LMAO, Apple in the mud. Who here actually uses Siri? I personally don’t because it doesn’t have cutting-edge technology. ~ Garry Tan

.@discord_support your latest app update is bricked on macOS. The window will show up, but then it's frozen.

Probably the #1 request since auto-layout was introduced ✅ It works out of the gate for variable width fill layouts. For everything else, you can use nested frames to apply behaviors (variable height, alignment, etc).

SpiRobs (Octopus-Inspired Logarithmic Spiral Robot) by the University of Science and Technology of China.

He was starting to really annoy me. I was a new design director, running my first set of accounts and projects with my brand new team. The seasoned executive producer at the agency I worked at was out for parental leave, and we had a contract executive producer filling in for the next few months. I was leading a pretty big account, and this new guy started coming to my meetings all of a sudden. Any time I’d make a suggestion, he’d suggest the opposite. Any time I proposed a solution, he’d chime in that we’d solve it a different way. After a few weeks of this, I was starting to get annoyed, but I didn’t know what to do about it. So I asked him to have lunch with me one day. He apathetically agreed. I suggested a lunch place a few blocks away, and he said he’d meet me there after his meeting ended. I got a table and looked over the menu while waiting for him. A few minutes later, he walked in, and the server came over to take our order, starting with me. “I’ll have a burger.” ”Great. And for you, sir?” “Just fries.” “That’s it?” I asked. “This won’t be a long lunch,” he snubbed. Ouch. I took a deep breath, then got straight to the point. “Have I done something to offend you?“ I started. “Whaddya mean?” “Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like everything I say to our client, you seem to second-guess or have a different opinion about.” “I’ve worked with plenty of designers like you,” he fired back. “You promise the world to clients but then leave the developers and everyone else on the team holding the bag, and the project suffers for it. It always blows the budget and timeline for some creative whim.” “I get that,” I stated calmly, ”but that’s not me. You haven’t worked with me before. Would you give me a chance to show you that?” He contemplated. We ended up spending 2 more hours at that lunch, getting to know each other and clumsily figuring out how to collaborate successfully. He kept ordering fries, ultimately going through four plates. Over the next few months, we became close collaborators, figuring out how to take advantage of each other’s strengths. After both eventually leaving that agency, he’s hired me twice at startups he founded and exited. Years later, in an introduction email, he called me the best designer he’s ever worked with. Sometimes, it takes just fries.

Goldfish bowl pill made in @figma — utilising video import for fish and separate video for water, plus a separate sound video. Yes, for the askers, all in Figma 😊

When we announced YC was moving to 4 batches / yr, the most common question we got was "what letter will you use for the spring batch?" The answer is X. X25.

Or more precisely, you can optimize the rest of life by seeking out the places where it's applicable.

Yeah, totally amazing. All in a one day. Because there’s no way the GOP would have arranged a shady deal in advance, to hold off on a peaceful solution until the next presidency… again.

SpY's vast red ovoid suspends from bridge at noor riyadh for glowing gathering point designboom.com/art/spy-red-o…

A thread of accounts I've found most interesting: @robertskmiles @AlecStapp @waitbutwhy @skdh @robinhanson @amasad @cremieuxrecueil @bscholl @tylercowen @MaxCRoser @ahistoryinart @DKThomp @levie @ryangrim @scienceisstrat1 @CuriosMuseum

A contractor said something during this project which I thought was both compassionate and the sign that he was a skilled professional, and I thought I’d share: Scene: My mother, who has some mobility challenges, is sketching out what she wants in her kitchen. He listens.

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This is concerning. @figma is essentially tying Figjam and Flides subscriptions into a Figma subscription. Even Adobe doesn’t force people to subscribe to Creative Cloud to use Photoshop. ftc.gov/advice-guidance/comp…

#sousaphone #tuba #didgeridoo #dubstep #spacebass @cycling74

It feels weird having to replace the entire ThemeCore class in the @semplicelabs theme, just to prevent them from intentionally nerfing permalinks (for the nth time), but here we go again…

This takes me back to the Byzantine interview questions of my dev days.

Lots of people asked about @figma's variables/design tokens and we heard you! This Thursday at 9am PT, I'll be hosting a livestream where Josh Ferrell and @ryhanhassan will be sharing the story of how Figma evolved from our first set of design tokens to a full system, using Figma variables as our source of truth. Hope to see you all there! figma.bot/4hBwxbF