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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 30/09/2026

Like, what is this animation choice? Who decided that this menu should violently shudder every time you open it?

Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 29/09/2026

The new Firefox UI might be problematic, but at least it also fails to address any of the previous UI's most glaring shortcomings. bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/jere...

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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 23/09/2026

btw i think the reason i like magical sigils and worlds based around them is because magical sigils are actually real. you open up a satellite LNB and what you find is shapes wrought from metal to manipulate unseen forces. you can't tell me they're not magical sigils

picture of the inside of a satellite low-noise block downconverter (LNB), the circuit in the focal point of a satellite TV dish. this one's a rectangular metal case with inside of it a printed circuit board full of gold-plated traces. many have strange shapes you wouldn't find in other electronics. scientifically you might call them microstrip filters, but really they're nothing more than a well-understood magical rune

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 18/09/2026

Golden Gate is such a huge improvement over Tahoe, but what is the point of a toolbar background that only appears when a window is backgrounded?

A comparison of the Messages window in macOS Golden Gate when it’s foregrounded and backgrounded. When the window is foregrounded, there’s no toolbar background behind the compose, contact details, and FaceTime buttons. When the window is backgrounded, there is.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 14/09/2026

As someone who likes to tinker, I wouldn't let that deter you. But the Android experience does not feel like it's for everyone.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 14/09/2026

Can confirm, the hardware is delightful. Android, on the other hand, was quite a shock coming from a Linux-based Miyoo. Setup (following some YouTube instructions) took forever, and I don't really look forward to having to manage and adapt to all the software updates it will inevitably get.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 11/09/2026

Firefox, why are you like this.

Three website shortcuts on the Firefox “new tab” page. The label for the middle one, “HeyDesigner” drops just the “r” down to the second line rather than hyphenating or truncating.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 10/09/2026

This is the exact moment of the keynote where I, as a UX designer, broke out in a cold sweat.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/09/2026

In other words, a much higher quality portrait mode. At least, that's what I'm hoping for, and is the only thing I can think of that would justify introducing a mechanical component to a camera system that hasn't had any until now.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/09/2026

So my prediction is that a variable-aperture iPhone camera will compare images with the aperture open and closed, then use that to extrapolate how the out-of-focus regions would render if the aperture were *even more open* than the lens is physically capable of.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/09/2026

There's almost no reason, aside from shooting in very very bright conditions, why you would want to reduce the amount of light hitting a smartphone camera sensor. Unless… you're going to do fancy stuff with computers.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/09/2026

For non-camera nerds: an aperture limits the amount of light coming into a lens, and reduces bokeh (the out-of-focus areas that make portrait mode pleasing). Traditional smartphone cameras don't have apertures because they're very small and need as much light as they can get.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/09/2026

Since we're less than a week out and I still haven't seen any solid reporting in this, I think the reports about the iPhone potentially getting a variable-aperture camera are missing a key point: that it will unlock better portrait mode through computational photography.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 30/08/2026

Whoa. Had no idea you could do this. For years I've been booting up Firefox whenever I need to select the column of a table (I believe the command key lets you do this in Firefox).

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 18/08/2026

The story behind it is: I needed to make one of these shapes for a logo, but couldn't find a plugin to do it, so I made one.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 18/08/2026

Made my first Figma plugin. It generates a wave shape that fits inside a circle. www.figma.com/community/plugi...

A variety of waves in different shapes, styles, and color combinations made using the “Wave in Circle” Figma plugin.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 13/08/2026

Looks incredible. Love the concept of album collections.

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 08/08/2026

So many AI logos that look like assholes… nice to see one zig where others zag

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 08/08/2026

I have a pretty standard flat rectangular anti-fatigue mat that I'm not using, and I'm located in Pittsburgh if you just want to have it.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 03/08/2026

Also kinda wild that the iPad has had Face ID for 8 years and the Mac still doesn’t have it

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 29/07/2026

Counterpoint: I Also Hate Canva

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 22/07/2026

Not to mention, most people live on their phones (which are too locked down to allow this), not computers.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 08/07/2026

I need everyone to see how hard the Phoenix Closures logo went in the 90s before they decided to ruin it in 2018.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 01/07/2026

I made a little Mac utility that automatically disables your MacBook's built-in display when an external display is connected. It's for folks like me who don't like fiddling with multi-monitor setups.

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One Display

Automatically disable your MacBook's built-in display while an external display is connected.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 25/06/2026

This is such an embarrassing time to be associated with tech. Our entire industry has forgotten how to build things and we're all stuck perpetually beta testing every aspect of our digital lives. It fucking sucks.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 25/06/2026

You're not gonna believe this, but the PRT website isn't actually ready to let you do anything with the new card.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 25/06/2026

Apparently the trick is isopropyl alcohol.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 25/06/2026

Pittsburgh Regional Transit just shipped out their fancy new bus cards to everyone… and affixed them to the mailer with the most disgusting, impossible to remove goo I've ever encountered. Like, I just want to pay with my phone. But instead I have to add the world's stickiest card to my wallet.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Graphic design is my passion.

A sign that has two concentric rings of text but it's laid out in a confusing way so it looks like the first sentence is "it's against the law to keep alcohol out of the hands of youth" and the second sentence is "supply alcohol to minors."

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 17/06/2026

It also gave my very first user maybe the greatest password ever created, so there's that.

A text from a friend reading “Omg how did you know my password??!?!” and an attached image showing the password “mommy9SERVES!”

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 17/06/2026

I am fully aware that this is not the pinnacle of security, and that these are not particularly quick or easy to type. But they're kinda fun to type, in a weird way.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 17/06/2026

Yesterday I made a dumb little password generator that only uses words that can be typed from either half of the keyboard.

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Sthpw

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 16/06/2026

It's not without its own unique faults and challenges, but more social media apps should follow the Tweetbot/Ivory/Reeder model of scrolling from past to present.

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All I want is a timeline that respects my time - Jeremy Kanter

Just out here trying to make the world a better place one pixel at a time.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

banning infinite scroll for minors is a good example. infinite scroll is bad and designed to keep you enganged longer. make that shit illegal. bring back pages or something. idk. figure it out

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 09/06/2026

The new Reeder is more than just a great RSS reader. I’ve found so many interesting uses for the other feed types it supports. Quite possibly my current favorite app, and an absolute steal at $10/year. reeder.app

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Reeder

News Reader. Rebuilt for Today.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 27/05/2026

How “remember me” used to actually work and has now somehow become a total lie.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 26/05/2026

I love Fantastical. Consider it one of the very best third-party apps on Apple’s platforms. I would also rather die than pay $57/year for a menubar calendar. 🫠

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 22/05/2026

I was having trouble finding a tool that did this, so today I built a little site that shows how frequently the Bluesky accounts you follow post. jeremykanter.github.io/BlueskyChatt...

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Bluesky Chatterboxes

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 16/05/2026

Nice little design detail in Indigo by @soapboxsoftware.bsky.social. User avatar overlaps image carousel when the carousel scrolls.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 09/05/2026

“You can earn a billion dollars” proclaims the newspaper that Jeff Bezos decided was worth buying for a mere $250 million just so he could print nonsense like this.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/05/2026

Screenshot from the original post with alt text.

Then, in March, students at my eleven-year-old daughter's public middle school began receiving new Google Chromebooks, and that is when I heard the tap-tap of the cloven hooves approaching our doorstep. The Chromebooks, which the students use in every class and for homework, came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: "Help me write." If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is "Help me visualize." She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: "Help me edit." "Beautify this slide." The image generator is there, if she'd ever wish to pull the plug on her imagination. The Gemini chatbot is there, if she ever wants to talk to no one.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/05/2026

Everyone involved in this product should be ashamed of themselves.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 30/04/2026

I asked @figma.com's AI to fill in these descriptions with lorem ipsum text and the result came out absolutely cursed.

A wireframe of UI cards with the following content:

Athletic Elements
Quarks croquet umami disrupt viral. Paradigm shift engagement…

Lower Body
Leverage, table stakes, and, waste of resources. Quick sync, value a…

Holistic
Low hanging fruit, bleeding edge, and, quick win. Disrupt, for, value…

Core
Bleeding edge, value add, for, quick win. Quick sync, waste of r...

Upper Body
Paradigm shift, waste of resources, and, quick win. Disrup....

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 27/04/2026

Thank god for Time Machine.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 27/04/2026

Jesus Fucking Christ, reinstallation overwrote user preferences that I've had in place for years.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 27/04/2026

If @adobe.com is going to make me keep Creative Cloud (and its dozens of helper apps) on my computer to manage my Adobe app installations, you'd think the least they could do would be to prevent this from happening.

A macOS error dialog that says "You can't open the application 'Adobe Photoshop 2026' because it may be damaged or incomplete."

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 21/04/2026

If Ternus can bring Apple's software, services, and developer relations up to the level that Apple's hardware has reached under his watch, the company will be in very good hands. But that’s a big if.

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