For my 150th (!) post, a look back at Apple’s breathing lights: unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-littl...

The Swift Performance team isn’t *my* team, but they’re in my hallway. Or in London if you’d prefer. They’re looking for an engineer who’s not afraid of optimizers. jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Qwen3-ARS transcription models inference in C is ready: github.com/antirez/qwen... This is by far the most practical model for quick inference on low end CPUs. Perfect for things like transcribing bots, voice-driven UIs, and so forth.

After a brutal stretch of winter weather in many parts of the U.S., especially the East Coast, there was an eagerness on Monday to grab on to any sign of hope for warmth. Punxsutawney Phil did not oblige.

10m documentary film on the local-first software movement! www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...

I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality! You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content, if you just want to check it out. unsung.aresluna.org

David Umemoto #art #sculpture davidumemoto.com

Paper Trails – 50 pre-war tourist maps from Japan, all beautifully illustrated & bound in a book. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/pap... Only available at P&C, because we made it.

It’s been a year and I use them but I have absolutely no idea what a passkey is. Half the time login fails with them and I have to do something else that works (like a password). I refuse to understand more. I’m tired of computers and don’t care. This is what it’s like for every non-nerd, isn’t it?

What are you favourite well-made apps and sites? Phones and computers alike. Doesn’t have to be “pretty,” but well-made according to whatever definition works for you.

GLSL Web CRT Shader I’m releasing my GLSL Web CRT Shader as open source. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/g... Have fun with it! 😎

After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.

ssh tiny.christmas a global christmas carol in the terminal :)

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

New zoom warning. Because you can't zoom out once your "scale" gets to "NaN". #automat #gamedev #motiondesign

The fact that coding agents need a lot of context to work well and chew through 10x the number of tokens (compared to regular chat) should be concrete evidence to non-coders that programmers have to hold a lot of context in their heads to be effective on production code bases.

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

One of the best, up for air!

What publications offer PDF subscription? The web has gotten so bad over the past decade. PDF seems like the perfect media. To work around screen-size issues, just publish (generate) three sizes: A7 “pocket”, A5 “book”, A4 “magazine”

Surprise! I made the built-in game for @perplexitycomet.bsky.social it was so much fun working with such a dream team at Perplexity.

Today's newsletter: - a game for you to try! - a sappy interlude! - too many sports metaphors! - too many exclamation marks! (as usual!) buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc...

WIP

Sometimes I play with the idea of starting a company which makes really nice electronics that feels as little “tech” as possible. Ie where the user only have to interface with “tech” when absolutely necessary.

🐸 my froggy desk setup is my pride and joy 🐸 ✿ frog computer by me ✿ kerokerokeys keycaps by me (available at bubblesort.io) ✿ kerokerokeys deskmat by @mogumu.bsky.social ✿ frog chair by byalicelee.com ✿ frog planter is a collab with alice lee ✿ frog hoodie by @maobabie.com

So good!

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

When an eel bites your thigh and you’re ready to cry that’s a moray

The Phillips TV Test Screen, and what each section means. Images from Wiki

New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜 Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.

The talks from Day One have been published. To kick off the conference, @rsms.me is talking about Playbit Sync. youtu.be/KMcmMm8v5_E?...

Blippo was handmade with vintage analog broadcast equipment, and it features an intergenerational cast of over 100 actors, comedians, performers, and artists. As an MST3K kid, I am constitutionally optimized for hijinks of this sort. It's pure, undiluted creativity. It's Hundreds of Beavers ❤️

@akkartik.name This is so cool! akkartik.name/freewheeling...

Fixed

“If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual.” https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html

A 'Thomasson' is an architectural relic which is useless yet still maintained. www.instagram.com/explore/sear... www.reddit.com/r/Thomassons/ hyperartthomasson.tumblr.com

A blog of microchips boiled in acid. zeptobars.com You’re welcome.

"Local-first OS" Seph Gentle @seph.bsky.social with an incredible talk on how we should create an ecosystem that breaks down data silos via a local first operating system.

“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care”

Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me gave an awesome key note introducing Playbit - a new operating system & development environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of local-first software on a personal scale.

I want to like the Bluesky iOS app but wow it’s a bit janky. If I launch it at a moment when I have no internet connection, it logs me out (lol what) and there are these little details that subconsciously makes it feel like a web app. I can’t quite spot what it is…

Do I have any georgian friends here? I need a native eye for my first georgian alphabet design:

Important reminder that Sandwich Week commences today www.instagram.com/virgin_honey/

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the techie moms out there. And thanks to my mom for letting me install StarCraft on her HP running Windows 98. I dragged that desktop to my first LAN party.

My iPhone screen time daily average is down to two hours a day over the last few months. About 1:30 if I exclude playing music. I used to use my iPhone a lot. Interesting how it changed.

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

Fun interview with @jackrusher.com on creativity & programming thecreativeindependent.com/people/multi...

Incredible work by Jonathan Alland, keeping Mac OS X alive jonathanalland.com/old-osx-proj...

Why I launched a new, different kind of survey: dev.to/sachagreif/l... (take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )