Me: *makes a cute micro interaction, gets excited and shows it to others* Other product designers: “what is the need of this? Is it solving any problem?” Me: 🥺

I wrote a new article about a liquid effect I implemented 5 years ago. (It's been a while) Stable Fluids is used in this algorithm, and I explain how I applied it to create the liquid effect in this article. There are also small interactive demos and you can play with them! mofu-dev.com/en/blog/fluid-f…

Sam Altman often says that AI will lead to a “new Renaissance of creativity and discovery”. Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen ask why the 21st century has no aesthetic of its own, citing the Bauhaus as the 20th century exemplar. Know how the Bauhaus started? In 1907, electrification was beginning to transform life in Europe. AEG, the largest electrical company in Germany at the time, hired the architect Peter Behrens as its artistic consultant. He overhauled their brand identity, revolutionised their product design and designed the AEG Turbinenfabrik in Berlin, a vast factory for steam turbines, essentially the data center of its day. Today it’s considered one of the foundational monuments of what we think of as “modern” design. Behrens ran a large studio full of talented young assistants during this period. Among them were Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, the architect who founded the Bauhaus ten years later. Meanwhile the creative and cultural divisions of large tech companies today are full to the brim with corporate middle-managers. Behrens and the Bauhaus believed that beauty vs utility was a false dichotomy, that technology and art formed part of a greater project of progress. The tech industry today has an opportunity to take on this mantle and reimagine how the world looks and feels, not just how it works. But for all the professed love of risk in Silicon Valley, they seem too conservative to try.

In 2004, India’s official count said the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan had 16-18 tigers. But, visitors had not seen one in months. The truth: Sariska’s tigers had been poached to extinction. What follows is the stunning story of how a supposedly, “poor country” mobilised to save the tiger. From rebuilding its counting methods, camera traps, statistics, satellites and an app. This is the story of how a country that has learnt to lived with tigers for millennia, learnt again how to protect it. Issue 7: How India Actually Saved the Tiger, written by @sonakshi_geog, edited by @fahadmh , tracked, counted & built by @AltCarbonIndia altermag.com/articles/how-in…

Side effect of the new LRS scheme is going to shaft a lot of the salaried class again (The class that gets shafted every time). Shut out of employer ESPP schemes. May even impact RSUs. Employees will likely resort to not selling their RSUs and bringing money in.

I've spent 20+ years launching products and features. I finally wrote down the early access playbook I wish I'd had when I started. docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Anthropic S-1 is out! sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…

Ellsworth Kelly exhibition posters, 1972–1981.