gen AI is just regression towards the mean as a service. offensively average output generators. absolute moped rider of a technology. like well done lads. you boiled the fuckin earth to invent ‘if your stepdad was powered by graphics cards’.

if i had the energy i would do a blooper reel

when i have to socialise for longer than twenty minutes but just about keep the autism at bay

i am once again asking you to resist the urge to turn every navigation click into some horrendous inescapable view transition. they are cool, but i can only watch your shit fly, zoom and bounce so many times before i claim you as a sworn enemy before the elder gods.

people gainfully employed by war-criminal-aligned fascist-adjacent absolute-dickhead vercel who were VERY quiet in the days around guillaume sharing his little jaunt with netanyahu now back out of the woodwork sharing their company-issued quota of blog posts and changelogs. well done lads.

CONOR FUCKIN BRADLEY

escaped to the middle of nowhere on holiday so doing the just and rightful thing of having a three course meal consisting entirely of different types of crisps

looks like andy got to the pac-man orgy bit

what i'm seeing here is a canonical resource of design education in the making. It's unbelievable

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

okay so final final final count of lessons for the mindful design course puts us at 76 videos. i cannot wait to sleep for a month.

The Human Only Public License vanderessen.com/posts/hopl/ "while nobody cares about robots.txt, people care about licenses. There are automated tools to find and check software licenses and raise alarms if 'bad' ones are used. And I can guarantee that HOPL will brightly flash red."

My heavy metal band released something new today. Hope you’ll check it out. 🖤👊🏻 song.link/t/466158548

just this on repeat forever tbh www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvPV...

cannot believe that AI discourse has popularised bayesian inference and the word 'verisimilitude'. two things that regularly made me sound a lot smarter than i actually am. smdh my head.

peak onboarding tbh

managed to get the phrases 'pac-man orgy' and 'microdosing disappointment' as well as ~two minutes worth of love letters to shrek into the course while @bell.bz is off speaking at conferences. you're welcome x

after this course is released i’m gonna try an SL1 run in dark souls 3 because i now know i can suffer.

"The fastest path to improved accessibility is to stop defending patterns that already irritate non-disabled users. Those patterns are already creating friction." buttondown.com/access-abili...

Here’s s small talk I gave some weeks ago as part of @penpot.app fest 2025 🥰🫶🏻 “We fixed it on Main” youtu.be/F4_Tgkd-vRc?...

You keep telling yourself that.

8 lessons of what I think is some of the most important content on Complete CSS: free to everyone!

tl;draw is just so fucking good

reliably informed that i in fact cannot just shout “THAT’S IT, BACK TO WINNIPEG” every time something inconveniences me

Trying a new thing where I call people 'champ', but only if they're massive pricks, and seeing how long it takes for them to realise it is not a good thing.

Yo, my band shade_cycle has a single out this Friday 31st called ‘Snakeskin Deathbed’ and it’ll be on all of the big platforms. If you like alternative metal you might get into it. 🖤👊🏻

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for. Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

New renderer, tokens that meet the format module spec, variants, and flex/grid layouts that actually match the browser's rendering logic. @penpot.app is getting so good.

While I’m trying not to post job-related content here, I’m super happy with the progress the team is making on the new render engine system for Penpot 🫀 We talked about it at Penpot Fest, in case you’re curious about what we’ve been working on these past few months www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciG0...

CLOCKS WENT BACK TIME TO BE SAD ALL THE TIME

somehow i am a go-to resource in a couple friend groups for new heavy music and idk how to tell them i've almost exclusively listened to carly rae jepsen and the persona 5 soundtrack for the last 2 months

these fuckin ai generated yellow tinged retro ripoff 'illustrations' that are popping up in every og:image kill a tiny fraction of my soul 100 times a day. just absolute horrific flat emotionless garbage.

PARENTS: Make sure you check what your kids are collecting this halloween, I've just found Virgin Media Ron hiding in some sweets

one thing i struggled with in design courses was the 'homework' was almost always half-arsed, two-sentence briefs to go and make something. fav part of the mindful design course has been putting together actual structured, educational exercises that aren't "mock up an app screen without any help".

i would kindly request that the people trying to kill the web stop making browsers

really selling the mindful design course to @bell.bz with this one lads

We know everyone’s super excited about Variants! So for those who don’t know how to use them yet, here’s a quick tutorial! penpot.app/blog/tutoria...

watching this liverpool team this season is giving me brendan rodgers ptsd

oh man can't believe they robbed the louvre. all your friends’ mid tweets were hanging there :(((

just want pixel sprites back in my pokemon lads. so much charm lost in the shift to 3d. gen 3 sprites were some of the most expressive in the history of games. imagining a world where they went with the octopath/triangle strategy hd-2d vibes instead of this mess.

in case you're curious what the mindful design course practical bits might look like, it's basically this, but more polished, and i'm not mean to you at the end

people willingly spinning up a substack in big 2025. get a grip! get a hold of yourself! have a word with yourself! take a good hard look in the mirror! contemplate how your actions overlap with bad actors! pontificate on how much your personal morals may flex under the weight of willful ignorance!

For anyone that reads @piccalil.li or has taken one of our courses, I'd love to get your take on our brand. Short survey below 👇 — any boosts appreciated too! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

lil video walkthrough of logarithmic type scales in @penpot.app using their fantastic token system www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bIG...

dunno folks, after spending decades making interacting with a computer seamless through things like signifiers and metaphors and then those things becoming conventions and being able to abstract away huge chunks of complexity maybe the future is not 'type every action you want to do as a prompt'

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

i care not who you are if you have your dog in a backpack and i see you we are now best friends and you will let me have a little go of carrying the dog in a backpack and i will get all three of us a croissant and feed it to backpack dog over my shoulder and we will frolick and repeat that regularly

my discover feed is mostly folks showing their muscles off and i do not know how i got there, because i only engage with my friends and occasional ragebait, but i am happy it's working out well for all involved.