Steve Farrugia

@fasterandworse

Experienced user Australian in Amsterdam I talk about product design Words: Videos: Audios:

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Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· 24d

🔗 🤷‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/phil...

crop of andrew tate's bare ankles and loafers

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· 25d

red flag

close crop of white man CEO's short pant legs, bare ankles, and brown loafers

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· 26d

book cover "four arguments for the elimination of UI components" by Jerry Mander - original title "four arguments for the elimination of television"

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· 28d

always blame the computer dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

One observation made during those tests later proved to be a key idea. A lay person trying a system for the first time is probably feeling pretty stupid and thinks that any mistake is his or her own. His inclination is not to tell you what is difficult because he thinks it is his problem. It is important to keep emphasizing that if he is hav~ng a problem, it is not his but the computer's. If you get into a car, turn the wheel, and it steers about twice as far as you expect, it is not that you are an incompetent driver, it's because the car has oversteer.

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jul 7

what's the point

Screenshot of WhatsApp "Read receipts" settings toggle with description text: "If you turn off read receipts, you won't be able to see read receipts from other people. **Read receipts are always sent for group chats.**"

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 28

#silentsunday

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 23

LLMs Were Mostly (But Not Entirely) Useless at Extra-Textual Tasks Involved in the Composition of My Next Novel
"Claude, get me a contract with a healthy advance but not one so large that the book will surely fail to earn out,...
JUN 1 • FREDDIE DEBOER

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 23

hot take (may be seasonal): The New Abnormal is The Strokes best album album. It's the most interesting lyrically, melodically, and percussionically

Cover art for The Strokes 2020 album The New Abnormal with Jean-Michel Basquiat art work Bird On Money

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 22

posterity

person skeets: "Al is the logical endpoint of participatory culture, not its betrayal. That's not theft, that's the internet doing what it does.
Their real worry is that the barrier to visual creativity dropped to zero.
Which is what they said about desktop publishing, digital photos and Auto-Tune. Wrong then too."

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 18

why did tabs become detached from the page they represent?

screenshot of a firefox tab which looks like a self-contained button with text "New Tab" and underneath there is the search bar for the page it represents. They don't connect to each other.

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 17

such a good album, beginning to end

cover art for The Horrors album V. Shows an image of a silicon moulded ball of mushed together faces.

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 11

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This is a deliberative problem unlike deliberative problems of the past. In the past, deliberation led to decisions about means to be employed in given circumstances to achieve given and desired ends. Means were deliberated, but the circumstances and ends were not subject to deliberation. Today, deliberation is inverted. The computer provides new means — the means are given by technological development — but the circumstances and ends of computer use are, themselves, the subject of deliberation in the process of product development. This is a fundamental characteristic of our time, and it profoundly influences the development of human-computer communication.

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· Jun 8

> we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community is a weird way to say you fucking hate nazis

Proton_Team posts on reddit: " You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.

Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.

Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn't have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that's on us.

We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn't. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.

But that distinction doesn't excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn't meet it this time. We're now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn't happen again.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance. "

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· May 25

Mark Zuckerberg providing a great demonstration of anti-design here (from mastodon: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11663...)

@jonny@neuromatch.social posts on mastodon: "Zuck, 2026 Q1 earnings call: "our plan is to make an AI that's really good at shopping" with an image of text which reads "But I don’t hear any other labs out there talking about how they’re building an AI that’s really good at shopping. And I think that the reason for that is like not because shopping is the most important thing by itself, but because like empowering people to do the things that matter in their lives, whether that’s local or understanding social context, or shopping or personal health things or understanding what’s going on around them visually which is going to be really important on the glasses. These are all elements of the personal super intelligence vision."

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· May 23

[Verse 2]
I hate them all, I hate them all
I hate myself for hating them
So I'll drink some more, I love them all
I'll drink even more, I'll hate them even more than I did before

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse· May 22

it's funny that they actually give it a min-height based on your viewport to ensure it pushes the useful results below the fold even if the ai summary is a null response like this