Goran Markovic

Wow, they really ARE running the government like a software company

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

Whimsical DMG screens are a dying art. Bless the designers who still make them.

When the stroopwafel starts bending over the cup of fresh coffee, that must be one of my favorite morning moments.

one time I caught myself about to blag* an answer to a team about iirc a thorny database migration and so instead I said "you know what, I don't know. **Let's find out**." nobody died * like, try to think it through and answer their question because I thought they wanted an answer

Arriba España!

Canadian ice fishing huts, photographs by Richard Johnson

The single most painful thing to do in the Universe is updating your portfolio. I'll be taking no more questions at this time. #webcomics #comicsky

Discord is pretty dead right now.

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich." Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

OK, if you were Apple CEO for a day, what product would you greenlight, no backsies?

The flop of slop.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

I watched The Fellowship of the Ring a few dozen times at least, but still loved seeing it on a big screen tonight, like it was the first time.

Got the tickets for the Lord of the Rings 25th anniversary screenings. 😍

Save my life from Darth Vader, Opheeeeeeliaaaaaaa. 🎶🎵

Transferring a bunch of Figma projects to a new workspace must be equal to pushing a new app version on Friday. What a concept!

Thursday! What a concept!

The year is 2026. The entire economy is scams. But some scammers are scamming for justice.

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"AI boom could falter without wider adoption"? Microsoft chief making the best possible argument for not adopting AI!

Microslop is a gift that keeps on giving.

Netflix videos could be turned the other way up?

Share a television show that raised you

Janine Antoni, Chocolate Gnaw, 1992, a 600-lb cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist www.janineantoni.net/gnaw

Der Spiegel's cover illustration this week is going to be lit

Why are all these AI-powered, weapon manufacturing, and military-connected companies using LotR terminology for their names? Palantir, Anduril...

I am working on an app, and one module shows the list of employees, so I decided to use Figma's built-in image generator to generate their profile images/avatars. "Young Slavic man" is a blocked input for some reason. Wow.

Today I've heard someone saying Scam Altman, and that sounds just about right.

And I get annoyed with my 5x cheaper Renault Captur going wild ocassionally and giving me notifications in Croatian Latin and Serbian Cyrillic, whole it’s set on US English. This made me laugh.

Hack the planet!

IT’S HAPPENING! The original theatrical version of Star Wars is coming to theaters in 2027: youtu.be/qfXvdFcvhNY?...

pantone reveal day should come with a trigger warning for disappointment it's literally landlord white

This.

'im gonna spend billions on the next big thing', says guy who was wrong about last four big things

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

What a great headline

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

Finally, an explanation based on the facts.

What a timeline we’re living in, ladies and gentlemen.

'Tis the season for the Swedish ginger cookies.

We are way beyond the point at which everyone should have abandoned Meta's products, but here we are. Literally every day, another ew (yes, ew, not new) fact comes to light.

Designers: Demand your seat at the table! #webcomics #comicsky

We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. ⸻ We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.