Matt Baxter
@bxtr.bsky.social
Interested in product management, design, video games, tech, generative computer art, coffee, whiskey, and finding other interests.
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Is nothing sacred anymore?
August 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Is nothing sacred anymore?
Why do some iOS apps in Apple receipt emails and have wildly different icons than the actual apps? Were these placeholder icons used at some point?
August 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Why do some iOS apps in Apple receipt emails and have wildly different icons than the actual apps? Were these placeholder icons used at some point?
New dev methodology: AI-Hallucination-Driven Development
ChatGPT kept directing people to use a non-existent feature on Soundslice…so the team built it. “To my knowledge, this is the first case of a company developing a feature because ChatGPT is incorrectly telling people it exists. (Yay?)” (via @waxy.org) [holovaty.com]
July 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New dev methodology: AI-Hallucination-Driven Development
Dust jackets on book drive me crazy. They just slide off and make it harder to hold. Why do we still have them? Have we not innovated in the book domain to come up with better technology?
May 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Dust jackets on book drive me crazy. They just slide off and make it harder to hold. Why do we still have them? Have we not innovated in the book domain to come up with better technology?
Wow, I just recently learned that the reason natural gas has a smell is due to the New London school explosion in 1937. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lon...
New London School explosion - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Wow, I just recently learned that the reason natural gas has a smell is due to the New London school explosion in 1937. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lon...
I enjoyed this AI microfiction by Robin Sloan www.robinsloan.com/lab/dead-man...
Dead Man's Switch, a microfiction
Another idiot with a trillion souls in his back pocket.
www.robinsloan.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I enjoyed this AI microfiction by Robin Sloan www.robinsloan.com/lab/dead-man...
I'm not sure if this is a recent trend or not, but my favorite thing I've noticed about UI design lately is using off-white / paper-like background colors. I find it to be so much more soothing than stark white UI.
May 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I'm not sure if this is a recent trend or not, but my favorite thing I've noticed about UI design lately is using off-white / paper-like background colors. I find it to be so much more soothing than stark white UI.
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I archived scans of Steve Bissette's cult comic TYRANT, a gorgeous and beautifully written 4-issue story of a T-rex's life, from hatching to death. It's researched and educational; but also visceral and heartbreaking. Comics at its best.
archive.org/details/stev...
archive.org/details/stev...
April 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I archived scans of Steve Bissette's cult comic TYRANT, a gorgeous and beautifully written 4-issue story of a T-rex's life, from hatching to death. It's researched and educational; but also visceral and heartbreaking. Comics at its best.
archive.org/details/stev...
archive.org/details/stev...
Did you know, there's A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet? bxtr.co/a-few-people...
A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet · BXTR
bxtr.co
April 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Did you know, there's A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet? bxtr.co/a-few-people...
Installer has become the first newsletter I read on Saturday mornings. Basically a collection of all that’s good and fun on the internet. www.theverge.com/installer-ne...
Installer Newsletter
Installer is a weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe. Subscribe here.
www.theverge.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Installer has become the first newsletter I read on Saturday mornings. Basically a collection of all that’s good and fun on the internet. www.theverge.com/installer-ne...
How is it that text on Windows is still so bad? I attempted to edit a Google doc while on my gaming PC and I could not believe how bad the text rendering looked compared to my Mac. I figured this would be a solved thing by now. Am I missing some sort of configuration option?
March 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
How is it that text on Windows is still so bad? I attempted to edit a Google doc while on my gaming PC and I could not believe how bad the text rendering looked compared to my Mac. I figured this would be a solved thing by now. Am I missing some sort of configuration option?
The gamification of nateparrott.com is brilliant.
Nate Parrott’s Nice and Engaging Website
nateparrott.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The gamification of nateparrott.com is brilliant.
This feeeed app is great. Great interactions, lots of options for adding news sources. Incorporating your personal photo library is a great idea too. feeeed.nateparrott.com
feeeed » scroll without the doom
Follow anyone and any website. YouTube channels, RSS feeds, subreddits, local weather, personal step counts, birthday reminders and more.
feeeed.nateparrott.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This feeeed app is great. Great interactions, lots of options for adding news sources. Incorporating your personal photo library is a great idea too. feeeed.nateparrott.com
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Wikenigma is an encyclopedia of known unknowns. That is, a listing of “scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer”. [wikenigma.org.uk]
A Catalyst for Curiosity
Wikenigma An Encyclopedia of Unknowns
wikenigma.org.uk
January 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Wikenigma is an encyclopedia of known unknowns. That is, a listing of “scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer”. [wikenigma.org.uk]
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Reposted by Matt Baxter
Very important PSA
Thanksgiving... a.k.a. the perfect time to stealthily turn off motion smoothing on your relatives' TVs.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Very important PSA
Search on the latest Photos app on iOS works better than I thought, but still not perfect.
Searching “November for the last 5 years” showed what I expected.
Searching more specifically for “November 24 two years ago” didn’t return anything.
Searching “November for the last 5 years” showed what I expected.
Searching more specifically for “November 24 two years ago” didn’t return anything.
November 25, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Search on the latest Photos app on iOS works better than I thought, but still not perfect.
Searching “November for the last 5 years” showed what I expected.
Searching more specifically for “November 24 two years ago” didn’t return anything.
Searching “November for the last 5 years” showed what I expected.
Searching more specifically for “November 24 two years ago” didn’t return anything.
I loved Nuzzel; this is great!
Sill, find trending links from your Bluesky and Mastodon network: like Nuzzel was for Twitter and now out of private beta; I shared this too early and deleted it last week, sorry if you saw it twice! https://sill.social/
November 23, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I loved Nuzzel; this is great!
Such a fun nostalgia trip and look behind the scenes of the Super Mario Land games on GameBoy.
These were some odd Mario games but I sure sunk a ton of time into them as a kid.
youtu.be/Jg1IIIJTrBI?...
These were some odd Mario games but I sure sunk a ton of time into them as a kid.
youtu.be/Jg1IIIJTrBI?...
The Story of the Super Mario Land Series
YouTube video by Gaming Historian
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Such a fun nostalgia trip and look behind the scenes of the Super Mario Land games on GameBoy.
These were some odd Mario games but I sure sunk a ton of time into them as a kid.
youtu.be/Jg1IIIJTrBI?...
These were some odd Mario games but I sure sunk a ton of time into them as a kid.
youtu.be/Jg1IIIJTrBI?...
This is a really cool feature.
💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky!
This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br.
Here's our guide for how to do this:
This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br.
Here's our guide for how to do this:
How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 12:31 AM
This is a really cool feature.
I’m very impressed with the feel of the Bluesky app. It’s so much more responsive and snappier than X or Threads.
Now I just need to find the people to follow and I’m sure I’ll be using this more than the others.
Now I just need to find the people to follow and I’m sure I’ll be using this more than the others.
November 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM
I’m very impressed with the feel of the Bluesky app. It’s so much more responsive and snappier than X or Threads.
Now I just need to find the people to follow and I’m sure I’ll be using this more than the others.
Now I just need to find the people to follow and I’m sure I’ll be using this more than the others.