Tootfinder

Guidelines for the design of #fileformats by @…
https://lukas-pro…

Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/endra-ai-startup-automating-mep-design…

Exclusive: Swedish startup automating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings raises $20 million in seed round
Notion Capital is leading the seed round for Endra, which says reduces the time to design buildings' electrical systems from months to hours.

❌ Interior Design
👉 Ulterior Design

The company known for good design messing up so bad they have to introduce a toggle to turn off their new design.
Truly epic stuff.
Can Cook resign yet and let someone who knows what they're doing run the show?

STM32MP2 PCIe update: I'm calling things brought up and working at this point.
Working on the test board now. It's going reasonably fast since a lot of it is cribbed from other projects and I already had made a sch symbol for the MP257 (although I found a few errors in it sinc eI had never actually made a board design around it or done a full design review).

As Microsoft EOLs Windows 10, I'm reminded of why Windows is fundamentally broken, by design. https://davelane.nz/windows-broken-design When you're a global platform monopoly, your existing users are your biggest competition. Your interests and those of your customers are diametricall…

The Chicago-Kent, Illinois Tech IP Program cordially invites you to: "What’s the Skinny? Drug Labels and Patent Infringement," Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12-1 pm.
The panel is open to the public but please RSVP in advance here: https://

Inside Interior Design
Design secrets over coffee...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
LARGO: Oh, I'm fascinated. But I'm just an independent businessman.
AVON: [Takes two gems from a bag, lays them on Largo's platform] Are you sure?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…

US firm sells innovative ODIN nuclear microreactor design to UK buyers for $6.2 million, focusing on safety and reliability. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

US firm sells unique ODIN nuclear microreactor design to UK buyers
US-based NANO Nuclear Energy has agreed to sell its ODIN microreactor design to the UK's Cambridge AtomWorks.

This is beautiful; pure poetry: https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/
(Obsidian’s dependency-management philosophy.)
I have a suggestion: If you have a project or repo that's getting popular, stop writing features for a few months and implement this instead.

Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.

every website is moving towards glowing purple design nowadays...

@… the graphic in graphic design refers to graphic violence

TALK> Lecture by Prof. HAMADA Tamami 濱田瑞美 (Yokohama University of Art and Design) - 敦煌石窟薬師経変の図像と題記
https://ift.tt/uG3A5p7
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
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Sehr interessantes Logo Design. 30er?

By stabilizing a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte,
a new technique creates all-solid-state sodium batteries
that retain performance down to subzero temperatures
https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/breakthrough-advances-sodium-based-battery-des…

Breakthrough advances sodium-based battery design
By stabilizing a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte, a new technique creates all-solid-state sodium batteries that retain performance down to subzero temperatures

It’s been a long wait, but @…’s book is finally out and I just got my copy. Architecture for Flow: Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies - I’ve seen her talks on this subject and it’s a powerful combination of tools for getting large teams organized and productive.

I miss the Longboard from the days of good web design.
#airbag #web #design

Every year, near the end of my accelerated intro class (0190), I've done the Halting Problem and briefly mentioned Rice's Theorem. It's finally(!) dawned on me that Rice's is more fundamental. Re-jigging class design! Also great to tie it up with, e.g., code.pyret.org .

If you saw my tees at #a11yTOConf and wondered where you could squander money on them…
The POURP shirt:
https://aardrian.threadless.com/design

OnePlus 15: Neues Topmodell mit riesigem Akku und neuem Design
Das OnePlus 15 für den globalen Markt ist da. Das neue Topmodell unterscheidet sich nicht nur optisch vom Vorgänger, auch der Akku ist massiv gewachsen.

How video podcasts have developed distinct visual styles favoring casual and intimate aesthetics, including Joe Rogan's almost proletarian dark red drapes (Joe Coscarelli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/12/arts/podcast-sets-design.…

Modern Podcast Sets and Online Chat Shows Are Less Polished By Design
Modern online chat shows look less fussy and polished than TV. That’s by design.

John Fahey - "The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death" (1965)
#NowPlaying #JohnFahey #GuitarSoli

Inspired design from IBM here

@…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Free Design:
🎵 I Found Love
#TheFreeDesign
https://open.spotify.com/track/0zsHCo0Yusg65X2T29THQb

i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords

Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/20…

Exclusive: Neural Concept collects $100M for U.S. growth
The engineering intelligence startup's Series C was led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.
Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

I am not a #web #designer, but something has stuck with me over the years.
https://josvelasco.com/basic-web-d…

Moody Urbanity - Odes III 🎵
情绪化城市 - 颂 III 🎵
📷 Zeiss Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Podcasten Design Kan kŸrer en skŸn julekalender hvor vært Kristina May udspŸrger naturfilosofi Morten GrŸnborg om universets og livets sammensætning. Jeg er vild med GrŸnborgs begejstring for emnet og hans evne til at forklare komplekse ting. Afsnittene er ikke så lange (6-8 minutter typisk), så man kan fint lytte med fra starten:

Big Bang
Podcastepisode · Design kan… En branding og design podcast · 01.12.2025 · 10 min.

What's the official way to report bugs in the #Mastodon web software? I just muted an account, and my feed jumped back 9 hours. That can't be by design.
#BugReporting

Custom Cowboys Patch ⭐️ Our friends at @AveryDennisonVideo held a custom patch design contest! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hdPgEunkQyA

Something that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@jeremydmiller/115741417416659492

North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-scammers-are-doing-architectural-design-now/

North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now
New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers.

🎮 Need a Game Designer? 🕹
I'm a freelance game designer and solo game dev looking for work! (freelance, part-time, fulltime).
I can do all kinds of design work and released my own game on Steam.
I love to work in teams!
My specialties are system design and non-violent game mechanics.
I value kindness and creativity. ❤
Check out my Portfolio (and contacts) here :
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I just love linear() 😍 #CSS #animation
Wrote about it here, in case you’re interested:
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lin…

Linear() Is Not (That) Linear · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

TIL Intel has already published a few more FIT spec revisions that I had missed.
https://edc.intel.com/content/www/de/de/design/products-and-solutions/software-and-services/firmware-a…

This app for exploring SwiftUI UI elements is adorable!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sixd-swiftui-x-design/id6448773500

‎SixD: SwiftUI x Design
‎SixD (SwiftUI & Interaction Design). Designed and developed by Haolun Yang. Awarded by Apple WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge. SixD creates a bridge between designers and developers. It empowers people to design and prototype with SwiftUI and develop apps with great design. In SixD, you can: • Learn…

from my link log —
Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/
saved 2019-09-19

Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/] , designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs [https://github.com/uber/RIBs], Uber's mobile architecture framework. All of these systems had thorough

For #TextureTuesday some more WIP snapshots of STRATA, a generative system I've been on/off working on since 2014 (in Clojure/TypeScript/Zig, originally for the cover design of HOLO magazine), loosely based on 1950s research/experiments by Barricelli, somewhat related to cellular automata and extended to use a different and much larger set of "reproduction/collision rules" f…

On our Tesla we have noticed that the design and construction has tried new methods to save weight, but that those methods have not withstood the test of time (or weather).
For example we've had to replace some of the ball joints in the front suspension because they were not water proof and ended up corroding - a problem solved back in the 1960s by other car makers.
And now there's this...
"Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland&qu…

Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland
The Tesla Model 3, Model S, and Model X all ranked among the bottom five performers in Finland's mandatory vehicle inspections of 4-year-old cars

The Constitution was an attempt to solve the oldest political problem:
how to make liberty durable by making power difficult.
A system of government both sufficient to keep order,
but not so overbearing it snuffs out the rights of the people.
The principles behind its design
—divided authority, overlapping ambitions
—was drawn from centuries of failed experiments.
It was also intended to adapt,
to learn, to be amended as needed.
Repairi…

This No Kings Day, The UnPopulist Launches ‘The Reconstruction Agenda’
Liberals need to start planning for a post-authoritarian future and rebuilding stronger institutions that a rogue president can’t so easily take over and weaponize again

Myself and the rest of the resistance will be attacking this Empire stronghold shortly.

I sat down at my design to design and print something then I started doing sysadmin tasks and now it's an hour later... dammit!

Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

Jeff Bezos Is Backing An AI Startup Aiming To Make Proteins Programmable
Profluent has raised $106 million to scale up use of its AI models for biology in drug development and agriculture.

Graphics-Guided Interactive Farmland Layout Design
#farming #agriculture

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
Rebecca Lin, Michal Luk\'a\v{c}, Mackenzie Leake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11941 https://arxiv.o…

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
While bodies change over time and trends vary, most store-bought clothing comes in fixed sizes and styles and fails to adapt to these changes. Alterations can enable small changes to otherwise static garments, but these changes often require sewing and are non-reversible. We propose a modular approach to garment design that considers resizing, restyling, and reuse earlier in the design process. Our contributions include a compact set of modules and connectors that form the building blocks of mo…

Design a dashboard with SQL Notebook
https://www.belle-nuit.com/sql-notebook/index.html?url=../site/files/design-a-dashboard.json

Nach Liquid Glass: Apples Interface-Design-Chef wandert zu Meta ab
Mit Alan Dye verliert Apple einen weiteren zentralen Mitarbeiter an Meta. In der vom Liquid-Glass-Design frustrierten Community sorgt das für Anklang.

Old article, but I just came across it. Wonderful surrealist photographs.
A House Is Not a Home: the self-portraits of Brooke DiDonato – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/g

I Bringing Fluent Design to Mobile: My Reimagining of Windows Phone UI and Live Tiles (Windows Astra Concept)
[I cannot get enough of these Windows Phone concepts that would never have helped 🤷🏾‍♀️]
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comm

D12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: [Shakes head] As long as the installation is right.
AVON: Well, the only problem now is: where do we find enough raw material to keep this lot running? [He is moving about, looking at various circuit boards and so forth.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/103 B7B3

10 Jahre zu spät und mit hohen Preisen träumt #Mercedes von der Spitze.
Mercedes überarbeitet bis 2027 zentrale #Baureihen und setzt dabei auf vertrautes Design und moderne 800-Volt-#Batteriesysteme

Elektroautos von Mercedes: Plan für den Weg an die Spitze
Mercedes krempelt seine Palette komplett um. Bis 2027 bekommen viele wichtige Modelle ein 800-Volt-Batteriesystem und ein konventionelles Design.

Managing files over #WebDAV with Terraform
https://broken-by-design.fr/posts/remotefs/
In this blog post, I document the development of a

Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling
Huiyin Xue, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Nikolaos Aletras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11602 htt…

Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling
The success of Transformer language models is widely credited to their dot-product attention mechanism, which interweaves a set of key design principles: mixing information across positions (enabling multi-token interactions), sequence-dependent activations (where attention weights adapt to each input), a specific mathematical form (dot-product similarities plus softmax weighting), and coupling of queries and keys to evolving hidden states (grounding attention in the current layer). However, th…

It's API design time at #12Clouds with Vishwa G

It's time for ✨Decal Patterns✨
Reference from Apache ECharts https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/best-practices/aria/#decal-patterns — Github issue here

Okay, let's admit it, it's rather fun to be able to tell a machine "Let's rock and roll!" and it is able to infer that I mean, "Yeah, that design document is now in great shape, we should start generating code".

Covert Waveform Design for Integrated Sensing and Communication System in Clutter Environment
Xuyang Zhao, Jiangtao Wang, Xinyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10563 https://…

Covert Waveform Design for Integrated Sensing and Communication System in Clutter Environment
This paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system covert waveform design method for complex clutter environments, with the core objective of maximizing the signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio (SCNR). The design achieves efficient clutter suppression while meeting the covertness requirement through joint optimization of the transmit waveform and receive filter, enabling cooperative radar detection and wireless communication. This study presents key innovations that explici…

Die Berliner Zeitung will ja mit dem #ProjektHalle neue ostdeutsche Lokalzeitungen etablieren um so angeblich den unabhängigen Journalismus zu stärken.
Das Coroporate Design scheint sich an eine ganz spezielle Zielgruppe zu richten.

Neuro-inspired automated lens design
Yao Gao, Lei Sun, Shaohua Gao, Qi Jiang, Kailun Yang, Weijian Hu, Xiaolong Qian, Wenyong Li, Luc Van Gool, Kaiwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09979

Neuro-inspired automated lens design
The highly non-convex optimization landscape of modern lens design necessitates extensive human expertise, resulting in inefficiency and constrained design diversity. While automated methods are desirable, existing approaches remain limited to simple tasks or produce complex lenses with suboptimal image quality. Drawing inspiration from the synaptic pruning mechanism in mammalian neural development, this study proposes OptiNeuro--a novel automated lens design framework that first generates dive…

A Neural Surrogate-Enhanced Multi-Method Framework for Robust Wing Design Optimization
Arash Fath Lipaei, AmirHossein Ghaemi, Melika Sabzikari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08582 h…

A Neural Surrogate-Enhanced Multi-Method Framework for Robust Wing Design Optimization
This paper introduces a modular and scalable design optimization framework for the wing design process that enables faster early-phase design while ensuring aerodynamic stability. The pipeline starts with the generation of initial wing geometries and then proceeds to optimize the wing using several algorithms. Aerodynamic performance is assessed using a Vortex Lattice Method (VLM) applied to a carefully selected dataset of wing configurations. These results are employed to develop surrogate neu…

On the Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI Systems: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy
Aline Mangold, Juliane Zietz, Susanne Weinhold, Sebastian Pannasch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12201

On the Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI Systems: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy
As AI becomes more common in everyday living, there is an increasing demand for intelligent systems that are both performant and understandable. Explainable AI (XAI) systems aim to provide comprehensible explanations of decisions and predictions. At present, however, evaluation processes are rather technical and not sufficiently focused on the needs of human users. Consequently, evaluation studies involving human users can serve as a valuable guide for conducting user studies. This paper presen…

TALK> Lecture by Prof. HAMADA Tamami 濱田瑞美 (Yokohama University of Art and Design) - 敦煌石窟薬師経変の図像と題記
https://ift.tt/V3xYMEs
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
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@… I… don’t think y’all want to use the same design treatment as “worst person in tech” for your own photos here 😅

heise | ROG Xbox Ally (X) im Test: Steam-Deck-Rivale mit leichtem Windows
Ergonomisches Design und schlankeres Windows: Wir testen, wie sich ROG Xbox Ally X und das abgespeckte ROG Xbox Ally bei Leistung und Komfort schlagen.

Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

More context:
https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/howard-intern-spotify-wrapped/
Basically:
- Spotify Wrapped used to be a dull email
- Design intern proposed turning it into an ~~experience~~, demoed her idea
- They didn’t hire her, but the redesign looks a lot like what she proposed
- Spotify says “nuh-uh, and besides lots of people contributed to it.” OK.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115741043600230762

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: Zen, surface conditions?
ZEN: Tolerable. The land masses are arid and support only primitive plant life. Nine tenths of the planet is covered by water which is highly acidic. The level of the oceans is constantly rising and they now virtually cover all traces of the cities built by early civilizations.
https://

✍️ New post: Acoustic Room Treat­ment and Build­ing Sound Pan­els, Part 1: Planning
#blogtober #audio #recording #sound

Acoustic Room Treatment and Building Sound Panels, Part 1: Planning · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

TALK> Lecture by Prof. HAMADA Tamami 濱田瑞美 (Yokohama University of Art and Design) - 敦煌石窟薬師経変の図像と題記 #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/annou

I Bringing Fluent Design to Mobile: My Reimagining of Windows Phone UI and Live Tiles (Windows Astra Concept)
[I cannot get enough of these Windows Phone concepts that would never have helped 🤷🏾‍♀️]
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comm

Really nice and refreshing talk on #UX #design:
https://youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ
"Are we stuck with the same De…

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
P.A.: The President will be answering questions about new population control *?measures
RAVELLA: All our food and drink is treated with suppressants. Going without for a day and a half, they should be wearing off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/9 B7…

Facebook überarbeitet Design und wird Instagram damit immer ähnlicher
Facebook will per Redesign einfacher bedienbar werden, einschließlich Navigation und Beitragserstellung. Auch der algorithmische Feed soll verbessert werden.

I’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
/end

How Far I'll Go: Imagining Futures of Conversational AI with People with Visual Impairments Through Design Fiction
Jeanne Choi, Dasom Choi, Sejun Jeong, Hwajung Hong, Joseph Seering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12268

How Far I'll Go: Imagining Futures of Conversational AI with People with Visual Impairments Through Design Fiction
People with visual impairments (PVI) use a variety of assistive technologies to navigate their daily lives, and conversational AI (CAI) tools are a growing part of this toolset. Much existing HCI research has focused on the technical capabilities of current CAI tools, but in this paper, we instead examine how PVI themselves envision potential futures for living with CAI. We conducted a study with 14 participants with visual impairments using an audio-based Design Fiction probe featuring specula…

Stockholm-based Encube, which uses AI to automate manufacturability analysis during hardware design, emerges from stealth and raised $23M from Kinnevik and more (Amelia Isaacs/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/exclusive-encube-emerges-from-stealth-r…

Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where #LLM outputs will always beat people.
Fortunately, an "optimized" process moves slowly, because prod…

The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.

Twenty-four. There are now 24 advents. All of you wiseacres suggesting I was one calendar away from an advent of advents can stuff it.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Still not making a damn adven…

Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
The advent calendar I wanted to use for the photo hasn’t arrived yet, so enjoy this box of tree. Web developers around the world have for years given a nod to Saturnalia solstice Isaac Newton’s birthday Yule wassailing mummering end of Gregorian calendar year Christmas with advent calendars covering web-related…

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Well, at least we can hide here.
RASHEL: Don't you see?
COSER: I should have known better. A labor-grade slave. You're pathetic.
[Reception chamber]
SERVALAN: Travis, you are pathetic.
TRAVIS: If you say so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/53

My profession (software design, programming) makes me so sad currently.
A speedrun to rock bottom chasing non-existing sand sentience with ever more abstruse magical thinking while whole swaths of my peers are masturbating to fascism in hopes of striking it rich.
I hope after the bubble pops and the boomers are gone there will be a reckoning and a reset to making software that actually strives to make human lives better.

Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.

Metropolitana VII - Markings 💮
城 VII - 印记 💮
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

“Fraktur is often associated with being the official Nazi font
and is still being used by Neo-Nazi groups in Germany today.
The fact that it was, ironically, banned by the Nazi Party is just a part of its long and strange history” writes 99 Percent Invisible.
-- h/t @…

A Nazi font banned by Nazis? Fraktur and its legacy in the must-listen design podcast - TypeRoom
“Fraktur is often associated with being the official Nazi font and is still being used by Neo-Nazi groups in Germany today. The fact that it was, ironically, banned by the Nazi Party is just a part ...

Barriers that Programming Instructors Face While Performing Emergency Pedagogical Design to Shape Student-AI Interactions with Generative AI Tools
Sam Lau (University of California San Diego), Kianoosh Boroojeni (Florida International University), Harry Keeling (Howard University), Jenn Marroquin (Google)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09492…

Barriers that Programming Instructors Face While Performing Emergency Pedagogical Design to Shape Student-AI Interactions with Generative AI Tools
Generative AI (GenAI) tools are increasingly pervasive, pushing instructors to redesign how students use GenAI tools in coursework. We conceptualize this work as emergency pedagogical design: reactive, indirect efforts by instructors to shape student-AI interactions without control over commercial interfaces. To understand practices of lead users conducting emergency pedagogical design, we conducted interviews (n=13) and a survey (n=169) of computing instructors. These instructors repeatedly en…

@… @… I want to read a dissertation on why the design of those two overlapped 👀

Steam: Shop bekommt frisches Design
Valve hat das neue Design des Steam-Shops für alle Nutzer veröffentlicht. Zu den Features gehören eine neue Struktur und eine verbesserte Suchfunktion.
https://www.heise…

Vier 4K-Displays, 220 Grad Sichtfeld: Hypervision zeigt kompakten VR-Prototyp
Hypervision entwickelt VR-Linsensysteme, die ein weites Sichtfeld mit einem kompakten Design verbinden und zeigt damit, wohin die VR-Reise langfristig geht.

A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with over 157M MAUs, thanks in part to its deep integration with Douyin (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bytedance-doubao-chatbot-popularity/

How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot
An AI chatbot developed by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is now more popular than DeepSeek. The feat proves that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TECHNICIAN: Muller's dead.
VOICE: Dead?
TECHNICIAN: At least it could be Muller.
VOICE: Clarify that.
TECHNICIAN: The head's not there.
VOICE: What?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/141 B7B2

Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

#Blakes7 D07 - Assassin
BENOS: Look, when I say I win, I win. Right? [Knocks him down and kicks him - cut back to Avon and Vila]
VILA: Friendly looking lot aren't they? Are you sure you can manage them on your own? [Avon hands his gun to Vila]
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Android 16 meets iOS 26: Vivos OriginOS 6 mit Liquid-Glass-Anleihen
Bei Vivo scheint jemend ein großer Apple-Fan zu sein. Bei der Bedienoberfläche OriginOS 6 hat der Hersteller sich reichlich am Liquid-Glass-Design bedient.

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-is-going-all-in…

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools | TechCrunch
Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.

Sources: Apple readies an M6 MacBook Pro featuring an OLED touch display with a hole-punch design replacing the notch, for late 2026 or early 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/app…

VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub focused on AI, robotics, and chip design (Gregory Schmidt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/volkswagen-dresden-factor…

Volkswagen to End Production at German Plant, a First in Company History
The auto giant stopped making cars at the plant in Dresden, which opened in 2001, as it faces weaker demand and steep U.S. tariffs.

Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/canva-launches-its-own-desig…

Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform | TechCrunch
Canva is launching new features like Forms and email design, and it makes Affinity free for all users.