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✦ all things design, with a dash of interactions in between

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

@jenny_wen <3

[Dilum Sanjaya @DilumSanjaya]

Fun interactive science app ideas | Part 3

Played around with generating 3D biological structures and made an app to explore them interactively

UI Design
GPT Images 2

Code
Gemini 3.1 Pro

More demos ↓

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

@feather___co that initial designs of every thing in the beginning was everything!!

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

@katiewav i love this sm!!!

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

@lucas__crespo @every totally unrelated with the post; i love the poster

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

@yacineMTB tbh true. learning something has never been easier but gaining understanding on something will be the core challenge

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

tysm @Ryan__Stephen for making this open source!

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

birthday cake lilagent because it's your birthday everyday 🎂🤠

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

this account is too dusty!! i'm going to try to keep this alive again... perhaps also with some bahasa post here and there

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

Geeking out about cell through Make 🦠 (the emoji is a bacteria though, structurally different than an animal cell).
Btw, I got the coolest domain ever. 😎

https://t.co/SC8U0h6Zxp

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

i love this so so much 💖

[Nadieh Bremer @NadiehBremer]

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” https://t.co/CgFoywkrjq 🐤

A #dataviz article & exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

@bnj @variantui i'd love to give it a try

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

thanks Miggi for this one 🫶https://t.co/FIwQSHLDML

[miggi from figgi @miggi]

Sometimes in @figma, I'll use the cut tool on stars then duplicate and rotate them in outline mode just to feel something. ✂️✨

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

too pretty

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

@AravSrinivas @perplexity_ai @comet both look stunning, feel like something comes straight out from sci-fi movie

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

monochromatic bento animations 🍱
which one do you think flows the smoothest?

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

a simple multicursor animation

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

monochromatic bento section 🍱

[Ara 🇵🇸 @cyahraa]

monochromatic bento section 🍱

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

When I first spoke out about the genocide, I was one of the few voices in tech, and it came at a cost.

I faced sabotage especially from the VC class: lies, leaks, threats, and blocked investments.

It was painful, but I never once regretted standing up for the children in Gaza.

Today, the tide in tech has shifted. The truth is undeniable.

If you’ve been holding back, now is the time to speak out and call out anyone supporting or celebrating genocide. It won’t cost you much—in fact, it will earn you respect, and more importantly a clear conscious. Plus, alienating those who will hate you for speaking is a feature, not a bug.