Oh! Listening to my favorite podcast @shoptalkshow reminded me that I forgot to connect the dots to another, probably totally unrelated detail: that Chrome just shipped with the Prompt API and a 4GB Gemini Nano model, despite pushback from other browser makers.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lazy-and-prompt
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cumulative layout shift.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Ad Infinitum
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get “generative UI” – custom interactive widgets, built on the fly by Gemini. You get “information agents” that monitor the web for you around the ...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Ad Infinitum
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get “generative UI” – custom interactive widgets, built on the fly by Gemini. You get “information agents” that monitor the web for you around the ...
✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum
Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔
Why... WHY, in the year 2026, does the colour picker in Adobe Illustrator pick up the gradient style but NOT the gradient direction!?!?!? There's been over 30 full releases of Illustrator and this still happens!? https://static.klipy.com/ii/d6b0ce929193df3c242ac34b5654d2ce/56/82/tO3OmdE4.gif?hh=469&ww=498&mp4=Auw6SWLWJEfUNO1m&webm=QCgUpdjfD5N9pgJOz
It’s not much for those who are good at pinball, but 75 million for me on Fish Tales is a big deal!!
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Useful AI Skills And Workflows For Designers
Good design needs a good taste and a strong point of view. When everyone can build and design anything, having a good judgement about what to design and build is what makes all the difference. That's what separates generic from great.
As it turns out, we can borrow expertise...
Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @sijmen for the hint!) https://blog.reachsumit.com/posts/2024/08/ads-llm/
So Google is basically killing their main product? The ingenious money machine that made them billions? Or am I missing something … I mean: where are the ads? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
Setting type so big Figma loses track of where the text boxes end. That’s the way. ☺️
@NaN “Server go boinks!” 😂👏
(g💀💀d luck! 🤞🖤)
Goodbye is too hard a word dad, so I’ll just say fare-thee-well . (Thinking about you dad when that Dillon song you played came on just now. Taking that as a sign of a good day ❤️)
Had a friend over at the weekend as we attempted to play all 59 virtual pinball tables I’ve got installed… we got nowhere near, only making it to ‘J’ - but we ended on the maximalist banger that is Data East’s 1993 Jurassic Park 👌🦖
My brain finally came up with the reason the title of the 2026 #Eurovision winning song from Bulgaria, Bangaranga, sounded so familiar... it's almost identical to the battle-cry of The Lost Boys in the 1991 Spielberg film Hook, Bangarang!
There's as much chance of getting this right as winning a game of 52 Card Pick-up, but PerlBod and I are calling it for #Sweden, #Austria, #Belgium for the top three at #Eurovision 2026.
For reasons I cannot fathom, #Lithuania makes me think of a silver jellybean.
The live AD has outdone itself... #Norway described as wearing "shiny black Argyle pattern salopettes". The mind boggles, it really does.
#Sweden with a solid four-to-the-floor all the way to the drop at #Eurovision.