natmsj

natmsj

@natmsj.bsky.social

Designer, Dad, gamer, milk, eggs, bread

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kottke.org
@kottke.org

52 interesting things Tom Whitwell learned in 2025, including “The Ceremonial Bugle is a small plastic device that slides into a real bugle & allows a non-musician to perform” and “Nearly 0.7% of US exports, by value, are human blood or blood products”. [kottke.org]

kottke.orgThis Is Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned In 2025”One of my favorite end-of-year lists is Tom Whitwell’s annual record of 52 things he’s learned in the past year. Some favorites of mine from the 2025 installment: 4. You can unlock the wheels on a shopping cart by pla
natmsj
@natmsj.bsky.social

Bang on. Love the final summary around what skills to focus on due it being very hard for AI to replace them.

kottke.org@kottke.org

Where’s the AI design renaissance? “My hunch: vibe coding is a lot like stock-picking — everyone’s always blabbing about their big wins. Ask what their annual rate of return is above the S&P, and it’s a quieter conversation.” [learnui.design]

learnui.designWhere’s the AI design renaissance?AI design is currently overhyped · Will AI take design jobs? · What should designers focus on in light of rapidly changing AI tools?
natmsj
@natmsj.bsky.social

Found this framing of 'moments' vs 'pieces' very powerful, especially when designing for platform experiences

Sean Voisen@seanvoisen.com

📝 Happy Sunday! New post in my Philosophy for Designers series is now up. Continuing down the phenomenology rabbit hole, looking at how the "structural form of parts and wholes" might be useful in UX design. seanvoisen.com/blog/parts-w...

seanvoisen.comPhilosophy for Designers 2: Parts and wholes and moments, oh my!In which we explore how the phenomenology of parts and wholes can help us improve design decisions.
natmsj
@natmsj.bsky.social

One of the best to ever do it is back 🙌

Robert Ashley@robertashley.bsky.social

A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me! alifewellwasted.com

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Robert Ashley
@robertashley.bsky.social

9/9/99 was the only real event in gaming history. Everything else is a blur.

Bill Mudron@mudron.bsky.social

The Dreamcast was good enough to convert even a die-hard Nintendo fan to their cause, and even a quarter of a century later I still think incredibly fondly of that last blue sky, good vibes console.

natmsj
@natmsj.bsky.social

RIP my wallet

kottke.org@kottke.org

Wow, new Criterion Collection boxset: The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years. “This momentous twenty-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the films, over twenty-five hours of special features, and ten illustrated books.” $400. [kottke.org]

kottke.orgThe Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five YearsThe Criterion Collection is releasing a new boxset of Wes Anderson films, The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years. Wes Anderson’s first ten features represent twenty-five years of irrepressible creativi

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kottke.org
@kottke.org

The Crafters of Andor. Anil Dash has compiled the DVD extras for Andor, an expertly crafted action drama about fighting fascism that also happens to be a Star Wars series. [anildash.com]

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kottke.org
@kottke.org

Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of beautiful still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones. These individual artworks are free to download “by individual fans to further enjoy Studio Ghibli films”. [kottke.org]

kottke.orgHundreds of Free Images From Studio Ghibli FilmsWell this is just wonderful: Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of high-resolution still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones: Princess Mononoke, Sprited Away, M

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Casey Newton
@caseynewton.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen: we did it

Techmeme@techmeme.com

In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
@iwriteok.bsky.social

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

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Susie Dent
@susiedentwords.bsky.social

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

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Mark Cuban
@mcuban.bsky.social

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.