Amelia Wattenberger

wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...

Do you think middle school sucks? You’re not alone. @alv9n.com uses a survey of millions of students to show how our brains and our sense of belonging change in middle school. 💻 pudding.cool/2025/02/midd... 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zL...

this is what it looks like when you allocate your time to vibes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 actual content 🟩🟩

making this is so fun I've been doing it instead of watching Severance

going ham with this 🚀

sharing my silly workflow to create transitions between images: 1. throw images in an auto layout in @figma.com 2. clip a new image with the bottom and top of the two images 3. throw in Midjourney edit and generate some new images 4. paste that new image back into Figma and clip it

cute little responsive felt worlds 😍

Today was my last day exploring the future with the lovely GitHub Next team ❤️ I already miss them and the awesome projects I got to work on. Like building a dynamic, personalized learning sandbox. And recently, something even more exciting. Little me could never imagine having so much fun at work!

Gosh, this is beautiful. wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm...

Holy crap, “Fish eye for text” by @wattenberger.com just blew my mind. I'm not sure what it is, but I think I got this feeling that this can be really powerful if applied well to teaching! (Which is the point made in the article.) Article with demos: wattenberger.com/thoughts/fis...

Another hit from @wattenberger.com. I love how Amelia stitches ideas together and ties them back to concrete real life while still writing about a piece of technology. wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm...

I love this visualization of working memory by @wattenberger.com. Also, "As a new parent, I have a smaller window than most." 😂 Amen!

historical events are all jumbled up in my mind, on their own timeline. Wouldn't it be great to have a "World Time Explorer" that helps stitch together those timelines? buggy and probably better on a map, but throwing this idea into a ui to start playing around

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is legit - the organizers (including unions) are organizing. When I ask those in the know what we can do that will actually matter, the answer includes collective action of this type. I'm joining @nancykanwisher.bsky.social and all the others for this Thurs 3p ET effort. I hope you do too!

I have an entry into the hypercard genre, www.dealt.dev - has about 4 weeks of work in it I got the motivation playing with svg.wtf from @wattenberger.com to follow an old idea with many prototypes - starting with an SVG editor really clicked uses Svelte and PixiJS - github.com/ryanatkn/dealt

My girlfriend and I made a little two-player word game. It’s called Word Rumble ✨ Have fun: wordrumble.fun

WizardChess 1.0 is (technically) live on Steam! Flipping the Early Access switch tomorrow but... I triple-dog-dare you to try it out early #gamedev

To my Bluesky friends attending #NeurIPS2024: Check out our poster: “Poisson Variational Autoencoder” (P-VAE)! The P-VAE is a #generative model that encodes inputs into spike count variables and unifies major neuroscience theories with modern machine learning. w/ Jacob Yates and Dekel Galor 🧠🤖🧠📈

It is sad to see authors not being able to present their work at #NeurIPS2024 because of visa issues. But some authors went above and beyond. Here is @hadivafaii.bsky.social tele-presenting his work with an impressive setup (ipad, mic, speaker, holder, battery). Well done sir!

😍 love seeing the charts I worked on with @puddingviz.bsky.social on Google Trends

the Twitter algorithm at work

New week note! This week: - What do we see? What do we not see? (@maxroser.bsky.social) - The power and danger of metaphors (@melaniemitchell.bsky.social ) - Ads, ads everywhere - Brain rot - Simultaneous levels of information (@wattenberger.com )

soo the Perplexity API is good and cheap-ish?! ($.20 per 1M tokens)

Some great ideas here, worth your time to explore

Perfection. As always.

Beautiful work by @wattenberger.com that explores what forms text on the web could take off we leave the restrictions of print behind

is it possible to have too much fun making a blog post? 🤔

I split up "related topics" into four categories: ✨ related people ✨ similar topics (siblings) ✨ more general categories (parents) ✨ more specific topics (children) this way, you can "zoom out" in the NorthWest direction and "zoom in" to the SE. Or side-step SW and NE.

heyooo just won my own game of "find my way from Fish-Eye Lens to Kangaroo" 🦘

I made the transitions feel like the new topic is "pushing" the old one out and added inline links and... I'm finding this strangely addictive!

Are you interested in exploring & prototyping & building the future of developer experience? Come in, the water's warm!

What I think of whenever I see the phrase “small LLM”

Finding an app 🤝 Making an app GitHub Spark Raycast Extension www.raycast.com/github-next/...

making more demos for my "fish eye lens" blog post I'm starting to really enjoy learning from this wiki example 😍

Another rec’d starter pack with a solid list of people who were on my main list on twitter - go.bsky.app/7D4NApV

“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like” Nailed it, me in my man costume running one of my many “Dorkshops”

playing with GitHub Spark

✨ Chatbots are the Cheesecake Factory of uis ✨ They'll give you pizza, pie, or pad thai. And it will be good, but not great.

I wrote down some thoughts on two things: ✨ LLMs as a tool for thought. They can be wonderful brainstorming buddies. ✨ Our lives are full of a cycle of taking something in, transforming it, and sending something out wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm... would love to hear your thoughts!