Former Financial Times journalist. Silicon Valley is now a Media Valley zdnet.com/blog/foremski/ siliconvalleywatcher.com/

Joined August 2007
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Tech companies used to sue anyone that copied the “look and feel” of their products. Will that trend reemerge?
🚨 Someone reverse-engineered the design systems of Apple, Spotify, Airbnb, and 30 billion-dollar companies. Packed each one into a single file. Free. It's called Awesome Design MD. Drop one file into your project. Your AI agent builds UI that looks like Spotify. Or Apple. Or Airbnb. Instantly. Not screenshots. Not Figma links. A single DESIGN .md file that captures every color, font, spacing value, button style, and layout pattern from a real website. In a format AI agents read and reproduce. Here's the difference: Tell Claude Code "build me a landing page" and it gives you generic UI. Tell Claude Code "build me a landing page" with Spotify's DESIGN .md in your project and it gives you Spotify. Here's what's inside: → Apple. Premium white space, SF Pro typography, cinematic imagery. → Spotify. Vibrant green on dark, bold type, album-art-driven layout. → Airbnb. Warm coral accent, photography-driven, rounded UI. → Linear. Ultra-minimal, precise spacing, purple accent. → SpaceX. Stark black and white, full-bleed imagery, futuristic. → BMW. Dark premium surfaces, precise German engineering aesthetic. → NVIDIA. Green-black energy, technical power aesthetic. → Uber. Bold black and white, tight type, urban energy. → Sentry, PostHog, Raycast, Cursor, ElevenLabs, and 20 more. Here's how to use it: → Pick a design system from the collection → Copy the DESIGN .md file into your project root → Tell your AI agent to use it → Get UI that matches the design language of a billion-dollar company That's it. One file. Your AI agent now has the design taste of a $200/hour design consultant. Designers charge $5,000 for a custom design system. Companies spend $50,000 building one from scratch. This is free. 31 design systems. Copy. Paste. Ship beautiful UI. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and any AI coding agent that reads project files. 100% Open Source. MIT License.
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Why expose your production database?! Best to clone it first and protect your production IT systems against mistakes.
Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/…
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Wow. Publishers were struggling before AI now they face an accelerated decline. But what does this mean for Google? It means it is not showing ads on hundreds of million pages.
No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-media…
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The combination of tariffs and inflation will save me a lot of money because fewer things will be affordable — that’s great for the environment (bad for our economy)
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Big corporations and Big Pharma run the government so is this what they wanted?: Unpredictable variable sky high tariffs to boost their sales, and strict immigration controls so that labour costs rise. All that money spent on lobbying over the years has bought little influence
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All these trade tariffs are great for the planet. People will buy less, which conserves resources, reduces carbon footprints, and less pollution. It's a massive blow against consumerism. Unsustainable, unfortunately, I doubt Trump will want to be known as the Green President
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Paranormal Activity (Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour Ep. 3) youtu.be/SRe0sFVQiLA?si=XG-Y… via @YouTube Superb satire

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Google has absales offices in every country it won’t disrupt revenues
It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Professor Timothy Snyder is an extraordinary historian using lessons from the past to inform the present. He is tireless in his efforts to prevent major problems in democracies and geopolitics. youtu.be/JVs2y-YeiFM?si=bKTh…
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Ridiculous. The poll should ask those surveyed if they've ever listened to Joe Rogan. Original experiences are vital in this age of untrusted information over received impressions from others, “55% Of Women Say That Listening To Joe Rogan Is A Red Flag” youtu.be/9J_3F1rLTFI?si=ZcdA…
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Pitchfork pitched into GQ magazine at Conde Nast. -- the media industry continues to struggle -- there is no stable business model to support quality journalism. Hugely important problem for our society. linkedin.com/news/story/pitc…
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My favorite feature of Artificial Intelligence systems is their "hallucinations" -- creating outright fake facts. I hope this mysterious feature continues unchanged -- we should never trust AI systems 100% -- human intelligence and critical reasoning is a vital layer
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The progress of General Artificial Intelligence is really about the distillation of whatever is human that remains... my concern is that there might not be much there that's unique or worth much
"ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary...We should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world." Nick Cave
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Tom Foremski retweeted
"ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary...We should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world." Nick Cave
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Steven Levy in this month's Wired magazine looks at "What OpenAI Really Wants" and if its mission for generating safe AI is being affected by it's for-profit business and 49% ownership by Microsoft... wired.com/story/what-openai-…
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The diversity of the VCs themselves would be very interesting and relevant
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Interesting news out of California — the state looks to pass a new bill that would require VC firms to report the diversity of the founders they fund in an effort to track where and to whom vc dollars are going. The bill's off for Newsom to sign. techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/ca…
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I’m very happy that the universe loves me so much as to organize a stunning collection of my favorite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti at The Tate Britain. Thank you!
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Hugely important study from Israel: Natural immunity wins youtu.be/IiA1S6NvCo4?si=50-g…

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The copy editors were the first to be cut as revenues plunged for newspapers and magazines … a crucial mistake that significantly affected quality and accuracy. Artificial Intelligence and its hallucinations won’t make things better, imho.
No, babblers. The mechanism of job replacement isn't necessarily a machine directly substituted for a human. Chat GDP may not directly replace a single copy editor, but as a tool used by some editors who can now cover more pages, it will reduce the total number of copy editors.
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