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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025

wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...

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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 03/03/2025

Do you think middle school sucks? You’re not alone. @alv9n.com uses a survey of millions of students to show how our brains and our sense of belonging change in middle school. 💻 pudding.cool/2025/02/midd... 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zL...

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The Middle Ages

Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their treacherous middle school years.

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 28/02/2025

this is what it looks like when you allocate your time to vibes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 actual content 🟩🟩

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/02/2025

making this is so fun I've been doing it instead of watching Severance

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 20/02/2025

sharing my silly workflow to create transitions between images: 1. throw images in an auto layout in @figma.com 2. clip a new image with the bottom and top of the two images 3. throw in Midjourney edit and generate some new images 4. paste that new image back into Figma and clip it

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 20/02/2025

cute little responsive felt worlds 😍

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 19/02/2025

cooking up a new blog post. I'm loving these little felt worlds and baking little transitions between them.

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 18/02/2025

Today was my last day exploring the future with the lovely GitHub Next team ❤️ I already miss them and the awesome projects I got to work on. Like building a dynamic, personalized learning sandbox. And recently, something even more exciting. Little me could never imagine having so much fun at work!

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 12/02/2025

Gosh, this is beautiful. wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm...

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Rodrigo Girão Serrão 🐍🚀 @mathspp.com · 12/02/2025

Holy crap, “Fish eye for text” by @wattenberger.com just blew my mind. I'm not sure what it is, but I think I got this feeling that this can be really powerful if applied well to teaching! (Which is the point made in the article.) Article with demos: wattenberger.com/thoughts/fis...

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Kyle Galbraith @kylegalbraith.dev · 13/02/2025

Another hit from @wattenberger.com. I love how Amelia stitches ideas together and ties them back to concrete real life while still writing about a piece of technology. wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm...

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LLMs are a tool for thought

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 12/02/2025

I love this visualization of working memory by @wattenberger.com. Also, "As a new parent, I have a smaller window than most." 😂 Amen!

A screenshot of a section of an essay by Amelia Wattenberger, describing working memory and visualizing thoughts becoming fuzzy as they get farther out from our focus.

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 06/02/2025

historical events are all jumbled up in my mind, on their own timeline. Wouldn't it be great to have a "World Time Explorer" that helps stitch together those timelines? buggy and probably better on a map, but throwing this idea into a ui to start playing around

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 04/02/2025

sharing an old exploration that's been top of mind recently the future is... ✨ a shared artifact between humans and AI ✨ content at different levels of abstraction ✨ multimodal inputs and NL controls

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is legit - the organizers (including unions) are organizing. When I ask those in the know what we can do that will actually matter, the answer includes collective action of this type. I'm joining @nancykanwisher.bsky.social and all the others for this Thurs 3p ET effort. I hope you do too!

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/01/2025

welp it's clear that I need to close my Twitter account. But it's not clear what the best way to do it is. Any ideas on ✨ how to do the most good ✨ on the way out with 32k followers?

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Ryan Atkinson @ryanatkn.com · 19/12/2024

I have an entry into the hypercard genre, www.dealt.dev - has about 4 weeks of work in it I got the motivation playing with svg.wtf from @wattenberger.com to follow an old idea with many prototypes - starting with an SVG editor really clicked uses Svelte and PixiJS - github.com/ryanatkn/dealt

Dragging a selection over units in a little world of shapes. There are unit controls like layers in a graphics editor on the right. A green circle represents the player, and a purple circle is the goal for the player to reach.

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 27/11/2024

My girlfriend and I made a little two-player word game. It’s called Word Rumble ✨ Have fun: wordrumble.fun

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 14/12/2024

WizardChess 1.0 is (technically) live on Steam! Flipping the Early Access switch tomorrow but... I triple-dog-dare you to try it out early #gamedev

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Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

To my Bluesky friends attending #NeurIPS2024: Check out our poster: “Poisson Variational Autoencoder” (P-VAE)! The P-VAE is a #generative model that encodes inputs into spike count variables and unifies major neuroscience theories with modern machine learning. w/ Jacob Yates and Dekel Galor 🧠🤖🧠📈

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Yasser Souri @yassersouri.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It is sad to see authors not being able to present their work at #NeurIPS2024 because of visa issues. But some authors went above and beyond. Here is @hadivafaii.bsky.social tele-presenting his work with an impressive setup (ipad, mic, speaker, holder, battery). Well done sir!

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 13/12/2024

😍 love seeing the charts I worked on with @puddingviz.bsky.social on Google Trends

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Dave @thisisdavekim.com · 09/12/2024

New week note! This week: - What do we see? What do we not see? (@maxroser.bsky.social) - The power and danger of metaphors (@melaniemitchell.bsky.social ) - Ads, ads everywhere - Brain rot - Simultaneous levels of information (@wattenberger.com )

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 09/12/2024

soo the Perplexity API is good and cheap-ish?! ($.20 per 1M tokens)

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Tom Hipwell @tomhipwell.co · 06/12/2024

Some great ideas here, worth your time to explore

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Annabel @annabelblake.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Perfection. As always.

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Daniel Bachler @danielbachler.de · 03/12/2024

Beautiful work by @wattenberger.com that explores what forms text on the web could take off we leave the restrictions of print behind

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 03/12/2024

🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs 🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction 🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 30/11/2024

is it possible to have too much fun making a blog post? 🤔

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 24/11/2024

I split up "related topics" into four categories: ✨ related people ✨ similar topics (siblings) ✨ more general categories (parents) ✨ more specific topics (children) this way, you can "zoom out" in the NorthWest direction and "zoom in" to the SE. Or side-step SW and NE.

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/11/2024

heyooo just won my own game of "find my way from Fish-Eye Lens to Kangaroo" 🦘

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/11/2024

I made the transitions feel like the new topic is "pushing" the old one out and added inline links and... I'm finding this strangely addictive!

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 20/11/2024

Are you interested in exploring & prototyping & building the future of developer experience? Come in, the water's warm!

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 20/11/2024

What I think of whenever I see the phrase “small LLM”

A tweet from @SheriffAlert saying “Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane…”

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GitHub Next @githubnext.com · 19/11/2024

Finding an app 🤝 Making an app GitHub Spark Raycast Extension www.raycast.com/github-next/...

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 18/11/2024

making more demos for my "fish eye lens" blog post I'm starting to really enjoy learning from this wiki example 😍

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 15/11/2024

I'm playing with a fish-eye effect You have one "fovea" and the rest of the world (or writing) gradually falls off as it's farther away from your area of focus So here, the adjacent paragraphs are summarized (zoom -1) as well as the remaining text (zoom -2). Give me gratuitous animation ideas! 🙆‍♀️

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Another rec’d starter pack with a solid list of people who were on my main list on twitter - go.bsky.app/7D4NApV

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 10/11/2024

“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like” Nailed it, me in my man costume running one of my many “Dorkshops”

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animonamok.bsky.social @animonamok.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

playing with GitHub Spark

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 05/11/2024

✨ Chatbots are the Cheesecake Factory of uis ✨ They'll give you pizza, pie, or pad thai. And it will be good, but not great.

I don’t think chatbots are the best tool for this flow. But they aren’t really the ideal tool for any specific flow. In the same way that that restaurant with the 20-page menu doesn’t make the best steak or pizza, its beauty is that it’s good enough for pretty much anyone.

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 04/11/2024

I wrote down some thoughts on two things: ✨ LLMs as a tool for thought. They can be wonderful brainstorming buddies. ✨ Our lives are full of a cycle of taking something in, transforming it, and sending something out wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm... would love to hear your thoughts!

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 31/10/2024

Really enjoying playing with this dissolve effect 😍 tinyurl.com/2p82389t from Mike Bespalov on ✖️

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 30/10/2024

It was lovely sharing Learning Sandbox in the GitHub Universe keynote earlier today! I very much believe in... - learning as you build, not on a tangent - learning in an interactive, enabling environment - tailoring content to an individual's knowledge and use case githubnext.com/projects/lea...

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 01/05/2023

😅 please indulge a quick rant about why chatbots aren't the future of interfaces wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatb…

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Adrián Mato 🐙 @adrianmato.com · 24/04/2023

👋 Little #introduction, I'm a product designer building Copilot & other tools at github.com. I'm cursed with being a generalist who makes things, so you'd see me posting about design, coding, 3D, game dev, and open-source. More about work & side projects at adrianmato.com Excited to meet you all ❤️

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Adrián Mato – Product Designer in San Francisco

Personal website of Adrián Mato. Designing and building tools for developers at GitHub

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 23/04/2023

😅 I just can't help myself - hopefully I'll have this rant written up and shareable by tomorrow

A WIP article in a writing app titled "Why Chatbots Are Not the Future"

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