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the argument that the european date format is more "logical" never holds up to any scrutiny. the month is going to be the smallest range of numbers, 1-12. day of the month is next, ranging 1-31, and then the year, the largest number. perfectly logical. europeans are just coping.

the top right corner of vscode is starting to resemble an iq test

Try it. Claude has no search function. You cannot type one word and find your own chats. To find content in your own chat history you open a new chat and ask Claude to find it. Support says "conversational queries ... can surface more relevant results than a single word might" No retrieval, just more generation.

so what happened to Neo is horrible this is a new phishing scam specifically for Vgen (i got these from the Vgen reddit) a user will put a link in the reference section which leads to this and its basically asking you for "user verification" do not give away your bank details

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As with the emdash in LLM text slop, AI generated UIs have a “smell”. It’s something that an experienced designer can clock instantly. A combo of weird font sizing & overuse of color. Still room for artistry and taste in software.

google maps is eliminating the shape rotator advantage by telling you where to board the train to be closer to the exit when you get off another instance of cognitive off-loading. tbh i have mixed feelings about it

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I was an early designer on Google Maps. I still use it everyday. The Maps AI update is awesome b/c natural language has the potential to solve Maps' oldest limitations. And not so awesome b/c "Ask Maps" feels tacked on instead of deeply integrating AI into Maps. Here's why: — Google Maps was built around discrete searches. This works well for simple tasks like Where is… or How do I get to… "548 Market St." But many real-world navigation challenges aren’t simple queries. They involve intention and tradeoffs. My actual thinking is something more like: "I need to get to 548 Market St and find parking nearby. I’m happy to walk a block or two if it saves $20, but these shoes will likely give me blisters if I have to walk too far." Historically, I had to translate that into Maps’ UI with a series of separate searches like: "548 Market St" then "Parking" But by the time I see parking places, 548 Market St has disappeared. So I have to scan the results and pop back and forth between searches to find a solution. Natural language has the power to fix this. AI gives users the power to describe what’s actually in their head instead of translating it into sequential queries for the Maps UI. How amazing would it be to tell Maps: "I’m on my way to Tahoe with my family. I want to stop at an In-N-Out near a freeway exit and a fast charger. But I want to stop later in the trip since I have plenty of charge and nobody’s hungry yet. What are my best options?" It’s exactly these kinds of tradeoffs (distance, timing, price, convenience, etc.) that AI should excel at handling. — But Google isn’t revolutionizing Maps with an all-powerful, natural language input box. Instead, it cleared some pixels to add an “Ask Maps” button that serves as a portal into Gemini. So now Google Maps has two search boxes: 1. Classic Search 2. Ask Maps AI This makes the UI more complex. And it misses the opportunity to deeply integrate AI into Google Maps so that it feels native. Why not start with one, AI-fueled omni-box that can handle both: “548 Market St” and "I am heading to 548 Market St and running late. I need a place to park and get into the building ASAP!" — The promise of AI is to make things simpler. Giving people the ability to express the nuance in our heads is a first step. Hopefully the next step is using AI to augment and improve Maps’ core tasks natively. And for the steps after that, I really hope the team is dreaming big! I would love to see some of the bolder integrations that I’m sure the team explored internally.

Why do some developers (especially at banks and similar) turn off paste in password fields? What are they trying to achieve? If anything, it will make people choose worse passwords because they can't be bothered to manually type good ones.

Very cool to see the IRS prioritizing design and UX To open a Trump account, you need to file a Form 4547 You can either do this via: - An old school IRS document that's painful to navigate - A modern website with a delightful UX Time for a 1040 redesign 👀

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Whether we like it or not, AI Chatbots are shifting how content is being discovered, products and services marketed, and accordingly, how we should focus our work in SEO. Thanks for the quote and opportunity to share insights in your article about the topic in @NYMag - read here: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

It’s crazy to me that TikTok put watermarks on their videos and let users download them to effectively inject their marketing material into every other platform and literally nobody else does it. Can you even download videos off x? Very dumb. @nikitabier I’m taking to u here

ChatGPT 4o System Prompt Leak: SEO Impact 👀 Analysis by @HannsKronenberg based on @jlalmes leak 👇 * The system prompt defines strict, narrow conditions under which ChatGPT 4o is allowed to use the web tool, like Real-time or current information, Location-specific information or Hard-to-find, niche topics not covered in the model’s training data. * How Web search works: ChatGPT can generate up to five distinct search queries per request, Relevant terms are marked with + to improve search result targeting, The –QDF parameter adjusts how strongly fresh results are prioritized, If the user’s query is not in English, ChatGPT sends search queries in both English and the original language. * Links in responses only appear if surfaced through live search and given how rarely search is activated, this means: Links in ChatGPT answers are the exception, not the rule. * The system prompt contains no indication that ChatGPT stores URLs or maintains a persistent web index: There is no crawling or storage of web pages comparable to search engines like Google. * Website visibility in ChatGPT answers can occur via real-time search results when live search is triggered. However, given how rarely search is activated and the lack of persistent URL storage, this form of visibility remains the exception. * For SEO and content visibility, the implication is clear: If your website isn’t ranked prominently in Bing real-time search snippets at the moment ChatGPT triggers search, you are unlikely to be cited or generate clicks. A Must Read: gpt-insights.de/ai-insights/ch…

THIS WAS INTENTIONAL If you could leave it plugged in, you might just leave it plugged in all the time, so that it essentially becomes a *wired* mouse, which feels worse to use. But requiring 30 minutes of charging like this every 4-6 months meant it would be used as intended.

Pinboard @Pinboard

a year ago

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Good design is a signal that you care. People prefer products built by people who care. Markets reward good design. The end

There's a whole segment of late tech adopters that just skipped ChatGPT, kept googling, and now just read the AI overview that pops up there.

Please stop separating email and password fields on login pages. It breaks autofill.

They are making AI generated user interfaces that learn what you want and self assimilate People think this is a yahoo phase and I'm seeing Gemini automate everyone out of a react job

Klaas @forgebitz

a year ago

google is entering its yahoo phase

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1/ I’ve designed at Stripe, Uber, and Shopify – where pitch and vision work took entire teams days to pull together. Now, I do it alone in under 30 minutes. No team. No wasted time. Just me, AI, and a system that turns ideas into working prototypes. Here’s the guide 👇

Why did Google bury its incredible image generation feature in a UX like this? To use it, I have to: 1. Somehow know to use AI Studio instead of regular Gemini 2. Somehow know to pick Gemini 2.0 Flash (image gen) model on the right 3. Somehow know that I can edit images directly using text prompts with this feature I don't get it.

people don't talk enough about how pretty Anthropic's brand really is