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Joe Russell
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Product designer, living in sunny Brighton. Design, music, gaming, football, people.

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ryannorth.ca
I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it
October 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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seabass.bsky.social
Let’s enjoy the last year of internet videos that we have.
quantian.bsky.social Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · Oct 7
Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.
October 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
joe.cv
Surprised the new World Cup ball isn’t a bigger story! Really think it’ll change up the game.
www.dezeen.com/2025/10/03/a...
The best football player of all time sitting on the huge new World Cup football. It’s Lionel Messi.
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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johnnewhouse.bsky.social
lol, wrong almost half the time
Microsoft says its agent mode in excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets.
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
joe.cv
Love this setup screen in Helium browser, detailing the privacy differences between search engines. “Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anticompetitive and anti-consumer practices.” Obviously Google. "Subjectively overwhelming Ul” is funny, describing Bing.
A screenshot of Helium browser’s setup screen. Choose a search engine. Search engines listed here are shown in random order. You can update your choice later in Settings. Microsoft Bing: Collects extensive personal data. Privacy controls are buried and limited. Subjectively overwhelming Ul. Kagi: Privacy-focused. Customizable results without ads or tracking. Requires a paid account. Ecosia: May plant trees for clicking ads. Relies on Bing and Google. Sends tracking data to Microsoft and Google. DuckDuckGo: Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you. Qwant: Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft. Google: Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anticompetitive and anti-consumer practices.
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
joe.cv
Pleasantly surprised to find OmniWeb is still being worked on, in some form! It was so ahead of its time, and somehow still has some nice features most browsers lack, like visual tabs. omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omniweb/
Screenshot of Omniweb on Mac. Browser window showing the start page, which has “Omniweb 6” and a search box shown. On the left of the window are tabs, showing thumbnails of the webpage. The tabs are the start page, the Omniweb download page, and the Camino browser website.
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
joe.cv
I’m waiting until Ceramic Shield 4 to upgrade my phone. #AppleEvent
September 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
joe.cv
This Apple event could have been an email. I guess just like any normal trillion dollar megacorp? #AppleEvent
September 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
joe.cv
The best emails I get from people I’ve never met are from @ryannorth.ca and @cabel.panic.com . Both send out what could cynically be called marketing emails, but which feel like entertainingly written blog posts of what they’ve been up to, what they think is cool and what’s coming up.
August 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
joe.cv
I made a silly poster for my friends’ gig
A poster for R.I.P. Zola. Really important party. It’s a black and white painting in the background of a poodle holding in its mouth a basket full of kittens. The headline in neon green and is covering the dogs face so the O and A kind of look like its eyes. There are details about the gig like the venue in Nottingham. It’s on Saturday 29th November and there are 4 bands in the lineup. There are slivers of the headliner’s album or EP covers in the background, behind the old dog.
August 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
joe.cv
Nintendo emailed me today and suggested I download a wallpaper featuring one of Mario’s nipples. #mario #marioNippleWatch
An email from Nintendo. Soak up the summer fun! Whether you're heading to the beach or staying cool indoors, we've got a few suggestions to help you make the most of your summer. Free summer wallpaper. Get yours. Mario ‘summer’ wallpaper from Nintendo. Mario is riding one of those dolphins that is a playable character in Mario Kart World. I think they were enemies in a 2D Mario game. There’s an angry sun in the sky, possibly from Super Mario Bros 3.
August 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Designers make exactly the same mistake as the XKCD geologists: they think about their stakeholders as more junior designers. And when they were junior designers, they could tell that their work was bad and the work of pros was good.

But managers aren't designers *at all.* They can't tell it's bad.
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.] Ponytail: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. Cueball: And quartz, of course. Ponytail: Of course. [Caption below the panel] Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
August 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
joe.cv
Probably the best banana I’ve ever drawn. Mario Paint is surprisingly great! There’s a lot of playfulness to the interface that must have influenced the wonderful Game Boy Camera.
A screenshot of Mario Paint, played on the Nintendo Switch 2. A Yoshi stamp from Super Mario World sits on top of a shaded large banana. The background is a colourful mess of random patterns and stamps.
July 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
joe.cv
One dangerous effect of reading financial writing full of huge figures is becoming numb to real money, then going shopping and accidentally buying a banana for £30.
July 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
joe.cv
An article so long it almost needs an AI summary. But this is fascinating, and scarily believable. (there’s a good summary in this thread)
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 21
The entire AI bubble is a mirage - nobody is making a profit and everybody is losing money other than NVIDIA. As a result, NVIDIA is the weakpoint - the AI bubble is based on them selling MORE GPUS every single quarter FOR FOREVER.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
The Magnificent 7's Weakpoint: NVIDIA As I write this, NVIDIA is currently sitting at $170 a share — a dramatic reversal of fate after the pummelling it took from the DeepSeek situation in January, which sent it tumbling to a brief late-April trip below $100 before things turned around. The Magnificent 7 stocks — NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta, Tesla and Amazon — make up around 35% of the value of the US stock market, and of that, NVIDIA's market value makes up about 19% of the Magnificent 7. This dominance is also why ordinary people ought to be deeply concerned about the AI bubble. The Magnificent 7 is almost certainly a big part of their retirement plans, even if they’re not directly invested. Back in May, Yahoo Finance's Laura Bratton reported that Microsoft (18.9%), Amazon (7.5%), Meta (9.3%), Alphabet (5.6%), and Tesla (0.9%) alone make up 42.4% of NVIDIA's revenue. The breakdown makes things worse. Meta spends 25% — and Microsoft an alarming 47% — of its capital expenditures on NVIDIA chips, and as Bratton notes, Microsoft also spends money renting servers from CoreWeave, which analyst Gil Luria of D.A.Davidson estimates accounted for $8 billion (more than 6%) of NVIDIA's revenue in 2024. Luria also estimates that neocloud companies like CoreWeave and Crusoe — that exist only to prove AI compute services — account for as much as 10% of NVIDIA's revenue. NVIDIA's climbing stock value comes from its continued revenue growth. In the last four quarters, NVIDIA has seen year-over-year growth of 101%, 94%, 78% and 69%, and, in the last quarter, a little statistic was carefully brushed under the rug: that NVIDIA missed, though narrowly, on data center revenue. This is exactly what it sounds like — GPUs that are used in servers, rather than gaming consoles and PCs (. Analysts estimated it would make $39.4 billion from this category, and NVIDIA only (lol) brought in $39.1 billion. Then again, it could be attributed to its problems in China, esp… NVIDIA's quarter-over-quarter growth has also become aggressively normal — from 69%, to 59%, to 12%, to 12% again each quarter, which, again, isn't bad (it's pretty great!), but when 88% of your revenue is based on one particular line in your earnings, it's a pretty big concern, at least for me. Look, I'm not a stock analyst, nor am I pretending to be one, so I am keeping this simple: NVIDIA relies not only on selling lots of GPUs each quarter, but it must always, always sell more GPUs the next quarter. 42% of NVIDIA's revenue comes from Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Tesla continuing to buy more GPUs. NVIDIA's value and continued growth is heavily reliant on hyperscaler purchases and continued interest in generative AI. The US stock market's continued health relies, on some level, on five or six companies (it's unclear how much Apple buys GPU-wise) spending billions of dollars on GPUs from NVIDIA. An analysis from portfolio manager Danke Wang from January found that the Magnificent 7 stocks accounted for 47.87% of the Russell 1000 Index's returns in 2024 (an index fund of the 1000 highest-ranked stocks on FTSE Russell’s index). In simpler terms, 35% of the US stock market is held up by five or six companies buying GPUs. If NVIDIA's growth story stumbles, it will reverberate through the rest of the Magnificent 7, making them rely on their own AI trade stories. And, as you will shortly find out, there is no AI trade, because generative AI is not making anybody any money.
July 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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seabass.bsky.social
Kinda mind bending how fast we’ve gone from „We‘ll be carbon neutral by…“ to „This thing will have the energy footprint of manhattan bro!“
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · Jul 14
Some absolutely insane numbers here.
zuck 1m For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. We're also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this. zuck 1m SemiAnalysis just reported that Meta is on track to be the first lab to bring a 1GW+ supercluster online. 💪 zuck 1m We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan. zuck 1m Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher. I'm looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier!
July 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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cassiewillson.bsky.social
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
joe.cv
Fund war robots
or
Accept not being able to click the ‘total track length’ at the end of the progress bar to switch it to ‘track time remaining’.
That’s the Spotify or Tidal choice I guess.
July 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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craiggrannell.bsky.social
Accessibility and Apple: dizziness by a thousand cuts.

in which I explain issues with Liquid Glass and current Apple betas re vestibular conditions, outline how Apple responds, and react to three types of feedback I get when writing this kind of post.

reverttosaved.com/2025/07/13/a...
Accessibility and Apple: dizziness by a thousand cuts | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology
Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.
reverttosaved.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
joe.cv
People still see ‘Product Designer’ and think this
July 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
joe.cv
Pretty confident Alcaraz will win this after spending his break eating a Frube yoghurt. #wimble
July 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
joe.cv
Went to a video games conference just down the road. Not the whole industry is doomed, it seems! #developBrighton
A name badge for the Develop Brighton 2025 conference. Joe Russell. A knitted pear is in the corner of the photo.
July 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
joe.cv
I tried this on mobile first and thought it was cool… Now I’ve tried it on desktop and it’s amazing! Fully interactive examples of UI design over time
aresluna.org Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · Jul 8
I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
aresluna.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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nazaret.bsky.social
Revelé estas fotos para las que tuve que mirar hacia arriba. Las hice con la Olympus mju III y un film Hitchcock 250D revelado en ECN-2.

El resto de fotos de cosas que están en lo alto se pueden ver en mi blog, que es eso que algunas aún tenemos desde hace 24 años.

📸 nzrt.com/mirando-haci...
July 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
joe.cv
Somehow it took me 20+ years of thinking Mac OS X’s dock magnification is cool to kind of replicate the effect on a website
July 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM