Every app is fighting for their life with push notifications and growth hacks, meanwhile wordle is right there having us do our daily pilgrimage to a mobile website
In most professions, when you hit the 90th percentile in technical skill, the best use of your time is getting 90th percentile soft skills
the best barbers are therapists
the best photographers are comedians
the best engineers are iconoclastic cult leaders that inspire their team with a vision nobody else can see, and even fewer can beleive
stop maxing out your CAD skills, and start dreaming bigger!
Genuinely awed by this video, in which a woman does a Marina Abramović “the artist is present” face at a comedian and her inscrutability and unbroken eye contact drives him to madness and reveals his deepest insecurities
a surveillance company dropping an iconic French workwear chore jacket that is a symbol for working class, anti-corporate, artisanal wear, is the epitome of ‘taste washing’. i can’t believe I ever tried selling fashion to techies 🙄
Introducing Arena Frame, an open-source e-ink display for channels
Available fully assembled, for a limited time
Or as instructions for you to assemble yourself, forever
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
The “I-design-to-solve-problemo” crowd will never understand that at some level, product becomes art.
And everything worth the delight transcends data harvesting and your “highly-converting landing pages”.
It exists as a symbolism of their artistry. It, in itself, is a filter.
arca just made history in Mexico City, in a time when so many countries are shifting to the right, it feels powerful to see a government publicly amplify queer artists like this, today I’m proud of my country