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Fig is sunsetting

https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-is-sunsetting

Mountain ridges bathed in clouds, the light is dim and there is an eerie light on the tops. A lone rock sits on the top of the mountain looking like a figure.

The calculations behind Utopia.fyi. Available in JS/TS. - trys/utopia-core

GitHub - trys/utopia-core: The calculations behind Utopia.fyi. Available in JS/TS.

Here at Nothing, we’re building a world where tech is fun again. Remember a time where every new product made you excited? We’re bringing that back.

Nothing Apparel

A draft sketch of an isometric square on its grid. The square is full of impossible paths / perspectives.

Noisy textured gradients in shades of purple , red and blue

Kara Swisher’s front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.

Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kara-swisher-burn-book-excerpt-silicon-valley-media.html

A screenshot of a work in progress design in Figma. The screenshot shows a work in progress admin dashboard for managing courses. The post refers to the sub-menu links for the course: details, tutors, pricing, workshops, exercise and rewards.

Which visionOS developers can likely benefit from if successful.

Apple has joined Pixar’s push to standardize 3D content creation

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/1/23815420/apple-pixar-nvidia-adobe-openusd-3d-standardized-content-development

Fable is where teams design, animate, and scale meaningful creative work. Collaborate with motion design systems to ship expressive on-brand video content. Create for free.

Fable — The collaborative creative studio

screenshot capturing work in progress art boards of a portfolio site.

The Post Chaise

Woven into the fabric of language, metaphors shape how we understand reality. What happens when we try using new ones?

How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/how-changing-the-metaphors-we-use-can-change-the-way-we-think

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Zed - Code at the speed of thought

Aria falls in the Lake District. The waterfall is narrow and weaves between the rocks. Moss, ferns and lichen run along the rocks. A bridge arches across the waterfall made of old cobblestone.

A pasta sauce turned into an impressionist painting. It features swirls of red, cream and orange.

Shop window with the sign “Sid’s”. The type is coloured in different colours and is an exaggerated serif with big curves.

A screenshot of the Figma Edit Variant property panel.

The SQL database platform for content-driven websites.

Astro DB

Once upon a time, companies had real personalities. While the Apple of today is a gleaming white wall of corporate press releases and carefully-timed keynotes, long-time fans of the company can remember a time when the company had far more personality. Become a member of 512 Pixels. Support projects like these, receive exclusive content in [...]

The History of Clarus the Dogcow

A resolution to make 2024 the year creatives get paid for all their work.

No Free Pitches

Hi, DSL community

We are excited to see you all again for our upcoming DSL meetup hosted at the Just Eat Takeaway.com office on 23 April.\*

\*Please note that our meetup 

Design Systems London #9, Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 6:00 PM   | Meetup

https://www.meetup.com/design-systems-london-meetup/events/300053802/

Back entrances to the Southbank centre in London, United Kingdom. The shot is of the light and shadow playing across the concrete. Yellow traffic cones pop out against the grey of the concrete.

Today, we’re announcing beta for Code Connect, a feature built to improve design system adoption by making code more accessible and useful for developers.

The Right Code for Your Design System | Figma Blog

https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-code-connect/

fastcompany.com

https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future

Ice on a window that is in the formation of ferns stems and leaves.

Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205244/reddit-blocking-search-engine-crawlers-ai-bot-google

Wondering if I can pass css variables to view transitions dynamically…

One of my favourite websites https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power/ (both aesthetics and purpose)

I always tell myself to write case studies as I go 🤦‍♂️

Astro + ViewTransitions is pretty powerful !

JavaScript often feels like a crate of Lego with no instructions.

Sad to see Fig go. One of those small tools that was a massive productivity win https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-is-sunsetting

Probably should stop messing about with framer-motion and do some work.

Just seen that Utopia has released a lib for composing scales in typescript. For me this is very useful as it saves copy and pasting css from the site https://github.com/trys/utopia-core

Of course it’s at DSM https://nothing.tech/pages/apparel

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kara-swisher-burn-book-excerpt-silicon-valley-media.html — worth a read. What do we want the next ten, twenty and thirty years to look like?

Thinking of a bit of a refactor to get my head around Next.JS 13

And a few innocuous looking links makes a large backlog

Could be big https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/1/23815420/apple-pixar-nvidia-adobe-openusd-3d-standardized-content-development

Four variable modes in Figma Pro/Teams seems a bit on the tight side.

Little touches on changing the hover state color based on light/dark mode. Some are more prominent than others (if you want to try it https://www.thepostchaise.com)

Anyone used https://www.fable.app ? the baked in motion tools look great.

Maybe I should just go all in. Although to be fair Figma just sits open all the time and never gets closed.

It’s marvel of network engineering that the video plays fine in high latency mobile connections and a total failure that we still can’t render UIs quickly.

Back to work after 4 months paternity leave.

Re-platformed my photo blog onto the latest Next.JS and Sanity versions (oh JavaScript) https://thepostchaise.com ... that said it was fairly quick to rebuild a simple site like this. I may add some animations back in.

Good read and one to be mindful of when working with others. 

A side note on metaphors: it’s funny to think the filing cabinet metaphor is heading the way of the floppy disc. 

https://aeon.co/essays/how-changing-the-metaphors-we-use-can-change-the-way-we-think u u

Few days with Zed (https://zed.dev) so far its pretty nice, couple of crashes but it is early days. Having Vim bindings built in is a nice touch.

Turned sauce into art (image by DALLE, sauce by me)

How much for an add variant button in this panel?

Nice addition to Astro https://astro.build/db/

Nice bit of type and ui design history https://512pixels.net/dogcow/

Worth a read https://nofreepitches.com/ (nice design too)

2024

Year of generalists or specialists?

For those in London and into design systems this April https://www.meetup.com/design-systems-london-meetup/events/300053802/

JavaScript is chaotic neutral. I love it. Fun quiz https://javascriptquiz.com

Not that it will matter (as it never has when it was human to human) these new AI UI tools that are parading as auto-design are in fact auto-art working tools.

interesting https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-code-connect/ keen to see how the styling is outputted.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future 

I think people often conflate novelty with creativity, which is why design suffers here.

Will AGI standardise how resizing handles work in design tools?

The web will be paid for https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205244/reddit-blocking-search-engine-crawlers-ai-bot-google

Wonder if figma wouldn’t have been in hot water if they released a wireframing ai tool. Solves the writers block problem without having to look like a copy cat.

Literally amazing. So much time having to make side specs is now gone. https://www.figma.com/blog/dev-mode-ga/

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