slack violates a fundamental principle of design: fitt's law

the amount of time it takes your eye to move from one bit of the screen to another is based on how far apart they are

the time i wasted reorienting after opening a thread, sheesh

glad i’m not using slack anymore

apple notes is where i kept all my tasks for years

even at companies that used jira! or linear!

that's why in our task tracker app we made it as easy to create a task as it is to create an apple note. ZERO friction

notion is so buggy

the new oss openai model likes tables, let's see what it's like trying to create a table in notion…

gen-z doesn't know how the file system works so we're building the no-folders work app

how we built glowy selectors for our docs app

and we did it with a technique from Discord that terrifies accessibility engineers everywhere 🧵

after getting absolutely wrecked by my friend in mario kart this weekend…

i added the Switch 2 glowy focus rings to my docs app

work should be fun :)

we used a 20 year old obscure research paper to build this beautiful image gallery feature in alpine.inc

the paper is called "The Cassowary Linear Arithmetic Constraint Solving Algorithm"

it's the underpinning of apple's ios auto layout framework (more implementation details in thread)

my friend texted me a question and i responded with a blog post

for the node.js devs out there: write your own database clients (link in the reply)

emojis are out

they're boring. everyone knows the ten good ones. they aren't expressions of your personality anymore

for alpine.inc we've commissioned custom illustrations you'll use instead to react on posts, chats, and more

with a radial picker inspired by video games:

tired of ruining your document every time you try to move an image? Alpine's got you

follow for more product demo videos

it's easy for a great engineer to become a good ui designer

good ui design starts with systems thinking. how does this new element create harmony with everything else on screen?

at alpine.inc we're training our engineers to be designers too (example in reply)

c3po had something to say about ai

little details matter:

1. our share button in its hovered state
2. our share button in its hovered state on a colored background (eww 🤢)
3. our share button in its hovered state which blends with the colored background (ooohh 🥹)

How does ATProtocol verify timestamps? From some quick searching…it doesn’t?

This seems dangerous and could lead to all sorts of social engineering attacks from a self hosted PDS.

Are relays also recording ingest time and can we trust that as a more reliable timestamp?

@danabra.mov Bluesky question (as your my feed’s Bluesky person), how does Bluesky plan to monetize? Just struck me that there are no ads in my feed and if Bluesky did have ads someone could create a new adless client.