Ashish Goel

@om_patel5 @justbhutani Its so ugly though

THIS GUY USED CLAUDE CODE TO DESIGN CUSTOM FURNITURE then handed the PDF to a carpenter and actually built it he described a full wall unit to claude. wardrobe, drawers, mirror, fragrance display, hidden vault, laundry section. all in one piece claude wrote 1400 lines of python that generates carpenter-ready technical drawings as a PDF. front elevation, plan view, construction notes. all dimensioned in centimeters claude updated the script each time. added LED lighting positions, ventilation specs, push-to-open latches, soft-close hinges he handed the PDF directly to his carpenter. built exactly to spec. zero modifications needed this is the most real world use of vibe coding i've seen.

Time sinks its teeth in and rots. It’s too late today to become yesterday. From L’homme Inconnu

“Think about it,” she said. “About whether you might leave behind your critical voice, your greed and people-pleasing patterns. Or at least let them be weakened.” “You will have to pry them from my cold dead hands,” I interrupted. “You do your little pitch, Syd, and I’ll do mine at the other end of the beach: ‘Try harder at everything. Hoard. Amass. Cling to self-promotion and perfectionism.’ I’ll tell them it’s why people respect you. ^^ Excerpt from Anne’ Lamott’s book Somehow. Always surprising, always delightful, always honest. One of my favourite voices in world.

Trying to get back to using X/Twitter, but tweet after tweet reads like sales pitches for an essay or a piece of content, structured like so: #1> #2> The feed used to feel like walking around a library or a college square. Now it just feels like a content mall.

“Telling people slow down isn’t advice. It’s ignorance.” “We aren’t just debating economics. We are confronting guilt.” “This is not glamour. This is survival, conviction craft.” This is not one person. This is three friends from different walks of life, who in person have very unique ways of articulating themselves. Why do they sound like each other? Because all AI writing sounds like this. nytimes.com/2025/12/03/mag… I hope AI writing tools evolve to mimic individual idiosyncrasies instead of making all ideas rendered in this tiresome mono-style.

Mom Don’s Maxim No. 25 सीखने वाले को सिखाने वाला और सिखाने वाले को सीखने वाला किस्मत से ही मिलता है।

Apple’s (old) Human Interface Guidelines have been the gold standard for well-reasoned and well-considered interface design. And now this: tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-ico…

“Les beaux-arts sont au nombre de cinq. La peinture, la sculpture, la poésie, la musique et l’architecture. Dont la branche principale est la pâtisserie.” – Carême

Relax into your fear, like a wet underwear.

axios.com/2025/08/23/geb… Design FTW

Are you allowed to hit on other people’s dogs? 🐶

Makes for a sobering read. #footnote-4574N" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanma…

“Nothing is made to be loved. Only to be bought.” english.elpais.com/culture/2025-0…

“I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy. What a pompous way to live your life, walking around thinking: ‘What will my legacy be?’ Whatever, I’ll be dead. I care about now. I care about the living.” – JK Rowling

Anything is possible, but most things are unlikely. (via John Boyne)

Opening Instagram feels like browsing through this, except laid out nicely in one long vertical strip without any envelopes. (And yet I do it multiple times a day 🥲)

“This can make you feel like you’ve been sprayed against your will with God cologne” 😂 Reading Calypso by David Sedaris, expect more.

At the 30:00 mark in this interview youtu.be/1mGo9KXT8Ps?si…

“I understand the business I am in. When I sign a contract, I understand I am setting myself up to become merchandise. At one point in my life I look forward to being an artist – untied, untethered – at some point I will get to do that.” – Miley Cyrus

@gmail can you please provide an option to disable “happening soon” box that has started appear on top of the Gmail app permanently? Unable to find that. This thread: support.google.com/mail/thread/34…