Darshak Parikh

daily reminder ✨

why bother to read what you didn't care to write?

Keyboard focus UX is **so** under-studied in recent decades. We've got places where interaction speed+accuracy actually matters -- store checkouts! -- using ancient UIs everywhere because *the keyboard actually works* and has affordances in pre-2000's software. Modern tech needs to re-learn this.

Who called it Vite+ and not Vitesuite?

why does every little atproto app being cooked up rn have to have a frontend Designed By Claude ™️ why are we so hyped about social data and an open internet and then turning to ai when its time to create and play

Hey friends. Still looking for work!

Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. EFF joins a number of civil society organizations across Europe fighting to #KillTheCookieBanner killthecookiebanner.eu/

🦆🦊🎻 @duckduckgo.com , @mozilla.org Firefox and @vivaldi.com just published a joint letter to EU lawmakers on the Digital Omnibus: make privacy signals work for people, not against the products they already trust. 1/n

My #atproto intro from @cascadiajs.com is posted!! Check it out for an entry-level overview to atproto, why it exists, and how to develop on it! And then share it with your friends! Who wants to see if we can get more views on it than @t3.gg 's talk? 😉

Just some noodling on fractals and looking deeply at things.

complaining on my own platform 💞😌

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface

Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.

"Pretty much everybody who’s from the 21st century, or anybody who’s a creative person, is pretty furious about AI. Anyone who’s not oblivious to culture is aware of that." Couldn't put it better myself tbh

The M82 Cigar Galaxy, imaged by JWST. The bright central part is the main disk of the galaxy; jets of gas emanate at 90 degrees to the disk. This version is 4,000 px across. You can access the full 155 mpx image in the next post.

Love this thread. Resharing it mostly as a reminder to myself to try out all the other awesome applications on the Atmosphere.

Been seeing Venus and Jupiter in the sky for the last several days. Such a delight to see a professional photo. #astrophotography The best my phone could manage was this:

Nub seems like such a cool project! 🎯 Bullseye design choices, excellent performance and an interface you already know. Excited to try it out! #webdev #js

Just because something is no longer in public discourse doesn't mean it's forgotten. Meaningful has nothing to do with popular.

Shuffalo, 3m 33s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔘🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

> explain your @ Mine is bad wordplay. Or genius wordplay. Depends. Eye of the beholder and all.

Okay, this is fun! Shuffalo, 2m 12s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🔘🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

🦊 Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-to...

Please Use AI

I hate hearing the word ‘framework’ from any engineer. You can replace that word with ‘overengineer’ and you'll be right about 90% of the time. You don't have to make frameworks for everything! Stop making everything 'robust' and 'future proof' while the project is still being iterated.

Glide typing is fun. I almost asked someone to "feel free to drop a reindeer" when I meant reminder.

Great, now song interpretations on Genius are LLM slop.

India StatCounter page is crazy.

I keep saying this, Deep Purple are _still_ underrated: How many words we waste To justify a crime Compare it to an act of love That really takes no time Why not take a moment to unwind? Inside your mind — “Clearly Quite Absurd” (2005) #rock #music

npm increasingly feels like a zombie org under GitHub. As someone who's been around the JS ecosystem and part of multiple OSS orgs for years, what I'm seeing isn't just "big co moves slow." It's quiet neglect of critical infrastructure the entire JS world runs on. A short thread 🧵

This is genuinely super interesting: youtu.be/qPuzWFvRajk #opensource

I sat in my garden for five hours today looking at nature and dipping into crosswords every now and then and it was glorious can highly recommend.

The killer feature of Lisps is not macros or structural editing (though those are nice too). The killer feature is REPL-driven development. Writing and testing code are not separate stages; they are intertwined. It's a completely different way to program. #lisp #programming

This is meant as comedy, but only partly. Even implementing half of these ideas would make the world a much better place to live. youtu.be/XLjLM-0gPLg #comedy #politics

I feel Lua deserves far more attention than it gets. It's fast and light while still being powerful and expressive, but too many folks tend to relegate it to a config language status. Remember, Balatro is written in Lua.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

🫖👻🌺🍵