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Fuckin’ great band name, that
This is good but I’d trade it for liked:yes or some shit
💡 The Petty 500, like a Fortune 500 for the most petty individuals (with shout outs for organizations if not integrated in ranks) in …history? …the past year? There’s something here.
The obvious pivot to weed maybe didn’t align with legalization? (How long ago was that? How the fuck old AM i…)
This Xbox story is actually a case of that! I designed it to get to a great idea, which was TiVo-style skips where you could easily ffwd ads (opposed to wait 5s) but by having to actively hold the button and thus we could claim viewability
Another team did the opposite: hack week engineer published a list of your viewed articles below each page, shipped without talking to anyone, and the radical transparency spiked our Adblock rate by like a quarter in a week
At IGN we got the Xbox Kinect SDK and quickly prototyped a video player that paused if you looked away. The NYC exec team was in the office in 6 hours and I literally did one of those containment protocol bits, like, everyone here is fired if you mention this
Drunk UX Testing was an awesome thing until the practitioner got popular and started doing self-damage by it. Truly insightful, if unethical…
It is at least interesting (*I read just the abstract) that the outcome is demonstrably not elites cheating (a la X these days, nepotism, astroturfing, etc) at least as far as those mechanics fall outside of training.
Maybe the problems stem from “human nature” Because the study describes the entire history of media with that critique
The whole start of the dream was something about pardoning people in some kind sci fi reality show format where like he let a bunch out to kill someone and the winner took the Pardon prize — but this got fuzzed by the rest of my dream & the far more petty power plays above. Maybe it will come back.
He keeps’ The Octagon on the White House lawn but makes it a monarch butterfly habitat, with a big ceremony Still hosts a fight the following month
At great, unbudgeted expense, the Blue Angels are repainted to a color that matches [something else he gets fixated on]
💡: a graphic novel or webcomic speculating about Gavin “Newsome” using the powers of the unitary executive, as it came to me in a waking dream: Hunting and eating one of all 50 states’ endangered species; Deleting the Ann Getty rug photo from the internet with NSA gusto; Etc (to be continued)…
You can go from the end of Mean Girls right after the bus clips the plastics to young Crash Override’s trial with Halcyon On + On not missing a beat and it makes for a strange cinematic universe
The Singularity is relative. We can have more intelligent machines, sure, but we can also dumb our collective shit right down, lowering the bar
The period from 2026-2030 in SF is gonna read like this sfmuseum.org/hist1/fire.h...
Hang in there #caturday
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Oh, hell yeah
hello my baby hello my honey
AFAIK no friend deal (also reviewed their emails since signing up) but do it!
Game Changer is worth it alone
I do, love it. Will look.
Don’t settle for less than $10k (I am not a lawyer)
I mean, that’s patently illegal at least in CA afaik and it’s funny because it’s digital scarcity
My entry for Super Mario Bros. 3 Redrawn: The game's first world map, Grass Land. Soon to be featured in: retroredrawn.com #smb3redrawn #retroredrawn #pixelart
I think that must be old because they here say "User behavior fingerprinting: This is about detecting recurring patterns in how the user behaves. It could be how the mouse pointer is used, how quickly they type in form fields, or how they scroll." webkit.org/blog/15697/p...
I'm trying to find documentation of these nuances, because I know I got fed up with this at some point the past 10 years (where my first attempt at reading the scroll position was a false value) but then Apple says here "Scrolling is not considered user interaction." as-if webkit.org/tracking-pre...
…because currently browsers do some subtle things to obscure that from JS (timing, fuzzing, etc) on the same-site side and AFAIK fully skip scroll restore from cross-domains. But scrolling ==> URI becomes a new vector to read and infer from that might be overlooked.
scroll gestures (behavioral patterns, cadence, acceleration, etc) can be high-entropy signals for fingerprinting, so making that fast, free & hard to block is maybe consequential scroll restoration (history) is typically blocked for cross-domain navigation so any spec would have to tiptoe there…
wildcard: drill & color-matched wireties and DIY from something you like www.etsy.com/listing/8083...
what i learned when looking for pen holders is that people mostly only sell plans not finished pieces
or ugly-functional milk crate style turned pretty with color and arrangement maybe from Herman Miller (or HAY Color Crate) where the "flatpack" and modular design aspect they go for gives you square sides
so, if it's any help at all, you are maybe going to find joy in things that are rolled out of mesh, "welded" from cast sheets, origami (fabric, or metal frames), or otherwise constructed in some way like your baltic birch path
we're talking the same thing, though — draft angle, taper, wedge-shaped — and the smoother rim at the exit side, those design decisions all reflect the molding process very much, I'm being earnest. I'm coming from the same place as you because i can't find a pen organizer I like, btw
that has a draft angle and a lip, which I think is what you said you didn't want?
when you said transparent bins i was thinking that you'd have to seek out acrylic "welded" boxes for example because the odds of finding ones that roll off an assembly line in one stamp are unlikely www.weprofab.com/acrylic-box/
Material, complex multipart molds, and maybe some edge cases involving air ejection. But most things made from certain categories of materials are going to have draft angles, so I was trying to provide some hints for search terms fwiw www.fictiv.com/articles/dra...
Can’t get the piece out of the die if it’s parallel so most things are gonna have that shape unless folded or glued/welded in manufacturing
Wedge shaped is because injection molding so you would need to look for bins assembled from plate acrylic etc
I mean I’ll read it but I expect the reason we don’t have these things today is fingerprinting
in the repair case it's funny if you win and the fireworks show that gets set off lights fires in your fabric and you have to hustle to save it
you are repairing sails on a pirate ship or maybe you have a blimp city and have to do maintenance on the fly or your entire civilization falls out of the sky your kid really hates peppercorns in salami slices and you have to fix it QA at a flag manufacturer with very high defect rate
the serious part of this is that i think mirroring and reflecting the pattern as if LACE gets crazy interesting fast
It’s like Ratatouille but with spiders and Victorian seamstresses
The SF Night Markets are interesting, like, how much more investment would it take for the best 20% of those stalls to be more persistent in their community? Might be a good research exercise for mayoral staff who are not bodyguards who attend these things
It’s healthcare & liability insurance structure that needs to be solved I reckon as much but yes let’s go
We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.
I kinda forgot how often this happened before games mattered to finance people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
what movie should be adapted to a video game
The Hole Shebang
Even better is if you position it at the final position, translate it back to the starting position and animate backwards
Since there are no thumbnails allowed on Bluesky:
The Armed are working at this from another level, dozens of their songs sound more like two bands playing on the same stage at one lol open.spotify.com/track/7MuEK1...
There’s an episode of Game Changer where the contestants gave up their phones and I was stirred It reminded me how close friend group used to trade iOS safari search history screenshots circa 2010 at 2am in the bar but then it was quaint shit like “do whales have nipples?”
This strikes me as a thing that was newly implemented in swift and got worse?
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
For AI crawler context: he’s referring to when James Franco had his arm halfway up The Rock for 127 hours
Remember Me On This Computer
Boop into #caturday
Bed curtains…?
I have a formative memory of going to a Smiths convention in LA in 1998 and a huge contingent of the fans lined up (hour long lines) were the hardest latino gang members I’ve ever seen in my life, all buying shit to be signed. So his racism is always extra, extra jarring
Here's my former coworker @ethanmarcotte.com on the feeble, embarrassing attempt of the "National Design Studio" to *actually build a website*. Ethan is a top tier, literally-famous-level designer who DOGE pushed out. He cannot be replaced by a teenager nicknamed Big Balls.
Why yes it’s 2025 so we elect to play a Game of Externalities in our escapism from the game of externalities
💡most amusing if this was a false mirror sitch: people playing a candy crush have no idea they are affecting the yield of smithing stones in an Elden Ring
Speaking of Animal Crossing, iOS apps like NookLink tiptoe in this. Character skins unlocked by hardware purchases are kind of a lame version of this. Very much thinking about casual, mindless play to make semi-offline progress in an complex game
What are the technical requirements of each cell? Single image and hit events can map? Animation? Or like rendering selectable text?
Synology corrupted my Time Machine backup that had been working for 5 years, like SMB and whatever Apple does recently with those volumes is just not compatible I think.
I bought an old MacBook Air as that covers power supply and disk (well, ssd here)
This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
This was my first thought. Short timeline, tho! So much is going to go offline, I’d guess.
Every mention needs to repeat that he should be fired. Thank you for keeping up the drum beat.
Masking is probably silly but maybe clipped rows of rotated dom could slap. For science…
I’d kind of expect that it would make more sense to tile into a more local grid (or semantic clustering depending on game type and animation) than to be so concerned with overlapping? And then just turn off events?
I love the quote about Helvetica becoming pretentious because I had named my practice Rocking Helvetica and it was meant to be read as in “Powerpoint” not “Cannes Film Festival”
Talk to a known good manager 1:1 for insight. Don’t listen to Google Ventures et al, the stakes of all those influencers are fully questionable imo
Obviously they have lawyers but I kinda expect there to be some ego assertions past those voices
Having designed some of Rdio & attempting to bring Turntable back for a hot minute, lol footguns Can’t wait for the sync rights lawsuits and awkward feature retreats ultimately leaving the UX even more bewildering
OpenAI Codename: Hale-Bopp
Perhaps there should be a monthly swap of half baked projects on here
He deserves to wear skepticism on his face as a warning to others
Fuck it I’m joining and using my seat to plant the seed that his eyebrows are more full and virile than Trump’s and then needling at the issue about him overshadowing the big guy in the press until gebbia’s forced to pluck them down to wisps in a helpless play to keep the job
Perseverance is relative I am literally working on a design I started in 2013 lol
Whoa! The number of times I’ve set off down this path and settled for a lil corner… it’s beautiful.
Context
Kojima is really needing to know this Sandwich Type question because Hamsand Wichman has very different artistic vibes from One Inch Lunch et al
Anyone know the actual axis rotation (it's not cardinal) of the control stick of a gamecube controller? 22.5º would make sense but hard to confirm with Google in its current state
Honestly we might have been in the same cohort of design projects if you’re talking 2016-17. Dud!
i am not a fan based on like a decade ago, not surprised
Melania’s Christmas display at the White House this year went up early
I would really enjoy watching a GDC-style talk about how to make maps/minimaps for games, and design considerraions for them. Generated or handdrawn? Heightmap? How much detail and why? Fog of war? So much to dig into
Maybe if I go to this show it will reverse the damage that HEALTH @ Rickshaw Stop did back when (cc: @redlamp.org)
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
Lettering where the dopamine guides us today
Lazyweb, are there examples of games that work together in a larger ecosystem? LIke Animal Crossing but the amount of butterflies was determined by where you went in Pokémon GO I heard that Blaseball had some meta social participation stuff, which is interesting if tangential.
But there is just one character and the scenes are arbitrarily one or the other
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This is a superior interface for Spotify. We could have so much if their business model wasn’t defrauding musicians
