I was job hunting recently, and one thing kept surprising me how many teams still build interactive prototypes in Figma. It became an early flag to watch out for in identifying teams that wouldn't be a good fit.
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Always thinking about tea while making things for the Earth. Typically as a design engineer and aspiring, BioDesign Technologist. Currently working on interstitial.systems Previously at IDEO, CoLab, Protocol Labs, and Dark Matter Labs.
AI tools really need to double down on system design. I know the pace of change is fast, but damn, the rate at which features move or are removed is wild.
I'm finding that I wish conversation threads in LLM tools worked more like tabs in arc, and just auto deleted after say 3 days.
Anyone else noticing that search engine results are increasingly terrible?
Mirroring code-switching -- side-by-side reading was thinking more of each pair of book pages being connected. I was able to get into a good flow, but maybe the English should only be visible on highlight.
Interlinear code-switching -- more fully translation-focused, seeing both languages at the same time. When trying it, I find I need to focus more on not defaulting to the English, which feels like cheating.
Progressive code-switching -- translation progressed in complexity based on word frequency and book length. This still feels like the most appealing learning curve when trying it.
Strange Harvests has been a wild collection of rabbit holes. Would recommend.
石の上にも三年 (ishi no ue ni mo sannen) Stick with things even when they’re uncomfortable; steady patience turns “this kinda sucks” into real progress with habits, skills, or long-term projects.
Anyone come across research on Variation Theory for dyslexic learners?
Been thinking a lot about interfaces that promote learning in new ways what if you started reading a book in one language and finished it in another?
202603 - How to use AI Updated my workflow for feature and v0 product creation. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/how...
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Starting to play with github.com/collaborato... its one the nicer solutions I have found for tracking agents across multiple projects at once.
love how old school html pages feels almost impossiably fast, modern web stack are so heavy 😅
I have been finding the discussions around design being "cooked" with recent AI model changes to be a little exaggerated. Curiouse if this resonate with others. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/des...
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friendly reminder space things are happening today 🚀🌕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr4t...
Countdown to Artemis II Launch: Live NASA coverage of moon mission blast off
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Looking for 30 people to test tiny.garden. If you ever used small victories back in the day this is very much similar but instead of dropbox for now its all based on are.na channels.
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tiny.garden is ready for testing! If you have an arena channel you want to make into a mini website give it a try and lmk what could work better!
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😱 me frantically trying to find an outlet before the agents loose power.
The electronics faire schedule (keynote, workshops, and more) is now live! Excellent time for a visit to Philly <3 sites.temple.edu/efaire/sched...
Claude helping me clean up years of inconsistent front matter properties in Obsidian!
Trying to incorporate more natural systems thinking into my work. And realize there's a lot of functionality in using a tree ring to visualize data overtime.
does anyone use or want a tea tracker? I'm thinking like post.cv but for a tea community.
Hot take: "thinking" isn't the right word for what LLMs do. Humans think. Models reason. He feels important that we keep these two things separate until machines do actually think.
Any scientists using Cursor for their work? I’d love to talk with any scientists using Cursor about an MCP service I’ve been working on. DM me please!
Sometimes I wonder how my plants feel about me drinking tea in front them.
Over-applying LLMs is like driving to the corner store: you spend longer parking than walking. They’re great for teaching and cold starts, less great as an unmonitored end-to-end pipeline. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/whe...
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Would be cool if Cursor's .md preview was a TipTap-style rich text editor. I always get a little frustrated when I try to edit the preview and it just opens the raw markdown instead.