Reading about v0 by Vercel I just had to look up what it’s about. It’s an AI to create user interfaces or just components.

Seeing the examples on their site, my first thought is that you’ll end up with lots of not really matching components.

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I really love this anecdote for when you are stuck:

Well, do something, so we can change it!

Helps a lot to overcome that hard moment to just get going.

If you give feedback that isn’t constructive your feedback is worthless. I know that sounds harsh but it is. If you give unconstructive feedback you might as well not be saying anything. If you just look at something and go “That’s stupid” or “I don’t like that”—that’s worthless feedback, nobody can do anything with that. They’re not going to start throwing darts against the wall until you say “Oh OK, I like that”. You have to say something more.

— Timothy Cain

I really like the concept of thinking of a design-system as a layered concept, shared by Dion Almaer:

• build as much as possible with HTML & CSS
• add web components for interactivity
• add a wrapper for your framework of choice, if needed

This keeps everything flexible and future proof. The web platform is stable and barely changes after all. 🙌

Chris Coyier shares a nice technique to build accessible emoji lists aka lists with an emoji as the list-style. Never heard of @counter-style before, but that’s how to get custom text as the list style.

Combined with a CSS-in-JS library, this can also be build to be dynamic, getting the data including the emojis, from some CMS.

The project ClimateJets highlights the amount of emissions caused by the private jets of the ultra rich. Besides the emissions it’s crazy how much time of the year some people spend flying. 🤯

More then ten years ago I tried reading eBooks with an entry level Kindle. I wasn’t convinced and sticked to physical books over the years. Last autumn I made a second try at digital reading – and this time I’m sold.

I’m still very uncertain with ChatGPT in general and the integration in search engines currently. What stresses me is this summary of an interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:

AI is coming for your browser, your social media, and your operating system, too.

I don’t want this. Especially when Microsoft themselves warns people to do their own research on the results. Sure. Where will people look up the sources (if at all)? The same search engine they used to get this uncertain information? What a mess. 😵‍💫

As an experiment, for one continuous month, make the focus of one in every three things you share on social media — wherever you normally share, however regularly or irregularly you do, however many people you reach — something other than yourself …