omg who's that cutie in the first and second mockup with the pink logo 
sorry I haven't posted in a few days I've been obsessing over the the new twenty one pilots album called Clancy for the last 2 days straight lmao
Can't believe Apple Music didn't put this album on their top 100 albums list, what an injustice.
The new Billie Eilish record HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is really good, actually. It's a pleasant surprise. Her debut had some great tracks and distinct production but felt a little too juvenile for my liking. Her sophomore was more cohesive and mature but lacked some of the bite her debut had, but this new album gets it just right, writing wise this thing is interesting and has great storytelling, vocally Billie Eilish is not whispering as much and is belting out some amazing notes perfectly. The production is unique and bold, taking plenty of unexpected twists and turns while using more live drumming that adds a more dynamic touch to everything. Plus the pitch shifting and other warping of the vocals at points really adds to the material. It was a good choice to not release any singles for this record, it's more enjoyable as a whole collection as you get to be thrown through a loop on what the album is going to do next on your first listen. Her best album and just a good one in general. In a year where a lot of big pop acts have released predictable, boring albums, this is a breath of fresh air.
in this scenario i’d likely be a clownfish and that means i probably can only remember for 7 seconds, meaning i’ll forget i’ve become a clownfish, creating an infinite loop of forgetting and remembe-
if this actually happened i’d probably be a clownfish, meaning i’d probably forget i’m a clownf-
WHY AM I CLOWNFISH?! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! OH GOD PLEASE HEL-
a lot of the posts i've seen lately here have been very deflating. personally, i like wasteof because it is a nicer place than every other social media i use. it sorta feels like a weird and wacky group chat. it still is to me. there's a lot of people here who i think are cool and talented, i hope we continue to see folks like that around these parts. i've talked about it in the past but all these aimless arguments is just what twitter is 24/7, screaming that results in nothing tangible. i'm optimistic things can settle, i'll contribute to that goal myself by posting more of my silly little designs and what not.
Here’s some alt app icon colours that @oren asked me to make a while ago (the colours are from Apple’s official guidelines so don’t ask me why some are like they are lol)
this aged like fine wine, relistened to mr. morale and the big steppers the other day and yeah it’s still such a good album, deeply reflective and a wonderful listen front to back.
just gonna say it, but I think in a lot of ways iOS is a poor UX experience. some reasons:
back button isn't consistent & is annoying to reach, it's at the top of the screen a lot, making it hard to reach one handed. sometimes the button is somewhere else depending on the app you're using.
for some reason safari settings are shoved into system settings, so you have to dig through to find it to configure basic things like extensions
you can't turn Bluetooth off via control centre, you need to go into settings to do that too
I could go on if it thought about it more, but yeah. I've used iOS a good amount for years as I have owned 2 iPads and having used android phones for a long time as well I just find I have to go through more hoops to do things on iOS than android.
to elaborate, my whole life i’ve thought iphones were supposed to be easy to use and stuff. i spent an embarrassingly long time trying to change my wallpaper. or delete a shortcut automation i accidentally made.
LEMMiNO just dropped another video (pls go watch it), and it’s yet another banger with some of the best video production of any YouTube documentary channel on the platform. He researches, writes and edits all of his videos on his own. Makes his own music for them, coded his own (really cool) website, designs all of his unique and distinctive thumbnails, and does this all without a single sponsored segment, being fully funded by ads and Patreon.
His growth from rage comics to becoming (one of the few) good 10 top channels and now finally becoming a documentary channel that goes toe to toe with documentaries produced by huge companies with big teams is amazing to see. His MH370 video is amazing and makes Netflix’s documentary series look amateur, it’s horrible and overly long, while LEMMiNO’s is informative and visually interesting too. Also, gotta shout out his Jack the Ripper video, masterpiece imo.
Hello, I am here to madly scream about tech again!
So, Arc for Windows has now officially launched. You can get it on their website. When I first got access via a waitlist, the browser was indicated as a beta, you were warned of bugs. I ignored the shortcomings at the time (like when I spoke about it on TNC) because it wasn’t done, they were constantly changing things, which is what I expect from an early beta. But now that it’s out for anyone, and it isn’t called a beta, I think it’s fair to judge it like any other browser on Windows. Forget all the gimmicks and hype, here are some of the issues I have with the current build:
It takes a significant amount of time to open.
It sometimes renders websites weirdly until you scroll.
Extension support is finicky and all open in separate windows.
99% of settings are not accessible from the dropdown, instead you need to type in the full settings URL.
Passkey support doesn’t work if you use a password manager to store passkeys.
The dark theme isn’t really that dark.
Crashes if you move tabs around too much.
Scrollbars are huge.
Importing from other browsers barely works.
And more…
I gave The Browser Company the benefit of the doubt, but releasing a beta as a stable browser is dumb, it doesn’t do basic things well, and its nicer features are missing. It feels like Windows is an afterthought, they don’t show a screenshot of it on their site, only the macOS version. It feels they made it to tick a box.
