AI in the Global Lexicon of 2025
From 'slop' to 'Chappii,' how AI terminology became universal across languages and cultures in 2025.
Reda Lemeden
Personal website of Reda Lemeden, an independent software designer and developer based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Vibe Debugging
A short guide to using coding agents for debugging.
Stable Diffusion: A Quick Tour
In the past two weeks, something incredible happened in the machine learning space: an open-source image generation model that can compete or even outperform closed-source alternatives such as OpenAI’s DALL-E or Google’s Imagen has been released to the public . This development generated—no pun intended—an unprecedented wave of excitement and buzz in the space. You don’t have to take my word for…
The Reshaped Mac experience
Riccardo Mori writes about a Twitter Thread by Jeff Johnson, where he criticizes the direction Apple took with Big Sur. [...] the Mac experience today feels disjointed. [...] Big Sur embodies what I’ve been fearing in recent years — a progressive iOS-ification of Mac OS. The so-called iOS-ification is often cited as to why the software we use today on the most powerful hardware we've ever had…
Achievement Unlocked: 2020 Edition
As challenging and anomalous as this year has been, I sought to make the best out of the exceptional circumstances that unfolded. In March I quit my full time job to focus on a handful of personal projects—a conference , a book, and a digital product. While the first was indefinitely postponed due to the pandemic, being confined at home was perfect for the remaining two throughout spring and…
Mozilla: Apple’s anti-tracking plans for iPhone
As you might have already heard, Apple announced earlier this summer their plans to turn off <abbr title="Identifier for Advertisers">IDFA</abbr>—a unique device ID used by advertisers to track users across apps. Following the backlash from online advertisers and mobile game publishers that this move triggered, they subsequently backed down this fall when iOS 14 was released. In the light of this…
On Static Site Generators
Peter Zignego writes about his experience with Swift static site generators: After a bit of spelunking, I realized that it had been built with some beta version of Xcode long since lost to the sands of time — I was stuck with a binary I couldn’t run. Luckily most of this is behind us now. Prior to 4.0, this was a major drawback of using the language for general purpose programming. Over the course…
A Stable Modular ABI for Rust
Before Swift Evolution , I had no idea what an ABI was. Today, even though I still get lost when it comes to the minutiae, I can at least follow along threads like this one without feeling too uncomfortable. It’s also eye-opening to see how different communities and companies prioritize different aspects of a programming language. Rust got async / await since version 1.39.0, released last…
Solutions, Problems, and Learning
From a content creator perspective, it’s relatively easy to write about solutions. Tips and tricks. How to do X or Y. Lessons learned. In contrast, it’s significantly harder to write about problems—what's at stake and why it's worth the effort. Understanding a given problem to a level where it can be distilled requires much more rigor and experience than presenting solutions to said problem. From…
Margin Considered Harmful
Max Stoiber on using margins in UI components: Margin breaks component encapsulation. A well-built component should not affect anything outside itself. It’s very hard to disagree with this statement if you’ve been involved in any capacity with creating reusable UI components. Baked-in margins can and will hinder component reuse across different adaptive layouts. A few years back, margins were the…