Did you know that the .png format was created out of spite? Or that .jpeg just discards like half of the colours in your image because you won't notice? To celebrate last week's launch, I published a chapter on image compression. makingsoftware.com/chapters/…

Can't stress this enough 😅 The funniest part is that every new generation thinks the shortcut is the tool 🧰 It's almost always the fundamentals 🫠

Just saw a demo of what @SparklinGuy and the team at @WeAreMakior have been cooking up 🧑‍🍳 Creatives are in for a serious treat 🚀

Have you ever wondered how I make some of the illustrations for makingsoftware.com? Well, I made a video walking through some of the tooling I've made. Hopefully its interesting.

Made this interaction of Linear’s dithered logo for our latest release. It’s using canvas with a lot of tiny dots. There’s an invisible circle around the cursor. Any dot inside it gets pushed outward with a cubic falloff so it’s gentle on the edges, and strong at the center.

Maturing is realizing that Tony Stark was a vibe-coder.

There is an invisible layer that affects many friendships in Bengaluru. That layer is called urban and civic exhaustion. Friendships don’t fade because people don’t care. They fade because the city quietly drains the energy required to sustain them. The traffic takes an hour out of your evening. Work spills into what used to be personal time. Weekends become recovery periods rather than social ones. You start saying things like: “Let’s meet soon.” “Next week for sure.” “Once things settle down.” Things rarely settle down. What earlier required a 10 minute auto ride now requires planning, coordination, and stamina. You have to build stamina to be rejected by drivers on apps, to cross under constructed sites, to take long jumps over open drainages and collect dust on your face. Friendships slowly move from physical spaces to WhatsApp reactions and Instagram replies. The affection is still there. The intent is still there. But the civic friction of the city sits between people. In cities like Bengaluru, maintaining friendships has quietly become an act of effort. And sometimes, effort is the first casualty of urban and civic exhaustion.

Let’s Go on.design/claim?ref=qriusv

"You need AI for design." You mean, you need a eye for design.

Had tweeted this question ~5 years ago. Very cool to now be part of a product launch at @JioHotstar - Conversational Search in partnership with @OpenAI - which practically gives me choices for this so easily now. And interestingly, the top few results are exactly what came up on the twitter thread 😅

"Tell your Lord that iPhone 17 has a thermally-conductive aluminum unibody, dual-side Ceramic Shield, ProRes Raw, A19 chip and 48MP fusion camera equal to 8 lenses.” "The Anjin says iPhone 17 is exactly like the iPhone 16 with slightly better camera and comes in cosmic orange.”

I LOVE good analogies reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfi…

'First principles thinking' is perhaps the most important skill one should aim to have and build in their teams. Everything else is a distant second.

Stay idle on design.cash.app

Super happy to share @nammayatri’s onboarding design, promoting accessibility, inclusivity, and robust urban infrastructure for a tap-like mobility experience.