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I don't know that this 100% hits the mark aesthetically for me, but I LOVE the concept and thinking behind it, on so, so many levels. I wonder if I could put together my own selection of materials to get something more to my taste?

This looks fabulous. I'm thinking I'll get one of the Kickstarter packs with the poster about "building something non-digital"... Although the "Get drunk, AI can't" is such a great sentiment!

I have a post brewing about LLMs replacing search, Google's "AI-ification" of search, and how AI/LLMs are eating themselves. This post goes some way of espousing the ideas that are percolating in my brain...

For a few years now I've described myself as a "V-shaped person" to folx that understand the "T-shaped person" metaphor. It seems what I was describing was the "polymath," and that this might be useful in the LLM/AI-enabled world. If find a lot of this article resonating...

I knew a bunch of this, but some was new. And, regardless, it is a great compendium of the various aspects of typography and font design that are at play in good design.

Working on some design ideas, and discovered this site via a YT Fusion360 tutorial. I new of multiscale.info — but this seems to have a few niceties that one doesnt.

A beautifully designed (and eye-wateringly expensive) field and voice recorder.

A promising direction for less intensive and 'distracting' computing experience.

I can relate to so much in this article. I've been interested in similar themes in tech (as my YouTube history will attest) and agree with abhi that these are quite promising. Learnt a bit about some new tech too. I'm intrigued by the idea of a voice recorder being linked to a daily summary.

Why this isn't a thing already is beyond me...

Soooooooo much in this I relate to, and find myself nodding along to. Even the references back to no-code HTML/CSS tools, responsive design. And I think Laura succeeds in her goal to "put words around something I think most developers are experiencing, but haven't had time to make sense of." 👏🏼 Certainly does for this lil' black duck... (Thanks Laura 🙏🏼)

What a tremendous story from Tim, contrasting two sessions. The emotions he expresses feeling about the first session, totally relatable... Wish I'd heard this in my younger years, at uni.

WANT! Wondering if they're going to release a 30-ish note variant at some point??

I wonder if the FPGA is powerful enough to do any DSP etc.?

So much in this I've experienced. Clearly coming from a place of lived experience. And some useful tips at the end—not panaceas, but useful nonetheless.

My results weren't entirely on point, I think in part because there's a few there that I would take a "multiple choice" answer on. It pitched me as "The Org Chart Survivor":
patron saint: Ethan Mollick
Your company made you 'AI Lead' on top of your actual job. You use it, it helps sometimes, and you've stopped trying to explain to leadership what it can and can't do. You run little experiments and post the results. Just try things, you keep saying. Just try things.

These remind me a bit of Dresden glasses in terms of style, but 3D printable at home. Fantastic design, and a really great overview video of the design, printing challenges, material, and more. Inspiring!

For decades, scientists believed that humans first arrived in Australia around 47,000 years ago. But a remarkable discovery at Madjedbebe, a rock shelter in northern Australia, has challenged that timeline—the groundbreaking archaeological evidence suggests that modern humans may have reached Australia as early as 65,000–70,000 years ago.

I'm going (with a friend). Who else is coming?? Plini is a fave amongst the current guitar-instrumental music makers. So gentle and atmospheric in parts, brutal riffage in other. Always precise—immaculate tone. Endlessly creative. His latest album is ace. I'm looking forward to seeing the whole band—consummate musicians—Chris Allison on drums especially.

I'm enjoying the quotes and the resultant site. But I also dig the breakdown of how it came about and the designer's approach to things. Very cool...

Interesting concept. Not much use to the "average consumer", but I like the design philosophy, approach, and clever niche targeting.

I have a blog post brewing, emerging out of chats I've been having with colleagues in private channels, about where things are heading in this space—both local LLMs and Apple's offerings in particular. This news, should it prove correct, is aligned with my hunches...

Something that has bugged me for years, solved... I, too, said WTF! It doesn't work on our door — there's something different about the design of ours.

I have a song "stub"—a title and a few lyric ideas—a around the idea of "neon echoes". I saw this in my feed today and it really resonated. Perhaps a nice visual "inspiration point" for when I return to that muse...

I find this intriguing as a concept—I've seen similar ideas before, but this one came across my desk today. I don't think you can characterise this as a "language"—it's more a "meta programming model" that abstracts away the details in an LLM-friendly manner, with the spec residing alongside code. I can envisage all sorts of issues with the approach. But... still... intriguing, as I said.

I've been looking for examples of parallax scrolling website where the effect is used for narrative effect. This particular showcase has a high "signal-to-noise" ratio of great examples, where parallax helps tell the story.

One of my colleagues at Kraken is the builder behind these gorgeous instruments! Such an inspiration... I could easily spend 10k or more here.

I'm a big fan of Dieter Rams' principles of design. I'm a big fan of distilling practice into principles in general. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People stresses that good principles last—they don't change often, and stand the test of a changing world around them. While I would probably interpret things a bit differently, I agree with the thrust...

I've often wondered this. I live in a tourist town, and see an increasing number of EVs on the roads here, but still probably 1 in 20, at best. I knew sales were up (I thought they were around 20%, but Hannah's figures say 15%), but wasn't sure how that translated into "% of cars on road." This is a fabulous "back of the napkin"–resolution tool to work that out.

My partner Juliette is launching the latest cohort of her amazing Know Thyself! course. I've done this course and the insights that emerged were life-changing...

This smells of the current US administration playing "silly buggers" (as we say in Australia), in retaliation to the ruckus Anthropic kicked up by renouncing the contract with the Dept of War. I like that Anthropic has said that no-one, incl. US companies and individuals, can have it then...

I just added this to my "installed plugins" list... as a replacement to the (now very much outdated) Waves "Vocal Rider".

I saw this via their pre-launch ad campaign on Instagram. I love the concept, and while it's pricey, it strikes me as actually innovative, and thus warrants the premium.

The way this tech is presented risks feeling like it's jumping on the "AI-as-buzzword" train. But... it is a very interesting bit of tech, by the looks of it. Tailored enzymes to break down synthetic fibres, to be recycled into fresh plastics.

I understand the impetus of the backlash towards cloud-hosted LLMs, but some of the impacts are being overblown in the media, using selective framing and stats that make them appear a lot worse than the reality. This free calculator draws upon a relatively conservative and independent data source to put your per-prompt usage into perspective: across a number of models. (Note that it does not include emissions/water usage during training.)

China approved the world's first commercial brain-computer interface, beating Neuralink to market. The technology restores movement for paralysed patients, but the ethical frontier is wide open.

For a long time I joked that I'd be first in line for the Google Implant, when it was released. I'm not convinced now, but this sort of technology obviously holds a lot of potential for supporting less able-bodied people to interact with others, and the physical world. This is a fascinating development, amidst the ethical quandary it inevitably opens up...