Mindaugas Rudokas

Paterson (2016) ⭐ 7.3 | Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 58m | R

I love slow movies.

“Paterson” 2016. Similar in mood to more recent “Perfect Days”.

Anything else comes to mind?

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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

Went for 1h tempo run, but did not hold, felt still too hot. So ended up interval-ing around.

#ClearYourHead with #Running

#SciFi, but not really.

“Efficiency”.

#AI

Note this note on Xcode beta 4, if you do a lot of UI:
mastodon.social/@tonyarnold/...

#SwiftUI

Easy long run. 22 km. 🏃

Nice clouds. ⛅️
Lots and lots of blooming in the fields. 🌸

#ClearYourHead with #Running

Introducing ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action ChatGPT now thinks and acts, proactively choosing from a toolbox of agentic skills to complete tasks for you using its own computer.

Is it “smart” for OpenAI to advertise the 98% correctness level of the agent work in the context of financial data processing?

openai.com/index/introd...

#AI

Scaffolding, #clojure, 2025.

Touching dead tree, looking for logo ideas.

Actually for 2 at once. Need something for a blog mark/logo and also one for personal signature-logo. Decided to spin up the blog under separate domain.

#WIP

we're in a slightly weird state today where the models are good, but not great. They can work for minutes at a time, but not yet hours. Users have widely varying degrees of trust in the models capabilities. And we're not even clear what the true capabilities of the models are.

Well, exactly…

calv.info/openai-refle...

#AI

When I have returned to social media my expectation was to post about SwiftUI and UI design.

I looked at my recent posts: it’s 55% about AI, 44% bashing the macOS Tahoe design, and 1% SwiftUI.

I guess critiquing Tahoe is still design talk. But how AI theme got a dominating position I have no idea.

Wow. No. Although I have watched a lot of accessibility content from WWDC over the years.

YouTube video by Lex Fridman DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474

DHH talks and rants about many things including the early days, the love and joy of craft, AI, “there is no retirement” point (to which I totally subscribe to).

Also unloads at Apple for the recent history. :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vagy...

Gillette are such environmentalists.

I should really look into switching to old-school blades.

Apple Watch displaying running workout result for open goal, 2 hours total time, and 20 kilometers distance.

Round numbers we like!

Slow long run.

Not too much. Not too little. Bit too hot. Could have used some cloud.

#ClearYourHead with #Running

YouTube video by Unit Artist on Artist: Tyler Hobbs & Matt DesLauriers in Conversation

On generative art, tools, materials, angles on AI and social media:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-11...

/cc:/ @jackrusher.com

We learn from history.

Save this for the Saturday – a treat of Mac UI timeline spelunking:

🤣

Language is a tool, it evolves over time to reflect the realities of the moment in human history.

Chart showing that Figma is dominating the UI design market.

This distribution does need a little bit of re-distribution.

It does not look healthy.

#Figma

Hoarding on rare earth glass materials:

developer.apple.com/forums/threa...

Scavengers Reign we love! Good comp!

Stop AI slop sign.

The AI slop of visual arts is insane. I suspect code slop will be the same. We need more anti-measures for curation purposes. Where are the startups to fight the slop?

I had a rant on Design Twitter today: x.com/mrudokas/sta...

1. Lawsuit based on demanding accessibility rights. 2. Infiltrate Apple, teach good taste. 3. Show how it is done from outside. (No leverage to apply force.) 4. Infiltrate Apple, steal the macOS source code, release as torrents, die in jail. 5. Hack Apple, steal the macOS source code, release as torrents, live anonymous. 6. Bring back the modding, the skinning, the Winamp/beOS era through OS patches without having the source code, use other UI frameworks, build new ones. 7. Build fucking web apps. 8. Write angry blogposts and tweets, if you can see where to click to send those. 9. Do nothing. Wait for RC. Die in despair. 10. All move to EU, pass laws from there. (Seems to work better.) 11. Mass-downgrade. (Global user base will not follow = can’t make apps as a business). 12. Pitch forks and torches.

The snark is thick, while crunching on glass.

What would be the modern version of pitch forks and torches if macOS Tahoe UI design decisions do not improve until fall?

🏴‍☠️

The translucent style of Dock on macOS Tahoe.

Will this be a new Touch Bar moment?

Or will fancy people really use the invisible dock? (On the Mac specifically.)

In WWDC video it was falsely promised that the walls of the Squircle Jail will be white. What a scam!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-9t...

YouTube video by Y Combinator Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

LLMs = “Stochastic simulations of people”

This is way more accurate term than “AI”. I like it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEm...

Anthropic just made every Claude user a no-code app developer Anthropic transforms Claude AI into a no-code app development platform with 500 million user-created artifacts, intensifying competition with OpenAI's Canvas feature as AI companies battle for develop...

“… intensifying battle for AI interface supremacy“

“The platform wars heat up …“

Topic is not hot enough! We need to use more HOT-words!!!

venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic...

Oh my... Patterns AND textures?
❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️

Contrast is a BIG deal.

#LiquidGlass #IconDesign