Matt Baxter

I think the bots are getting better at organizing!

Is nothing sacred anymore?

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

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?

New dev methodology: AI-Hallucination-Driven Development

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?

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...

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...

Claude being the most recent.

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.

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...

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

A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet · BXTR

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

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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...

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?

The gamification of nateparrott.com is brilliant.

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

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!

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

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

A Catalyst for Curiosity Wikenigma An Encyclopedia of Unknowns

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

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

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

I agree — it was an explosive time of creativity and potential on the web!

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

I often fall asleep with the thought: “I can’t wait to wake up and drink coffee.” 😄

2025: The Year of the Great Re-Buttoning

Very important PSA

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

Searching “November for the last 5 years” showed what I expected.

Searching more specifically for “November 24 two years ago” didn’t return anything.

I loved Nuzzel; this is great!