Lachlan Campbell

Lachlan Campbell

@lachlanjc.com

🧑🏻‍💻 Worldwide web design engineer for climate (watershed.com) in San Francisco 🌞 Intentional optimist 🏳️‍🌈 LAHK-len – they/them https://lachlanjc.com

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🦋 As a prolific liker & lacking bookmarks, it’s hard to find past Bsky likes. I made an infinite canvas search tool for all my likes, auto-positioned by similarity, using OpenAI embeddings (can search for related keywords; none of these posts say “pet”) & with media/link filters for visual browsing

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📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Standalone chat isn’t a great form factor for serious work. Engineers wouldn’t be using GPT that much if only for chat.com, they use it because Cursor/etc integrated it where we already work. Those interfaces haven’t been built for most workflows yet, but that’s as much the interfaces as the models.

The Economist@economist.com

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

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I bought a @theverge.com sub the day they launched. I’ve been so impressed by their growing boldness in coverage, of the election/gov, climate/env, the Vietnam War at 50 today; all way wider-eyed stories than most publications, expanding tech far beyond consumer product specs. Grateful for them!!

WIP excerpt: Encouraging follow-up questions with an LLM, by highlighting less-known scientific concepts which generate automatic questions you can refine. Trying to make it easier to be curious!

I just called Governor Hochul, and you should too, it only takes a minute. Masking when you’re feeling sick to prevent spreading illness is common decency, and it’s a frightening restriction of our right to self expression to police clothing.

Jews for Mask Rights@jews4maskrights.bsky.social

🚨 URGENT: Governor Hochul is pushing a last-minute mask ban into the budget. Everyone needs to call her today and tell her you oppose any criminalization of masks in New York. ☎️ Call: 518-474-8390 📠 Fax: 518-474-1513 #NoNYMaskBan (1/4)

Stopped by Shopify’s “shop local” NYC popup & realized everything on my body today went through Shopify: Rains & Baggu bags, Meller sunglasses, Phluid shirt, Outdoor Voices pants, Allbirds shoes, down to TomboyX underwear, socks. To shop outside big box & Amazon, they’re impressively inescapable

One of the few “AI” features I deeply want as a user: for museum websites to use semantic search on their images & metadata to allow for freeform exploration of their collections. Traditional search isn’t a good fit for art.

This weekend I co-ran the 10th annual ITP Stupid Hackathon! 50-something people gathered at @itp-ima-nyu.bsky.social to make a tamagotchi that forces you to vape, a table that criticizes & shakes everything off itself, fish locomotion, a Chrome extension for gravity, a working knitted breadboard…

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This weekend I co-ran the 10th annual ITP Stupid Hackathon! 50-something people gathered at @itp-ima-nyu.bsky.social to make a tamagotchi that forces you to vape, a table that criticizes & shakes everything off itself, fish locomotion, a Chrome extension for gravity, a working knitted breadboard…

View Transitions are coming to Next!!! This release also includes a small fix of mine to hide Next.js overlays while testing CSS print styling.

Next.js@nextjs.org

Next.js 15.2 • Redesigned Error UI & Improved Stack Traces • Streaming Metadata • Turbopack Performance Improvements • View Transitions (experimental) • Node.js Middleware (experimental) nextjs.org/blog/next-15-2

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🎉 Introducing my upcoming third course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you how to build top-tier animations and interactions using a variety of techniques. ✨ You can join the waitlist on the course’s brand-new site, which is the most ridiculous thing I’ve built in quite some time:

whimsy.joshwcomeau.comWhimsical AnimationsLearn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

Asked Perplexity Pro about sustainable design in subway stations like NYC Union Square. It suggested the station needs a green roof & smart irrigation of its plants (!!!) citing…an AI-generated article about making your Subway restaurant more sustainable, hosted on a malware site

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Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...

Online shopping fills me with guilt & indecision. Gasmask Clippy could amplify those feelings by explaining to you the environmental/health hazards that come with a product

If I were to design public art, I’d erect a super-scaled USB-C port as a fountain in Brussels near the EU headquarters, as a monument to their power in mandating the port. The stone sculpture will overstay its welcome just like the port surely will

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We had to evacuate Los Angeles. Most people I know there have also had to leave. We are safe in San Diego and our apartment is unlikely to burn down. We are very lucky. But alongside the visceral horror of the wildfires there is also the mundanity of dystopia www.404media.co/were-fine-lo...

404media.co‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate DisasterThe dystopia of Los Angeles' fires are horrifying, mundane, and everything in between.