User interface shows two modes: "Planning" for complex tasks and "Fast" for simple tasks. Red highlights and icons add emphasis.
New AI user control spotted: `planning` vs `fast` mode 👀🏃🏻♀️
Source: user settings in Google Antigravity
I'm scouting new UX/UI patterns I find in the wild as more AI ships to production, just for science 🧪
#UX #UI #AI #appliedAI
User interface displaying an AI personality slider with options ranging from "Professional" to "Unhinged" alongside descriptive text.
New user control spotted: AI personality slider 👀🔥
Source: user settings in @typefully.com
I'll be tracking and sharing new UX patterns and UI components I find in the wild as more AI features ship to production, just for science
#UX #UI #AI
"There is a lot going on right now in AI and Software Engineering. So what’s to be done? Experiment and explore. Perhaps a little less talking and a little more doing. A little less scepticism and rush to judgement. Fewer hot takes and more shipping." Web Directions newsletter (John Allsopp)
Wise words for the flexible engineer in my inbox yesterday, in John Allsopp's Web Directions newsletter
Discovery is easy for music, but I find it hard for written ideas. LLMs have become great at suggesting (mostly real!) hi-quality, essays and books based on what I like. Including pre-web content.
A fun use case and the positive pendant of web content quality decline concerns
sounds good! As long as you give us a heads-up. Or should I say a-gentle reminder
Sources:
• github.com/agis/git-st...
• git-scm.com/book
• www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/#... doesn't specify present tense but uses it in all its examples
ik present tense for git commit messages is right, still feels strange to me. Rationale I found:
• matches with merge/revert commits
• it's an order to the codebase to change behavior // if i could just give it orders i wouldn't need to commit code, should i think of my code as the order payload?
I've tried a few AI coding tools and wow I'm loving antigravity.google/ already.
This especially:
Dark MCPJam inspector UI showing multiple HTTP servers tabs, a left sidebar with tools list and search, and a central panel prompting "Select a tool."
Dark UI banner promoting testing MCP servers with frontier model logos, prominent orange "Get started" button and small settings link beneath.
Web UI showing MCPJam inspector: OAuth Debugger panel, flow diagram with authorization metadata blocks, server URL field and registration step buttons.
I'm loving the MCPJam inspector. Best way for me to debug and test MCP servers.
Open source, optional login, runs locally with a sleek UI, makes it a breeze to run/test/see multiple servers/tools all at once, plus preview across clients/models.
🍒 on the cake: new OAuth Debugger feature
My website is live 🛰️
After trying various stacks (jekyll eleventy astro etc), I landed back on a good old GH page for easy maintenance and low dependencies
maudnals.github.io/
Link: www.lri.fr/~mbl/ENS/FON...
Great read!
Summary: This article envisions the memex, a mechanized personal library that would allow users to create and follow trails of interconnected information, mirroring the human mind's associative nature and solving the growing challenge of information overload in the post-World War II era.
![The difficulty seems to be [...] that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p6ge26hngfdr4f4t57uikm42/bafkreiakwbblssrvofomn65fxvqf2llrutrmza4yp4fq4todofftm7h2my)
The difficulty seems to be [...] that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
Mendel’s concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.
Friday read: As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, July 1945.
...of something exhilarating and terrifying."
Interviewer: "It's just a tool though, isn't it?"
Bowie: "No, no it's not. It's an alien life form. Is there life on Mars? Yes, and it's just landed here."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf...
Friday watch: "Internet is the new rock & roll", David Bowie interview, 1999.
"I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. We're on the cusp...
Suspicious minds would agree, too. Enjoy! I feel nostalgia 🌟
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1877750316304471?via%3Dihub
- Mark Ibrahim, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds - Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia's First Link Network, Journal of Computational Scien
ce, 2017
Far from dispersed, first links disproportionately accumulate at a few articles—[...] culminating around fundamental notions such as Community, State, and Science. Philosophy directs more paths than any other article by two orders of magnitude."
By following the first link in each article, we algorithmically construct a directed network of all 4.7 million articles: Wikipedia's First Link Network.
Abstract illustration of a network
Friday read:
"Apples, porcupines, and the most obscure Bob Dylan song—is every topic a few clicks from Philosophy? Within Wikipedia, the answer is yes: nearly all paths lead to Philosophy.
My #GoogleIO talk "Practical built-in Al with Gemini Nano in Chrome" is live: youtu.be/CjpZCWYrSxM?.... Learn about the following new APIs and see partner demos:
🔮 Prompt API
…with image input 🖼️
…with audio input 👂
…with textual input 🔤
🖊️ Writing Assistance APIs
🗣️ Translation API
✔️ Proofreading API
"Your privacy is important to us and our 614 partners"
oh great tip, thank you 💙 I'll try it out
Colorful painting on fabric
Testing painting on fabric. Some hits, some misses. Next up, I'd like to try and get a cleaner finish - using a finer brush, maybe tape
but we are also able to improvise new thoughts that are not accessible to us alone.
We often do not even know what we are thinking until we express it, either in writing or in speech."
— "It takes two to think", intro, Itai Yanai & Martin J Lercher
Illustration: two abstract shapes looking at each other
Friday read:
"One tried-and-true — though often overlooked — trick for generating new ideas stands out. It may sound trivial, yet it is as reliable as it is simple: talk to someone. By talking with other people, we not only pool the information or ideas that each of us individually lacks,
Nap time project coming along - not pretty, but it works 👾
No database, this relies solely on Google's People API
ECMAScript excitement 😉
Congrats to @chronicles.org on advancing the Enum proposal to Stage 1 at TC39 today 🎉
This aims to bring the good parts of TypeScript enums to JavaScript plus enhancements such as new datatypes & potentially runtime performance improvements 👍
github.com/tc39/proposa...
