I love this little playground for looking at different easing functions. It can get really confusing looking at different Bezier curves out of context, and this has five different examples from sidebars to slideshows to drawers which you can try different curves with, and it quickly becomes apparent what feels right.
Wildwood from LAIKA studios looks great. Seen a few behind-the-scenes online but the Teaser trailer looks magical.
A few test shots from a hike down in Cornwall
Pebble is great because its open, simple design has fostered a uniquely vibrant app and watch face ecosystem that still “just works” more than a decade later. Constraints work. Quite tempted to try it.
Dang - as a linoprinting nerd this is a really fun lego project. Hope it gets fully supported.
Interesting ideas on product interoperability from David Hoang:
The defensible position isn’t lock-in anymore—it’s being the thing everything else connects to. If your platform is where value gets exchanged between tools, removing you breaks the whole workflow. The moat becomes a bridge: you win by making it easy for people to come through, not by making it hard for them to leave.
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They need open protocols and shared standards to do their job—they don’t care about ecosystem boundaries, they need to cross them.
Previously SaaS products were all about lock-in and building walls. Users now want to do things with their data, work with their own AI model.
At the moment I'd wager that this mainly applies to tech savvy A.I. early adopters, but the writing is on the wall.
As A.I. use trickles out to peoples phones and become more accessible and in general use, people will start to expect this interoperability, and if we don't give people this, they will find tools that do.
Thoughtful post from Ben on the challenges of the A.I. coding landscape. Treating the technology as a tool and keeping humans in control is key.
This looks very useful for anyone who a) likes the terminal and b) does database work.
Fascinating deep dive into halftones.
How social media lost the social part
Walking and talking with photographers
This audiobook sounds ace - wish it was available in the UK. Look like he does all the voices!
While I'm very much tied into the OS X ecosystem, I'm very curious about Omarchy - DHH's latest exploration into an opinionated window manager. Having tried Linux before and never clicked with it, I really really like the simplicity of Omarchy's windowing system. Ironically it reminds me a bit of split view on the iPad, but a whole lot more powerful. If I could find a decent replacement for Lightroom, I'd be tempted to try it out for a while.
I first encountered the internet through dial-up on my parent's first computer in the states, then a Psion series 5mx handheld in 2000 or so, again using a dial-up modem. Surfing the web was a simpler affair then, with no social media (as it is now) and I mainly used it for email. Simpler times. Bing Bong Bing Bong - RIP AOL - you connected a lot of people.
Loosely planning a trip some time in the future and this is just a lovely travelogue and love letter to Japan.
Nice overview by Federico Viticci of 'Sky' (from the team around Shortcuts that Apple bought).
(I) immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering people to do more with their devices
Incredible that a team of two people can make something that looks genuinely useful integrating Macs and LLMs so smoothly while Apple seemingly are stalling with almost infinite resources, making decidedly-average Apple Intelligence tools.
Love the idea of things that help you organise efficiently. I wouldn't be surprised if their product gets acquired again by Apple, or someone else.
I think Gruber nails it with the "Fool me twice, shame on me" adage. I've been using Arc since inception, but shutting up shop before making Dia widely available seems a weird order of announcements.
Feels like they are alienating their fans and potentially Osbourning themselves. Do I trust them to not pull the plug on their next product? Unsure. Looking for other browsers.
From Simon Willison:
Vibe coding does not mean “using AI tools to help write code”. It means “generating code with AI without caring about the code that is produced”.
100% in agreement with this - definitely not a blanket catch-all term like it's being used now. I use A.I. code assistants pretty surgically alongside my own code, and find them super helpful. Words matter.
A lovely post from Geoffrey Lit about a fun A.I. Assistant he made. Really charming, and shows in a fun way how A.I. can be used to summarise things nicely and usefully.
It's interesting that individuals are coming up with novel fun uses like this, yet Apple has completely failed with Apple Intelligence - I can see how something like this combined with a todo app would be a great reminder system.