Paulo

what’s it like to work with me, in a nutshell

🆕 Better stacks! Blurs on groups! Glass and fade combined! It’s update day! 🆕 First up, we’ve added min/max sizes, relative sizing, negative gap and z-index order options to stacks. Plus a whole bunch of smaller improvements, all based on your feedback. ↓

🆕 Things you've been asking us for 🆕 Selection colors, independent borders, corner smoothing controls, a new eyedropper with Color Variable support, and 150+ improvements and fixes. Here's what's in our latest update — Dublin 🧵 ↓

Our next major update is here — and it’s got glass in it. Yep, that glass. Non-solid, lowercase-G glass. It works right out of the box (as all glass should?) but you can also tweak every parameter. It’s a lot of fun. And that’s not all! ↓

who at WhatsApp thought it was a good idea to start a voice chat by scrolling down when at the bottom of the chat what a silly interaction, but I'm sure the metrics on new voice chats will be great

now in beta: 🫨 progressive blur 🔍 liquid glass 🎯 concentric corners

"can we make the smooth corners icon more distinct?" me:

when sharing a photo/link via text on the iPhone, I need a "send and continue texting" feature to switch to messages/whatsapp/etc after sharing to keep texting

a lot of people are saying nobody’s ever been this back

Nothing but respect for MY american pope

need this hat so bad

we‘ve got a new @sketch.com beta with a *ton* of new stuff: stacks, frames, graphics, components in the command bar, comments panel! plus… auto pinning, sizing options, paste and replace, swap fills and borders, container-relative coordinates, and more! → download and changelog: sketch.com/beta

Very excited to watch valley bros explain how stealing models is bad but stealing books to train models is absolutely fine.

I think the EU should too force Twitter to sell to an EU owner or else be banned in the union after all, it’s owned by an official of a foreign extremist government, who’s meddling in EU elections

it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol

capital gets scared when scale isn’t the only answer

Starting off the year with another sneak peek: Components in the command bar and the new replace popover! Grab some 🍿 and come check out what my friend Alasdair (🎙️), me and the team have been up to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypwq...

the great part about social media is every new day is a new opportunity to witness the worst thing you’ve ever seen

the portuguese government, who rolled back a great new visual identity commissioned by the previous government for not being patriotic enough, announced a open contest for a new passport design… with a prize of €5000 absolutely fucking embarrassing

what the hell man, i’m never volunteering for a video again

It’s Black Friday!

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation. I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

where “regulate out of existence” actually means requiring “a dedicated page on their website where it says how many users they have in the EU and where they are legally established” this is just anti-regulation fear mongering, i’m sure the free market “EU bad” tech bros will slurp it right up

if you call it “X” you’re 100% a narc

got a steam deck oled arriving soon, and I haven’t played PC games in ~15 years (but I do have a switch): what are your favorite non-Nintendo games of the past decade or so?

one of the greatest to ever do it, go follow/hire Janik if you like/need icon design

surf rock is only going to become more relevant as sea levels rise

It might seem like a cop-out to blame capitalism for so many things, but once you look for it, you see how it subverts every sphere of human life. Advance far enough in any field and you’ll become aware of open secrets that things are being done poorly or even dangerously because of profit motive.

verified domains as handles is such a smart idea from bluesky, it helps with both username squatting and verification, while giving people a bit more control over their self-expression and identity in a platform they otherwise don’t control

S K E T C H S K E E C H S K E E T H S K E E T S

If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website

It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy

a few common Bluesky misconceptions i see in articles

[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber

@pfrazee.com @bsky.app do you have any plans to support shorter profile URLs like "bksy.app/@[handle]"? current /profile/… URLs often get truncated in other services and seeing "bsky.app/profile/usern…" isn’t very helpful/clean