Julien Dorra

@mikebithell.bsky.social Hi! Was trying to download Thomas was alone to show it to my design students on my iPhone but… it’s not available to download anymore! Is that a region issue (France) or is totally removed from the App Store? (I digged out an old iPhone that luckily had it!)

@rebeccabellan.bsky.social hi! I’m a bit surprised that you took the framing of companies using Anthropic AI generation to train their models as attacks without challenging it. Anthropic trained on downloaded and scanned books, copyrighted materials, when AI answers bear no copyright at all.

Thanks for reporting it, but I felt their view it was an "attack" was stated as a fact, when it can also be seen as very similar as their own crawling and scraping methods, just on different content

@rebeccabellan.bsky.social hi! I’m a bit surprised that you took the framing of companies using Anthropic AI generation to train their models as attacks without challenging it. Anthropic trained on downloaded and scanned books, copyrighted materials, when AI answers bear no copyright at all.

Students using the Blob Keyboard (2005) simulator to learn about the iPhone OS design story and the strange paths of prototyping 😃 @kocienda.bsky.social

MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!) I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/

- Save clean screenshots of the Macintosh display. Save in MacPaint and name your drawing, the screenshots use that name (in-browser OCR). - Save a timelapse of your drawing as a super-light MP4 (in-browser ffmpeg). Easiest MacPaint timelapse I know (I used it to make the video in this post.)

MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!) I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/

It uses the insanely great Infinite Mac as the embedded emulator—and adds useful tools around it: - One-click shortcut to open MacPaint - Crisp fullscreen by default, perfect for the original 1-bit UI. (more below!)

MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!) I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/

2-minute pottery in Mac Paint 1.0. Time lapse created using juliendorra.com/macintosh/

Artificial Intelligence programming book from… 1986

What if the atomium was a giant rotating sculpture? Shot with a 1997 camera, animated with a 2025 AI

I built a new generative AI prototype! The goal? Find out how gen AI can expand playful user experiences that have been traditionally limited by fixed rules and pre-created content. What if crafting-based games were much more open ended?

What if nobody knew what you will found playing? What If the experience was about finding the paths that nobody has ever taken? How to balance between randomness and consistency? These are key design question for native generative AI user experiences. These are some of the early results.

The Paris Olympics flame, up again for 3 summers. Shot with a Mavica FD5, a camera that uses diskettes to take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor!

The Paris Olympics flame will be up again in the Tuileries garden of the Louvre for 3 summers, thanks to the benefits the Paris Olympics made (I think it's the first ever Olympics to make a profit)

In 2013, Mozilla partnered with ZTE to create a phone with a FLOSS OS based on web tech: Firefox OS! You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript. This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones

A new tool that lets its users work 80 times faster? It was released, and it was 46 years ago: VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, which allowed users to do in 15 minutes what used to take them 20 hours! Did their professions disappear? No.