miko

A Sydney UI dev.

[miko @miko_a]

This is just a reminder about all the stuff you did and learnt over the last 3 months. Remember how you couldn't make sense of it back then? Look at you go.

[miko @miko_a]

@TheAppleDesign apple optimising for "employees carrying pizza to pods without it getting soggy" doesn't make the old pizza boxes bad, or the new ones "over-engineered"

[miko @miko_a]

@nathan_covey how do you use uber? Or ordering food at a restaurant through QR code? Or similar physical services that you need to summon/contribute to through an app?

[miko @miko_a]

@seretonins i'm fire/rock type

[miko @miko_a]

@seretonins Meanwhile in Aus the response to my first question would be something like "My grandfather is half Chinese and I'm part German part Russian on my mum's side but my family is Irish and..."

[miko @miko_a]

@seretonins "Right... and your name?"
"It's Scandinavian"
"Oh cool, your parents are Scandinavian?"
"OH my HERITAGE? Lebanese."

Learned something that day

[miko @miko_a]

@drgurner @CryptoMikli "because i got worse sleep that night, i ate more poorly because my dopamine system or whatever"

these people are the least resilient in society and we look up to them and pay them for it

[miko @miko_a]

@kenwheeler great long-term strategy for ultimately failing your investors but with the best PR getting you there

"guys you don't actually want immortality, you need love"

[miko @miko_a]

@danieldelcore i also don't enjoy eating green wood

[Paul Bohm @paulbohm]

If your startup does not have a UUID microservice you’re ngmi

[🌞 Dan Brockwell @DanBrockwell]

normal people: i like hanging out with my friends

startup people: bullish on irl communities in the ai era

[miko @miko_a]

@lifeoftheshat sounds interesting, good intersection with @build_aus ?

[miko @miko_a]

*checks date*

[Visual Studio Code @code]

Add a little fun to your coding sessions 🐶🐱
This extension lets you keep a virtual pet right inside VS Code.

[Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme]

On this day 13 years ago, Vine user Ryan McHenry began uploading a series of videos titled "Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal."

[miko @miko_a]

Eyyyy was wondering where he got to.
Count: 5.
No more "See less often" option anymore. At least they're honest with themselves.

[miko @miko_a]

I don't follow this guy but i get notifications about him. We probably follow the same people and tweet about some similar stuff stuff. I have no doubt that he pays for this reach to some extent. This internet sucks.

[miko @miko_a]

Ok at least it's not a notification, but guess who popped up in my For You feed?

Still not followed. Still clicking "see less often".

[miko @miko_a]

@jameygannon the best idea you can present to a client is their idea. Mood boards will give you that
concept demos give you "no not like this"

[miko @miko_a]

@chalaska hi!
exploring how AI and Design Systems intersect

[Kris Puckett @krispuckett]

I spent too much time on this:

CLARK: My contention is that with Claude’s new design tool, Figma has essentially been rendered obsolete, the canvas-based paradigm is most aptly characterized as a legacy artifact from the era before models could generate production-ready interfaces from inten—
WILL: [interrupting] Of course that’s your contention. You’ve never shipped anything and just watched the launch video twice. You just got finished reading some hot take, probably a Twitter thread or whoever’s got a Substack this week, and you’re gonna be convinced Figma’s dead until next month when you actually try to iterate on a flow and realize “regenerate” isn’t the same as “nudge this four pixels.” Then you’re gonna pivot to talking about how the canvas was always just a lossy interface for intent. That’s gonna last until next year when you’re in here regurgitating some take about how design tools are collapsing into a single agentic surface, you know, the post-craft utopia and the disintermediation of taste by foundation models.

CLARK: [taken aback] Well as a matter of fact I won’t, because generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas in the first pla—

WILL: “Generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas, especially as models get better at reasoning about layout and hierarchy…” You got that from that Figma-is-dead thread, right? The one that went viral last week. Yeah, I read it too. You gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us, or you have any thoughts — of your own — on this? Or is that your thing, you come into a bar, you skim some trending tweets over lunch and you pawn it off as your own idea to impress some founders, embarrass my friend?

[Clark is stunned]
WILL: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in about fifty product cycles you’re gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in building things. One: don’t pick a side in a tool war you’re not actually building in. And two: the people shipping right now are using Claude and Figma and Claude Code before you’ve finished writing your LinkedIn post about which one won.

CLARK: Yeah, well I’ll have Claude build my whole product stack, and you’ll still be pushing rectangles around in Figma.

WILL: [smiles] Yeah, maybe. But at least I’ll still know how to think when the model’s wrong.

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

after a great deal of trial and error, diverse projects and tasks, and evaluating all new hotness, i’ve come to the conclusion that the best way of agentic coding is keeping it ridiculously simple.

and anyone saying otherwise is selling something, grifting or dumb. or all 3.