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• Post #4392430

  omg media sharing from my mac to the apple tv is so unreliable it feels deliberate

• Post #4392429

  when you suspect something is made with gen ai don't say if you like it or not, just ask who made it and let them answer

• Post #4392428

  RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/117033401350877940 A product's purpose is the seed, not the sunlight

• Post #4366024

  Video Dispatch #14: Pay to Disable Features that are more profitable as a detriment than a benefit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BECMsuhX6Zw 1/7

• Post #4363741

  bsky ceo saying all the things you say when your product is being used correctly and you don't like it and you can't do shit because it was created out of mechanism porn and you thought that was what design is. https://bsky.app/profile/theverge.com/post/3ms744kwgha2n

• Post #4360307

  Sonic actually got his powers from an irradiatied bidet. "Gotta go fast" was his catchphrase before he could run really fast.

• Post #4249075

  I wonder how much the vibe code cleanup consultants find that the project has no guiding purpose or source of truth to quickly understand how a feature fits in

• Post #4209005

  Consider supporting @kimcrawley@zeroes.ca 's Kickstarter campaign for her new book, Recovering After Gen AI, scheduled for October release. Kim has previously published cybersecurity books with O'Reilly and Wiley, but is now self-publishing her Big Tech critical books. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

• Post #4191969

  what is "bad design" for a product category where the only concrete purpose being "designed" for is to make it appear to be something which it is not via the presentation layer

• Post #4030063

  RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/116959338567033281 I don't believe any brand should be trusted. No matter how much you enjoy, rely upon, or appreciate their product.

• Post #3990551

  honestly, Mozilla is a lost cause. Count down to them switching to the chromium engine to save money on engineering staff

• Post #3897611

  it's normal for a saas app to be horrible on a phone browser now

• Post #3555388

  Ecosia, *ECOSIA*, wants you to know that "not everyone wants AI involved when they look for information" is a *you* problem, so they've done a mozilla-style opt-out. https://archive.is/FeXIk

• Post #3555378

  This is a joke, right?

• Post #3362030

  Whenever I open firefox and it says it was updated I have to check and make sure the AI kill switch is still on. That's what opt-out means.

• Post #3356578

  > ...the AI kill switch ... has been flipped by just 1% of Firefox users to turn off AI completely. And it's being partially used by just 3% to turn off some AI features in the browser. THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS OPT-OUT! https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozillas-ceo-knows-you-might-not-want-ai-in-firefox/

• Post #2526931

  RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/116465818476712337 LLMs are useful for exposing what people WANT to do.

• Post #2281925

  Hi everyone, I unexpectedly lost a contract with my main client recently and haven't been able to find anything else since. If you know of Product Leadership roles where technical skills, particularly front end, are an advantage please share the details with me. I'm open to contract work or full time, either would be helpful. I'm based in Amsterdam, am an EU citizen, and I'm equipped for remote work. Boost welcome! Thanks so much #jobs #FediHire #getfedihir...

• Post #1720323

  AI bros don't realise they are conceptually reinventing the design prototyping process

• Post #1673983

  As soon as you defend a product with "it isn't useless" you're doing the thing the maker wants you to do. NOTHING is useless. It's the lowest bar for anything that exists, including a rock. What you're looking for is "it is the best thing that exists for this concrete purpose" then we can talk.

• Post #1534074

  ok I need naming suggestions for the bluesky effect where a platform's hostility to a part of its userbase only makes that part stronger. For example the "AI Hater" label has created a cultural touchstone of *good people*

• Post #1488160

  software eats the world software shits software eats shit

• Post #1488159

  seeing a "technical death" metal band play tonight > Technical death metal (also known as tech death) is a musical subgenre of death metal with particular focus on instrumental skill and complex songwriting. I like "tech death"

• Post #1488158

  TIL figma was a pivot from drone tech

• Post #1488157

  I was 18, on a Sydney suburban train wearing a Tool t-shirt, a guy walks up to me and says "you like Tool?" I say "yeah" he lifts his shirt to show me a full chest tattoo that says "TOOL" in The Lettering Book - Stencil Bold typeface

• Post #1488156

  a while back, when React was growing its roots into the front-end web ecosystem, there was this seminal article "The Great Divide" which inadvertently illustrated the tension between those who cared about what they were making and those that didn't (https://archive.is/vliMl)

• Post #1488151

  awfully quiet on the jony ive x openai device news front

• Post #1488150

  on macos sequoia spotlight still just does not work

• Post #1460366

  RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/115731120513478963 Firefox's killer feature is that it's not chromium. That's the pull. Nothing to do with tab grouping or UI design. When your userbase is made of people who don't want bullshit, you are taking a risk with every new feature, especially the ultimate bullshit feature of AI

• Post #1404979

  mastodon, my favourite little internet cockroach is always here waiting