Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Perfectionism rarely creates perfection. You procrastinate because you’re terrified of falling short. You abandon projects because they don’t live up to insurmountable standards. You spend more time frantically burying flaws than creating something authentic.
perfectionism is a form of shame
This stuff is straight out of science fiction: being able to have an audio conversation with a capable LLM about things that it can “see” through your camera is one of those “we live in the future” moments.
Simon Willison • Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode
Simon Willison on the release of Google Gemini 2.0 Flash and it’s multi-modal capabilities.
The average job opening last quarter received 242 applications, according to exclusive data from hiring-software provider Greenhouse. That means you have a 0.4% chance of getting the average job you apply for. Meanwhile, the acceptance rate for thatschool near Boston: 3.6%.
You're now more likely to get into Harvard than to find a job
Mike Masnick has a great post on Substack’s decision to double-down on hosting Nazis.
So the entire concept for these icons sucks. But the conceptual execution sucks too. The wrench is incredibly stupid-looking. Whoever drew it has obviously never used a crescent wrench because the forks on the wrench head are way too thin. They’d break off under any significant torque. Just look at a photo of real-life wrench, or — just look at the... See more
MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead Canary Utility App Icons
Absolutely scathing (and correct).
Flighty is one of my very favorite apps. It’s exceptionally well-designed and extremely useful. They just pushed some big UX updates, including this cool year-end passport, which I thought was nice. I had many years of travel data in TripIt, which I was able to import. Cannot recommend this app enough. Because I travel somewhat infrequently, I just pay the monthly subscription before my flight and then deactivate it after travel is complete. Nice to have that as an option.
Yancey Strickler: Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation
ted.comCreativity and Are you not inspired?!
I believe this will be Yancey’s lasting legacy. Few have fought as hard, thought as long and built in public to support artists and creators the way he has. This was a great talk and it was so cool seeing Yancey on the TED stage (finally)!
“ Monomania is the greatest album I’ve ever made and anybody that doesn’t like it has no idea what I’m about or what I’m doing. They’re simply avid fans of what’s called indie rock and think we’re a notable indie rock band. I hate indie rock and never liked the term. I don’t consider myself a participant in indie rock. I think it’s a ghetto.”
Deerhunter Hated "Indie Rock" And Were The Greatest Indie Rock Band Of Their Generation
Bradford Cox always had some great quotes. I’m a massive Deerhunter fan as well.