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[eryc @eryc_cc]

@shedsgns what’s the essay?

[eryc @eryc_cc]

word

[nichy @0xnichy]

piping hot take: i think we should give up on wearables as a category and just live. not everything needs to be tracked, analyzed, and intellectualized.

[eryc @eryc_cc]

beautiful project. 🌎

[Lee Black @mrblackstudio]

I’m genuinely surprised by this one.

Connected Earth has won the Innovative Workflow Award at the Figma Makeathon and received a $10,000 prize.

A few weeks ago this was simply an idea I couldn’t get out of my head. The belief that while language often separates us, sound has a unique ability to connect us. You don’t need to speak the same language to understand rain on a window, birds in a park, or waves hitting a shoreline.

What followed was a lot of conversations with Figma Agents, countless iterations in Make, a mountain of prompts, late nights, broken audio pipelines, and more than a few moments where I wasn’t sure it would make it to the deadline at all.

The thing I’m most proud of isn’t the award. It’s that people from around the world decided to contribute. Today there are more than 200 recordings from 48 countries, all helping build something far bigger than I could have created on my own.

Thank you to everyone who uploaded a sound, tested an early version, shared feedback, or simply spent a few minutes listening.

And thank you to @figma, @contra, and the judges for seeing something in a slightly unusual idea about slowing down and paying attention.

Congratulations to all other winners. Kudos to the 11,000 participants.

Language separates us. Sound connects us.

[Cristina Vanko 💘 @cristinavanko]

designers aren’t into ampersands like they used to be

[Reijo🌻 @reijowrites]

Little helper. #b3d

[eryc @eryc_cc]

@multimicah hard not to feel a bit lost these days... keep pushing micah!

[Rapha @raphaellopesph]

pin to corners & stacks can be good friends in @sketch

[eryc @eryc_cc]

@raphaellopesph @sketch damn, this looks so good, rapha 🔥

[eryc @eryc_cc]

@shedsgns pink ipod farming that extra bit of aura

[eryc @eryc_cc]

@dariusdan Congratulations Darius!

[eryc @eryc_cc]

your desire to work at a health tech project has increased

[eryc @eryc_cc]

less ai art
more ai science 👌

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

I know, it's a tiring conversation.

The tech industry will continue to try to chase, automate or define taste in deterministic terms because it's the only way they can see and understand the world.

They will continue to chase it because it's the ever elusive thing they can't seem to reach. It's seen as technical problem that needs solving.

Like old people trying to act cool. It's impossible and counterproductive at best, unless you embody cool in your most authentic way, then you simply are. There's a difference between acting cool, and being cool.

The secret is that everyone is born with taste, its already within you. But not many have found it. It needs you to notice and pay close attention, and then embody it to its fullest to really see it, for yourself and others. There's no recipe or shortcut to it, and that makes it special, and why we appreciate it so much when we see it in the real world.

One of my favorite poems by Charles Bukowski sums it up in a beautiful way (think of style as the embodiment of taste in this example)

“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art
Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art
Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.
When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.
Or sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Jesus
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.”
― Charles Bukowski

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

Means & Methods is now live on https://t.co/51EnluPYHn.

A collection of practical techniques to achieve excellence in interface design, covering 100+ topics across 11 chapters, with plenty of interactive examples and code.

New members welcome; enjoy!

[eryc @eryc_cc]

@zendadddy @mgentry81 @kurissuuu just as when people started jumping straight into react without leaning the foundations of javascript, html or even css

[eryc @eryc_cc]

@aleksliving this guy: @frrrnd

[Jeremiah Warren ◡̈ @jeremiahjw]

this launch video used zero AI btw. it’s all sourced images compiled with photoshop and animated with after effects

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

People disagree with this, but anyone who shipped something online 15-20 years ago knows this.

This is simply because the market didn't used to be so saturated and distribution was straightforward and building was still the barrier.

At one point I knew almost every single cool website that launched, simply because not many launched cool websites and word quickly got around. The same goes for software or apps.

Building used to be a lot harder, which is why we rewarded it with easier distribution.

Now it is flipped, building is easy, distribution is hard (due to saturation, higher expectations & pay to play mechanics)

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@hugo_oliveira_d @peduarte best one.

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🪄

[Jason Yuan @jasonyuan]

June 2023: first ever demo we made of what ended up becoming Dot and its "zoomy view"

I've made many things that have been called "early"… Mercury, MakeSpace, Dot… and what I can share is that there's no magic in "early." We never once tried to be early! Our goal has always been to make things that are true, and I believe truth is something you feel before you can prove.

I've learned that my job as founder is to protect the process long enough for "true" to become "on time." And we're almost ready to share...

If you're an exceptional engineer or operator who wants to build what's true before it's obvious, you know where to find me.

More soon,
Xoxo