Amelia Wattenberger
@wattenberger.com
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web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought ✨ Design @ SHV 🌸 wattenberger.com
wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds
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The Pudding
8 months ago
Do you think middle school sucks? You’re not alone.
@alv9n.com
uses a survey of millions of students to show how our brains and our sense of belonging change in middle school. 💻
pudding.cool/2025/02/midd...
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The Middle Ages
Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their treacherous middle school years.
https://pudding.cool/2025/02/middle-school/
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this is what it looks like when you allocate your time to vibes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 actual content 🟩🟩
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making this is so fun I've been doing it instead of watching Severance
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9 months ago
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going ham with this 🚀
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9 months ago
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sharing my silly workflow to create transitions between images: 1. throw images in an auto layout in
@figma.com
2. clip a new image with the bottom and top of the two images 3. throw in Midjourney edit and generate some new images 4. paste that new image back into Figma and clip it
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cute little responsive felt worlds 😍
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cooking up a new blog post. I'm loving these little felt worlds and baking little transitions between them.
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Today was my last day exploring the future with the lovely GitHub Next team ❤️ I already miss them and the awesome projects I got to work on. Like building a dynamic, personalized learning sandbox. And recently, something even more exciting. Little me could never imagine having so much fun at work!
9 months ago
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Sam Rose
9 months ago
Gosh, this is beautiful.
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Rodrigo Girão Serrão 🐍🚀
9 months ago
Holy crap, “Fish eye for text” by
@wattenberger.com
just blew my mind. I'm not sure what it is, but I think I got this feeling that this can be really powerful if applied well to teaching! (Which is the point made in the article.) Article with demos:
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Kyle Galbraith
9 months ago
Another hit from
@wattenberger.com
. I love how Amelia stitches ideas together and ties them back to concrete real life while still writing about a piece of technology.
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LLMs are a tool for thought
https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/llms-as-a-tool-for-thought
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Michael Hanson
9 months ago
I love this visualization of working memory by
@wattenberger.com
. Also, "As a new parent, I have a smaller window than most." 😂 Amen!
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historical events are all jumbled up in my mind, on their own timeline. Wouldn't it be great to have a "World Time Explorer" that helps stitch together those timelines? buggy and probably better on a map, but throwing this idea into a ui to start playing around
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sharing an old exploration that's been top of mind recently the future is... ✨ a shared artifact between humans and AI ✨ content at different levels of abstraction ✨ multimodal inputs and NL controls
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9 months ago
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Mark Joseph Stern
10 months ago
Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/
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Nicole Rust
10 months ago
This is legit - the organizers (including unions) are organizing. When I ask those in the know what we can do that will actually matter, the answer includes collective action of this type. I'm joining
@nancykanwisher.bsky.social
and all the others for this Thurs 3p ET effort. I hope you do too!
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welp it's clear that I need to close my Twitter account. But it's not clear what the best way to do it is. Any ideas on ✨ how to do the most good ✨ on the way out with 32k followers?
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Ryan Atkinson
11 months ago
I have an entry into the hypercard genre,
www.dealt.dev
- has about 4 weeks of work in it I got the motivation playing with
svg.wtf
from
@wattenberger.com
to follow an old idea with many prototypes - starting with an SVG editor really clicked uses Svelte and PixiJS -
github.com/ryanatkn/dealt
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Cole Bemis
12 months ago
My girlfriend and I made a little two-player word game. It’s called Word Rumble ✨ Have fun:
wordrumble.fun
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ben ✶
11 months ago
WizardChess 1.0 is (technically) live on Steam! Flipping the Early Access switch tomorrow but... I triple-dog-dare you to try it out early
#gamedev
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Hadi Vafaii
11 months ago
To my Bluesky friends attending
#NeurIPS2024
: Check out our poster: “Poisson Variational Autoencoder” (P-VAE)! The P-VAE is a
#generative
model that encodes inputs into spike count variables and unifies major neuroscience theories with modern machine learning. w/ Jacob Yates and Dekel Galor 🧠🤖🧠📈
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Yasser Souri
11 months ago
It is sad to see authors not being able to present their work at
#NeurIPS2024
because of visa issues. But some authors went above and beyond. Here is
@hadivafaii.bsky.social
tele-presenting his work with an impressive setup (ipad, mic, speaker, holder, battery). Well done sir!
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😍 love seeing the charts I worked on with
@puddingviz.bsky.social
on Google Trends
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11 months ago
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the Twitter algorithm at work
11 months ago
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Dave
11 months ago
New week note! This week: - What do we see? What do we not see? (
@maxroser.bsky.social
) - The power and danger of metaphors (
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
) - Ads, ads everywhere - Brain rot - Simultaneous levels of information (
@wattenberger.com
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soo the Perplexity API is good and cheap-ish?! ($.20 per 1M tokens)
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11 months ago
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Tom Hipwell
11 months ago
Some great ideas here, worth your time to explore
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Annabel
11 months ago
Perfection. As always.
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Daniel Bachler
11 months ago
Beautiful work by
@wattenberger.com
that explores what forms text on the web could take off we leave the restrictions of print behind
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🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs 🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction 🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
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is it possible to have too much fun making a blog post? 🤔
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I split up "related topics" into four categories: ✨ related people ✨ similar topics (siblings) ✨ more general categories (parents) ✨ more specific topics (children) this way, you can "zoom out" in the NorthWest direction and "zoom in" to the SE. Or side-step SW and NE.
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12 months ago
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heyooo just won my own game of "find my way from Fish-Eye Lens to Kangaroo" 🦘
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I made the transitions feel like the new topic is "pushing" the old one out and added inline links and... I'm finding this strangely addictive!
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Are you interested in exploring & prototyping & building the future of developer experience? Come in, the water's warm!
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12 months ago
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What I think of whenever I see the phrase “small LLM”
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GitHub Next
12 months ago
Finding an app 🤝 Making an app GitHub Spark Raycast Extension
www.raycast.com/github-next/...
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making more demos for my "fish eye lens" blog post I'm starting to really enjoy learning from this wiki example 😍
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I'm playing with a fish-eye effect You have one "fovea" and the rest of the world (or writing) gradually falls off as it's farther away from your area of focus So here, the adjacent paragraphs are summarized (zoom -1) as well as the remaining text (zoom -2). Give me gratuitous animation ideas! 🙆♀️
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Lynn Cherny
12 months ago
Another rec’d starter pack with a solid list of people who were on my main list on twitter -
go.bsky.app/7D4NApV
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“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like” Nailed it, me in my man costume running one of my many “Dorkshops”
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about 1 year ago
playing with GitHub Spark
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✨ Chatbots are the Cheesecake Factory of uis ✨ They'll give you pizza, pie, or pad thai. And it will be good, but not great.
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I wrote down some thoughts on two things: ✨ LLMs as a tool for thought. They can be wonderful brainstorming buddies. ✨ Our lives are full of a cycle of taking something in, transforming it, and sending something out
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about 1 year ago
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Really enjoying playing with this dissolve effect 😍
tinyurl.com/2p82389t
from Mike Bespalov on ✖️
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about 1 year ago
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It was lovely sharing Learning Sandbox in the GitHub Universe keynote earlier today! I very much believe in... - learning as you build, not on a tangent - learning in an interactive, enabling environment - tailoring content to an individual's knowledge and use case
githubnext.com/projects/lea...
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about 1 year ago
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😅 please indulge a quick rant about why chatbots aren't the future of interfaces
https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots
over 2 years ago
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Adrián Mato 🐙
over 2 years ago
👋 Little #introduction, I'm a product designer building Copilot & other tools at
github.com
. I'm cursed with being a generalist who makes things, so you'd see me posting about design, coding, 3D, game dev, and open-source. More about work & side projects at
adrianmato.com
Excited to meet you all ❤️
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Adrián Mato – Product Designer in San Francisco
Personal website of Adrián Mato. Designing and building tools for developers at GitHub
https://adrianmato.com
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😅 I just can't help myself - hopefully I'll have this rant written up and shareable by tomorrow
over 2 years ago
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