I humbly and respectfully regret to inform you that the future of design system tooling is not another platform.
Josh Pindjak
@joshpindjak.biz
Brand + Product Designer. UI/UX, design, startups, urbanism, bikes, coffee 🌏 Sydney via NYC 🍇 Designing tabba.so 🌐 joshpindjak.com ✶✶ are.na/josh-pindjak
Cape Fear was ok but it was way too drawn out. knowing the original movie was 2hrs long, there’s absolutely no reason to spend 7+ hours telling the same story. should have been a 4 part mini series at most, and I have a pretty good attention span when it comes to film and tv.
the emails that come into my spam folder are uhhh something else
interesting that Substack doesnt allow you to put alt text in an image but does include, for some inexplicable reason, to include a prediction market in your post?
just saw another tech recruiter on the timeline trying to recruit designers to train their AI models for them
bring back physical popup spaces to advertise new typefaces being released
I got a request from a family member to bake a cheesecake. I've never baked one before, so I tried a test batch of a Japanese-style cheesecake recipe (no photo, ate it too fast) but it came out too similar to a pancake, so I think I'm gonna try New York-style for my next batch.
heads up for anyone else using Umami for analytics: they silently changed their data collection endpoint and it broke website analytics on one of my projects unexpectedly, so check on your projects if you are noticing low/no traffic on any of your sites github.com/umami-softwa...
Cloud API gateway changes break websites with Content Security Policy (CSP) · Issue #4326 · umami-software/umami
Describe the Bug Hello Umami Team, Recently, my website stopped sending analytics data because the tracking script silently switched the data collection endpoint to https://gateway.umami.is. my CSP...
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I will be presenting my design process for Tabba.so at this month's Cursor Sydney meetup this Wednesday (10 June) at the Atlassian office here in Sydney. would love to connect with any locals who can make it, should be a good hang! luma.com/cgq1rseh?tk=...
Cursor Meetup Sydney · Luma
Schedule Join us for the official Cursor meetup in Sydney! An evening of ideas, code, and AI-powered workflows with fellow builders who are shaping the future…
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kind of an interesting chart shape of "AI Unfriendly" website statistics on builtwith. these are described as "Websites that actively block or restrict AI agents, crawlers, and large language model (LLM) systems from accessing or indexing their content" trends.builtwith.com/link/AI-Unfr...
in a remarkable twist of fate, I've ended up watching 3 Rob Corddry performances all within a few weeks of each other. Curb Your Enthusiasm (S5, E7): 2005 Ballers: 2015 The Audacity: 2026 I remember Rob from his time on The Daily Show (2002-2006) which predates his appearance on Curb
why does every website look like Claude now? these colors are a comparison between a product by a very well-known VC guy's new company vs. Claude. can you tell which is which? have we ran out of ideas so quickly that everything must be directly ripped 1:1 and not even changed a little bit?
simple stuff like Finder in Tahoe 26.5 is such a mess. using my mac makes me so sad now, like what is this?
in-app survey Figma just sent me. I think they're getting nervous or maybe rediscovering who their audience actually is
I made Salt Bread for the first time over the weekend, with a crucial edit: I “pretzeled” the outside by dipping in an alkaline (bicarb soda) solution. the result was perfect. interior cavity created by the butter block and a chewy exterior crust. I think i will develop this further.
one of my (least?) favorite Dark Patterns is in the iOS Music app. I have never once used or wanted to search Apple Music for anything, and when I search in this app, my sole reason for doing so is to search my own Library, and yet, every single time the "Apple Music" tab is selected by default.
I was just forced into updating to mac OS 26.5 and they changed the volume slider apparently. this looks like shit and due to the transparent background, it's harder to see what % your volume is set to anyway, somebody has an open source fix to put it back the way it was github.com/waydabber/Be...
I made pizza dough for dinner tonight, ended up with leftover yeast and tried making ciabatta! my shaping needs some work but turned out pretty good. 80% hydration and pretty nice crumb
Removing the headphone jack on phones was such a violation of the social contract
My client's typeface ("Rempart", release forthcoming) includes a custom glyph to replace the 🏰 emoji and it even gets wider/narrower with the width axis 😭
top 3 songs I've heard lately at the 55-and-up Water Aerobics class at my local pool: 🥇 Single Ladies - Beyonce 🥈 Who Let the Dogs Out - Baha Men 🥉 Come As You Are - Nirvana
swear to god if i see another vibe coded matcha app or strava clone/run tracker im gonna lose my shit
did they change something in Claude because I've gotten nothing but terrible responses, over and over again.
PM's and Engineers are saying Designers are replaced by AI. Designers and PM's are saying Engineering is replaced by AI. Designers and Engineers are saying PM's are replaced by AI.