@bshaykin oh man, a real Opportunity to get some silver lamé hot pants on snoop and a small go-go platform for the clock

not sure if it’s just i’m using an old version, but swc turning [...iter] into [].concat(iter) just absolutely is the wrong transform if iter is a js iterator, not sure why it didn’t choose Array.from(iter)

@aphyr it’s pretty grim out there but i was just in a roadrunner sports and they had a pair of 3/4 neon green tights (in addition to their usual selection of black) so maybe nature is starting to heal?

i think this is a roundabout way of realizing that geocities’ naive neighborhoods/numbers were not perfect but actually pretty useful (again, even if imperfect)

something i think about a lot is this ui thing where people have basically decided that anything greater than, i dunno, ten items is impossible to display or arrange in any meaningful way so instead we’ll use search or ai + search or some mcguffin instead of trying to solve that problem.

there’s an implicit assumption that any search will winnow the collection to some manageable size where now you can paw at it like a monkey. but if your collection is large enough, you still have to look through a lot of things in some order without any useful facets to filter or group on or what have you.

“everything apps” (and operating systems like macos and ios) have this problem and just kick the can down the road seemingly forever and the real drag is that the design conventions seems to follow suit instead of innovating here.

nearly every single Ask Vanessa segment in the nyt has somebody tacitly asking permission to flaunt some sartorial norm, but my favorite detail is that the 'advice' is nearly always "oh yeah, that sure is a thing that happens!" which is followed by some minor meditations on the norm's history ending with some version of "lol there are no rules, you do you!"

@bryanjclark disneyland (and like, much of their library) is a bunch of stuff that started as asset and as now liability but that some exec has some vision for rehabilitation (uh the idea of peter pan that morphs into neverland pirates or some nonsense) that conflicts with presumably some other exec’s historical obsession with the park they remember as a child (uh, peter pan ride but i guess as a concession that light over the chief is permanently burned out)

@litherland there’s an old errol morris piece on the nyt about a vermeer forgery that i always think about neutrality or timeless design which calls out how much anonymity is influenced by the norms and invisible themes of a time. because morris is so concerned with Truth as a concept its an interesting series to read because it’s so much about how we project ourselves onto these concepts than any objective qualities.

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/bamboozling-ourselves-part-3/

rereading this and having a real RETVRN moment for music blogs of the 2010s http://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-paths-to-graceland/

i get that there's a sort of unfortunate necessity to product-ify most hobby stuff into 'portfolio work', but i still recoil at seeing a one-person project having too-polished of a landing page because having been on all sides of something like that, i know how that sort of vibe can quickly turn a fun from a fun design marketing exercise to an obligation to a burden, even before you've shipped the thing, to say nothing of having a single user opening bug reports against your hobby.

somewhere, somebody is regularly compromising ios with a series of high value zero-days in order to change the !! notification reaction sound to goofy saying gawrsh.

i think about these unhinged “cooking for my followers” videos all the time, just surreal commitment to the bit, but sadly they’re not recommended to me anymore despite seeking them out. oh well

@bshaykin no but i do have a circulator and a very good oven

@bshaykin can you share your presumably pun-filled recipe/technique though

@bshaykin ben

i had to do it, reported as FB13210176

Found this

i want to meet whatever engineer worked on music.app's Recently Added view or the pm that assigned them the tasks for this release. just an utterly baffling regression.

@mathowie added bonus that the same photos show up in shirley_'s and _meet's profile, not sure why they don't catch it

@neauoire i would not have expected that pico8 and The Far Side would be the two most common references among disparate talks.