give to each of them, and invited some talented designer friends to help me rank and rate them. Here’s how it went ⤵︎

been working on this video for a long time... make sure you’re following at YouTube.com/@p44v9n for it

trying to come up with ways to show that my work work is only half the story

there are so, so, so, so many social media scheduling apps I am looking for one where I can bulk upload videos (100+ videos) and it automatically schedules one a day for the next 100+ days instead of having to do this manually anyone got any ideas?