HenryNot to subtoot myself, but...
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Ovi Demetrian Jr
@ovidem
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UX/UI designer and web design engineer. Writer of blog posts about these things and some stories. Founded blocksedit.com CMS and indieaisle.com tools for indie creators.
@koos I use my Apple Watch for Pomodoro. A tap for a 25 min counter. My wrist vibrates at the end of it. Then a tap for a 5 min break. And repeat.
“Wireless networking is pervasive too. But Apple doesn’t have ‘a killer wireless networking product’.”
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product
#ai #tech #apple
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product
#ai #tech #apple
pure and overwhelming astaI find the Cover Your Tracks project by the EFF a lot more fun than the taken thing that's going around. Cover Your Tracks just plainly tells you how unique your browser fingerprint is instead of talking to you like it's trying to scare the normies or whatever the other site is doing.
“But this era of yellow journalism did not last forever. It burned hot, warped incentives, did real damage, and then, over time, consumers began to prioritize credibility. In response, newspapers began focusing on building trusted brands.”
https://time.com/article/2026/05/07/how-to-fix-the-internet/
#web #slop #enshittification
John Gruber“You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would spearhead a severe decline in the design quality of software. But software brain is an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.”
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/software_as_the_product_of_obsession_times_voice
Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice
You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of software as art, as a practice, as a craft. Software brain is purely an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.
Ashur Cabrera 🌺📝 Been thinking about this question that used to make me so mad:
“If you don’t have time to do it right at first, how will you have time to fix it later?”
Lukas GächterEmail address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
„Some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken.“
https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/
Matthias Ott✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One
A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.
Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy
