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Here’s what the “AI will replace developers” crowd fundamentally misunderstands: code is not an asset—it’s a liability. Every line must be maintained, debugged, secured, and eventually replaced. The real asset is the business capability that code enables. If AI makes...

AI presents design leaders with a quandary, requiring us to tread a fine line between what is acceptable and useful, and what is problematic and harmful.

This document is not a manifesto or an agenda. It is a series of prompts written by design leaders for design leaders, conceived to help us navigate these tricky waters.

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An excellent appraisal of the importance of the rule of least power.

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UX London happened last week. Working on an event is a weird kind of project. You spend all your time and effort on something that is then over in the blink of an eye. I’d been preparing for this all year. 95% of my work happened before the event—curating the line-up, plan...

Our $300 Costco haul on bikes!

Duncan Davidson is moving on from Shopify, in part because of what will change with AI:

It’s like 1997 and the early web all over again. But different, and more extreme. Of course, like then, many will be looking for a free lunch or to create party tricks. And, like the web, it’ll take us a while to really figure out how it’s going to change the world. For those that invest the time and effort, however, entirely new horizons are opening up even as entire industries are about to be rewritten.

I never played with Turtle graphics. I think I came to computers before that was the tool folks used to show off computers to kids. Angelo added a Turtle interpreter which is pretty fun. I added to his code, my addition adds a yellow square. He has an export tool to get a graphic out....

Not convinced about the new menu item icons in macOS Tahoe. It seems very unlikely that there will be suitable icons for every menu item in an app, so you’re left with a disjointed UI. I think it’s going to be more distracting than helpful.

Thanks to Jo’s post Playlist of the Week I added the song Metamorphosis by the band Infinity Song. The link for that mix is here. As of this writing it has 57 songs on it. I’ve talked about my annual playlists before but I add the songs as they hit me and I like them....

There are still tickets available for the Salter Cane album launch gig at The Hope And Ruin this Friday, June 20th …and they’re only £8!

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Progress report on linkblogging in WordLand.

Today we shipped an update to Micro.blog for iOS that has lots of little bug fixes. You can grab it in the App Store. Here are the changes: Added publish status to post options screen for publishing drafts. Added poster frame URL when copying HTML for videos. Improved acces...

We often see typewriter cases and/or simple typewriter covers and people will post photos of how they display typewriters, but I saw a clever method on Saturday at a local type-in in Southern California. Aaron Therol of Typewriter Connection brought along a signed Voss from Tom Hanks’ collection which included a sturdy green canvas typewriter … Continue reading Tom Hanks’ ingenious custom typewriter covers/mats

D. Griffin Jones blogs a mockup of the Finder icon, restoring the colors:

The frustrating thing is that Apple definitely prototyped this exact design. It was probably one of the first designs they tried.

One issue Apple might’ve run into is what to do about dark mode. In Tahoe, they keep the person outline in the same blue. I hope they continue to iterate on this.

Listened to AppStories on my walk this morning. Fascinating what a completely different WWDC experience I had without a ticket this year, mostly hanging out in San Jose. I had a great time, though, more chill and less frenzy than past years. Part of getting older is I don’t need to do everything. 🍻

A few years ago the government here in Italy decided to switch from old paper ID cards to the new plastic, credit card-style ones. I have no idea if this was EU-mandated—I didn’t bother checking—and I have zero problems with the change. The card itself is not the part that i...

North of Crystal Pier today I had a pretty good session of waves today. There’s a swell that came in but mostly is making Orange County have good waves. But we got a pulse of swell too. So it was good. Afterward, as I was walking to my car, I spotted a fellow at a...

I’m keeping on posting every time I hit the beach. Waveride quality keeps going up. I’m better at riding waves partly because I’m learning and practicing new actions. It’s a sort of dance with the waves. It’s a kind of conversation. I periodically update the videos page with new videos captured because I use Dawn...