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@vanschneider The more you automate, the less you keep under your control. Up to everyone to decide how much of their personal touch they're willing to lose in their work.

Been “vibe coding” a lot lately and I agree it’s fun and will eventually become just “coding”. It comes natural to me as well since I’ve been yelling at devs my entire career and now I just yell at this thing instead. I expect this to be the biggest change for me personally. On the design front AI hasn’t been a big change for me just yet but I think that’s mainly due to too many tools which none of them do it perfectly yet. The flows are disjointed and slow. But I think that’s also because I have fairly high expectations and two decades of experience in legacy tools. If I’d be a new designer that would look totally different. The biggest change I notice as Creative Director is that I can take on a lot MORE execution work myself and the need for juniors explorative tasks is practically non-existing, which is a bit sad from the perspective of entry level positions basically dying out. I wouldn’t say however that my work got easier or faster, but I think that’s also because of personal high expectations, otherwise I could probably automate a lot more.

@Keviduk I would say design & quality. Nothing worse than if you have to come back to a piece of software just to fix its mistakes after it has done them poorly.

design is the differentiator building software is getting easier and faster so the value shifts to taste, judgment, deciding what matters this is the moment for creative exploration for shaping experiences not just shipping features

@ThePrimeagen Quick fix is just to symlink those files & directories

the fact that every ai program has it's own way in which it wants "skills" just feels so childish As if the competitive advantage is being annoying about skill placement

Man is what he believes.

@blader For whoever is interested in testing this app x.com/bartaxyz/statu…

@blader Built myself an app for that after reading this. If there’s interest, I’ll publish to App Store.

this was surprisingly effective for me: every morning, set a timer on your phone that counts down the time until you’re back in bed. every time you glance at your lock screen, you are reminded of exactly how many hours and minutes are left in day. carpe diem.

@blader Thanks for the inspiration, Siqi It took me some time to nail the behavior (live activities have many limitations). And even more time to polish the result so that I can publish it and pass the Apple review process. x.com/bartaxyz/statu…

@bartaxyz whoa yeah i want that

For many, it's specifically their phone stealing their focus away from meaningful things in life. So, your phones lock screen felt like the best place for this. Now, anytime you glance at your phone, you'll get reminded to spend each passing minute well.

How much time you have left in today? I'm releasing a new mini-app. Built on the thesis that if you visualize your passing time, you're less likely to waste it. It won't tell you how to spend it. That's something for you to figure out. Join testing at testflight.apple.com/join/gp9PzBkG

Permanence is reserved for the faithful

Never let yourself grow bitter

@simonsarris C.S.Lewis called this "need-love". It's what babies have towards their parents. Once you reach adulthood, you still have it, but it may be considered inappropriate or immature (because babies existentially require it) It's better to ache, than to be nonchalant about love

And possessiveness is romantic. A lack of it I think unhealthy People are very silly about these things

@skooookum Once implemented, your initial reaction changes from complaining to laughing. As a side effect, you also become a much nicer person to have around.

If you can figure out how to configure your default state to be slightly amused rather than slightly annoyed you pretty much enter God Mode

@anijen21 @raynefq Well written stories are an incredible way to get an experience across. Much better than telling people how to feel or what to do directly (because, by default, you don’t have all their context and they don’t have yours)

@raynefq language is a horrible way to represent experience

i don’t know anything but my experience of aging so far has been a series of sudden& humiliating realizations that every cliche made meaningless by constant exposure (“be yourself” etc) contains a completely overwhelming degree of truth that u can’t understand until you just do

@eryney_ok Now you can do it for pleasure without the pressure of greatness One window closes, another one opens

ive told this story many times but my russian cello teacher told me that my window to greatness closed because i wasn't practicing 2-3 hours a day. i was 11 at the time. he was 100% right.

@signulll It’s better not to systematize too much. Just the things you don’t want to deal with. Choosing what to watch, for example, can be fun. You are deciding and talking, and then it turns into a conversation and you don’t end up watching anything, but have more fun together instead.

you won’t believe how much peace you get once you start tuplizing *everything*. e.g. instead of arguing about where to eat with your gf, just ask her how strongly she feels. she’s like “thai, 9.” you’re like “italian, 6.” done. turns into math, not war. similarly feelings & other sensations can be better understood by you & your mind if they are just low dimensional vectors. & once you vectorize your thoughts & comms, life turns into gradient descent on mutual discomfort (this includes yourself).

@_de_6ixstar If you get angry, and feel shame about it afterwards, I believe you’re a better person inside than you show to the world. Unfulfilled potential let’s call it. It is there, but you’re not fulfilling it just yet.

ngl it’s kinda manipulative how our angry side is always called our “true colours” like being happy n kind suddenly makes us fake.

@indoor47 @blader Both are WidgetKit. Same code is shared between widgets & complications. That's how I meant it. With a live activity, you can kind of get both. But then again, live activities are time limited. Hardest thing about Swift development is getting around the limitations, haha

@bartaxyz @blader It could be a complication on a modular watch face, which is not a widget (those are behind the crown scroll) Like a reverse timer, however people would need to set it and use a modular watch face (not everyones fave)

@indoor47 @blader Can't be a watch face (only Apple can create them), but it could be a nice widget. Apple also introduced AlarmKit with iOS 26, but it doesn't seem to be available on WatchOS, unfortunately.

@blader I'd want that as an Apple Watch Face, who is building this? Or should I?