Built & led the Design Team at Twitch (7+ years) and similarly at Discord. Taking a break now to get married & Travel!. Also: https://nitter.cf/t.co/jqvhWxpFu7
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Whats even crazier to me is, we have like 3 different implementations of touch + multitasking. Touchscreen MacBooks & Spaces, iPads & Stage Manger + Windowed Apps, and then the Duo is doing it all different again... the systems thinker/designer in me is going nuts!!
Whole touchscreen Mac just seems like lunacy to me. I have to believe they will iterate? (Some crazy day you touch the screen & everything *bloop* morphs into a iPad/iOS window. Move the mouse/trackpad *bloop* back to traditional desktop. Ton of work to get developers there :/)
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Le puse la interfaz de la Wii a mi TV. Ahora estoy armando el Mii
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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
I think both things can be true: Fangirlism and performative social-media agendas for social currency around a problem has impacted real users. (This tweet and replies are funny as its ironically circular finger pointing)
Je ne sais pas si on se rend bien compte de la gravité de ce tweet. La plus grosse Youtubeuse tech aux US rend responsable les utilisateurs qui, par malchance, auraient reçu un iPhone Duo défaillant. Un tweet motivé uniquement par son fanboyisme.
Le journaliste @markgurman spécialiste d'Apple, la recadre, mais elle s'en contrefout. Le traitement médiatique des produits Apple par une petite partie de la presse et des influenceurs est calamiteuse.
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For 15+ years I’ve collected the interfaces that made me stop and ask “wait, how does this work?” Interface Lineage is now open interfacelineage.com
Learn the patterns and principles that turn “make no mistakes” into clear instructions for AI. 500+ interfaces, free to read.
Now Ive been back in the UK a while. I am kinda surprised how many folk on mobility scooters I am seeing. On one hand, very much happy folk dont feel confined at home, on the other... some people are "driving" these things crazy. Some dude went 100mph down the arcade here!
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Made a skill for dimensional drawings of UI components.
Inspired by Apple's accessory drawings, it documents a component's architecture into a spec sheet.
github.com/enesozturk/dimens…
I dont know if this whole thing is overblown, but glad I didnt end up getting me and the wife one of these. I'm sure apple fix and tweak this on the assembly line but likely will wait for iPhone Duo 2.
Good Lord. I saw today the Skyrim statue we dressed up in the Twitch office is now super rare and worth $4-$5k! I assume its in the "new" office on Bush Street somewhere still? Example Ebay auction link: ebay.co.uk/itm/334654096250
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Quake for Atari 8-bit now available!
kweepa.itch.io/quake64
Oooof those PHP x2 critical bugs just obliterated the internet and gave Sys Admins around the world a hell of a day!
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Introducing tiny.london
A massive isometric pixel map of London, based on amazing NYC demo by @_coenen from 9 months ago
My agent created the dataset, finetuned qwen image LoRA adapter, did a multiday inference run and built an efficient tile viewer!
I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents.
I didn't write a single line of code.
