Nick Arocho

🤓 Developer 👨🏻‍🎨 Designer 🥁 Drummer ☁️ Dreamer

 Sr. UI Engineer at Apple

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/2gyp2Erpxx

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

@brandonleichty @wesbos @brandonleichty 😂💀

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

@orinfitzgerald @framer @claudeai Looks pretty stock tbh…

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

@squarespace can you pleeeeeease let your developers work on your Commerce API's? It has been years and I still can't make a simple call to see if a user's membership subscription is active. Some industry-standard API docs would be nice too if it's not too much to throw in there

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

Hummingbirds are fucking cool.

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

@wesbos We gonna get GTA6 before Wes drops his TS course?

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

@vercel I just want to say - thank you for existing.

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

My happy place

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

@karpathy @hubermanlab ‘s episode with Dr. Becky Kennedy along with this brilliant, timely statement by @karpathy drove this point home for me. This should really be a PSA 👏🏼 💯

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

United feature to "duel" people for their seat

[No Context DΛTΛSSSSSETTE @datassette]

Everyone should make weird things nobody else cares about, it's good for you

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

If a drum corps performed an arrangement of the first movement of Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto No. 4 in Em" from start to finish (it's 12 minutes long - perfect) featuring a killer violinist, they would 1000% win

Go ahead and get your ring then thank me later #dci #masterpiece

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

Retweeting for quick future reference 🔥

Personally I'm usually listening to lofi hiphop (Chillhop on YT), jazz (Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans), classical (violin/piano concertos)... pretty much anything without dense lyrics.

I've got a few go-to playlists, hit me up for links!

[Ryan Burgess @burgessdryan]

What are you listening to while you code?

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

Wow holy shit… 😳

[Guy Parsons @GuyP]

OK so @OpenAI's new #ChatGPT can basically just generate #AIart prompts. I asked a one-line question, and typed the answers verbatim straight into MidJourney and boom. Times are getting weird...🤯

[Amy Pechacek @pechacek_amy]

It feels illegal to know about these 16 websites:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order.

1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi

1/100

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

YouTube is free education.

But 98% don't know the best professors on its virtual campus.

Here are the top 10 channels to accelerate your learning:

[Nick Arocho @nickarocho]

@marcmaron said it once but I’ll say it again… Bill Evans was an absolute genius.

[Freddie Wong @fwong]

I only eat at Chinese restaurants with 3.5 stars on Yelp