petekp

hey all, just released a plugin to scratch an itch. i'd been lazily adding linear gradients on the edges of scrollviews and animating them with JS based on scroll position. turns out you can do a lot better with pure CSS now by leveraging masking + the new CSS scroll animations API.

works in pretty much all browers excepting firefox which doesn't have CSS scroll animations yet, but the nightly version does, so it should be generally available soon.

demo site: https://pete.design/tw-fade

github: https://github.com/petekp/tw-fade

npmjs: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tw-fade

if you use it i'd love to hear how it goes and if you have any feedback.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes, but in-person preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, React, NextJS, AI SDK... nowadays with LLMs, anything I put my mind to learning.

Portfolio: https://pete.design X: https://x.com/petekp LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/petekp

I'm a mission-driven design engineer with 15+ years of experience, the last 10 years working with early stage startups.

I've been working on AI-native products for the past 3+ years and want to find a thoughtful team working at the edge of applied AI on something clearly beneficial to humanity.

Exactly. GPT happens to hallucinate a lot of "facts" making it unreliable for a large breadth of tasks. However it's quite adept at many NLP tasks and can be fine-tuned to further improve its domain expertise.

In any sensitive application like clinical charting, one would also want to include a workflow for reviewing GPT's output for erroneous data before welcoming it in.

I'm a product designer experimenting with applications for GPT-3 in the mental healthcare space and I'm encouraged about the results of some experiments in automating the updating of a patient's chart from unstructured clinical notes.

Today, this is workflow (note->chart) is almost entirely manual consumes a large portion of clinician's time. Automating this process could free up this time to be better spent delivering care.

The fact that someone without deep NLP/NL experience can bootstrap something with this much potential impact is incredibly exciting to me.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript / React / React Native / Node / Git / Python / Flask / SQL

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petekp/

Email: p@petekp.com

Designer that codes. I'm a product designer by training but have moved towards engineering-focused roles (e.g. UX Engineer) to help scale GUI design and front-end development functions via in-house tooling and design system development. I'm interested in multi-disciplinary roles that combine product design and engineering responsibilities. I strongly prefer working with world-positive companies with a strong mission and values.

I feel you. In most cases, Android and iOS's native components are superior to custom-rolled UI elements. Easier to use, more performant, and they leverage our platform muscle memory.

Fortunately, it does seem like these platforms are beginning to converge on a set of common UI patterns, e.g. Android adopting the tab bar, and iOS apps beginning to adopt Android's horizontal-paging navigation. The colors, iconography, and typography shifting can disorient somewhat, but I'd argue it's the navigation model that's most disruptive when using different apps.

While React Native doesn't fully support native navigation components out of the box, there are third party libraries that interface directly with native navigation modules, e.g. https://wix.github.io/react-native-navigation. Moreover, React Native makes it easy for developers to 'drop down to' native code at any point to fully leverage native SDKs and APIs alongside their Javascript code using the NativeModules API.

Example of native modules with React Native wrappers: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/components-and-...

NativeModules API: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-...

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Save lives with software! Docker, continuous delivery, strong team, proven founders, all good stuff.

Also check out http://designers.watch - very nice, curated collection of design-related documentaries.

Google Dictionary is one I use frequently, every day. Just double-click a word to see its definition.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-...

Here's a video tour of 2b2t for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlcLPJqvvA

Our team is actually working to solve this very problem. Our goal is to make it way easier to skim and find the best parts of videos (and possibly audio later on). It's not visible on our site yet, but we have a really cool 'highlights' feature in the works that lets you quickly watch the key parts of several videos to determine if they're worth your time.

www.vuact.com

Any feedback appreciated!

$84,000 in Toonies:

• is 42,000 coins

• would weigh 648lbs / 294 kilos

• at a rate of 10 a day, would take ~11.5 years to amass

/stats :)

Feels great to my eyes. The non-blurred square looks far choppier and eye-straining by comparison. Would love to be able to easily add this effect to CSS3 animations since it'll probably be awhile (3-ish years?) before WebGL is more commonplace.

Interesting, but there's something eerie about deciding to strap on a helmet to re-visit a past holiday. Especially "again and again" :)

How often to we even browse our photos of old events, let alone 4D camera orb footage? Hey who knows, maybe that's how we'll be spending our twilight years.

This looks very promising. Seems like it'd be a great place to catch up on top stories, sort of like Flipboard. Curious to see what they end up doing with commenting.

The team behind this is clearly very skilled. Will be keeping an eye on this as it evolves.

This should be integrated into web browsers. Seems like it would particularly benefit people with high-density displays.

Coming from Windows this confused me as well. I found an article that clarifies why it behaves the way it does; it does make sense to do it this way particularly on high res screens where the empty space would be glaring.

http://www.macyourself.com/2011/02/06/why-doesnt-mac-os-xs-g...

You're not alone :)

Mostly agree with David’s points. I have at least 30 apps on my iPhone. Of those, I use 5-6 on a regular basis, half of which were developed by Apple and came pre-installed.

The endless variety of the app store is impressive, but there’s so much cruft in there it’s beginning to feel more like an app Walmart. A large fraction are either redundant or slapped together to make a quick buck.

I’d trade the majority of my apps just to have more seamless interaction with those aspects of this device I find most useful; the camera app in particular. It’s perplexing that Apple has just now decided to allow us to use a volume button as a shutter. I’ll forgive that on the basis of the brilliant decision to add a camera shortcut on the lock screen — that is an example of the type of improvements that really make a difference in the everyday utility of these incredible pocket machines.

Whoever masters the art of making it easy for a five-fingered hand to effortlessly soar through those fundamental functions it’s difficult to imagine being without (phone, messaging, browser and camera in particular) is who will ultimately earn my dollar. /raaant