Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Art Deco was lavish, made with expensive materials and great effort. It wasn’t too concerned with cost or function. It was a celebration of beauty and creativity.
Tobias van Schneider • Art Deco Will Be the Visual Language of 2021 - DESK Magazine
I felt the same pride I used to feel from writing elegant code, maybe more. Because I wasn't proud of how it worked—I was proud that it worked. Real people were solving real problems, saving real space on their computers, and the feature felt effortless to use.
I'm still technical. I understand systems, architectures, and trade-offs. I can debug
... See moreYash Poojary • I Stopped Writing Code. My Productivity Exploded.
Standing in front of all my stuff, it hit me that all of it used to be money, and all of that used to be time.
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light
... See moreA good rant, on how nothing makes sense, by Shalom Auslander. It reminds me of On Bullshit’s opening line: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
Artisanal software
In a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet.
Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and... See more
In a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet.
Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and... See more
Patricia Maeda messaged you
There's an art to trolling. AI won't create music like the 80s indie pop band Beat Happening, who sort of invented twee pop. Their music was so rough and sometimes off-key. They didn't know how to make music; they just made sounds they liked. AI is not going to do that because it makes music that makes sense. AI writes books that make sense. It's
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