Hey friends,

Did you hear about the first restaurant to open on the moon?

It had great food, but no atmosphere. 🌝

Thinking Too Hard 🤔

When engaging with AI, it's easy to feel anxious about being left behind or becoming obsolete.

But I don't think we need to stay there.

I'm reminded of another sea change in the late 2000's — the iPhone.

My degree is in traditional graphic design, and my first job was creating newspaper ads and billboards by the hundreds. Print as a medium was already in decline, and the iPhone accelerated it even faster. I saw a clear divide among my print design peers who ALSO felt this anxiety of becoming obsolete: those who experimented thrived, while those who resisted change struggled.

I don't think this wave of AI is quite the same as the release of the iPhone, but the spirit of exploration, of growth mindset, remains a constant.

I firmly believe that if we apply ourselves to experimentation and exploration, investigating the changes in our industry (which has been changing for decades) with a growth mindset, we will find that many of our skills still apply—even if things don't look exactly the same.

And in that sense, we don't need to be worried, but rather to remain open and curious.

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• Una walks us through contrast-color().
• Karl shows us how to animate clip-path from a trigger point.
• They found a really old bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
• Dylan Butler reminds us to protect our shed... err... side projects, rather.
• Kyle Kingsbury wonders if the future is just lies and weirdness.
• Interesting take on music for programming. Feels a bit too ASMR-y for my personal liking, but hey, maybe it'll be your jam.

Other Stuff

• Feeling a little too sleek and modern these days? May I interest you in a brutalist concrete laptop stand?
• Wow, this puts every model I ever made to shame...
• As a very mediocre guitar player I can say I've never tried this method of getting better at it. (But I do remember my dad, a phenomenal guitar player, doing exactly this!)

👽 Weird, 📺 Watch, and 🎮 Play

• 👽 Waves 🌊
• 👽 Honor the pug 👑
• 👽 Snake, but as a musical toy 🐍🎹
• 👽 Sometimes you just have to smash the walls.