Karl Nieberding | Wizard of UX 🪄✨

Karl’s Big Bite Review

crazy SF dating experience i had: was dating a girl back when i was 18 who left me for a guy who bought her a bmw she left that guy who bought her a boat she left boat guy after he kicked her out, she came back to me and i told her i wasn’t gonna be dating her as our values didn’t line up, so she begs boat guy back boat guy takes her back, but got one up’d by another guy who buys her a house ofc like clockwork house guy kicks her out eventually next girl i date in SF has her ex buy her a BMW and she goes back lessons here i learned what dating while homeless was so much easier and better as a filtering mechanism than when i was working in tech

@Vhoyde Dating is just marketing. You need "Sold Out" energy while being "Back in Stock" for a limited time. No demand = no value. Too much supply = no exclusivity. ​You have to be the prize every girl wants but only she can have. Too available is mid; too busy is a red flag. TGITG

I think professor Jiang has ties to the CCP... But not in a bad way. The atheist secular Chinese can't be that excited to see the world spin out of control due to religious eschatology. I think China is spilling the beans on what it knows about United States and gifting him their intelligence on our elite. He is a conduit for them to warn us so we can stop the zionist mafia in time @PredicHistory @xueqinjiang

You were never meant to change your habits in the dead of winter. That’s why they made “New Year’s Day” in January (look up who was behind that one). To keep you a slave to habit. To keep you from locking in. Until 1752, Protestant Britain’s New Year fell on March 25th. Protestants rioted when the government bowed to the pressure of foreign merchants and adopted the papist calendar. Tonight is the night that our oldest steppe ancestors celebrated the New Year. Spring is here, and with it the possibility of change. Now is the time to make your resolutions.

I haze Claude all the time for this stuff. I now make it call me sir and never give orders. I asked it to watch Downton Abbey for inspiration on how to be of service instead of always sounding entitled.

Your brain at 2 AM writing a paper you started at 10 PM is operating in a neurochemical state that most productivity systems spend thousands of dollars trying to replicate. Sleep deprivation suppresses your prefrontal cortex. That's the region responsible for self-criticism, second-guessing, and the voice that says "this paragraph isn't good enough." At 2 AM, that voice goes quiet. Not because you've achieved some zen state. Because the hardware running it is shutting down for the night and you won't let it. Meanwhile the deadline is dumping norepinephrine and cortisol into your system, which narrows your attention to a single point. Your brain physically cannot multitask in that state. No checking your phone. No opening a new tab. The stress response has commandeered every available resource and pointed it at the Google Doc. Lowered inhibition plus chemically forced single-task focus. That combination is almost identical to what Csikszentmihalyi documented across 30 years of flow state research. Clear goal, immediate feedback, challenge matched to skill. A 12-page paper due in 8 hours hits all three criteria by accident. The lo-fi beats matter more than people think. Repetitive audio at 60-70 BPM synchronizes with resting heart rate and suppresses novelty-seeking circuits. You stop hearing it within minutes. It becomes an auditory wall that blocks interruption without costing you any cognitive load. It's the cheapest sensory deprivation chamber ever built. And the black coffee at midnight is pharmacologically different from your morning cup. Your adenosine levels have been building all day, so the caffeine is fighting a much stronger sleep signal. The subjective experience of "wired but calm" at 1 AM is a different drug interaction than alert-at-9-AM. Same molecule, completely different neurochemical environment. Every semester, twice a semester, four years straight. That's 40 sessions of accidental deep work before anyone had a name for it. The grade was an A- because the conditions were perfect. Not despite the chaos. Because of it.

@aakashgupta What's the thing to do in a development with mostly mature trees? At this point I only see neighbors cutting them down but not planting any.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

🚨Someone just open sourced a computer that works when the entire internet goes down. It's called Project N.O.M.A.D. A self-contained offline survival server with AI, Wikipedia, maps, medical references, and full education courses. No internet. No cloud. No subscription. It just works. Here's what's packed inside: → A local AI assistant powered by Ollama (works fully offline) → All of Wikipedia, downloadable and searchable → Offline maps of any region you choose → Medical references and survival guides → Full Khan Academy courses with progress tracking → Encryption and data analysis tools via CyberChef → Document upload with semantic search (local RAG) Here's the wildest part: A solar panel, a battery, a mini PC, and a WiFi access point. That's it. That's your entire off-grid knowledge station. 15 to 65 watts of power. Works from a cabin, an RV, a sailboat, or a bunker. Companies sell "prepper drives" with static PDFs for $185. This gives you a full AI brain, an entire encyclopedia, and real courses for free. One command to install. 100% Open Source. Apache 2.0 License.

@Grummz Classic did pretty well at recreating that experience though, at least for me. But I also got the game in college, not as a kid.

Right in the feels. This hits even harder as a dev. The time helping lead the WoW team was absolutely peak. If you want a incredible illustrated book about wow, get the WoW Diary by John Staats. He literally kept a daily log, and eventually published it with gorgeous art.

This is fine.

If you don't transmute your anger into courageous action, it will manifest as intense apathy, depression, escapism, or disease, and you will constantly feel like you're wasting your incarnation. Don't suppress it. Use it to create motion.

This is when… Tony Robbins discussed Reverse aging, and the US Military's Secret NMN "Captain America" Pill that activates the mitochondria — which may soon be released to the public Remember when Trump released that video on TS about the mitochondria? - Tony discusses Harvard geneticist Dr. David Sinclair’s research on NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide), a precursor that boosts declining NAD+ levels to fight aging; the narrator highlights mouse studies where old mice given NMN regained youthful stamina, energy, and running performance. Sinclair’s father, 80 years old at the time was in a declined state. After Sinclair’s treatment, his father now outlift’s him at the gym, walks 2-3 miles every day, his cognitive functions came back - Sinclair’s company MetroBiotech partnered with the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) around 2021 to test MIB-626—an advanced, stabilized NMN variant—on elite special forces troops. - Per Tony, the military trial enhanced physical endurance, faster injury recovery, better resilience, and overall troop performance—as he sensationalized it as a pathway to real “Captain America” super soldiers. He says this eventually could be released to the public. rumble.com/v77cnf6-tony-r…

This scene is perfect. The two screen split in the middle gives the impression of a mirror. Modern Narcissus meeting his greatest fear. Everything is here. The awkward gestures. The flood of Pepsi revealing the character’s obsessive traits. The inability to form a word. Narcissus contemplates in awe what he could have been in a parallel reality, if not for the genetic lottery of life. It’s the moment he realised that this is the energy he feeds off.

REPORTER: "Why didn't you tell Japan about Iran?" TRUMP: "Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" LMAO!!!! 😂😂😂

We aren’t getting new movie stars It’s Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer from now to eternity

Not confirmed but I think it's interesting speculation. My only personal anecdote is that Claude seemed too enthusiastic to shoot the idea down without providing any details.

@ID_AA_Carmack It seems like it shouldn't be that hard to just have the speaker connect to Spotify for the hi-def stream directly, controlled by your phone.

When you stream Spotify to Bluetooth speakers or headphones, the audio comes over the network lossily compressed with Vorbis or AAC codecs, is then decoded on your device to 48 Khz raw samples, then the Bluetooth stack lossily re-compresses it with SBC or AAC codecs before sending it over the airwaves to the speakers. I don’t have “golden ears” to pick apart audio quality like I can with, say, missing gamma correction on texture filtering, but that still hurts my system optimization soul. It is likely over-optimization, but It would be cleaner if there were a way to send bluetooth-ready, compressed audio directly.

I don’t understand how anyone could hear about salvia trip reports like “I spent 5 years in the bug dimension” or “I was a sentient inanimate hose in my back yard for 20 years” and still be like “well maybe I’ll just try it once…”

@FearedBuck the whole looksmaxxing grift collapses the second someone says they’re happy with themselves, that’s why confidence is the one thing they never sell you

@KnightClawk fr fr

He was on smoke until a woman made him take his eyes off the prize. There’s a lesson to be learnt here