John Maeda
@johnmaeda
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VP Eng, Microsoft CoreAI / How To Speak Machine (2025) https://t.co/tlzThtcVKS or (2019) https://t.co/eb6gj2wf1b
Redmond, WA
Joined July 2008
Metaverse in NYT (2007): “John Maeda isn't real, nor is the island. He is the Resident, and the island is the Metaverse in the virtual world of the Second Life online game. Other works exhibited are a beige Apple II computer, and a dozen or so iPod Nanos.” https://t.co/mmvt7Tjdgf
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Visual Types, a humble collection of semi-interactive TypeScript lessons, is ready to be clicked upon. https://t.co/Lhyh8sDVp9 ← 👀
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finally published this visual article on dithering (part 1)! I had so much fun and learned a lot while making this. not only about dithering, but also about #threejs shaders. I hope you do too! as usual, animated with #animejs enjoy! 🔗 https://t.co/AsnRoMGP7A
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Skip the boilerplate. Chef Govind Kamtamneni joins @johnmaeda and shows how to build async software engineering agents with #AzureAIFoundry, #GitHub, and RL fine-tuning. Templates are just the start. Full episode: https://t.co/8tSkEhjHd3 All episodes: https://t.co/SZXvWx8p0B
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And last but certainly not least, my sincerest thanks to @jessicahische for helping me make a book and icons for a first edition copy of the tale
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The Taker-Talker tends to use up the good Makers. The Talker-Maker does their best to protect their Makers. Makers who forget how to make are ... unhappy Talkers. Why? Because there is something inside a Maker that lights up when they make. So Makers gotta make.
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Nothing drains a maker faster than talk dressed up as teamwork.
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Hey! My lil ASCII animation app https://t.co/O80BXxokK7 got name dropped at GitHub Universe by @martinwoodward ❤️ Check out the repo at https://t.co/3Ot37Ao5bx
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"If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it." --@GeorgeMichael
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IN PRAISE OF GREEN 🍅 TOMATOES: Early in my career, working with AARP taught me something unexpected: “being old�� is entirely relative. People in their 60s point to those in their 70s and say “THEY'RE old!” The 70-year-olds do the same with the 80-year-olds. The real insight? The
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Continuing the semantic code-folding design exploration. Instead of showing the typical "..." button, it shows an LLM summary of what's folded. Like "calculate 30-day revenue" for a collapsed CTE. Not sure if this would be useful yet.
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AIGA SEATTLE REBOOT: “The bluest skies 🎶 https://t.co/ammNmPuTTd you've ever seen are in Seattle“ ... when it's not ☔️ raining. And right now there's a grassroots effort to reboot the @AIGAdesign
https://t.co/PvvnwxlRzi community here with experts from all over giving their
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“Mind the autonomy slider.” 🏆
A lot of people say AI will make us all "managers" or "editors"...but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view! Personally, I'm trying to code like a surgeon. A surgeon isn't a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support
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Developer docs just got smarter. 🧠 Megha Anand joins @johnmaeda to talk about how AI is being integrated into developer documentation. Full episode: https://t.co/woiW29zHP5 All Cozy AI Kitchen episodes: https://t.co/weHAdnlzLZ
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"If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people." —Bill Moggridge
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Design is the discipline of directing attention. It asks us to decide what deserves focus, what should support, and what should recede.
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I’ve found the Material Design prioritizing triangle for the Button component to be the singlemost important figure on the Internet for…
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This advanced optimization basically makes optimization (SSR) speed independent from the amount of pages (with variations) you have. Great for large sites with A/B testing and multiple languages. We even pre-render your top pages. Blog post soon. Great work @heypiotr
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Fav 日本語 phrase on pursuing one’s craft: “Above up, there is something even higher above up.” https://t.co/48xfT3jA5x
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JAVACALS 📆 1997: Wow. I was surprised that I could get my first Java Calendar for Shiseido running this morning. https://t.co/hOhP3XboTj by using the Cheerj Applet Extension for Edge/Chrome https://t.co/62RI4AiX00 My other applets don't work as I need to fix a CORS setting. But
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REALTOR TO DEV: Learned Scratch as a kid and years later 19-yr old Chef 🧑🍳 Gallmeyer https://t.co/DvtZWium89 is both a top realtor and now a digital product maker. But what's his secret recipe? 1. Chef Gallmeyer's deep in domain knowledge. He not only earned one of the top
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