idk who needs to hear this but product design is closer to engineering and strategy than graphic design and brand

Natural doorways by German artist Cornelia Konrads

The extraordinary mountain landscapes of the Austrian painter Josef Stoitzner (1884–1951)

Apple presents Ferret-UI

Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend and interact effectively with

Visualization and sonification of the GitHub commit history of the Three.js repository.

Patrick Collison on the importance of beauty and craftsmanship when building products

“If Stripe is a monstrously successful business, but what we make isn’t beautiful, and Stripe doesn’t embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I’ll be much less happy. I think the…

I don't think people appreciate the dimensions solar is improving in.

Conversion efficiency isn't the full story.

Yes, conversion efficiency doubled (~10% -> 20%) in the last 20 years, but silicon use per watt fell by 87%! (16g/W -> 2g/W)

Longi now has cells that use just half…

The Apocalypse as painted by Italian artist Paolo Girardi (born 1974)

Just found a new visual aesthetic im obsessed over, long exposure shots of airplanes taking off!

The open question is “is it possible to know a priori which technologies are amenable to learning curves and which are not?”

Any Canadians here with Vision Pros? I'm wondering if I pick one up while in US, if it'll work with my Canadian Apple account.

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Julien Gauthier's dystopian, post–global-warming Bangkok inspired by Paolo Bacigalupi's biopunk novel 'The Windup Girl' (2009)

Cosmographer sounds pretty awesome as far as medieval jobs go. You draw and sell maps in 13th century Mediterranean port cities. You spend your days gathering reports from sailors—let’s assume over drinks—then you go draw amazing maps that help invent modern cartography.

the core VisionOS natural input paradigm (eyes+hands) now plays nicely with standardized WebXR input events (selectstart, end, xrSession.inputSources etc)! As well as hand tracking, of course.

*Love* to see it

webkit.org/blog/15162/int…

I spent like all of my 20s obsessed with trying to fix the loneliness problem - hosted tons of events, tried starting a company around it, etc.

Main two takeaways

1) The fact that you can stay home and basically self-medicate with content in a way that feels not-quite-bored is…

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This is something that people often misunderstand about early-stage autocracy. The most immediate consequence of an autocrat reaching power isn't a police state and gulags as per popular imagination -- that's more of a long-term thing. The immediate consequence is corruption.…