To make visible, what without me might never have been seen.
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“All I know is that I can place my text cursor and read the surrounding code without a bombardment of popovers, pop-unders, pop-left-and-rights, pop-inlines, pop-in-and-out-too-fast-to-sees.”
🤣
dbushell.com/2026/08/07/subl…
It’s criminal that @instagram broke one of the building blocks of the internet — a web link — to make it high friction for users to leave their platform.
And because of that, this user workflow is now normal:
I discover a nice article I want to read in my Insta feed (but I can’t click to read further), so I then go to the account’s profile to find a link in bio, that opens a webview with some third party service duplicating their Instagram grid, then I have to find that post in the grid again and only then can I finally click and get to the article.
How is this okay?
Very well articulated.
graybeard.ing/the-religion-o…
Haste is what happens when people want the emotional relief of action without the burden of clarity.
The original rushed work gets recorded as “fast.” The cleanup gets recorded as “unexpected.” The rework gets recorded as “iteration.” The confusion gets recorded as “alignment.” The preventable failure gets recorded as “learning.”
Google’s AI Overviews remind me of that l overeager kid in class who raises their hand and answers the teacher’s question before anyone else has a chance. Calm down kiddo.
“Good work done in the same way for too long, or done in the wrong way for any amount of time, eats away at our sense of being right with the world.”
– David Whyte
“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diet Coke is out of stock because of an aluminium can shortage caused by the Iran war? Bullshit 💩. Seems like @CocaCola_Ind has orchestrated this shortage to force people to switch to their new, higher margin Coke Zero.
Here’s why:
- If there was a n aluminium can shortage, it would affect all canned beverages, why only Diet Coke?
- The MRP for a 300ml can of Diet Coke is Rs. 40
- The MRP for the new 330ml can of Coke Zero is Rs. 70!
- Coke is putting billboards for Coke Zero all over town.
Of course India’s 40% GST on flavoured carbonated beverages is no joke.
So if you are missing your Diet Coke, don’t blame the war, blame Indian Government and The Coca Cola company @CocaCola_Ind
“Think about it,” she said. “About whether you might leave behind your critical voice, your greed and people-pleasing patterns. Or at least let them be weakened.”
“You will have to pry them from my cold dead hands,” I interrupted. “You do your little pitch, Syd, and I’ll do mine at the other end of the beach: ‘Try harder at everything. Hoard. Amass. Cling to self-promotion and perfectionism.’ I’ll tell them it’s why people respect you.
^^ Excerpt from Anne’ Lamott’s book Somehow. Always surprising, always delightful, always honest. One of my favourite voices in world.
Trying to get back to using X/Twitter, but tweet after tweet reads like sales pitches for an essay or a piece of content, structured like so:
#1>
#2>
The feed used to feel like walking around a library or a college square. Now it just feels like a content mall.
“Telling people slow down isn’t advice. It’s ignorance.”
“We aren’t just debating economics. We are confronting guilt.”
“This is not glamour. This is survival, conviction craft.”
This is not one person. This is three friends from different walks of life, who in person have very unique ways of articulating themselves.
Why do they sound like each other? Because all AI writing sounds like this.
nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magaz…
I hope AI writing tools evolve to mimic individual idiosyncrasies instead of making all ideas rendered in this tiresome mono-style.
Mom Don’s Maxim No. 25
सीखने वाले को सिखाने वाला और सिखाने वाले को सीखने वाला किस्मत से ही मिलता है।
Apple’s (old) Human Interface Guidelines have been the gold standard for well-reasoned and well-considered interface design.
And now this:
tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
“Les beaux-arts sont au nombre de cinq. La peinture, la sculpture, la poésie, la musique et l’architecture. Dont la branche principale est la pâtisserie.”
– Carême