Lachlan Campbell
@lachlanjc.com
🧑🏻💻 Worldwide web design engineer for climate (watershed.com)
🗽 NYU ‘25 Interactive Media Arts
✈️ Currently on break, moving to SF in July
🌞 Intentional optimist
🏳️🌈 LAHK-len – they/them
https://lachlanjc.com
🗽 NYU ‘25 Interactive Media Arts
✈️ Currently on break, moving to SF in July
🌞 Intentional optimist
🏳️🌈 LAHK-len – they/them
https://lachlanjc.com
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Lachlan Campbell
@lachlanjc.com
· Nov 26
🦋 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
100%. Flying home I replaced my dad’s Squarespace, an artist portfolio, with 2 hours of Codex’ing, finally fixing the litany of bugs/regressions they introduced while doubling their prices for private equity recently. Vercel hosts the superior site for free. Site builders are permanently over
January 10, 2026 at 6:08 AM
100%. Flying home I replaced my dad’s Squarespace, an artist portfolio, with 2 hours of Codex’ing, finally fixing the litany of bugs/regressions they introduced while doubling their prices for private equity recently. Vercel hosts the superior site for free. Site builders are permanently over
At this point Partiful has replaced the Contacts app for friends’ addresses
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
At this point Partiful has replaced the Contacts app for friends’ addresses
Haha, valid. I haven’t tried Cursor etc’s local AI code review, but I’m curious if that’s a better balance. I’d much rather fix a bug it catches locally right before I put up a PR than after I’ve requested coworkers look at my work.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Haha, valid. I haven’t tried Cursor etc’s local AI code review, but I’m curious if that’s a better balance. I’d much rather fix a bug it catches locally right before I put up a PR than after I’ve requested coworkers look at my work.
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.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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.
Reposted by Lachlan Campbell
Zillow has removed “climate risk scores” from its listings. On the one hand, the smoking gun is right in the article: It seems like the risk scores were too effective, actively dissuading people from buying properties with high flood risk. On the other hand… www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Zillow has removed “climate risk scores” from its listings. On the one hand, the smoking gun is right in the article: It seems like the risk scores were too effective, actively dissuading people from buying properties with high flood risk. On the other hand… www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Reposted by Lachlan Campbell
"Only we are responsible and skilled enough to use webviews correctly, and so only we are allowed to apply liquid glass in safari"
Classic Apple
Classic Apple
Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like ...
alastair.is
September 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"Only we are responsible and skilled enough to use webviews correctly, and so only we are allowed to apply liquid glass in safari"
Classic Apple
Classic Apple
Reposted by Lachlan Campbell
Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more.
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
WebKit Features in Safari 26.0
We’re happy to share with you what’s arriving in Safari 26.0!
webkit.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more.
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
For Liquid Glass, @viticci.macstories.net wrote his best iOS review yet. Always an honor to edit these! www.macstories.net/stories/ios-...
iOS and iPadOS 26: The MacStories Review
Old and new through the liquid glass.
www.macstories.net
September 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For Liquid Glass, @viticci.macstories.net wrote his best iOS review yet. Always an honor to edit these! www.macstories.net/stories/ios-...
My first month in San Francisco flew by! So thrilled to be back at Watershed.
Also: now we manage over a quarter of US carbon emissions 🌎
Also: now we manage over a quarter of US carbon emissions 🌎
September 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My first month in San Francisco flew by! So thrilled to be back at Watershed.
Also: now we manage over a quarter of US carbon emissions 🌎
Also: now we manage over a quarter of US carbon emissions 🌎
So ready for the Cloud White Air ☁️
September 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
So ready for the Cloud White Air ☁️
Ooh! Where are the details / is it open to the public?
August 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ooh! Where are the details / is it open to the public?
Reposted by Lachlan Campbell
The all new Hello Weather is finally here!
We’re rolling it out gradually this week, so if you don’t see the update yet, hop over to this App Store link and grab it.
apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...
We’re rolling it out gradually this week, so if you don’t see the update yet, hop over to this App Store link and grab it.
apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...
Hello Weather
Hello Weather gives you beautiful, trustworthy forecasts powered by the best weather data on Earth. With hyperlocal real-time updates and a joyful design that’s easy to read at a glance, you’ll alway...
apps.apple.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The all new Hello Weather is finally here!
We’re rolling it out gradually this week, so if you don’t see the update yet, hop over to this App Store link and grab it.
apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...
We’re rolling it out gradually this week, so if you don’t see the update yet, hop over to this App Store link and grab it.
apps.apple.com/us/app/hello...
I would love a better schedule site! I refer to @binx.bsky.social’s amtrakexplorer.com for a map constantly
Amtrak Explorer
explore the amtrakverse
amtrakexplorer.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I would love a better schedule site! I refer to @binx.bsky.social’s amtrakexplorer.com for a map constantly
@ped.ro Would love the ability to export all my notes from the iOS app as a backup (as Markdown files). Exporting right now is one-off, & each file has to be manually named 😔
July 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
@ped.ro Would love the ability to export all my notes from the iOS app as a backup (as Markdown files). Exporting right now is one-off, & each file has to be manually named 😔
Being able to incant extensions directly inside Raycast (a la Sky’s AI AppleScripts) would be amazing 👀
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Being able to incant extensions directly inside Raycast (a la Sky’s AI AppleScripts) would be amazing 👀
My first professional modeling campaign: now blooming on baboontothemoon.com!
May 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My first professional modeling campaign: now blooming on baboontothemoon.com!
Massive fan of this related art project by @tega.bsky.social: solarprotocol.net
Solar Protocol
A naturally intelligent network programmed by the sun.
solarprotocol.net
May 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Massive fan of this related art project by @tega.bsky.social: solarprotocol.net
I’m presenting my thesis show I’ve been building all spring, American Toxics, today! Catch the livestream at 5:24pm ET (10:24pm London) for 10 minutes: itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis...
NYU ITP / IMA Thesis Live Stream
itp.nyu.edu
May 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I’m presenting my thesis show I’ve been building all spring, American Toxics, today! Catch the livestream at 5:24pm ET (10:24pm London) for 10 minutes: itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis...
I totally agree they’re damaging, especially how they’re being used for the wrong things, but the fact that we cannot get rid of them at this point is why I said the train left the station
April 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I totally agree they’re damaging, especially how they’re being used for the wrong things, but the fact that we cannot get rid of them at this point is why I said the train left the station
Oh yes, this is lovely! I would love to see tools for thinking about vertical rhythm as a designer/engineer built straight into the browser devtools, as realistically I’m not going to bring in a system like this to every project that could benefit from it
April 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh yes, this is lovely! I would love to see tools for thinking about vertical rhythm as a designer/engineer built straight into the browser devtools, as realistically I’m not going to bring in a system like this to every project that could benefit from it
Gen AI is 100% a new imperialism, the development has been indefensible. But I can’t defend the ideological, material, or economic underpinnings of the chips enabling this conversation either. & it feels like the right thing for me to use those as tools to build more of the just world I want to see
April 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Gen AI is 100% a new imperialism, the development has been indefensible. But I can’t defend the ideological, material, or economic underpinnings of the chips enabling this conversation either. & it feels like the right thing for me to use those as tools to build more of the just world I want to see
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!!
April 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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!!
I wholly respect resistance as a response but it feels like an arbitrary line. I’m making a project rn using an LLM to illuminate some of that toxic history in gov archives; I think the train left the station on LLMs being part of tech landscape, & now it’s up to us to shape how they’re used. 3/3
April 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I wholly respect resistance as a response but it feels like an arbitrary line. I’m making a project rn using an LLM to illuminate some of that toxic history in gov archives; I think the train left the station on LLMs being part of tech landscape, & now it’s up to us to shape how they’re used. 3/3
then the underpinnings/design of the computers themselves being conceived of for military/surveillance purposes from the beginning. LLM development has been wildly unethical, but at the same time hasn’t all our digital technology? We’ve just had it long enough to normalize that story? 2/3
April 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
then the underpinnings/design of the computers themselves being conceived of for military/surveillance purposes from the beginning. LLM development has been wildly unethical, but at the same time hasn’t all our digital technology? We’ve just had it long enough to normalize that story? 2/3