Dale de Silva

Priorities in Project Browser (DesDevDiary) YouTube video by Design Debt Club

Project Browser DesDevDiary
#BuildInPublic
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Awesome! Thanks for the shout out!

Interactive Journalling App? (DesDevDiary) YouTube video by Design Debt Club

...Still working on stuff.
AI #Journalling into plain text files anyone?

#BuildInPublic
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Zero Latency eInk input in Obsidian (DesDevDiary) YouTube video by Design Debt Club

Zero Latency in #Boox #eInk devices for @obsdmd when using my Ink plugin.

Still proof of concept, but it's happening.
www.youtube.com/live/nU5zMYX...

Anyone who thinks of cooking as the killer app for augmented reality has never opened an oven door with glasses on.

Ink v0.3.4 - Minor updates (DesDevDiary) YouTube video by Design Debt Club

Just streamed some Ink updates.
I upgraded my internet so it would be better but it's still not enough :(

It's a bit better though so I guess I'll lower my framerate till I get FTTP.
www.youtube.com/live/50EpBdP...

Always up for expanding networks with designer devs!

Pausing for a sec to update the command icons in Ink for @obsidian.md .
Top row is Drawing. Bottom is Writing.
#uiDesign

Two thirds of these commands will probably go away, but as long you can tell them apart for now.

#TheHotSpot on Netflix is soo good!
Great concept and well written ☺️

Watching the last season of #StarTrek Enterprise finally… Oof. It’s the mirror universe episodes.

It’s telling that Archer’s having a hard time making himself seem angrier than his non-mirror self.

Considering Ink embed formats (DesDevDiary) YouTube video by Design Debt Club

Streaming now to look at the potential #markdown embed formats for Obsidian Ink handwriting.
www.youtube.com/live/5WmR0_M...
#toolsForThought

2024 Gems of the year winners Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards! After our panel narrowed down the selection and the community voted on...

Ink was one of 7 runners up!
Thanks to everyone using it! ❤️❤️❤️
obsidian.md/blog/2024-go...

Plugins - Obsidian With thousands of plugins and our open API, it's easy to tailor Obsidian to fit your personal workflow.

50,000 downloads!!
Thanks for using Ink! 🙏🙏

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YouTube video by Unitree Robotics Unitree G1 Bionic: Agile Upgrade

Walking on rocks and not looking unstable? I’ll take two please.

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YouTube video by Skillaroo - Your Career Partner EP 4 | Dale de Silva - Building at the Intersection of Code, Motion & Art

I was on a podcast!
I managed to gasbag all about my career and managing my side projects ❤️
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#design #development

Either. But smaller and matching the theme

Keep doing your crappy little drawings (Staging XR scenes) Some people create beautiful perspective illustrations to visualise and storyboard their virtual reality designs… And it's tempting to think you're not a strong designer if you're not doing that too.

Here’s the 3rd article in my series about designing for #VirtualReality and #XR

“Keep doing your crappy little drawings”
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Currently watching and learning from one of my oldest live streams.

Really glad I documented myself problem solving this thing 🤣

YES!

Stream coming up for Obsidian Ink Handwriting. Hope to see you there!

www.youtube.com/live/_B2a9zT...

Not a roadmap! Recent, current, and 2025 initiatives What’s Penpot working on and what’s coming next? A roadmap lays out a series of steps to reach a goal, each becoming a commitment. However, when innovating, commitments can be tricky. You’re exploring...

Quote taken from this post:
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I’m reading a lot into one little quote about @penpot.app’s approach to AI…

And I think Penpot still has a long way to go to compete…

But I think their willingness to say their approach aligns more with ML than the newest buzzword, takes courage and brings me hope.

But still, that’s no reason to use AI (or any anticipatory design approach), to avoid building in good user tune-ability.

To be fair, that lazy design approach has been happening for a long time (most notably for me when iTunes supplanted Winamp, and then even more when Spotify supplanted iTunes), and AI does actually get this approach closer to a functional version of the promise.

AI can also be used to create one size fits all bullshit…
“Instead of giving you better controls and more intuitive customise-ability, we’re gone claim that AI will make those decisions (that you want to make) for you…
…Rather than doing the needed UI and UX work.

In doing that, you change your target audience from designers or writers to non designers or writers.
You change your focus to enabling people who DON’T want to.

That’s an okay business model and useful, but it doesn’t create better work. It creates lower barriers.

I hear over and over that AI will be good for automating the things we don’t want to do freeing us up to do the things we do…

…And then companies release features that do the designing for designers, or the writing for writers.

I really appreciate the @penpot.app team’s perspective here in regard to AI.

“Our approach is, let’s say, more in line with good-old machine learning. This will help us focus not on generating outputs, something we’re not very interested in, but on assisting in design processes.”

Also, yep, I don’t regret it

In what way? Do you do freelance animation for them?