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Matt Baxter

@bxtr.co.bsky.social

Interested in product management, design, video games, tech, generative computer art, coffee, whiskey, and finding other interests.

25 Followers  |  50 Following  |  31 Posts  |  Joined: 24.10.2024  |  1.8594

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I think the bots are getting better at organizing!

29.12.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is nothing sacred anymore?

06.08.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

Interesting. Seems like there can be alternative images for in-app purchases and subscriptions. The Overcast one is the most odd one though.

03.08.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why do some iOS apps in Apple receipt emails and have wildly different icons than the actual apps? Were these placeholder icons used at some point?

01.08.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

New dev methodology: AI-Hallucination-Driven Development

08.07.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dust jackets on book drive me crazy. They just slide off and make it harder to hold. Why do we still have them? Have we not innovated in the book domain to come up with better technology?

31.05.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New London School explosion - Wikipedia

Wow, I just recently learned that the reason natural gas has a smell is due to the New London school explosion in 1937. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lon...

24.05.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dead Man's Switch, a microfiction Another idiot with a trillion souls in his back pocket.

I enjoyed this AI microfiction by Robin Sloan www.robinsloan.com/lab/dead-man...

24.05.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Claude being the most recent.

12.05.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure if this is a recent trend or not, but my favorite thing I've noticed about UI design lately is using off-white / paper-like background colors. I find it to be so much more soothing than stark white UI.

12.05.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
2 comic panels, in beautiful, detailed, striking ink: 1. A T-Rex stands over a tamer dinosaur. Text: "She has to keep them in her mouth. She has berries. In her mouth. For her little ones." 2. The second dinosaur, struck to the ground, dying. Text: "She had to feed her little ones."

2 comic panels, in beautiful, detailed, striking ink: 1. A T-Rex stands over a tamer dinosaur. Text: "She has to keep them in her mouth. She has berries. In her mouth. For her little ones." 2. The second dinosaur, struck to the ground, dying. Text: "She had to feed her little ones."

I archived scans of Steve Bissette's cult comic TYRANT, a gorgeous and beautifully written 4-issue story of a T-rex's life, from hatching to death. It's researched and educational; but also visceral and heartbreaking. Comics at its best.

archive.org/details/stev...

18.04.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, these are incredible. His art style is so detailed and visceral. Thanks for sharing.

19.04.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet Β· BXTR

Did you know, there's A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet? bxtr.co/a-few-people...

08.04.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Installer Newsletter Installer is a weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe. Subscribe here.

Installer has become the first newsletter I read on Saturday mornings. Basically a collection of all that’s good and fun on the internet. www.theverge.com/installer-ne...

05.04.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How is it that text on Windows is still so bad? I attempted to edit a Google doc while on my gaming PC and I could not believe how bad the text rendering looked compared to my Mac. I figured this would be a solved thing by now. Am I missing some sort of configuration option?

31.03.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Nate Parrott’s Nice and Engaging Website

The gamification of nateparrott.com is brilliant.

09.03.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
feeeed Β» scroll without the doom Follow anyone and any website. YouTube channels, RSS feeds, subreddits, local weather, personal step counts, birthday reminders and more.

This feeeed app is great. Great interactions, lots of options for adding news sources. Incorporating your personal photo library is a great idea too. feeeed.nateparrott.com

08.03.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I realized I hadn’t tried a different model than 4o. I just switched to o1 for a side project and it gave me a much more thorough plan. Huge difference!

10.02.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds like a solid combo. I’ve been thinking about trying our cursor.

09.02.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d be curious to hear more about your workflow. What tools are you using?

09.02.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Catalyst for Curiosity Wikenigma An Encyclopedia of Unknowns

Wikenigma is an encyclopedia of known unknowns. That is, a listing of β€œscientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer”. [wikenigma.org.uk]

24.01.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

06.01.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6697    πŸ” 1025    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 93

It is mind-boggling bad. Practically indescribable; your description is the best so far.

02.01.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree β€” it was an explosive time of creativity and potential on the web!

30.11.2024 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A painting of a bird beside the text "welcome to dingusville"

A painting of a bird beside the text "welcome to dingusville"

28.11.2024 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

I often fall asleep with the thought: β€œI can’t wait to wake up and drink coffee.” πŸ˜„

27.11.2024 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

2025: The Year of the Great Re-Buttoning

25.11.2024 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very important PSA

25.11.2024 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Search on the latest Photos app on iOS works better than I thought, but still not perfect.

Searching β€œNovember for the last 5 years” showed what I expected.

Searching more specifically for β€œNovember 24 two years ago” didn’t return anything.

25.11.2024 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I loved Nuzzel; this is great!

23.11.2024 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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