wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
Amelia Wattenberger
@wattenberger.com
web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought ✨ Design @ SHV 🌸 wattenberger.com
Do you think middle school sucks? You’re not alone. @alv9n.com uses a survey of millions of students to show how our brains and our sense of belonging change in middle school. 💻 pudding.cool/2025/02/midd... 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zL...
The Middle Ages
Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their treacherous middle school years.
pudding.cool
this is what it looks like when you allocate your time to vibes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 actual content 🟩🟩
making this is so fun I've been doing it instead of watching Severance
going ham with this 🚀
Amelia Wattenberger@wattenberger.com · last yr.sharing my silly workflow to create transitions between images: 1. throw images in an auto layout in @figma.com 2. clip a new image with the bottom and top of the two images 3. throw in Midjourney edit and generate some new images 4. paste that new image back into Figma and clip it
sharing my silly workflow to create transitions between images: 1. throw images in an auto layout in @figma.com 2. clip a new image with the bottom and top of the two images 3. throw in Midjourney edit and generate some new images 4. paste that new image back into Figma and clip it
Amelia Wattenberger@wattenberger.com · last yr.cute little responsive felt worlds 😍
cooking up a new blog post. I'm loving these little felt worlds and baking little transitions between them.
Today was my last day exploring the future with the lovely GitHub Next team ❤️ I already miss them and the awesome projects I got to work on. Like building a dynamic, personalized learning sandbox. And recently, something even more exciting. Little me could never imagine having so much fun at work!
Holy crap, “Fish eye for text” by @wattenberger.com just blew my mind. I'm not sure what it is, but I think I got this feeling that this can be really powerful if applied well to teaching! (Which is the point made in the article.) Article with demos: wattenberger.com/thoughts/fis...
Another hit from @wattenberger.com. I love how Amelia stitches ideas together and ties them back to concrete real life while still writing about a piece of technology. wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm...
LLMs are a tool for thought
wattenberger.com
I love this visualization of working memory by @wattenberger.com. Also, "As a new parent, I have a smaller window than most." 😂 Amen!
historical events are all jumbled up in my mind, on their own timeline. Wouldn't it be great to have a "World Time Explorer" that helps stitch together those timelines? buggy and probably better on a map, but throwing this idea into a ui to start playing around
sharing an old exploration that's been top of mind recently the future is... ✨ a shared artifact between humans and AI ✨ content at different levels of abstraction ✨ multimodal inputs and NL controls
Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
washingtonpost.com
This is legit - the organizers (including unions) are organizing. When I ask those in the know what we can do that will actually matter, the answer includes collective action of this type. I'm joining @nancykanwisher.bsky.social and all the others for this Thurs 3p ET effort. I hope you do too!
NNancy Kanwisher@nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 2y ago
Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...
welp it's clear that I need to close my Twitter account. But it's not clear what the best way to do it is. Any ideas on ✨ how to do the most good ✨ on the way out with 32k followers?
I have an entry into the hypercard genre, www.dealt.dev - has about 4 weeks of work in it I got the motivation playing with svg.wtf from @wattenberger.com to follow an old idea with many prototypes - starting with an SVG editor really clicked uses Svelte and PixiJS - github.com/ryanatkn/dealt
My girlfriend and I made a little two-player word game. It’s called Word Rumble ✨ Have fun: wordrumble.fun
WizardChess 1.0 is (technically) live on Steam! Flipping the Early Access switch tomorrow but... I triple-dog-dare you to try it out early #gamedev
To my Bluesky friends attending #NeurIPS2024: Check out our poster: “Poisson Variational Autoencoder” (P-VAE)! The P-VAE is a #generative model that encodes inputs into spike count variables and unifies major neuroscience theories with modern machine learning. w/ Jacob Yates and Dekel Galor 🧠🤖🧠📈
It is sad to see authors not being able to present their work at #NeurIPS2024 because of visa issues. But some authors went above and beyond. Here is @hadivafaii.bsky.social tele-presenting his work with an impressive setup (ipad, mic, speaker, holder, battery). Well done sir!
😍 love seeing the charts I worked on with @puddingviz.bsky.social on Google Trends
New week note! This week: - What do we see? What do we not see? (@maxroser.bsky.social) - The power and danger of metaphors (@melaniemitchell.bsky.social ) - Ads, ads everywhere - Brain rot - Simultaneous levels of information (@wattenberger.com )
soo the Perplexity API is good and cheap-ish?! ($.20 per 1M tokens)
Beautiful work by @wattenberger.com that explores what forms text on the web could take off we leave the restrictions of print behind
Amelia Wattenberger@wattenberger.com · 2y ago🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs 🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction 🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens