Rasmus Andersson
@rsms
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Adventures in software & design. Founder of @playbit_, designer of Inter, @Figma, @Spotify. Eng & design @Facebook. (https://t.co/cS300CeZsH)
Berkeley
Joined March 2007
It’s surprising to me that many programmers don’t believe in AI at all, like a full, hardline “no.” A thesis is that generative slop has such “stage presence” + being alarmingly bad that it become people’s mental model of “AI.” That, along with nonchalant “vibe coders” on social
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Good read
Interesting thesis on what destroys software engineering productivity at large enterprises: it's that legibility is prioritized over everything else. https://t.co/XvUZlJs4Oh
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Good advice and simple enough for anyone to do without any education or “design knowledge”
In 20+ years of designing, I have learned a lot of design tricks, but this one was the most fun and helpful when starting. It's called 'Spin The Chair Test' and applies to any interface design: 1. Have your design up on the screen 2. Move your seat back 3. Turn around 4. Spin
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This was a remarkable project, the author tracked down the people and sources to properly reverse engineer the SF light rail display font. The sheer passion alone to pursue something like this is worthy of high praise, the output of which is a mark of excellence.
@usgraphics You'll appreciate this:
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Nano Banana is such an excellent name. Invokes feelings of “we’re just playing around, don’t take life too seriously”
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New WebGPU terrain build with color painting tools: https://t.co/RgwJPBkTas This concludes my single week prototype. It was a blast! I really enjoyed doing it. Prototyping continues on Christmas vacation: - 2nd week = full 3d voxel system - 3rd week = 10,000 player multiplayer
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🔴 To all designers out there... We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team. If designing the next generation of architectural software resonates with you, then let's chat! 👉 Job description, right here → https://t.co/xyYqxxCclc
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Some news to share today: Earlier this year, we started our publishing company and released our first title, Bootstrapping Computing. The full-color paperback is available for preorder now, and will be released on December 1.
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“Upgraded” to iOS 26 and the Swedish keyboard is broken when it’s in one-handed mode. Can only type letters and space. *Spends entire time budget on shaders simulating glass, no time left for QA*
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Before we all mute the word 'dithering' I thought I'd explain a little bit about why we needed to dither digital images in the first place. Although it's an aesthetic now, we used to need dithering to trick our eyes into seeing more colors than were actually there. 👇
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After a great year learning how to be the best dad I can be, I'm now looking for my next role. With experience across fintech, small business, and developer tools, working in both familiar environments and cultures completely new to me. I've served as both an IC and hands-on
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This
You need to be surrounding yourself with soft lights, you need to be barely able to see after the sun goes down, you need to feel like you are walking through a maze of soft yellow and black, you need to be living your late nights in a dream before you even sleep.
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Just got promoted at my job with a major automaker. I’m the guy responsible for replacing all physical buttons with a touch screen that has a 5 second delay
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I love calculator https://t.co/mDVX1AiBiI A short post on philosophy of product and technology. What is beauty in technology and how can we get more aesthetically pleasing products that spark joy?
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What publications offer PDF subscription? The web has gotten so bad over the past decade. PDF seems like the perfect media. To work around screen-size issues, just publish (generate) three sizes: A7 “pocket”, A5 “book”, A4 “magazine”
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How did we end up polling on Discord for Nepal’s next leader? Here’s a rundown: tldr; Nepali government was overthrown in 48 hours and I think i just witnessed the first internet native revolution. Over two decades ago, Nepali citizens overthrew the Monarchy to establish a
🚨 Nepal's Gen-Z, who overthrew the Nepal's govt, have chosen their new leader via a poll on a discord server. — The new leader is expected to meet Nepali Army Chief and form an interim govt to hold new elections in Nepal.
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Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo. In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨ With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.
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Life update: last week I wrapped up my time @inkandswitch 🥲 Back in 2019, I remember being intrigued by the work coming out of this mysterious research lab. At the time there was barely even a website! But I could tell they had a big, compelling vision for a more humane kind of
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Last week, I published a chapter about color. It's fairly comprehensive: https://t.co/K8jhsHs6C8
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