Matt Curtis
@mattxcurtis
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designer, programmer, thinker and tinkerer. building @HyphenReader. prev @getstarkco
Houston, TX
Joined July 2013
I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images
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key to life is realizing that this is true to varying degrees in pretty much all relationships
one piece of advice that i always give to zoomers on the job: > communicate proactively - just let people know what you’re up to - keep giving incremental updates - screenshots, text updates, anything - performance must be seen to be measured - radio silence = 0 work done
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i didn’t think i’d become one of those “death is what gives meaning to life” people but it’s becoming clearer that human art derives part of its meaning from the way the artist sacrificed part of their finite life to make it. they could have done anything but not everything and
the cost of having given “power to creators” in the form of infinite text and image and video generation for the masses is that text and images and video, by default, mean nothing now. You can feel it.
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At @cmmnknwledge, we’ve been working on replacing the phone homescreen with a live document that changes throughout the day with the information you need. We’re looking for beta testers to try it out and help shape the this experience with us. Comment below for a testflight!
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it's astonishing substack is as popular as it is when it's editor and overall accessibility is so horrible. especially around images and media
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toddler sometimes refers to himself as a brother, like, "it's easy for a brother to do" (when cutting his own food) and, "it's not safe for a brother" (trying to get down from somewhere high up) and he sounds like a black guy from the seventies
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I gotta say asking "what decision should I make here that my future self would be most proud of, even if the end result doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to?" has been an incredible heuristic for unblocking myself
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(honestly tho this might just be a deceptive quality and research llms are just better at convincing me of their pedantry)
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one of the nice things about research-focused llms (like deep research or notebooklm) is how much they _assume_ less, and will tell you when your prompt contains a certain amount of ambiguity. that kind of feedback is really useful for refining outputs
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the worst thing possible has happened: I just had a new idea for the thing I told myself I was finally done with and wouldn't make anymore changes to
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and why can't I collapse responses and see them as summaries instead?
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why don't llm conversations have minimaps or table of contents?
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why would I want to celebrate the worst thing that happened to me
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"font editor" "gestural interface-" spellcasting. you're spellcasting. i know what you are, sorceress
✋🔠 working on a scrappy and yet fun font editor ✨ pinch-rotate like a knob that switches modes: 👌 index+thumb → pick the letter 🤌 index+middle+thumb → warp its glyphs 🖐️ all five → smooth the lines
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steve jobs would have taken you out back and shot out your knee caps for pitching something with this contrast ratio
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@figma (one day figma will give us Big Boy transform tools but this is nice in the meantime)
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been playing with the new @figma draw tools one of the cool things about being able to create your own brushes is you can also turn _text_ into brushes, which means you can basically paint with text:
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it's getting increasingly harder to tell what's real and what's AI
Sydney Sweeney is selling 5,000 bars of soap that contain drops of her own bathwater.
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!! LEAKED !! screenshot of next iOS update featuring photos app with anti-swipe microtransactions
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