Daniël van der Winden

“We became servants to the process, following it step by step every single time, saying stuff like “trust the process.” We made designers feel like their work wasn’t complete if they didn’t start from a perfectly articulated problem statement.”

jennywen.ca/notes/dont-t...

Bluesky Is Trapped in a Doom Loop once hailed as the future of decentralized ("nontoxic") social media, bluesky is shedding users and realizing

The premise of this article — that Bluesky needs hypergrowth — is exactly the problem.

The idea that internet companies should grow infinitely and monopolize their space, fattened on VC cash driven by optimistic valuations, is exactly what ruined the internet. www.piratewires.com/p/bluesky-is...

Gazillion dollar IPO but @figma.com Mirror is still flakey as fudge.

A vinyl record in my hand. It’s Tyler, The Creator’s “Don’t Tap The Glass”.

👉🥛

Substack is not sustainable from a business perspective— and that's before you get to the fact that they are now pushing Nazi content onto people's phones.

You either move now or move in shame later. Those are the two options really.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

YouTube video by isaac Fontaines D.C. - Live at TRNSMT 2025

The best (live) band right now? Probably.

youtu.be/aogoo90kiA0?...

is it summer yet 🫨

YouTube video by Warner Bros. One Battle After Another | Official Trailer 2

I can't wait. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQUP....

Working on a custom theme for my bookish website :)

Well put. Also, the level of craft in the production has been astonishing since IGOR. Layer after layer of sonic mastery. This one, however brief, is no different.

Thank you, Árón! Colly was in there already, the others are added now.

Whose site has your favourite RSS feed?

Or,

I’m so torn on Tailwind. I feel like I work faster when I use it, and slower all the same.

Floating Points @TheLotRadio 07-11-2025 YouTube video by The Lot Radio

www.youtube.com/live/1rLJYqj...

yeah I envy you

Commits · dvdwinden/danielvdwww My personal and portfolio website. Contribute to dvdwinden/danielvdwww development by creating an account on GitHub.

Took some time to improve the accessibility of my website, adding skip links, ARIA roles and labels, and keyboard navigation.

github.com/dvdwinden/da...

YouTube video by CRITERION Simon Pegg’s Closet Picks

“Sometimes being repulsed by something is the point.”

youtu.be/vIYr2eAlazo?...

I need to seek out more greats.

Help me understand 😵‍💫

A bit of Substack UI recommending me I follow me.

The Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme.

Opened an email from a Substack publication I am subscribed to. Clicked a link to open it in the browser, and they want me to ... follow me!

This makes sense. Number go up!

Haha, more than happy to proofread and submit similar PRs to my site, repo is publicly available 😂

A commit on GitHub. It reads "Fix spelling mistkae".

Accidentally conceptually sound commit message.

SEEN, READ 2024 All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story”   01/02 Blaming, Elizabeth Taylor 01/04 THE CON...

cute way of keeping a film/series/book log: extension765.com/blogs/soderb...

A view of the French Pyrenees, capped with snow.

Don't mind if I do 😌

Feels a little strange to only focus on writing when there's a lot of musical equipment available, but who knows, perhaps I find doing field recordings is my jam.

www.campfr.com/residencies

Simon Collison | Journal | Camp france Notes tagged 'camp france'

I ran into the CAMP residency (“a place to think/work/create/live”) via @colly.com's journal and, after mulling it over for a while, decided to sign up for a week of my own in November. I aim to dedicate it to writing. Really looking forward.

colly.com/journal/tag:...

My name was covering the text on my site on mobile, so i finally took a minute to make sure the header hides when you scroll down and appears when you scroll up.

😌

Redemption from losing the French Open final, perhaps? :)