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Austin Joseph

@austinjxseph.bsky.social

Design Engineer, London, posts.cv alum

524 Followers  |  1,108 Following  |  331 Posts  |  Joined: 19.10.2024
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Try changing the icon to dark in this still β€œsecret” menu
bsky.app/settings/app...

28.10.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

I had this exact rant w someone earlier this week. That and the toolbars being broken into blobs. Looks so distracting and not scalable at all. Always thought MacOS was close to perfect the way it is, atleast the general stuff.

14.06.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna bet this is the next $500M ARR )) Atb!

10.06.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m really really hoping they they keep the reduce transparency option in as they do now on iOS 18. I can barely stand the semi transparent control centre, let alone a full-on Windows Vista travesty.

09.06.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a demo of Apple Spotlight at WWDC '25

Screenshot of a demo of Apple Spotlight at WWDC '25

Apple rips off @raycast.com and still fumbles the bag with those god awful paddings and corner radiuses πŸ‘πŸΌ

09.06.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This ain’t even about a revenue stream, this is Figma prepping for an IPO next year. Pretty sure they’ll kill it a lot of these releases in the next couple of years in true Google fashion.

09.05.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That was for Figma Make, not Sites.

09.05.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely love this. Really hoped more digital creatives spoke about and cared about more than typography and desk setups. This is definitely the right tree.

15.04.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually you have a point lol. But if you really pretend that the other verticals don’t exist, you could get away with using them just for one thing. I still use Cron as my daily calendar but have moved out of Notion completely, and they haven’t really pulled me back into it.

09.04.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As much as I hate their ethos (I loved both Cron and Skiff before Notion bought them out and devolved their branding) they’re prolly the only ones sticking their original idea prop.

09.04.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think calendar apps (productivity apps in general) are notoriously hard to monetise, and the Amie guy seems to be shooting to scale / exit. Only way I can explain the pivot.

09.04.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn’t this literally the plot of The Beekeeper (equally shite movie) but with a different blue collar job? Ffs, Ayer.

05.04.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
tweet from @iamdevloper - vibe coding, where 2 engineers can now create the tech debt of at least 50 engineers

tweet from @iamdevloper - vibe coding, where 2 engineers can now create the tech debt of at least 50 engineers

The said technical debt will create more jobs than LLMs will ever replace, hence causing what I call the the vibe spiral.

01.04.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is bril! Hoping y’all amp up the design language soon, can’t wait ))

31.03.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That keyboard is pristine, protect that keyboard at all costs

29.03.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just to be clear, people don’t hate AI.

People hate other people who stupidly praise AI for things it can not do, people who trained AI on stolen data and people who move money into AI with a purpose of firing people who do a better job than AI.

29.03.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And he’s never shut up about it since. Still running rampant on Instagram as we speak. (type?)

29.03.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, haven’t really seen much on Bluesky either but X / LinkedIn seem to have a few bad actors

27.03.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why is "Studio Ghibli" or "Wes Anderson" like the only descriptors people lacking any creativity seem to be able to reference

27.03.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2049    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

If we had a cent for everytime a tech bro sat down and thought about what impact their new thingymajig would have on the wider society, we’d have like …2 cents.

27.03.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
27.03.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of this is just filtering noise, and might not even be an attempt at malice but if I saw my life’s work getting ripped off by something that my moral compass doesn’t align with at all, I’d have serious problems with it πŸ˜•

27.03.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Walrus | Do more with your data Walrus is a decentralized storage platform that enables you to publish, deliver, and program any data, onchain.

The new style on the interweb with the whole blueprint + pixel + monospace is actually quite refreshing, been loving β€˜em <3

27.03.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks fresh! Personally would love a ui refresh for the app because I’m in love with what it’s capable of β€” anything you’d be able to tease soon? πŸ‘€

27.03.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Out-of-your-face AI - Zed Blog From the Zed Blog: Making Zed's edit predictions appear only when holding a modifier key, instead of as you type.

Interesting to see a code editor offer an option to still make AI available but tone down how intense it is zed.dev/blog/out-of-...

27.03.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Even with it, I think had to do with whether the site is an SPA, and it’s pretty much a Chromium thing I guess

26.03.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Firefox is Finally Adding Support for Web Apps A few months back Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's requests to do

> web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks

I don't really understand this, there's no practical use for this if the window frame isn't minimal

26.03.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Some apps are kinda stubborn about not dropping a native app, like Webflow for instance β€” where a PWA is the only option close enough to skip cycling tabs.

26.03.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Raycast - Your shortcut to everything A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.

I’m blown away by all the things that @raycast.com does and I don’t even feel like I’ve scratched the surface yet. It goes deep! But even if you *just* use it as a Spotlight replacement, it’s so much faster than Apple’s built-in solution.

25.03.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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Play Β· Design and ship mobile apps with the power of iOS & SwiftUI Play is a collaborative tool that lets you design, prototype, and ship your apps. Use real native elements & materials, Apple's native gestures & Core Animation, and ship directly to Xcode.

Chat is createwithplay.com the next @framer.com? πŸ‘€

25.03.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0