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When Failed Startups Become Artworks
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1159+ words) When I create my projects at Absurd. website, I do not approach them as jokes, parodies or utopian concepts. I try to build them as realistically as possible - right on the edge of absurdity. I want them to feel like…...
I Open-Sourced an AI Skill for Generating Minimalist Hand-Drawn Illustrations
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (101+ words) While that's impressive, I wanted something different. I wanted illustrations that feel simple, human, playful, and intentionally imperfect " the kind of sketches you'd find in a notebook or on a whiteboard. So I built and open-sourced Kunaal's Illustrations. It can…...
How to Create Custom Pet Merchandise Designs Using AI
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (383+ words) Custom pet portraits used to require commissioning an artist " $50200 per piece, days of turnaround. AI generation changes the economics completely. You can produce dozens of variations in minutes, test which styles resonate, and only print what sells. The key insight…...
How to Choose the Right Color Palette for UI/UX Design
1+ week, 5+ day ago (226+ words) A beautiful interface isn't created by random colors. The right color palette can increase usability, improve brand recognition, and guide users toward important actions. Here's a simple process I follow when designing products: " Professional or playful? " Premium or affordable? " Modern…...
Teddy Bears With Microphones
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (405+ words) A teddy bear sits on a shelf in a child's bedroom, its plush exterior indistinguishable from any. .. Tagged with humanintheloop, aitoyrisks, childprivacy, aisafeguards....
"An architectural deep-dive drawing a powerful parallel between biological genetic diversity and cybersecurity, warning against the silent rise of digital monocultures accelerated by AI."
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (18+ words) Genetic Diversity and Cyber Diversity: Why Monocultures Are Dangerous in Both Worlds. .. Tagged with ai, architecture, cybersecurity, science....
My Friend Al (#1) - Al does my work
2+ week, 5+ day ago (11+ words) A post by Jack Le Hamster. Tagged with ai, comic, al....
The 'bad photo' look is back " here's the engineering behind it
2+ week, 6+ day ago (286+ words) Every few years a visual style comes back, but this one is funny: it's literally old engineering bugs becoming features. The "2000s digicam" / CCD / disposable-camera look that's everywhere right now is just a stack of old hardware limitations " and you can…...
Is AI Killing Animation? The 2 D vs 3 D Reality in 2026
2+ week, 6+ day ago (594+ words) "Is AI killing animation?" is the question every artist in the field is quietly asking. The honest answer requires separating two things people constantly blur together: the craft (the art form, which is mostly fine) and the jobs (specific roles,…...
Fin Ops in Architecture Design
3+ week, 6+ day ago (730+ words) So, you're building a cloud-native masterpiece, a digital marvel that'll wow the users and scale like a superhero. Awesome! But have you stopped to think about the cost of all this awesomeness? Not just the initial splashy launch, but the…...