Arunkumar R R

அருண்குமார்.

Frontend Engineer @ZuperInc.

[Arunkumar R R @_arunkmr]

Three-pane layout with User & layout customization 🤌

[Raghav @raghav_gurumani]

@ZuperInc 👀

[Mohanakrishnan @mokrish]

https://t.co/6YcrfrNq07

[Ananya @ananyeahplsno]

If you, like me, grew up in Tamilnadu, the town bus music is a whole genre of bangers you’d have enjoyed.

Made a sunday eve project inspired by this idea.

Take it for a spin: https://t.co/vfELdy1f9A

[Heisenberg ☢ @internetumpire]

Is it just me or the Chennai heat has been unbearable and feels like it's been going on forever this year? Can't even function normally without feeling completely drained out of energy every other day.

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

when software had a soul

there was a moment around 2005 when using a Mac felt like touching something alive.

the dock bounced. the genie effect swooped. exposé scattered your windows like cards on a table. none of it was strictly necessary. all of it felt like someone cared – not about metrics, but about the feeling of using a machine.

software back then had texture. it had a philosophy. you could feel the person behind it. someone made a decision to make that icon beautiful, to animate that transition just so, to write that error message with a little warmth. apps had personalities. some were weird. some were over-designed in ways that would make a modern PM flinch. but they were alive.

the web was the same. personal sites were genuinely personal. blogs felt like letters. forums had regulars. you knew who made what. the internet had neighborhoods, and each one felt different.

nothing was optimized for scale. things were made by people who loved what they were making.

somewhere along the way, we traded all of that for growth.

A/B tests flattened the edges. design systems standardized the personality out. everything got faster, smoother, more consistent – and somehow less interesting. the quirks were removed because they didn't test well. the warmth got cut because it wasn't measurable. we optimized our way into a world of things that work perfectly and feel like nothing.
now every app looks the same. every interface follows the same patterns. every product speaks in the same calm, frictionless voice, siloed in their own little islands. the humanity got rounded off.

and then came AI agents. and the speed got inhuman.

now you can generate an entire product in an afternoon. ship a feature before lunch. spin up ten variations before anyone's had their coffee. the gap from idea to code is basically zero.

which sounds incredible. and it is. but there's a catch.

when making things are too easy, the slop comes for free too. mediocre things don't look obviously bad – they look fine. they work. they ship. they pass review. and now there are infinite of them. the internet is filling up with software that functions but means nothing. interfaces that are correct but feel dead. products made by agents, reviewed by no one, shipped into the void.

this is the thing that keeps me up at night. not that AI will replace people who care. but that it will drown them out.

here's what I still believe: the best things are made by people who couldn't help themselves. someone who lost sleep over an icon. who rewrote the same line of copy twelve times. who added an animation nobody asked for because it made the thing feel right. that obsession – that's not inefficiency. that's the whole point.

AI doesn't make that irrelevant. it actually makes it rarer and more valuable. taste is not a markdown skill. caring is not a parameter. the weird, specific, "soul" thing you put into something – that can't be programmed into existence.

the path forward isn't to make more slop faster. it's to finally give people with real vision the tools to make the thing they always imagined but couldn't build alone. the designer who had the idea but couldn't code. the kid who saw something nobody else saw. the person who cared too much about something most people wouldn't notice.

if we get this right, we don't get a faster factory. we get a renaissance. more strange, personal, opinionated software made by teams of people who care and mean it.

that's still possible. but only if the people who care get the space and tools to actually express themselves – and don't just hand the wheel to the agent and walk away.

[Qwerty 🧀 (最棒小鼠) @qwerty_ytrevvq]

"You and your AI after reading the article"

become Neo in real life

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

The Vercel Web Interface Guidelines.

We’re distilling the hard-earned lessons of building for the web, from our colleagues.

For humans and for agents.
https://t.co/jLZ2sGks9n

[Linear @linear]

The modern world has made huge advances in knowledge, technology, and skill. We can build faster than ever. We know more than ever. Yet quality still feels so rare. So many things feel unfinished, broken, or forgettable.

Why?

→ https://t.co/gfZewHEavw

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

I pay GST not because I have faith in the system, I pay because I have to, there is no way out.

All the tax I am paying is going to some babu or a corrupt contractor or politician.

I get nothing in return.

Broken roads, filthy premises, polluted air, adulterated food, corrupt govt officials, no security, collapsing bridges, no clean water, no quality education, overcrowded hospitals, endless traffic jams, delayed justice, electricity cuts, waterlogging, crumbling public transport, and rising crime rates... I can go on and on.

[Suchi Govindarajan @suchiswriting]

I've tried meditation, I've tried chanting.
I strongly recommend staring at trees

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus.

If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely.

[Arunkumar R R @_arunkmr]

@Hirak_Pixel Is this available for desktop?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s flight will help us improve Starship’s reliability. We will conduct a thorough investigation, in coordination with the FAA, and implement corrective actions to make improvements on future Starship flight tests → https://t.co/IcgJoOWrmQ

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

Developing Taste

https://t.co/mi7MQ0PRPX

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

You can just fix things..

[Jody A. Noriega🔨🦍 @DVDJXX]

It only be 2 girls in our entire lifetime that make us do this btw everyone else we don’t give af

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work.

The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox
https://t.co/v1BWuArhKE

[த.சீனிவாசன் @tshrinivasan]

எளிய தமிழில் DevOps - இலவச மின்னூல்

git, docker, ansible, mongodb, kafka என்று பல நுட்பங்களை நித்யா அறிமுகம் செய்கிறார்.

பதிவிறக்கம் செய்ய - https://t.co/Yc9vw3tExT

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