https://ben-mini.com/2026/stealing-is-a-skill
Plug-in, 1990
artist unknown
pixel on icl8
Whoever decided what icons Photoshop shipped with, decided that plug-ins should be represented by an "impossible geometry" optical illusion dependent on the indistinguishability of figure and ground.
Again, this is for an *icon*, a small readable pixel region with a figure-and-ground mask built right in. This was long before the introduction of 8-bit alpha masks for Mac icons.
May history record the audacity of this unknown artist.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/116804648360671774
I'm old enough to remember when neon seemed futuristic
You can now install a Swift IDE as an app and write, compile, and run SwiftUI fully offline. No Mac. No Xcode. No server.
The compiler and runtime are WebAssembly — and the live debugger (SharedArrayBuffer) keeps working even from the offline cache. So… compile SwiftUI on a plane.
Write and run SwiftUI in any browser.
OMG new obsession just dropped.
An OS built on Swift, and it looks very tasteful.
swift-os is an experimental but real operating system written entirely in Embedded Swift for aarch64. It boots, runs a native Swift userland and an in-kernel TCP/IP stack, serves HTTP, and runs a native Swift AI inference server — try it in your browser.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Savagejen/116787640693396689
"Open always wins"