whit waltman

it just hits different!

what’s the answer i wanna know

Interesting! I recently had the urge to make a “collection” of albums that fit the same vibe (ie soundtracks to listen to while I work) but it felt wrong just dumping them in a playlist

i dream of having a one/none car household

Dave’s site is full of gems. Hadn’t seen this one yet though so thank you

death, taxes, and responsive edge cases

a screenshot of uxe.withgoogle.com, a website about user experience engineering at google. there's overlapping text that makes it kind of unreadable, which is ironic given that it's a site about engineering user experiences.

kind of hilarious that a trillion dollar company's microsite *about* ux engineering just completely missed this breakpoint bug

just learned that linear b is in unicode. who needs emojis when you have TRIPOD AMPHORA 𐃦 and WHEEL-LESS CHARIOT 𐃍

sending airtags back n forth as a love language

hiding under the covers with a flashlight to read past your bedtime just hit different

Check out threes - loads more fun imho and you get a 1!

A screenshot of my lock screen displaying the end state of a clock timer. There’s a large orange button to repeat the timer and a large swipe mechanic to stop the timer signal

My fav iOS 26 update so far is the return of “slide to X”. Always loved this mechanism. What a lovely surprise to have it reappear!

teleprinter keyboard with “who are you” key, “here is” key, “run MSG” key

obsessed with this teleprinter keyboard that has a “Who Are You” key

As I child I yearned for the annotations

“GitHub sounds like an Appalachian dating site” - my girlfriend, just now

What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.

i’m pro-greggy’s

thinking about names as technologies

nyt games app Year in Review said my playing style is "opens Spelling Bee whenever G, H, and O are in the puzzle and hits Shuffle until it spells HOG". i didnt know they could See that

A screenshot of a blog post. The current section being displayed is presumably missing some text. Sad face emoji.

Help what is the rest of this sentence @puzzmo.com 😭 I wanna know what orta has to say!!

It’s Fibonacci (sequence) day! 11/23 = 1,1,2,3,…

In 33 years, we’ll get the elusive 11/23/58

"The more technology becomes cryptic, seamless, and alienating, the more **pedagogy becomes a radical skill**"

howspot.ungual.digital

No hate to the NYT games crew 😭 mobile declarative ui can be wonky! It just immediately jumped out at me and I can’t stop thinking about it

A screenshot of the NYT games app in the results screen after completing the Connections. Badge progress for a 30 day streak is shown, with the progress indicator component being somewhat visually distracting

A closer screenshot of the progress indicator component. Genuinely curious about how this was implemented

Very confused / intrigued as to how this component was implemented, because not only is it misaligned, it also looks to be slightly askew?

Celebrini sounds like a celery/broccolini hybrid

extremely. this is dope

simplifying my boolean expressions for no not november

@whitwaltman's finished Cross|word Inner Critics

i feel like i've been slower than usual with my @puzzmo.com xw solves, but i'm always ecstatic to see an @e-a-rly.bsky.social puzzle on deck!

puzzmo.com/play/crosswo...

lol it took me a sec and then it made perfect sense

Archive October 31, 2025
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Just read a blog post that used the term “symlink forest” and now I’m obsessed with it as a phrase