neo-orality? you mean illiteracy

everybody forgot about ux design

even the elephant in the room isn’t talking about the elephant in the room

a call for simplicity is a cry for complexity

ai is a tool for design the same way doordash is a tool for chefs

"The result is a field well-resourced to demonstrate what’s possible and under resourced to change the conditions that keep the possible from becoming normal" www.eatingpolicy.com/p/a-three-ho...

Experimental: PickyPalette — a color picker that shows you the weight of each color as you build your palette. See how much space a color claims. Every color fights for its territory in the color space. So you know exactly how dominant or subtle your pick is. WDYT? meodai.github.io/color-palett...

ai is a tool for design the same way doordash is a tool for chefs

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

0303 Eternal Shoal - shiocop

free websites: anew.page

free websites: anew.page

only fleeting role left for the designer will be some kind of taste jester

only fleeting role left for the designer will be some kind of taste jester

you’re telling me this techno is feudalist

This was a fun conversation, that some of you might find interesting. The page I'm linking embeds the YouTube video, but you should also be able to find it on your favorite podcast app. danfaggella.com/spector1/ #ArtificialIntelligence #EvolutionaryComputation #CognitiveScience

Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for...

this thursday at @betaworks.com

this thursday at @betaworks.com

It's strange what kind of emotions this brings up. Part of me still can't believe people actually like what I make. I was belittled and bullied through most of my school years and training, and in a way, I'm thankful for it. It forced me to follow my own path, because no one else believed in it.

I have just released version 1.1.0 of Thaw, a menu bar manager for macOS 26. Now translated into: - Chinese (Simplified/Traditional) - Dutch - French - German - Hungarian - Indonesian - Italian - Korean - Spanish - That #macos #apple #oss #menubar #tahoe github.com/stonerl/Thaw...

diet cherry coke is the drink of the summer

diet cherry coke is the drink of the summer

tiny.garden is ready for testing! If you have an arena channel you want to make into a mini website give it a try and lmk what could work better!

New game: As Slow As Possible Slow down.

i just caught myself using the word “conflating” in a casual conversation. that was so embarrassing. i gotta stop reading books

An interesting hypothesis put forward by Hongyi Li in the Singapore government: that the public sector suffers from "intellectual traffic jam" because of its top down structure. With some great examples of how to create "greater attention surface" www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxax...

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...

code is a visual medium

code is a visual medium

the mechanics are not the dynamics

know why things seemed simpler before? because they were

know why things seemed simpler before? because they were

you’re telling me this turning is fourth

“But don’t get distracted by all this; the software was intended to kill people.” — @calebhearth.com

really love to have navigate a quirky website to find a very specific thing

he European Commission’s latest DSA proceedings put addictive design squarely in the regulatory spotlight. Cecilia Isola examines how Very Large Online Platforms are handling, or sidestepping, this risk in their mandatory DSA assessments.

design must by nature be speculative

One weird trick to make LLMs smarter... hand-cranked deep research newsletter.squishy.computer/p/folding-co...

When design stops asking why and starts asking, “Can AI do it?” uxdesign.cc/when-design-...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

New working paper with @rainerkattel.bsky.social: governments are stuck using frameworks designed to fix market failures. But climate, inequality and technological transformation require shaping collective futures—not patching up existing ones.

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

what can not be repaired is already broken

NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...