mattkevan

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by mattkevan 15d ago
Yeah I’ve done that, and added a list of banned words and phrases to AGENTS. It regularly forgets and lands load-bearing seams worth my eye.
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by mattkevan 15d ago
I hate Opus 5’s writing style. It’s exhausting. Really hoping there’s a release that fixes it soon as I can feel my sanity slipping away as I try and parse what the hell it’s trying to say.
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by mattkevan 20d ago
Maybe if employers offered better working conditions and salaries people wouldn’t feel the need to go on strike?
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by mattkevan 22d ago
From what I remember, they bought Danger which had a popular product that worked, but some VP made them rewrite all their software on a Microsoft stack. This took years and didn’t work very well. By the time they were finally released they
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by mattkevan 22d ago
It’s easy to forget what a difference multitouch capacitive touchscreens made to mobile devices. As far as I’m aware, the iPhone was the first device to use it at scale. Apple also spent years designing a new interaction paradigm for it, ta
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by mattkevan 1mo ago
Ha yeah you're right. It wasn't a proper homepage if it didn't have an animated traffic cone 'Under construction' gif.
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by mattkevan 1mo ago
It's really annoying. I've had to write a CLAUDE.md file that specifically bans particular phrases and tries to keep narrative out of comments. Also the I have ADHD skill [1] helps to force Opus to get to the point. It's also
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by mattkevan 1mo ago
I’m old and it’s definitely not the old web. I consider the old web to be when PNGs were sliced with Fireworks and laid out in tables. 2009-2014 is Web 2.0, back when people still thought social media was a good idea.
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by mattkevan 1mo ago
Ha, openlibrary and google books for now. And yes, the covers are not great. Currently just pleased to get it working, will add better providers later.
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by mattkevan 1mo ago
I’m making Stacks, an open source ebook manager and server, as a lightweight alternative to Calibre. Written in Swift, it consists of a SwiftUI browser and a Mac/Linux server and CLI. Shares are automatically discovered via Bonjour&#x2
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by mattkevan 2mo ago
I had that same model, except I fitted the chips myself. The first time I’d really ever looked inside a computer and very exciting for me age 11. The old Arthur ROMs were a prize possession for quite some time afterwards.
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by mattkevan 2mo ago
I reckon the same dipshits responsible for Microsoft’s product naming in the early 2000s all moved on to Google to wreak the same havoc there.
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by mattkevan 3mo ago
I once had a model insist that I was a web designer living in Brighton who ran an agency called 'Guerilla Futures' and was the author of a series of UX design for babies books. Obviously it was a hallucination, but a very detailed
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by mattkevan 3mo ago
• A social ebook reading app where you can create reading groups and have realtime discussions. • A visual moodboard and notes app that uses local models to link and surface content, a bit like an AI powered Memex. • A new UI design tool fo
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by mattkevan 3mo ago
Where are we on the embrace/extend/extinguish curve right about now?
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
What an arsehole. Multi-billionaire says to work harder to make him richer faster. The sooner this attitude is recognised as a sickness the better.
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
Ah design by committee, that well known route to design excellence!
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
Obltrtr
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
That’s an insane take.
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
Maybe if they're posted again and again, they're real pain points and should be addressed?
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
Photoshop's interface is getting worse [1] and everyone hates Adobe, so there's a great opportunity for a tool like GIMP to step up and become the default alternative. It's got a lot of features, it's been around for a l
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
The company absolutely failed the test. If they're not using industry standard tools then it's a sign they don't take the role seriously. That would be a huge red flag to me. It's like applying to be developer and being
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
I’m building a UI design app similar to Figma or Sketch, but with a few differences: 1. Responsive artboards and flex-like layout engine 2. Deep support for design tokens 3. HTML/CSS previews and export 4. Multiplayer AI and human coll
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
Pipedream was an odd bit of software, but the article is a bad take on RiscOS itself. It was way ahead of Windows at the time and even Mac OS didn’t really catch up until System 8. I was astonished when going to friends’ houses at how backw
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by mattkevan 4mo ago
Programs being folders was useful for mischief. Most people never noticed the ! in the filename, so I’d amuse myself by turning classmates’ document folders into applications that would run a script when clicked. I’d fire scary error messag
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by mattkevan 5mo ago
I’m building a new product design app that is made from the start for design systems and agentic collaboration. Tried posting about it a few times in the UX design sub as I thought it might be interesting to fellow designers, but they all g
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by mattkevan 5mo ago
Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere
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by mattkevan 5mo ago
The company I currently work for is both a B-Corp and an employee-owned trust. The difference in culture, attitude and behaviour to the previous place I worked at, which only cared about quarterly results is stark.
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by mattkevan 5mo ago
It’s not really, companies like GM used to boast about how well they treated their employees and communities. It was Jack Welch and a legion of like-minded arseholes who decided they should be increasingly richer no matter who or what paid
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by mattkevan 5mo ago
About as accurate as a horoscope. Sherlock Holmes it is not. It got the location (exif, I guess) and was able to identify that I was a balding mediocre middle-aged guy, but the more specific it got the more wrong (and insulting) it was. &qu

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