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A fullmetal keyboard designed from a solid block of aluminum

The Icebreaker

Canva is thrilled to announce its acquisition of creative software platform Affinity as it accelerates its mission of empowering the world to design.

Welcome to Canva, Affinity!

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

What exists in the space between riffing and ripping

Copying is the way design works

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/copying/

With the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, we’re introducing a new capability in beta: computer use. Developers can now direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking, and typing text.  While groundbreaking, computer use is still experimental—at times cumbersome and error-prone. We're releasing computer use early for feedback from developers.  In this demo, Claude creates a themed website—generating code, launching a server, and fixing its own mistakes.  Claude is generating all the computer actions shown here.   This demonstration was recorded in a controlled environment, with some supporting infrastructure simplified to highlight the core capabilities.  Read more about Claude and computer use: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

Claude | Computer use for coding

Telepathic

We're building a better way for artists to backup, collaborate on and share pre-releases of music projects. You deserve it.

Modulat - Backups, collaboration and pre-releases of your music projects

How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1409794712197371392/stippling

Room for the quiet, odd and poetic web. September 20th, 2024 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tickets from €15.

Naive Yearly

Hello, I am Swapnil. I'm a Software Engineer based in London.

Swapnil Chauhan | Software Engineer

https://swapnilchauhan.com/blog/procrastination-and-the-fear-of-not-being-good-enough

My experience with moving from Mac to Linux for professional UX and UI design work and how to make the switch yourself.

Linux for UX Designers - What I learned after a year of doing design work on Linux

https://www.chris-wood.design/resources/linux-for-ux-designers

*Flash warning: Please note that this video includes brief flashing/strobe effects.*  Ever wondered how artificial intelligence might change how we approach storytelling in the world of filmmaking? We invited filmmaker Donald Glover and his creative studio Gilga, to experiment with Veo, our latest video generation model.   Get a sneak peek inside the upcoming collaboration where he uses AI to create a short film. Learn more about his experience and how these collaborations could shape the future of technology in storytelling.  Learn more about Veo: https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/  #GoogleIO2024  Watch the full Google I/O 2024 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/XEzRZ35urlk?si=Yo3HTskWQMJwdf3G  To watch this keynote with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/live/6rP2rEWsfpM?si=RuVQFeK4ESnOsUnp  Subscribe to our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/google Find us on X: https://twitter.com/google Watch us on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@google Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/google Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Google

Filmmaking with Donald Glover and his creative studio, Gilga | Veo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKAVFLB75xs

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5QUwUnc6IyXcW7-s6aMM_89oNo3SLxMIhtHCts2M8_B4A8w/viewform

Dockey makes changing some of the more advanced Dock preferences as easy as clicking a button. With integrated preview, you can see how it would look and feel like and save changes you're happy with the result.

Dockey - Make your Dock faster

What makes great interactions feel right?

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

https://rauno.me/craft/interaction-design

Unlock your music potential with Beat Academy: Expert mentorship, practical courses, and a vibrant community to kickstart your production career.

Beat Academy

These past couple of weekends I've been working on a design refresh and rewritten Hey Meta in Svelte. 

The stats are up by 27% since last week, so I guess I did something right 😅

https://www.heymeta.com/

I've published my first NPM package, Kromatika — a color palette with 16 colors, each having 10 shades. 

Available in Less, SCSS, CSS, JS, JSON, Stylus, and YAML.

NPM: npmjs.com/package/kromatika)
Github github.com/michael-andreuzza/kromatika)

Feedback is more than welcome!

Dear people who take work calls on speakerphone at a restaurant,

Ever so kindly fuck off. 

Sincerely, 
Everyone else at the restaurant

Oh please no 😢

Affinity is being acquired by Canva...and I bet the standalone licenses will be gone soon, based on how Canva operates.

Sad for Serif tbh, they were the one company making design tools that seemed "fair"...

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

Considering adding a weekly/monthly Spotify playlist section to my homepage. There's just so much good music out there that it might be a good "time capsule" also for myself of what I was listening in different parts of the year 🤔

When I started in this business, my seniors always said, “Underpromise and overdeliver,” and I thought that was strange. Today, I see these huge corporations overpromising and underdelivering, and I find that strange.

What a great (long) overview about design.
https://matthewstrom.com/writing/copying/

Made a little thing last week just to try Spline 😊

I finally stared to build a pottery studio in my basement and I couldn't be more excited about it. Not that I'm any good at throwing pots yet, but so far I've kinda managed to make some pretty decent bowls and cups we use daily, so I'd call this a success 😊

all i want in this life is to make stuff do stuff

Twitter is just getting weirder by the day...

So... you block someone who's harassing you, so they don't have access to your posts... but now they just say "who gives a f*, let's show everybody everything"? Bizzare...

Discovered https://webstudio.is/ today, basically an open-source Webflow alternative and it honestly looks like it could replace it for me. 

Need to test it out a bit more though, but from just playing around with it a bit it's quite feature packed.

Damn, Orchid looks amazing, totally getting Teenage Engineering vibes ✨
Not really ground breaking as they say I guess, at least if you know a bit of how to make music with a keyboard, but still. 
https://telepathicinstruments.com/

This has to be one of the best books I’ve read till today. So many life lessions and real-talk stories. Just perfect, highly recommended 👌

I updated welovefreemovies.com with new movies, categories, filmmakers, and more!

The more I make music, the more I feel the need to work on modulat.co again... I maybe don't have the chops to make it into a full blown application, but just for backups and sharing previews (don't like Soundcloud for that)... someone send me some energy/motivation please 😅🙏

any .io domain-havers?

https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

Excited to share Stippling Figma Plugin

Made this plugin to generate halftone or stippling dots from any selected image or frame directly within figma. See how easy it is to create these cool designs now! https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1409794712197371392/stippling

Haven't been on designernews.co for a while and just noticed that it's been shut down... kinda sad to be honest, not that it has been relevant for a while, but I fondly remember it as a great community of designers. Also fun with all the profile achievements and such shenanigans.

So Sonos CEO finally admits that their new app rollout was a failure. While I don't have many issues with my system, if I couldn't change the volume I'd be super pissed. It seems like first thing the developer should fix, like asap, especially for...you know...speakers 🤷‍♂️

Discovered Naive Yearly and instantly bought a ticket.
The theme seems dear to my heart 😊 
https://naiveyearly.com/

🔉🔉 my company PlaySpace is looking to hire a freelance graphic designer! main tasks include: pitch decks, social post creatives, brochures, possibly website design, etc. will add requirements below, pls dm me if you're interested or know someone who could be!

I report such an amount of outright scam on Instagram that I should be paid as a moderator.

What I get from the reports: This is fine, it's not scam if we get paid for the ad 🤷‍♂️

I've rebooted my MacBook multiple times, checked all sound settings, plugged the sound card in&out repeatedly, trying to get the audio to work, only to discover that the speakers weren't turned on. 

How's your morning? 😄

I kinda wish there was a reporting feature on here instead of a mailto link. 

I've seen quite a few accounts spamming the same content for this and that website/service. Not even personal profiles but it seems like companies?

Kinda want this to be more personal than this 🙏

Swapnil does a great job describing the root of my procrastination.

I've yet to figure out how to write for myself but publish to everybody without second guessing my every step.

https://swapnilchauhan.com/blog/procrastination-and-the-fear-of-not-being-good-enough

Is anyone here attending Naive yearly in Ljubljana?
naiveyearly.com

@javier and I have two tickets and a hotel booking (from the 19th to the 21st) that we are not going to use. 🥲
Please contact us if you are interested.

Now that we have Figma, Google Docs and more apps basically running inside a browser, maybe Linux can become an option for (UX) Designers too 🤔

https://www.chris-wood.design/resources/linux-for-ux-designers

Been having some music production lessions/sessions with a producer friend so I ordered my first studio monitors (Adam Audio T5V), because I was doing all of the stuff on my headphones. 

Can't wait for next week to test them when they arrive. Superexcited 🤩

I still press CMD+S every few minutes from my "Adobe days", even now that almost every app auto saves when changes are made.

Figma used to have a info modal reassuring you that you don't need to save manually, kinda sad it's gone, it rotated between a few emojis, quite fun 😊

Really interested in what comes out of this Donald Glover ft Google Veo collaboration. It seems like they want to bring their AI stuff more mainstream and make it less scary for artists if that makes sense, but not sure how that'll go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKAVFLB75xs

The new Google Meet page was bugging me, because the alignments of some elements and text were all over the place. Here's my quick fix:

Most AI startups are going to fail. Especially if they're not proactively making their own LLM outside of the beast of OpenAI. The winner will be the most cost-efficient build of an LLM and affordable input/output token cost.

For the past four years, I've been collecting YouTube comments left under love songs...

❤️ https://thesoundof.love is my collection of these – centering the love, loss, and longing by the stories we tell in the comments section.. now with 500+ comments + song recs curated by me

hi fellow language enthusiasts! if i could pls get 5-10min of your time to fill out this quick survey for a personal project i’m working on, it would be much appreciated 🩵 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5QUwUnc6IyXcW7-s6aMM_89oNo3SLxMIhtHCts2M8_B4A8w/viewform

Got a report on Reddit that one of my apps is wants to download Rosetta on Apple Silicon Macs, so I ported it today and it should work on both platforms. 

I did test it on both, but If anyone notices anything, I'd welcome the feedback 😊 

https://dockey.publicspace.co/

Designers that switched to another/similar career, what did you go with and how long did it take?

Asking for a friend 🙃

How is every popular pop/dance/radio song that came out recency just a bad remake of an 90/00s song but with completely different lyrics? This feels so stupid to me, like, why the new lyrics if you reuse the tune and everything? Makes no sense 🫠

Any solo designers (no matter what level) at startups interested in creating a tiny group to hang out, discuss, share, give feedback, help out each other, etc. on a Discord server? 👀

Drop me a DM 🙏

I don't want to sound all negative, but what happened with medium sized companies building apps/services, which are not only looking to *scale*?

Recently figured out I can make cold brew from decaf beans and it’s ✨delicious ✨ especially since I don’t drink that many caffeinated drinks because I have trouble sleeping when I do.

What a great essay by @rauno 🙌
https://rauno.me/craft/interaction-design

Just saw that all of the courses on Beat Academy are free as of recently, if anyone is thinking of learning music production. Ivan is a great teacher so I'd highly recommend it 😊 
https://www.beatacademy.com/

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