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A photograph of a fire. The flames look like a fluid.

Fire.

A photo looking up at a jet in the sky flying past and it has four contrails behind in the colours cyan magenta yellow and black.

Inkjet.

"You're absolutely right." — Claude, while agreeing with my verbal abuse.

Also another fun experimental photography one, snapping moving Things and finding lucky shapes in them. www.flickr.com/photos/micro...

Some highlights. Descriptions in Alt.

The worst (best?) thing about llms is they were trained in an era where "immerse" was a buzzword.

Buzzwords aren't fun / Makes slop easy to spot

There's talk of the US cutting funding to NPR and PBS. I don't know if anything as valuable to global science communication as PBS SpaceTime on YouTube.

It's like cutting off Carl Sagan half way through filming Cosmos.

Tonight, I watched Oblivion (2013).

Don't be like me.

NASA comparison from Artemis 1 test.

- 1 test
- Successful launch and orbit
- Established a lunar trajectory
- Deployed a human-rated capsule
- Flyby of the moon
- Made a return trajectory
- Returned to Earth
- Entered the atmosphere, landed safely

A flawless, multi stage test by NASA.

Starship v2 so far:
10 tests
- 0 made it to orbit
- has never opened its payload doors
- has littered the Caribbean Sea with hundreds of tons highly pollutant debris

New today:
- destroyed their test launch site.

A male lion looking down through meshed wire making eye contact with the camera.

A male lion staring into the distance. His paw rests in front of him. Photograph taken from below inside a cage of meshed wire.

In January, I went to Monarto Zoo and did the Lions 360 experience where they put you in a cage and surround you with lions. Neat.

One of the lions was named Chad, and he passed a way this week.

Monarto posted about it on their FB: https://www.facebook.com/MonartoSafari/posts/zoos-sa-is-heartbrok

I bought 1000Kg of firewood.
When the guy delivered it, I said "thanks a ton."

A screenshot & mockup of coloured app icons on iOS. Calendar is red, Contacts is brown, Files is cyan, Fitness is light green, Health is pink, Maps is green, Messages is green, News is pink, Passwords is green, Photos is orange, Reminders is violet, Safari is cyan, Settings is grey, Shortcuts is purple, Wallet is off-white, Watch is black.

A screenshot of clear app icons on iOS. All icons are clear.

In iOS 26, the clear icons would make more sense if they used each app's accent colour.

My mockup isn't perfect, but it's kind of what i mean. The clear variant has almost no utility?

I haven't used the _actual_ accent colours here. If i did, it'd be very blue.

#WWDC #iconDesign #Design #iOS26

I had a crack at fixing the macOS 26 Finder icon.

Download it and take a look:
mattro.design/Finder.icon....

The .icon filetype is neat. In 7KB, i have these 3 variants ready to go.

#WWDC #macOS #iconDesigner #appIcon #iconDesign

Screenshot of iOS settings showing Safari address bar placement options.

Screenshot of Safari’s address bar positioned at the bottom.

Settings > Safari

Bottom tabs are better than compact tabs.

An iOS app icon. The background part of it shows colours that are similar to a map's colours, showing a road and a river. The foreground is a square map pin with an image in it. The image is similar to what is often depicted as a default image: A sun in the sky above two mountains.

The same iOS app icon as before, but in dark mode. The background map colours are muted and grey. The square map pin image shows a night sky, a crescent moon and darker mountains.

I did an app Icon for Geotag Alpha! (by @chendo.bsky.social)

geotagalpha.app

This was a fun and neat thing to put together. I got to make light and dark variants.

#appIcon #iconDesign #icon #design

Photo of a TRMNL device showing the current electricity price for Amber Energy.

I made a recipe for TRMNL. I called it AMBR, for Amber Energy.

#TRMNL

I think about this calendar often. Both for its ingenuity and creativity, and for its lack of success.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

It’s a _monster mash_.

Idea: LLM called "AI Jazeera".

macOS tip of the day.

Open Settings
Search for "correct" 🙄
Select "Spelling and prediction"

Turn off:
- "Correct spelling automatically"
- "Show inline predictive text"
- "Show suggested replies"
... and anything else you'd like to disable there.

But seriously, someone make a native Slack competitor.

More of this.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/

Studio Display is very good. Still.

I rewatched Dead Poets Society. It holds up.

Skala Makers of iStat Menus, Skala and other great apps.

We’ve just updated Skala’s page with some more details. Go, go, go! There’s additional info if you provide an email address. bjango.com/mac/skala/

Safari seems snappier.

Good Fight Good Fight is an independent publisher of photo books.

It's a big day! Good Fight is live. Launching a photo book press with a friend — @poodles.bsky.social — is squarely in dream-come-true territory. Our first book is available now at goodfight.co.

Did you sign up to get early access to an invitation to Digg.com ?

A diary entry for Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Watched Bicycle Thieves (1948) last night.

All time classic. Shot beautifully. The story is still reverberating.