🌫️ Grant Forrest
@gfor.rest
"God is the garden I tend to believe" Day job: Design Systems Making https://biscuits.club (apps for your family) and https://verdant.dev (framework for the same)
As an Interstellar fan I suspect this is the canonical mode of enjoying Nolan's films
Confused Beluga@confusedbeluga.bsky.social · 6d agoHonestly I think a lot of her critiques were technically correct, but I also found that I didn't really care about any of her qualms, and actually think that if all of her critiques were addressed, the film would have been overstuffed and dull
Serious Eats moved to Cloudflare and set up bot protection... now my cooking app can't scan them anymore 😿
Reject AI and embrace the craft of building the wrong thing: by following the unchecked whims of a Senior Architect who had exactly one conversation with a drunk sales guy at the work social event.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w agoThis week I heard my first “we built the wrong thing because someone made a decision based on hallucinated data generated by AI” and realized I was surprised it took this long to hear a first hand example. I suspect this is happening a lot but people aren’t talking about it for obvious reasons.
Free dog name from my wife and me: "Ham Dog" "Get over here Ham Dog!" "Oh, that's Ham Dog" "Down Ham Dog!"
May have reached a breaking point at work. I'm going to see how much of our core product's frontend I can rebuild from scratch. I know it's not a good response to dysfunction or a long term strategy, but I have this sense that if I do a good enough job I can shock the system in the right way.
I'm cool with banning smart glasses but can we grant a waiver to dcplateking
Cooked for 50. 24-hour carnitas. Everything went great except the out of control grease fire in the beach rental gas grill.
Someone who thinks they have some exclusive insight in one thing begins to act that way about increasingly mundane opinions in unrelated topics. Best to just practice believing in things with space for being wrong in all areas to avoid that cross-contamination.
My 3 year old, playing with the toy helicopter he got today: "When we're very, very, very old, we die 🤗"
Supergirl was pretty disappointing. Felt like a lack of trust in the audience to follow along led to gradually gutting or reversing the main points of the comic inspiration across the board. I know WoT is controversial but I did really like it personally. Not much of what I liked survived.
At work we have 3 legacy design systems in use and the third was only half built before rollout due to resource constraints (team of 5). Some components languish for months in the backlog. At home I just finished my 6th rewrite of my design system and am rolling it out to 5 different apps.
S.W.Randall (Canadian, b.1965). "Sometimes," 2025 Oil on panel | 36ins x 36ins Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Oh no are we going to start bragging about how concise and terse our code is again
HackerNoon@hackernoon.com · 2mo agoWe measured the LLM token cost of 5 frontend frameworks on identical components. Svelte wins, Angular costs 38% more — and your AI bill feels it. #webdevelopment
My first dinner fail in a while. Supposed to be padakjeon... Looks like somewhere between condensed chicken soup and aspic. All the browned bits remained on the pan... had made a double portion so tried the other half in the wok. Fared better (and nailed a wok flip).
I want this in every language
Zi@majormcdoom.bsky.social · 2mo agoMade a little Godot addon that turns special GDScript comments into "backsplashes". Makes my scripts more readable at a glance, and more fun. 🤓📝💦 Grab it here under "Hashtag Backsplash": codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
Living downtown and bike commuting has gradually made me super anxious driving on stroads.
I have enjoyed Mina even as a player with low tolerance for frustration (most annoyances yielded after a short bit of grinding), but I will say their movement mechanics absolutely did not justify the final boss platforming run-up.
Shadow overlaps may qualify as 'happy accident' enough to keep on this one. Plus the funky corners. I like it.
I will never not love implementing automatic contextual tinted neutrals
Whenever the whole "what is a man" thing comes up I still think of this chapter. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2... MacDonald may not produce the most beautiful or subtle prose, but he knew what he was about. You see where CS Lewis got it I guess.
Donal Grant
gutenberg.org
I'm glad light-dark supports images now, but how about arbitrary custom values please
This is actually an interesting thread to pull (embodiment) in particular about emotional experience. I can't imagine what being angry means without raised blood pressure, e.g. If anything speculate what emotion might mean to an awareness running on silicon. What is "CPU cache miss" as emotion
ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2mo agook so apparently AI antis just put out a big paper claiming AI can't be conscious because it's not embodied that's mixing up your terms. AI can't be *person-like* because it's not embodied. consciousness is a different thing! consciousness is about sensation! I also think it doesn't have that!
I'm going through the 60ish components of my personal design system and converting from utility CSS to my new CSS thing. I guess in theory I should write an agent skill for this but, as long as it's taking, it feels more like the payoff of building this tool is getting to use it.