Apple

For the past ~2 years I've had 500 tabs open on my Safari app because I can't figure out how to clear them.

It triggers me every time.

right click any tab → close all other tabs → sanity restored

“brb, killing entropy” should my permanent status as a design engineer

💭 I just won 32.04 USDC on this Ponder

Food

typical small english town hump day breakfast

Been reading The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut, and this passage really hits wrt AI:

Once upon a time on Tralfamadore there were creatures who weren’t anything like machines. They weren’t dependable. They weren’t efficient. They weren’t predictable. They weren’t durable. And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose, and that some purposes were higher than others. These creatures spent most of their time trying to find out what their purpose was. And every time they found out what seemed to be a purpose of themselves, the purpose seemed so low that the creatures were filled with disgust and shame. And, rather than serve such a low purpose, the creatures would make a machine to serve it. This left the creatures free to serve higher purposes. But whenever they found a higher purpose, the purpose still wasn’t high enough. So machines were made to serve higher purposes, too. And the machines did everything so expertly that they were finally given the job of finding out what the highest purpose of the creatures could be. The machines reported in all honesty that the creatures couldn’t really be said to have any purpose at all. The creatures thereupon began slaying each other, because they hated purposeless things above all else. And they discovered that they weren’t even very good at slaying. So they turned that job over to the machines, too. And the machines finished up the job in less time than it takes to say, “Tralfamadore."

this is the one thing I needed to read today

Creators

CapCut updated their terms of service

unlimited, irrevocable usage rights to the content you *upload* to the platform

yes, anything that you simply upload is theirs to use even if you never export it or post it

womp womp

the sad part: most “creators” won’t give a damn and will agree to anything just so they can continue using the tool

Payload CMS joining Figma is not good for the developer tools ecosystem. We waited so long for a good open source CMS.

Seeing Figma’s track record and approach to customers, don’t expect them to be gracious or generous to the developer community after the deal is done.

What you can surely expect is Figma building a competitor to Webflow and Framer in a short time.

the farcaster’s reverse equivalent of millenial “new number, who’s this?”

photodump

throwback to FarCon 2025 in NYC. good trip!

Design

it’s liquid glass, it bends the light
takes your dad’s ui and makes it tight.

looks like slime but smells like wealth 
designed for vibes, not mental health.

it’s good for me
it’s good for me

it’s good for you
it’s good for you

mmmm good
mmmm good

it floats, it gleams, it’s way too wet
costs six dev weeks, still not shipped yet.

it’s got no use, but has that sheen
the kind of blur that makes you lean.

it’s good for me
it’s good for me

it’s good for you
it’s good for you

mmmm good
mmmm good

I never knew I needed a song about liquid glass but here we are

it really hurts losing a loved one (someone leaving a group chat)

the upside is you can now chat shit behind their back (not that I'd encourage this sort of despicable behavior, ydy)

Ponder

⚡ PSA: comments in Ponder should be loading so fast, you won't even see them loading

thank you for bearing with us while we improve your experience

cars

had to order mesh rock guards for my car’s bumper vents, coz replacing a busted radiator and a heat exchanger are definitely not on my 2025 motoring bingo card

also, this will look sick once installed (picture of not my car)

Frontend

one of the most satisfying interactions we shipped last week (for me anyway) was this little nugget: after you vote and go back to the main screen, the ponder you voted on disappears... ✨

i bet you didn't know we had comments in @ponder, did you?

A daily game of social intuition. Predict, play, win | By @ba and @cojo.eth | ponder.social

fun fact: high-octane fuel is actually less energy-dense than low-octane fuel, and harder to ignite. the octane is there to prevent unintended ignition ("knocking") in high-compression ration (high-performance) engines

sidebar: high-octane fuel can reduce the chance of LSPI, typical for modern small-displacement turbocharged motors, especially those with gearboxes mapped to lug around in as high a gear as possible at low rpm

ergo: do the "Italian tuneup" often, whatever you drive!

holy shit, my first tips. thank you! 🙏

can’t believe i’m building yet another threaded messaging ui in this lifetime. when will it end 😩

i feel you man. about to do the same 😅

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matt 💭

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