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"Self-service dashboards have a problem: they make the easy problems easy, and they don’t make hard problems any easier."
amorphousdata.com/blog/data-…
A decade of @NNgroup annual Top 10 UX articles:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Super useful deep dive on web vitals and SEO. It doesn't touch on what I've found to be the most visible impact, which is eligibility (or at least significant boost) for surfaces like Discover and Google News.
csswizardry.com/2023/07/core…
“Data is the common language within a company that departments use to talk to each other.” Really loved this podcast with @ElenaVerna
overcast.fm/+BAu9mNATvo
Wrote a short post with the steps for blending UA and GA4 into one chart in Looker Studio:
parsnip.io/post/blending-uni…
Same username on Threads if any Twitter friends want to follow over there!
threads.net/@robflaherty
Love this definition of architecture vs design. It’s all about cost of change.
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OpenAI making good on this prediction 3 days early
Our API now supports function calling. This is the mechanism underlying plugins, allowing you to integrate with your own tools: openai.com/blog/function-cal…
Indoor PM 2.5 levels in Manhattan this week. This was with windows closed, door taped, and 2 HEPA filters running.
Nice Figma tip to make your variants appear to the side instead of below: add a variant and then give the component group Auto Layout with horizontal flow.
forum.figma.com/t/arrange-ne…
Programming with GPT pretty quickly runs into the "writing code is easier than reading it" problem. I'm often finding it to be faster and more productive but also less fun.
If LLMs don’t have moats it’s a big problem for OpenAI and not a problem for Google. That was the headline, which is all most people will read.
.@googleanalytics Going on 48 hours of completely broken GA4 reports while getting nagged every 5 minutes to use a product I started using a year ago is getting to just be not worth it
Summary of hacks to edit and export vertical video on a Mac/iPhone because 15 years after the iPhone, Apple still doesn't think this is important.
Mac:
1) If you're OK with 1080p, iMovie > File > New App Preview. Works great but won't let you export in 4K.
3) Buy a simple editor like Filmora, or use feature-heavy editors like DaVinci Resolve or the standard pro editors. The latter feels like overkill when all I want to do is combine and trim clips.