if you're working on passkeys, please accept the *free* user sentiment in my mentions/quotes as a salve vs. hate for hearing challenging feedback from me. anyway we should quickly learn to enjoy hearing from an actual human for free while it lasts, and resist the urge to bristle at the truth.
I’ve still never used passkeys because I don’t understand them. Tbh they just feel like a new technology that suddenly appeared and everyone wants to thrust upon me without explanation, much like AI, or crypto and NFTs a few years ago.
the funny thing about passkeys is i still don't know whether i understand them
Yesterday Bluesky went down. @eurosky.social servers worked but we couldn't communicate as we don't have an app.
Our next step is to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. We're raising €100,000 to build a European app backend supporting 100k+ users.
Let's do this
fund.eurosky.tech
Scary if true:
“Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits LinkedIn, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies”
browsergate.eu
To be fair Google’s never had a reputation for quality, so this is normal
The tech is mind blowing. It’s also very unreliable and takes a lot of practice to tame. And it still feels very primitive - companies are integrating it in very clumsy ways. Even simple UX stuff like having to “pick a model” is something normal people shouldn’t even have to think about.
Oof, that's a big question! I will say candidly that Al has been a significant contributor to my own feelings of burnout and alienation within tech, and I'm not sure what comes next, but boy am I tired of it already. I do worry about design and software development becoming more "niche" or "bespoke" as more and more of the industry turns toward LLM-driven automation. Weirdly, as someone in a role that is poised to take advantage of this shift, I feel more negatively toward Al than many others... maybe that's because I can validate what it's doing and I'm often unimpressed?
Part of this is my own defensiveness/ reaction to a stable landscape changing too rapidly for comfort; part is ethical concerns I have over how this technology is being created (through the ingestion of others' unpaid labor, at severe environmental cost), deployed (often without consent), and used (polluting our knowledge ecosystems and supercharging the spread of disinformation). It's also funneling more and more money and power into an ever smaller set of hands.
The core belief I'm coalescing around is that the process is the most important thing, and there are no shortcuts. "Ideas" are a dime a dozen, and LLMs can, by nature, only produce statistically-average results. I think it's the act of putting pen to paper, experimenting, and really thinking through a problem that you end up with something-a product, a work of art, a piece of writing-that's worth sharing with others. No matter how technology changes, that will remain constant, and I think that any designer or engineer who really engages going deep with the process will continue to find work. At least, that's my hope!
a colleague asked if my resignation had anything to do with where the design profession is going with AI and this is what I told her
asking a vibecoder in the throes of AI psychosis what their 100k lines of code do
It’s a joke that this article doesn’t actually tell me what a Raspberry Pi costs now, only how much it’s increasing by 😆
i think ai
- is a dangerous technology that
- has ethically problematic origins,
- can amplify our worst traits, &
- will be exploited by greedy people,
but nonetheless
- is here to stay,
- holds great potential for good, &
- needs people of wisdom & creativity to mold it toward human thriving
woah
damrnelson.github.io/github-histo...
Looks fun! Kinda weird that both Superman and Supergirl have a prominent “save the dog” plot though…
i don't really know about other industries, but with software i have got to say that refusal to use ai at any place in development is acceptance of inability to compete. at the same time, refusal to maintain standards and quality through manual work is also acceptance of inability to compete.
Gen X and millennials really entering the Facebook Boomer era
six months until a third of that cohort's profiles read some variant of
I hereby declare that Sam Altman does not have my permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement I give notice th
Bluesky’s biggest problem might be that the average user doesn’t understand it’s an open decentralised platform that anybody can build on top of, using whatever tech they want.
Literally anybody can build an AI front end or integration on top of Bluesky data. That’s kinda the point.
Screenshot of the Apple watch weather app dial view
Finally updated my phone and watch to 26. I’m weirdly happy to see that my favourite worst UI is still going strong after all these years 😆
I find them super useful for my own solo projects. I can submit a PR and GitHub’s copilot review will tell me if there’s any little mistakes, inconsistencies or oversights that slipped under the radar. It’s a little extra peace of mind for me.
Looking forward to using these! I don't know if you read replies, but I have a feature request...
Last year's address bar updates in Firefox are some of the most useful new browser features I've seen in ages! Would love something similar in Safari 🙏
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/a...
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free
2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
But it sucks knowing I can never downgrade if I don’t like it. Dark user patterns are everywhere at Apple these days 😔
I’m close to caving and finally installing iOS Liquid Glass.
I’m wanting some of the functionality updates, and hoping that after 6 months of updates it’s approaching something stable. And I expect a lot of the terrible design choices are here to stay for a while now.
OpenAI dont have a product, they have an add-on. If, say, Apple were to unveil a working AI Siri baked in at the OS level tomorrow (hey, anything is possible with time) then half of OpenAI’s users would just vanish.
So I can understand why they’re desperate to create something with lock-in.
I for one can’t wait to try and book a holiday, catch up on the news, find out the weekly weather forecast, check my bank accounts, learn about my workout trends, find out what my friends have been posting on their socials, and get some interior design inspiration all by voice control alone 🙃
Excellent news, but I’m guessing malicious bots, spam bots, or anyone who decides their bots are being blocked/restricted by a lot of users, aren’t gonna voluntarily mark them.
We need an open source community labeller for suspected malicious bot accounts!
they literally renamed the entire company after this
What is changing Agentic infrastructure capabilities We are developing features that allow Vercel to do more to keep your apps running efficiently, including: Proactively investigating and mitigating incidents Analyzing web app performance data and suggesting improvements Identifying where your spend is going and creating PRs to optimize usage Optional AI model training You may choose whether Vercel can: Use your code and Vercel agent chats to improve Vercel models Share your code and Vercel agent chats with AI model providers Vercel will not share personal data, account details, or sensitive information like environment variables, and any information of this nature will be removed from data you make available for AI training. Defaults by plan Hobby and Trial Pro: Opted in to AI model training by default, can opt out at any time Pro: Opted out of AI model training by default, can opt in at any time
important if you use Vercel for web projects
they've updated their ToS to allow using your data to train AI models, and free plans are opted in to that by default
you can opt out under Settings > General > Data Preferences
This week everyone who is 10x faster due to using AI finished all the work they had planned for 2026 and 2027.
I’ve never seen a web app that bad. Apple’s own native apps, on the other hand…
Screenshot of an email from Revolut saying "we're now a bank in the UK, we'll reach out when we're able to transition you to a bank account"
Umm WTF were you before then, and what was my account, if not a "bank" account??!!
