Lachlan Campbell

🦋 As a prolific liker & lacking bookmarks, it’s hard to find past Bsky likes. I made an infinite canvas search tool for all my likes, auto-positioned by similarity, using OpenAI embeddings (can search for related keywords; none of these posts say “pet”) & with media/link filters for visual browsing

Zero to 1.0 After two years of work, 50+ releases, thousands of commits, and hundreds of bugfixes, we are officially declaring Zero stable and ready for production workloads. zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/release...

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

At this point Partiful has replaced the Contacts app for friends’ addresses

Standalone chat isn’t a great form factor for serious work. Engineers wouldn’t be using GPT that much if only for chat.com, they use it because Cursor/etc integrated it where we already work. Those interfaces haven’t been built for most workflows yet, but that’s as much the interfaces as the models.

"Only we are responsible and skilled enough to use webviews correctly, and so only we are allowed to apply liquid glass in safari" Classic Apple

Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML <model> element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more. webkit.org/blog/17333/w...

For Liquid Glass, @viticci.macstories.net wrote his best iOS review yet. Always an honor to edit these! www.macstories.net/stories/ios-...

So ready for the Cloud White Air ☁️

The all new Hello Weather is finally here! We’re rolling it out gradually this week, so if you don’t see the update yet, hop over to this App Store link and grab it. apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...

@ped.ro Would love the ability to export all my notes from the iOS app as a backup (as Markdown files). Exporting right now is one-off, & each file has to be manually named 😔

My first professional modeling campaign: now blooming on baboontothemoon.com!

I’m presenting my thesis show I’ve been building all spring, American Toxics, today! Catch the livestream at 5:24pm ET (10:24pm London) for 10 minutes: itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis...

I bought a @theverge.com sub the day they launched. I’ve been so impressed by their growing boldness in coverage, of the election/gov, climate/env, the Vietnam War at 50 today; all way wider-eyed stories than most publications, expanding tech far beyond consumer product specs. Grateful for them!!

The impact of @tailwindcss.com on getting design engineers to learn to spell the word “fuchsia” cannot be overstated

Not a lot of vindication in owning an Apple Vision Pro these days, but at least I can write off $4000 on my taxes 🥲

Made more things in the world lime green today 💚

WIP excerpt: Encouraging follow-up questions with an LLM, by highlighting less-known scientific concepts which generate automatic questions you can refine. Trying to make it easier to be curious!

Pressed the wrong button while slicing my 3D print but making an infinite number of one of my project’s parts seems more fun than the complete project??

A proposal and a prototype for (a better) future of search: tomcritchlow.com/2025/03/21/b...

I just called Governor Hochul, and you should too, it only takes a minute. Masking when you’re feeling sick to prevent spreading illness is common decency, and it’s a frightening restriction of our right to self expression to police clothing.

Just published `vndr`; a lightweight CLI tool for downloading packages, repositories, and files from various sources! Check it out and report any issues! www.npmjs.com/package/vndr

One of the few “AI” features I deeply want as a user: for museum websites to use semantic search on their images & metadata to allow for freeform exploration of their collections. Traditional search isn’t a good fit for art.

View Transitions are coming to Next!!! This release also includes a small fix of mine to hide Next.js overlays while testing CSS print styling.

🎉 Introducing my upcoming third course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you how to build top-tier animations and interactions using a variety of techniques. ✨ You can join the waitlist on the course’s brand-new site, which is the most ridiculous thing I’ve built in quite some time:

Asked Perplexity Pro about sustainable design in subway stations like NYC Union Square. It suggested the station needs a green roof & smart irrigation of its plants (!!!) citing…an AI-generated article about making your Subway restaurant more sustainable, hosted on a malware site

Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...

After a year using Apple Vision Pro, I wrote about what I expect of AR glasses in a few years, and my simultaneous excitement & unease with wearing my computer everywhere: notebook.lachlanjc.com/2025-02-19_a...

@simonbs.dev Tiny request: can you enable tabular numbers on the line/column indicator in Runestone for Vision? It’s distracting to me that the badge keeps changing width while I write developer.apple.com/documentatio...

Everyone needs to read this incredible report from @justcalma.bsky.social, essential stuff. www.theverge.com/features/611...

At some point, Figma will add drop caps & they will become unescapable. Until then, you can use them & still look/feel special

I have been thinking about this line for weeks? Months? So well-written and so deeply true @rsms.me

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone play a video in Google Slides then successfully advance to the next slide

Online shopping fills me with guilt & indecision. Gasmask Clippy could amplify those feelings by explaining to you the environmental/health hazards that come with a product

I remade my personal website from scratch, with more HTML & a lot less JS (thanks @astro.build!). It's a little different in each browser, too

If I were to design public art, I’d erect a super-scaled USB-C port as a fountain in Brussels near the EU headquarters, as a monument to their power in mandating the port. The stone sculpture will overstay its welcome just like the port surely will

Introducing Bun 1.2 bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.2

this is such an american poem. it isn't indifference. it's horror, weariness, paradox, an incongruous sublimity. recognition it could happen to any of us + we're doing it to ourselves. a scale of suffering that links everyone/thing. this captures all of that. www.rattle.com/la-is-burnin...

We had to evacuate Los Angeles. Most people I know there have also had to leave. We are safe in San Diego and our apartment is unlikely to burn down. We are very lucky. But alongside the visceral horror of the wildfires there is also the mundanity of dystopia www.404media.co/were-fine-lo...

One of my favorite books I read last year! Each chapter is about a material our clothes are made of