New FLE! @nateparrott.bsky.social is a software engineer and designer. He was a founding designer at The Browser Company before moving to Anthropic in 2025. Nate also produces small apps that contain a lot of charm & whimsy. 🟣 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... 🎧 www.macstories.net/podcasts/fir...

had a nice convo with Jonathan about some of my favorite very old software! i also confusingly explain how i'm convinced that 'claudes in the cloud' are going to be a huge deal (recorded a month before openclaw took off...)

Finally, my toil in the clicking-mines paid off. I can now feature you alongside an equally valuable brand.

I’ve been promising people stickers on my website for years and have never gotten around to sending them out until now… I’m sorry!

the highs and lows of apple's new design language in one picugly

a fruit sheet is healthier than a hamburger menu and also more fun

is there a word for this kind of weird 2010-2020s copywriting style

never let anybody tell u that evil does not exist

guys it's literally so easy to get a REAL ID

new in feeeed: follow any website from the share sheet Find a cool site, hit share, hit follow. now following a website is as easy as following someone on social media!

new secret lil app

made a new little thing for the Claude homepage

new source in feeeed: RANDOM WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES now you can see random wikipedia articles in your feed. tap to shuffle. kinda fun!

ok so, on my website you can earn coins and unlock stuff. one of those things one "i'll send you a sticker" and i never sent anyone a sticker! so now i'm finally coming clean and doing it. so just saying you can go to nateparrott.com and earn coins and you might get a limited-time-only sticker!

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

direct manipulation

added a new and exciting way to spend your hard-earned coins on nateparrott.com (best on desktop)

a serious and growing problem in my life is that every time i eat goat cheese i am forced to say "you're telling me this cheese is GREATEST of ALL TIME?"

personal news: i joined anthropic last week to work on making claude ~the most useful little helper who lives in your computer~ plz say hi if you're here! i'll be in the nyc office

new homepage on feeeed.nateparrott.com

can someone smarter than me explain the logic of macos's notifications UI? this UI is supposed to be ASKING ME if i want notifications. it took me, like, a year to figure this out surely there is a reason for this???

once again, kathy hochul could literally oust him tonight. she has that legal right

wish list for every chat app, ai or human: let me BACKSPACE to unsend my last message and edit it

working on a little guy that writes swift / iOS / Mac code for you. give him simple tasks and he will make you a pr! and LOOK at the dock icon...

we have to be FOR something, not just against something

feeeed on local neeeews

uhhhh ok

blown away by this unique and transformative functionality

what's stopping you from advertising software like breakfast cereal

there’s simply gotta be a better name for this

do we know if tiktok will be blocked by ISPs, if the ban happens? I know the law requires web *hosts* to deny them service, but i haven't read anything about forced *blocking of access* it'd be really weird/funny if everyone just started using the tiktok mobile web app

the year is 2026... is it now easier to buy a gun than to enable screen recording permission on macos

time to experience the new personal intelligence system

Nobody is mad about cost of living, any more than they’re mad about immigration, or crime. They’re mad because the right has built a massive outrage machine and plugged it into the brains of most of rn country. Ancient Dems cannot understand this are being made fools of again and again

two new details i'm trying out in feeeed, my news reader app: 🔴 POSTS RARELY: sometimes the posts you look forward to the most come from sources that post a few times a year. what if 'rare posts' were highlighted? 📚 LEFT OPEN: stories you leave open until the app quits are added to ur reading list

the end state of Facebook is a tiktok feed of sora-style ai sponcon slop generated just for you based on on eye tracking all the more reason to cultivate alternatives

New Year’s resolution: get less news from social media and more from BLOGS! blogs rock… I’m biased but you should get an RSS reader and follow some. Some fave tech blogs: @simonwillison.net for down to earth takes on actually-useful AI @mjtsai.bsky.social for apple @mgsiegler.com for tech/biz

new update to feeeed, my 'build your own news feed' app! 🦋 A new look with a new icon, cleaner type and more consistent colors 🧵 Native views for Reddit comment threads and videos (dont tell reddit!) 🌍 Translate a story via the share menu (uses Google translate) & summaries in any language

no shade to the article but why on earth do business publications do this

found a recipe print out from 2004 and tempted to make a chrome extension that replaces ads with equivalent sized ads from 2004

wrote a little Xcode script called PHIL: it lets you write a comment -- "// @phil please implement this" -- then hit Build to have an LLM generate and insert a draft of the code you asked for. all without leaving xcode!

a little experiment in ui: MAGIC WAND can you tell the computer to modify part of a complicated document by "pointing" at it?

tech companies in 2024 will be like “PLEEEASE 🥺🥺 use our APP and don’t EVER 🚫⛔️ use our WEBSITE 🤮🤮 we built this whole website for some reason but DONT FUCKING DARE use it use our app use our app here’s a button to 👉👉 OPEN OUR APP 😩👈👈” then you’ll tap it and it won’t even open the app

this is so fucking funny what a deeply embarrasing company

a little map experiment i never pursued: 1. read a bunch of local publications, extract places mentioned, plot them on a map (unreliable but cool when it works) 2. when you zoom in far enough, overlay street view the idea was to bring more human data to maps; didn't work too well but cool!

new in feeeed (my build-your-own-news-feed app): 🦋 Follow Bluesky accounts 📚 Reading List reminders now match your Reader theme

anyone know of a good swift SDK for making an (authenticated) Bluesky client?