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Neil
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Neil
@BetterNeil
Founder @makeEbook | Senior Designer @avis
United Kingdom انضم Temmuz 2023
32 يتبع57 المتابعون
Hey, you got a cool project that you are building? Link it
I want to yap about cool projects
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tldraw source code has been leaked via their github registry! Code: github.com/tldraw/tldraw
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@BetterNeil @_chenglou it’s still accessible text but now so performant that you can be WAY more creative with text layout
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My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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Put this on the side of a building in @TimesSquareNYC and let people play it!
Bunyan Usman@bongyunng
I built a real-time, interactive physics simulation that runs using your webcam. Using OpenCV.js for live computer vision and Matter.js for 2D physics, it lets you point your camera at the real world, pick any color, and instantly turn those objects into blocks
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I recently did some projection mapping experiments by borrowing a projector, and built a cube and started projecting onto it using tools like
@splinetool and Aftereffects. The results were unreal and trippy.
thanks to @paradoxrenders for making that crazy cube
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Here’s a draft:
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, let’s dive into something nobody is talking about. 🧵
Here’s the thing — we need a comprehensive, robust glossary of AI slop phrases so people can stop seamlessly leveraging them in every single post.
It’s not just about the word “delve.” It’s about the entire tapestry of hollow buzzwords that have turned half of X into a LinkedIn fever dream.
Let that sink in.
We need a proper meta-analysis. A living document. A north star, if you will, that helps people navigate this unprecedented paradigm shift in how we communicate online — and realize they sound like a chatbot wearing a trench coat pretending to be a thought leader.
The implications are staggering. And by that I mean I just asked an AI to write a tweet and it used the word “multifaceted” three times.
Most people don’t realize their posts now read like a blender full of TED talks and corporate away-day slides. If your tweet contains “unpack,” “foster,” and “actionable insights” in the same sentence, that’s not a hot take — that’s a system prompt.
Save this for later 🔖
Repost if you agree 🔁
Follow me for more game-changing, jaw-dropping, paradigm-shifting content like this 👇
(This entire post was written by Claude except for this part where I wrote that it was written by Claude.)
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Thread of insanely over-the-top slop reactions to this text measurement library.
This is how everyone talks all the time now.
Josh Kale@JoshKale
Every website you’ve ever used is broken in a way you never noticed and it’s been this way for 30 years... A Midjourney engineer finally just fixed it. It’s called Pretext: A tiny library that lets websites lay out text the way magazines and newspapers do, with text flowing around images, wrapping into columns, and fitting perfectly into any shape, all at 120fps. This has been basically impossible on the web for 30 years. Every website you’ve ever used relies on the same clunky system from the 90s to figure out where text goes on screen. Pretext bypasses it entirely. 500x faster. The demos look like they shouldn’t be possible in a browser. Go look.
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I have a strong urge to build software that feels like this.
DaVinci@BiancoDavinci
This is another level of wholesomeness
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@jaredef @_chenglou Is it ironic the text on this site is outside the viewport width or is that intentional?
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@_chenglou Forgive them, for they know not what they do. Pick up and read: hypermedia.systems
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@steveruizok I hope in amongst all the people making things there will be someone showing them what good looks like. I'm just not sure what their title should be. D.. De...
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Designers will be optional in the same way developers will be optional. You'll be able to get far with tools but not as far as with an expert using those tools. I'm glad that no one will be blocked though. the floor will come way down
Ryo Lu@ryolu_
as agents make it easy to add features, design matters more, not less. the role is no longer just pushing pixels – it’s deciding what should exist, how it fits together, how humans stay in control, and how intelligence feels clear, trustworthy, and useful. taste, craft, and judgment have always been the bottleneck. the game is not who ships fastest, but who makes the right thing for humans.
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as agents make it easy to add features, design matters more, not less. the role is no longer just pushing pixels – it’s deciding what should exist, how it fits together, how humans stay in control, and how intelligence feels clear, trustworthy, and useful.
taste, craft, and judgment have always been the bottleneck. the game is not who ships fastest, but who makes the right thing for humans.
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
I don’t know exactly what’s going on here, but it does feel AI-related. Unlike PM and eng, which started growing in 2024 (two years post-ChatGPT), design didn’t. If I had to venture a theory, I’d say that because AI is allowing engineers to move so quickly, there’s less opportunity—and less desire—to involve the traditional design process. That said, you’d think design would become a differentiator as more products compete for attention. Something to think about for your company! We’ll keep watching this trend and AI’s impact on org design more generally. One interesting observation we made when we went a level deeper: the ratio of demand for PMs vs. designers has flipped. In mid-2023, we went from more open designer roles to more open PM roles. And ever since, PM demand has been pulling away (currently 1.27x). This will be another trend to monitor, in terms of how AI is reshaping org design.
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The term for "PM who prototypes" is just PM
The term for "PM who doesn't prototype" is unemployed
Steve Ruiz@steveruizok
so what are we calling the "PM who prototypes"
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