just like no comments in code is a sign of good code, there shouldn't be a need for tooltips on an application with good design
You can automate the work. You can't automate the responsibility for the work. Someone still has to put their name on it.
sometimes I'm just a woman, and I don't really want to solve techy problems. I want to solve relational problems
wrote a piece on my reflection of four years in new york: jasminek.substack.com/p/the-past-f...
the past four years
what do we do with all these memories?
jasminek.substack.com
getting really excited to dive deep into databases and concepts again : )
whenever I get in my head, I always end up resolved around "let's create more beauty"
getting older, feeling excited by something new feels *really* hard sometimes. nothing seems new from any angle anymore. but recovering that sense of a new beginning into a creative practice is something i’m trying to remind myself more of. defeat nostalgia
lowkey, I believe in instagram. just needs a better web experience
I just stand there It’s been a while since I heard my own voice
whenever I somehow come across a gem of a blog from 2015-2019, I find myself lucky but asking how we can resurface older pieces on the web better and alive... we surely need more of the Marginalian bookkeepers on the Internet
I really do depend on a heartfelt ambitious story and ost to fuel my drive in life
for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...
The Orientation Game
Joel Gustafson
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“If you desire to see, learn how to act” - Heinz von Foerster’s Aesthetical Imperative
ken@chumulu.bsky.social · 9mo agomakes a mistake, gets an insight
A lot of problems are just rooted in lack of constant organization!
I've been finding myself trying to reengage healthily w social media, since this is really where we can find open discourse for all. Twitter has been "not the same" for a while surely, but I find those who keep up earnest writing and iterating w what we already have commendable.
every time I draft an "idea" post, I find myself hesitating from actually publicizing the idea. A blogging/tweeting draft is a good forcing function though
this now actually sorts posts by time for arbitrary spatial queries, which i didn't think was possible at first
⏧@syntacrobat.xyz · last yr.too tired to write a release post but spatial feeds are here
Feel like there could be more discourse on what it means to use AI chatbots just as a search engine, without considering their generative capabilities that directly replace human labor. Their searching ability seems little more familiar than their other uses, but it might have non-obvious biases.
Three arguments for vr serving as better replacement for interacting on the net
New market creation requires Bucky Fuller design: “A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.”