“This is not the computer for you”(samhenri.gold)
899 points by MBCook | 331 comments
Personal blog essay by Sam Henri Gold reflecting on growing up with Apple computers, opening with a childhood photo of himself at a desk with Macs.
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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC(git.mills.io)
306 points by davidcollantes | 169 comments
Git repository page for Parley, a federated, decentralised chat system that is compatible with plain IRC clients; the page returned an HTTP 429 error.
Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI(imgur.com)
279 points by signa11 | 196 comments
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Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode(figma.com)
510 points by emilsjolander | 213 comments
Figma blog post by CTO Kris Rasmussen announcing Dev Mode, a new Figma workspace aimed at helping developers inspect designs and turn them into code.
Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger(figma.com)
2155 points by supafastcoder | 952 comments
Figma CEO Dylan Field's December 2023 blog post announcing that Figma and Adobe are abandoning their proposed merger.
Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster(allenpike.com)
373 points by tobr | 218 comments
Allen Pike's blog post reviewing Figma Slides, covering its highlights and lowlights as a presentation tool.
How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale(figma.com)
512 points by pinser98 | 201 comments
Figma engineering blog post by Sammy Steele describing how the databases team scaled Figma's Postgres infrastructure, including horizontal sharding.
Figma Slides(figma.com)
449 points by FelipeCortez | 164 comments
Product page for Figma Slides, a presentation tool for designers and their teams, announced in beta rolling out June 26th.
Purposeful animations(emilkowal.ski)
505 points by jakelazaroff | 127 comments
Essay by design engineer Emil Kowalski on when and how to use UI animations purposefully so they improve rather than harm the user experience.