Austin Joseph
@austinjxseph.bsky.social
Design Engineer, London, posts.cv alum
Apple rips off @raycast.com and still fumbles the bag with those god awful paddings and corner radiuses 👍🏼
The said technical debt will create more jobs than LLMs will ever replace, hence causing what I call the the vibe spiral.
Just to be clear, people don’t hate AI. People hate other people who stupidly praise AI for things it can not do, people who trained AI on stolen data and people who move money into AI with a purpose of firing people who do a better job than AI.
Why is "Studio Ghibli" or "Wes Anderson" like the only descriptors people lacking any creativity seem to be able to reference
The new style on the interweb with the whole blueprint + pixel + monospace is actually quite refreshing, been loving ‘em <3
Walrus | Do more with your data
Walrus is a decentralized storage platform that enables you to publish, deliver, and program any data, onchain.
walrus.xyz
Interesting to see a code editor offer an option to still make AI available but tone down how intense it is zed.dev/blog/out-of-...
Out-of-your-face AI - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Making Zed's edit predictions appear only when holding a modifier key, instead of as you type.
zed.dev
> web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks I don't really understand this, there's no practical use for this if the window frame isn't minimal
Firefox is Finally Adding Support for Web Apps
A few months back Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's requests to do
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I’m blown away by all the things that @raycast.com does and I don’t even feel like I’ve scratched the surface yet. It goes deep! But even if you *just* use it as a Spotlight replacement, it’s so much faster than Apple’s built-in solution.
Raycast - Your shortcut to everything
A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
raycast.com
Chat is createwithplay.com the next @framer.com? 👀
Play · Design and ship mobile apps with the power of iOS & SwiftUI
Play is a collaborative tool that lets you design, prototype, and ship your apps. Use real native elements & materials, Apple's native gestures & Core Animation, and ship directly to Xcode.
createwithplay.com
any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice etc etc
I must be super dumb but the posts.cv feed completely skipped my radar until like, yday, and I’ve been loving it so far. Thanks @taurean.posts.cv ))
One of our tech leads created a NotebookLM for a current project and everyone started throwing everything in there and just lost their minds. They trusted the tool more than their teammates who had literally been in the room for the discussions and decisions the tool's output was contradicting.
Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · last yr.Keep hearing reports of guys trusting ChatGPT’s output over experts or even actual documentation. Honestly feels like the AI Bubble’s hold over society has strengthened considerably over the past three months
Vibe coding only works if you can handle the bad vibes that come after.
Wouldn’t want to get into the whole debate about whether engineering is dead, or if vibe coding is the future, but all I’ll say is this - I urge you to gaslight Claude *twice* — and watch it lose its grip on reality, bloating out of proportion, what should have been four lines of jQuery.
I don’t think I’ll stop fanboying over @zed.dev for a while. Don’t even really use the Claude app anymore, just my inline assists in the editor. Absolutely smashing a .csv bulk edit as I’m posting this. Banger.
Nothing echoes the dead internet theory more than LinkedIn, just a bunch of C-level execs and hustler freelancers spamming each other’s comment threads with ‘oh how exquisite, indubitably’, like bro, who are you???
@t3.gg Vivaldi has keyboard shortcut priorities now, time to ditch Zen )) - I do like Zen tho. vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi...
Low-code tools lower barrier for entry both for professionals and clients, but digging deeper into actual engineering tools have made me realise that the DX for a lot of these platforms are actually abysmal — Would 10/10 recommend a pivot if you don’t wanna plateau your love for building things.
We did a rebrand thingymajig! But this isn’t just about a new website–it signals a pretty exciting evolution for our offering. The refined direction is all about growth… Helping businesses drive demand, awareness and ultimately, revenue. Go take a peek at our new website! 👇
ok after a semi-exhaustive review of the past 20 years of software development I have developed a grand unified theory of vibe coding, and it is “anything I didn’t learn in college is vibe coding”
Update — definitely more productive (keyboard shortcuts are a beaut), less RAM intense than you’d expect, and overall don’t miss Chrome at all. Moved to Safari for mobile, and now I don’t have Chrome on any of my devices.
Austin Joseph@austinjxseph.bsky.social · last yr.Was on the lookout for a Chromium browser to replace Google — took a leap of faith and switched to Vivaldi. Gonna use it as a daily driver browser and see how it goes ))
God I LOVE @zed.dev how is something so light and so crisp ahhhhhhhh
Exciting news! Zed now has native Git support starting from v0.177. Designed for speed, Git-native functionality, and a keyboard-first workflow.
Had a random throwback moment today while watching @t3.gg talk about custom Android ROMs and remembered how I spent a week straight on XDA Forums trying to figure out how to flash CyanogenMod on my $70 Lenovo. Good times.
Update, met @jhey.dev in the flesh, and many more fun folk at the @raycast.com London hackathon — and even made my first ever extension 👀
Austin Joseph@austinjxseph.bsky.social · 2y agoFor other fellow designers who code, highly recommend this watch from @jhey.dev — revisiting after a while but figured this time it goes on my internet whiteboard ))
screaming, crying, throwing up. just remembered that if we want the rewards of being loved we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known