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Steve Farrugia
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Australian In Amsterdam

I talk about product design and I'm quite critical

open to work, open to talks

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the best way to create a corpus of shit is to make it easier to save stuff for later
“A lot of my ideas bubble up when I’m walking or when I’m commuting, and I don’t want to pull out my phone to interrupt that moment. I don’t want to shout into my earbuds where the world can hear me to talk through an idea. Kirak and I were trying to understand what it would take to actually capture a thought the moment it bubbles up. That’s how we came up with Stream,” Fahmi told TechCrunch in an interview.
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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when I opened this website I said "what the fuck is going on" out loud
Screenshot of https://www.1x.tech/neo website has full screen photo of old man in grey sweater vest looking fondly at the NEO home robot which is dressed in a uniqlo turtleneck with pincushion eyes and an otherwise blank grey fabric face
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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It's like high school plagiarism
grokipoodia screenshot of "Super Mario" opening para: "Super Mario Super Mario (also known as Super Mario Bros. and Mario) is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario. It is the central series of the greater Mario franchise. At least one Super Mario game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console. A limited number of Super Mario games have also released on non-Nintendo gaming platforms. There are more than 20 games in the series." wikipedia screenshot of "Super Mario" opening para: "Super Mario Super Mario (also known as Super Mario Bros. and Mario) is a platform game series developed and published by Nintendo and starring their mascot, Mario. The series was created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and is the flagship series of the greater Mario franchise. At least one Super Mario game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console. A limited number of Super Mario games have also released on non-Nintendo gaming platforms. There are more than 20 games in the series."
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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#silentsunday
A black and white photo of bicycle road leading off into the right of a grassy field with a canal. A city skyline is visible in the distance. The sky is 75% of the frame, full of storm clouds and a passenger jet is flying over in the top right.
October 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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#silentsunday
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Did you know the movie Soldier is actually about working in tech?
Screenshot from 1998 movie Soldier, Kurt Russell speaking, caption reads: "Fear and Discipline"
October 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I find this shitty ad campaign to be particularly odious because of how it uses a very coder style design to communicate to management
Photo of large electronic billboard with ad: "Stop Replacing AI with Human Devs! Interesting work for human devs, mundane work for the coding agent - Jetbrains"
October 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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I've never considered "weave" to be an ugly word till now
Microsoft is launching a set of capabilities in Windows today that will start to weave AI features into regular Windows 11 PCs, instead of consumers having to buy a special Copilot Plus PC. The biggest change is that Microsoft thinks people will want to talk to their computers and have Copilot take actions on their behalf.
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Firstly, this link opens in a new tab

Secondly, why is "are you sure"ing about the web's defining feature of *hyperlinks* a thing? What are we doing here?
screenshot of bluesky interface dialog box which reads: "Leaving Bluesky - This link is taking you to the following website: [URL]" button a: "Go back" button b: "Visit site"
October 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Sam Altman is a farmer of plastic display fruit
“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.” “It’s very possible that if we could see those jobs of the future,” Altman said, we’d think “maybe our jobs were not as real as a farmer’s job, but it’s a lot more real than this game you’re playing to entertain yourself.”
October 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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This is the same trope movies use to hint to the audience that this is a *baddie*

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Rather than saying it was fully the platform’s responsibility to label AI content, Mosseri suggested that society itself would have to change. “My kids are young. They’re nine, seven, and five. I need them to understand, as they grow up and they get exposed to the internet, that just because they’re seeing a video of something doesn’t mean it actually happened,” he explained. “When I grew up, and I saw a video, I could assume that that was a capture of a moment that happened in the real world,” Mosseri continued. “What they’re going to … need to think about who is saying it, who’s sharing it, in this case, and what are their incentives, and why might they be saying it,” he concluded. (That seems like a heavy mental load for young children, but alas.)
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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i did not know airpods were data collectors
“The enhanced Health app will continue gathering data from Apple devices like iPhone, Apple Watch, earbuds and compatible third-party products,” Cult of Mac reported in March. “But you can expect a crucial difference. The AI coach will analyze the information to provide personalized health-improvement recommendations.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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closing slide from actual deck

metadata says it's from 6th December 2007
"They were so busy worrying about whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." Dr. Ian Malcolm - Jurassic Park
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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from the article
Among the prominent clients that Scale is helping to build AI applications are the Mayo Clinic, the Qatari government, Cisco and Global Atlantic Financial Group. And just last month, Scale signed a $99 million contract with the US Defense Department to develop AI applications for the Army.
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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A #silentSunday from Beatrix Park, Amsterdam
photo of a large white dog to the right of frame standing in long dew covered grass with a slight mist over the scene. There are green trees in the foreground on the right and in the background from left to right going behind the dog. The sky is blue with some wispy clouds
October 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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One day I'll write up this theory
Date: October 1, 2012 Title: Google releases Google Tag Manager Body: In 2007, TagMan pioneered the Tag Manager Systems (TMS) space, and we’ve seen remarkably fast innovation and evolution in the field since then with many new vendors coming to market. Initially, somewhat of an edge-case tool, TMS’s have rapidly moved to the mainstream as both the enterprise and mid-tier markets began to understand their value and leverage their features sets to improve site management and online marketing initiatives. Today, Google jumps into the TMS space in a very big way with the release of its free Google Tag Manager (GTM), which may be one of those sector disrupting milestones.
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I took a photo because I was surprised, too
Photo of Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage on a book store shelf among other books
October 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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he did it again www.balmuda.com/lovefrom-bal...
screenshot of https://www.balmuda.com/lovefrom-balmuda/ black and white photo of Jony Ive removing glasses and Gen Terao (of course there is no alt description on this site made in praise of well designed things) the title: Founded on Friendship Body text: “It has been a considerable honour and enormously enjoyable creating our lantern with Gen and his wonderful team at BALMUDA. As a young boy, I adored sailing and spending my time on water. Our lantern was created and built for maritime conditions. While the materials, form and product architecture are new, there is a reassuring familiarity to the nautical lanterns and Fresnel lamps of the past whose designs evolved to address the same unforgiving functional requirements.” Sir Jony Ive, founder of LoveFrom “When Jony first shared the Sailing Lantern, it felt like a time capsule – an ancient flame captured in modern form. The ocean has always called humanity to adventure, and this design protects that timeless light in sleek stainless steel. Collaborating with Jony and the LoveFrom team has been inspiring, and I’m grateful we could create something both romantic and enduring.” Gen Terao, founder of BALMUDA
September 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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tailwind speaks!
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September 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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oh look, Sam put out an ad for my video
Sam Altman tweets: Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers. 1h Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in. It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention "I'd like to go visit Bora Bora someday" or "My kid is 6 months old and I'm interested in developmental milestones" and in the future you might get useful updates. Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant: sometimes you ask for things you need in the moment, but if you share general preferences, it will do a good job for you proactively. This also points to what I believe is the future of ChatGPT: a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized. This is an early look, and right now only available to Pro subscribers. We will work hard to improve the quality over time and to find a way to bring it to Plus subscribers too.
September 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The title card for this video took a long time to make because I built it with glow in the dark fuse beads and then took a photo of it in the dark
Photo of the word "ANTI-DESIGN" written with fuse beads with some loose beads scattered around. The background is black and the beads are glowing green
September 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Mellieha, Malta. August 5, 2025

Last one!
photo of clear sky with setting sunlight gradient from top blue to bright gold in centre frame. Silhouette of trees and bushes frames two figures in the centre
September 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Mellieha, Malta. August 5, 2025
Photo of tightly packed apartment buildings, foreground ones are in shadow, midground in golden afternoon light, the sky is clear and blue and the moon is in the top/right
September 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Mellieha, Malta. August 5, 2025
A photo of sun setting over the Mediterranean, with two large rock hills. On top of the nearest one, left/middle of frame there is a large christian cross visible in silhouette
September 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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from Mellieha, Malta, August 1, 2025
photo of older green short-wheelbase land rover with white roof in front of blonde brick house with clear blue sky
September 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM