I heard somewhere that if you repeat a joke enough times eventually it will be funny.

AI Labs (Anthropic with Claude Code and OpenAI with Codex) pampering software developers.

Why does this remind me of pelican?! @simonwillison.net

Designing with code, without writing code The most powerful AI software development platform with the industry-leading context engine.

This week I reflected a bit on what being a "designer-who-codes" looks like when agents can write code. Turns out, even in midst of rapid changes, core things remain the same. And I might even be somewhat optimistic?

www.augmentcode.com/blog/designi...

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences.

Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals.

Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

Screenshot of Augment Code Map, showing the Svelte Compiler Pipeline cluster.

Screenshot of Augment Code Map. Showing the Parser Test Suite cluster.

A couple more screens. #datavis #svelte

Hi @rich-harris.dev & @svelte.dev team. Been working on a codebase vis thing at @augmentcode.com, and would love to get some eyes on it before it goes, just to make sure it isn't wildly off base! Sneak preview attached. All that green are ... tests?! #dataviz #svelte

a partially finished analytic 2D lighting solution, showing both the angular and radial component with a checkerboard pattern and color coding

I'm almost there it's so pretty!! 😭

this is the first time I've made extensive use of complex numbers in shader code, which has been fun!

it's an analytic 2D lighting system through piecewise conformal maps representing angular light/"sky" exposure, which means you get fully analytic penumbras!

Provides 2 [Silicon Wafers] as a luxury resource. Civilizations with access to [Silicon Wafers] gain +50% [Combat Strength] for all Information Era units. Civilizations at war with the controlling civilization pay double [Production] for Information Era units.

Legit argument that TSMC could be a Wonder of the World in civ (or at least the last civ I really played which is I'm Old years ago)

Signage outside Taishoken in SF, showing their sake in a scatterplot, dry vs sweet on one axis, rich vs light on the other.

Data vis in the wild.

Brilliant sweepthestrait.com

I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu

Hi internet friends! What do folks use for terminal access (CLI coding agent access really) on their phones? Blink? Echo? What do you like or not like about them?

Color map showing population density from Administrativ-Statistischer Atlas vom Preussischen Staate. It is the first known color choropleth.

YES! After a few hours searching, I finally dug up a high-quality scan of the first (known) color choropleth. From haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/fulls...

Thanks to @datavisfriendly.bsky.social & @infowetrust.com who helped with the search.

#cartography #maps #dataviz

Mamdani's team should be saying "we've had the most effective snow cleanup ever, and it's thanks to the high awareness about shoveling jobs due to the right-wing pretending not to understand how hiring for city jobs works." @mayor.nyc.gov be sure to credit their lies for helping get the word out.

Sprites on the Web • Josh W. Comeau In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this...

✨ I just published a new blog post about a nifty lil’ animation technique: sprites!

Sprites are used all the time in video games, but they’re less common on the web. We do have the tools to manage it in CSS, but there’s a gotcha.

In this post, I share some of the cool use cases I’ve found:

Follow my father’s footsteps and make wood cabinets on boats. Hoping that robot dexterity doesn’t catch up as quickly.

What do LLMs see?

I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.

Nothing about connecting computers to one another made wikipedia inevitable.

Thanks for your kind words! Also happy to share more about the specifics of the migration if it would be helpful.

It navigated a few nasty transitions, eg upgrading React versions, leveraging Astro’s island architecture, etc. It sometimes need help with “what” to do and high level direction. But the nitty gritty of translating between versions and frameworks it worked well

R2D3 Experiments in expressing statistical thinking with interactive design

I recently migrated r2d3.us to Astro from a 2015 Flask app. It wasn’t quite “set it overnight and it was done”. In my experience agents would often do 80% of the job, then decide the rest “is out of scope for now”. You have to give it very clear verification criteria. Ultimately though it worked.

Transforming Data Visualization with AI and best practices Discover how AI transforms data visualization from raw numbers to compelling stories, using WordPress code history as example.

Before: Here’s data.
After: Here’s what the data means.

“Data visualization best practices haven’t changed. But now anyone can apply them.”

data.blog/2026/02/10/f...

Grateful blink.sh + TailScale + my Mac Mini (not pictured) set up. I’m cooking. My agents are cooking.

Intent - Spec-Driven Development App A research preview desktop app for spec-driven development. Plan, execute, and iterate on complex coding tasks with AI agents. Currently available for macOS (Apple Silicon).

New work! Been working on this with @wattenberger.com and others since Sept! www.augmentcode.com/product/intent

It has all the buzz words!
- Spec-driven development!
- Multi-Agent Orchestration!

More seriously though. Agent-based coding is sorely missing a coordination UI. Would love feedback!

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

- George Orwell, 1984

Luigi Perozzo's stereogram is coming to America. Subscribe to Chartography.net to see it first.

Bellissimi Data Graphics Luigi Perozzo's 3-D illusion, reimagined with SVG.

I’ve long marveled at this graphic, without really understanding how it works or why it came to be. Aesthetic appeal held my admiration—it’s like something from a steampunk future that never was. www.chartography.net/p/bellissimi...

R2D3 Experiments in expressing statistical thinking with interactive design

Long long overdue. Finally migrated r2d3.us off Heroku (and an out dated Flask app) to CloudFlare Pages + Astrojs. Finally checking off a New Year’s resolutions from … 4 years ago? 🫠