Sjors Timmer

@plastic_toast @wizardofid @rorysutherland Can you describe it? Like almost all books are also in portrait mode. Seems to just be the best trade off for content, hand, and storage.

@wizardofid @rorysutherland As I've said to others, because we've designed them that way. It's functional fixedness, a cognitive bias essentially. It would be relatively easy to design around this. Though I accept near impossible now to get people to adopt it.

@rorysutherland a hill I will die on and would like your view - mobile phones are only "portrait" by default as a hangover from rotary dial phones. In the modern age when they're mainly used for media consumption, horizontal should be default. Vertical video is not necessary.

@Malcs321 @larson2024cup @2170cell Aka 11/9

@larson2024cup @2170cell Believe it or not but 9/11 was actually international news. Crazy I know

You know Porsche has a strong brand because they didn't have to change the name of the 911

@TomWright165389 @surplustakes They've been designed as artist studios in the late 19th century: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

@surplustakes What and where is this?

Other futures are possible

@GDRvisuals Cool to see that it's still there: maps.app.goo.gl/AjtyY6Fk2bYtF4…

View from the West Berlin district of Hermsdorf of the "Entenschnabel" (Duck's bill) section of the Berlin Wall, 1982.

@BritishDynamism @SustainableTall That'd be amazing. I was always surprised that you can't filter on ceiling height in listings.

@sjors @SustainableTall m^3 is the way forward.

The one on the left is two storeys taller!

@BritishDynamism @SustainableTall Yet people remain obsessed with square feet

@SustainableTall High ceilings are good for the soul.

@tom_nuttall @derspiegel Sie is the last bastion that distinguishes the (upper) middle class from the working class. Of course, they are going to defend it; accepting du means accepting that they are part of the 99%.

Just when you think you're getting the hang of Germany, @derspiegel puts duzen on its cover at the precise moment a security, diplomatic, energy and economic crisis heads Germany's way.

@EuroWynner @derspiegel Sie is the linguistic byproduct of regulatory capture. It survives where competition has been suppressed and the professional can afford the luxury of formality. E.g. doctors, lawyers, professors, tax advisors, everywhere where the market doesn't function.

The explosion in unwarranted informal communication (especially in business) is becoming a genuine problem in the German speaking world and @derspiegel are justified in speaking out.

@Ihavebraib @15Redstones @YIMBYKieran So you're in favour of undoing brexit I assume?

@15Redstones @YIMBYKieran minority shouldn't rule over the majority

One of the worst features of referendums is how the winners act as if it’s permanent and any change to it is a betrayal of democracy and the losers act as if it doesn’t matter and we can have a second referendum a few years later

@J3ossybtc @DeItaone Apparently people expect him to wait for a bubble before he deploys cash

@DeItaone What else should they do with it?

BUFFETT SAYS IF THERE IS A BIG MARKET DECLINE, BERKSHIRE WILL DEPLOY CASH

@_____Lightning @ChrisPavese Everything is priced in.

@ChrisPavese What did you learn?

Might be one of the most important history lessons investors can learn right now.

@imanobo02670922 @ChrisPavese NYT is the massive exception to the rule. As below, basically a newsletter, podcast and gaming production house.

@ChrisPavese The New York Times hit all time market highs recently. Why then?

@retrounixgeek @NorwegianNutts @front_ukrainian Oil wealth they don’t want to share

@NorwegianNutts @front_ukrainian Why not?

❗️Iceland and Norway are considering joining the EU — Politico

@steveruizok @LazimAslam Markdown

@LazimAslam What's the M stand for

so what are we calling the "PM who prototypes"

@design_nocodeio Agentic AI, but I’m the agent

I spent the last few months using Figma + Claude Code to update a production UI. Honest take: I didn't become a better designer. I became a slower developer. The design side was fine - Figma is Figma. Everything after was the problem. Small changes took 20–30 seconds. Not because AI is slow. Because every change had to be explained, translated, debugged, and waited on. AI just became the engineer I was peering over the shoulder of. Instead of making changes myself, I'm describing elements and hoping Claude understands my shorthand. I didn't close the design-to-dev cycle. I just moved into the middle of it.

if you know, you know

@ianbach Have you ever seen them in the same room?

@josephkazUK @TheGreenParty There's nothing on the open market that is not called luxury. The word has no meaning.

Can anyone from the @TheGreenParty in London tell me if there exists a type of housing that isn't a social housing or a luxury flat? Genuinely. Like... what is the price range for normal people in a normal home in London?

@ursonate @ianbach Probably photoshopped / ai-ed out all the furniture to give prospects an idea of the room size

@ianbach What's going on with the floor in the first one? It looks like someone used the blur tool or something.

@euronationalizt Colour sorting books is never ok

The end goal is quiet days like this