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Kevin McDonagh
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Future builder who ♥️ Scottish contemporary art
"Phewphoria" the feeling of relief when it wasn't your fault - @jpmonette.net via hackernews on the cloudflare outage. I'm much more here for this being word of the year over '6-7;
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Dale Luck from original Amiga dev team shared an original breadboarded prototype at a fair in Germany. I get confused with two breadboards.... this is hackery genius from 40yrs ago www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2...
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If AI had done nothing but unlock the power of Regular Expressions for use by Joe Bloggs using natural language it would have been incredible in just that. It's like a killer feature 30 years in the making for spreadsheets.
October 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I love the idea that we are at the precipice of a Cambrian explosion of software launches.

iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/be-differe...
"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore
We are in the middle of the biggest red ocean I have ever seen in software development.
iamcharliegraham.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
W/ @megabeth.bsky.social at #TalkUX being like remember when people used to chat on the socials while at a conf and post pics like...
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Imagine a decentralised future where everyone were running websites from phones. blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-0...
This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5
An absolute mammoth post about how I am running this blog site from a Google Pixel 5 Android phone using only Termux. It includes what inspired me, what I'm using for the setup, and my longform notes ...
blog.ctms.me
September 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Regularly prune your news feed inputs. Decide who curates your attention.
August 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"thousands of people have been thinking deeply for 40 years.. they’ve thought of everything.. and AI comes up with is a demonstration that .. thousands of people failed to do." www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
www.quantamagazine.org
July 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My UXDX talk encouraging Product teams to take courage through the shame of constantly demoing too early products during customer interviews. If your whole team feel the cringe then product prioritisation becomes obvious, valuable and collaborative for startups youtu.be/MQnUPlBXUdo?...
Cringe Driven Development (CDD), a Template for Unavoidable Valuable Progress
YouTube video by UXDX
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July 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Andrej Karpathy runs down a summary of current AI Product state we've arrived at just in the past 12 months! 1960 mainframe computing is an apt analogy for how we all timeshare on llms! I'll now prefer 'people spirits' to agents in team chats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEm...
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
YouTube video by Y Combinator
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June 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Media money is fleeing elsewhere, maybe now the web is turning back into a playground www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...
MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Swung by "Everything is a prototype" book launch as it seemed relevant. Loads of people I kind of knew... mostly Walthamstow! Well done @brendankearns.bsky.social on bringing a satisfying size and shape book together. ♥️ a designy biz book that I don't have to hide uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
May 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Our first curation of design review rules is with www.uxcel.com ! Instant design feedback in Figma. 🔗 Figma Plugin: www.figma.com/community/pl...
AI Design Reviews, prototype testing... then human feedback <1min | Figma
On-demand UX/UI feedback BEFORE wasting human time. Review first with AI then share with human testers, all without leaving Figma! Try our example template ✅❎♿️ Review your UX/UI and accessibility Be...
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March 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Challenging PetNest Interactive Prototype by Akansha Sharma
loom.com/share/3b57a0... Challenge us: www.appvelocity.io
Challenging PetNest Figma Prototype by Akansha Sharma
Can a simulation find Sky the Cat using the Petnest interface? Always test first before wasting human time. www.appvelocity.io
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December 11, 2024 at 2:04 PM