Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 09/04/2025thanks for sharing, I enjoyed this! the link, in case anyone else can't open the previous one: etymology.substack.com/p/an-elegy-f...etymology.substack.coman elegy for the pencilhow computers changed the way we write 050
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 27/03/2025ah, not as iterative as it might have been, given more time 010
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 27/03/2025I have many thoughts about using generative images, a large one being "we need to be way, way more thoughtful about their training and use". But there's also the lens of "they're the next step in a long evolution of tooling for creating expression", which feels important to explore 010
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 27/03/2025love your writing, Robin. I totally agree that it's not a great or fully fleshed out example, just playing around with the medium with very my little free time. 100
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 12/03/2025this I can agree with! This time I was struck by a combination of no time (baby, new job, ++😅) and I honestly was just enjoying the little felt people. I think it's especially sloppy for the full-width images, just a side effect of my eternal effort to keep my inner perfectionist in check 240
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025hm, I understand your sentiment but I'm not sure I agree. Happy to discuss if you're looking for a discussion! 100
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025tell me more! is it the images or words that you dislike? 100
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025I can't write about bland interfaces with bland images! 020
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025my friend, I have a baby. I barely made this readable on mobile 🫠 1130
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025I haven't! would love any insights on that as well 010
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025that's very fair! definitely something I should tackle the next time I have free time ❤️ 130
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025right?! really makes me want to pick up a new hobby... 010
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025wrote 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... 2830560
Reposted by Amelia WattenbergerThe Pudding @pudding.cool · 03/03/2025Do 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...pudding.coolThe Middle AgesFollow hundreds of kids as they navigate their treacherous middle school years. 12810
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 28/02/2025this is what it looks like when you allocate your time to vibes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 actual content 🟩🟩 91100
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/02/2025thanks for the feedback! I feel the same if there’s nothing linking to the scroll. I’d be curious how you feel when it’s published 000
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/02/2025My innie works in the browser and my outie is in the ide 030
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/02/2025Oh horrible I assume! I’ll probably stack things vertically 100
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 22/02/2025making this is so fun I've been doing it instead of watching Severance 101432
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 20/02/2025love this! 100%, let's use AI as a tool instead of automation 110
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 20/02/2025sharing 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 4435
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 19/02/2025alt text: a few images in a blog post about how interfaces have changed over the years. A few eras are illustrated with little felt people using big knit computers 070
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 19/02/2025cooking up a new blog post. I'm loving these little felt worlds and baking little transitions between them. 2421
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 18/02/2025Today 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! 71061
Reposted by Amelia WattenbergerSam Rose @samwho.dev · 12/02/2025Gosh, this is beautiful. wattenberger.com/thoughts/llm... 46210
Reposted by Amelia WattenbergerRodrigo Girão Serrão 🐍🚀 @mathspp.com · 12/02/2025Holy 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... 0143
Reposted by Amelia WattenbergerKyle Galbraith @kylegalbraith.dev · 13/02/2025Another 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...wattenberger.comLLMs are a tool for thought 0143
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 13/02/2025imo the more the better! I write to start a conversation, and definitely could be called out to make the posts more polished! 130
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 13/02/2025thank you, this is all very kind! "It gives each piece this feeling that the topic mattered to the author" I really love the way you framed that. Half of the reason is that I prefer writing code to words, but you're totally right here as well. And I love your Turing Machines post! 140
Reposted by Amelia WattenbergerMichael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 12/02/2025I love this visualization of working memory by @wattenberger.com. Also, "As a new parent, I have a smaller window than most." 😂 Amen! 1131
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 08/02/2025I use both, depending on the context! imo, Svelte is a wonderful starting point - feels closer to the native web and has the right amount of magic. React is great because the ecosystem is massive and it's easy to find npm deps for common components, etc. 050
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 06/02/2025historical 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 3621
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 04/02/2025what's going on in the video?! the input is the text of an article (you can either paste/type text or speak), which gets split up into cards that are automatically grouped into larger categories. 050
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 04/02/2025sharing 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 7558
Reposted by Amelia WattenbergerMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Trump 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...washingtonpost.comWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments. 35677992760
Reposted by Amelia WattenbergerNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This 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! 410557
