Roger Wong
@lunarboy.com
Design leader, liberal, geek. Thoughts on design, AI, technology, politics, and geeky pop culture. Blog: https://rogerwong.me
I spent the past week using OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas browser as my daily driver. My verdict: It's not ready yet.
The AI features are compelling—having context from your browsing history and past ChatGPT conversations could be genuinely useful.
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The AI features are compelling—having context from your browsing history and past ChatGPT conversations could be genuinely useful.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I spent the past week using OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas browser as my daily driver. My verdict: It's not ready yet.
The AI features are compelling—having context from your browsing history and past ChatGPT conversations could be genuinely useful.
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The AI features are compelling—having context from your browsing history and past ChatGPT conversations could be genuinely useful.
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It's kind of funny to me that academics compare products, write and publish a paper, and it's got immediate authority. It's just a competitive audit, right? We do this all the time.
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The design space of AI coding tools
10 design dimensions based on 90 AI coding tools.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's kind of funny to me that academics compare products, write and publish a paper, and it's got immediate authority. It's just a competitive audit, right? We do this all the time.
austinhenley.com/blog/aidesig...
austinhenley.com/blog/aidesig...
Rebuilt my blog with Astro after Next.js performance started degrading.
The difference is dramatic:
- Content readable in 84ms (was 175ms)
- Full page load in 746ms (was 21 secs)
- Search: 30ms (was 3.6 seconds)
- Hosting costs dropped significantly
The right tool isn't always the fanciest one.
The difference is dramatic:
- Content readable in 84ms (was 175ms)
- Full page load in 746ms (was 21 secs)
- Search: 30ms (was 3.6 seconds)
- Hosting costs dropped significantly
The right tool isn't always the fanciest one.
The Need for Speed: Why I Rebuilt My Blog with Astro - Roger Wong
How I migrated my blog from Next.js and Payload CMS to Astro, achieving 30x faster load times and 100x faster search while cutting hosting costs.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Rebuilt my blog with Astro after Next.js performance started degrading.
The difference is dramatic:
- Content readable in 84ms (was 175ms)
- Full page load in 746ms (was 21 secs)
- Search: 30ms (was 3.6 seconds)
- Hosting costs dropped significantly
The right tool isn't always the fanciest one.
The difference is dramatic:
- Content readable in 84ms (was 175ms)
- Full page load in 746ms (was 21 secs)
- Search: 30ms (was 3.6 seconds)
- Hosting costs dropped significantly
The right tool isn't always the fanciest one.
As designers, as people who make technology, it’s time we took responsibility. The assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking, but it wasn’t unpredictable. It was the inevitable outcome of platforms designed to optimize for outrage. 1/
September 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
As designers, as people who make technology, it’s time we took responsibility. The assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking, but it wasn’t unpredictable. It was the inevitable outcome of platforms designed to optimize for outrage. 1/
At midnight Eastern Time, Apple Music updated with a new pre-release album from Pink Floyd with cover art—the 50th anniversary edition of “Wish You Were Here.” It’ll be fully released on December 12.
September 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
At midnight Eastern Time, Apple Music updated with a new pre-release album from Pink Floyd with cover art—the 50th anniversary edition of “Wish You Were Here.” It’ll be fully released on December 12.
Pink Floyd blacked out all their album covers on streaming services, replacing them with “alt text” titles like “A PRISM REFRACTS LIGHT INTO THE SPECTRUM.” There are fan theories. I have mine (which is no different than the consensus TBH).
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September 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Pink Floyd blacked out all their album covers on streaming services, replacing them with “alt text” titles like “A PRISM REFRACTS LIGHT INTO THE SPECTRUM.” There are fan theories. I have mine (which is no different than the consensus TBH).
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I wrote up some quick notes about the Apple event today. In my view, the Live Translation in AirPods Pro 3 was the coolest thing. One step closer to Star Trek’s universal translator!
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September 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I wrote up some quick notes about the Apple event today. In my view, the Live Translation in AirPods Pro 3 was the coolest thing. One step closer to Star Trek’s universal translator!
rogerwong.me/2025/09/note...
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Because Dia is in the news, it’s a good time to resurface a review I did a while back. I reviewed both Dia from The Browser Company and Comet from Perplexity.
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The Era of the AI Browser Is Here
I tested the new AI browsers from The Browser Company (Dia) and Perplexity (Comet) that let you chat with your tabs and automate web tasks. After years with Arc, here's why AI-assisted browsing feels ...
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September 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Because Dia is in the news, it’s a good time to resurface a review I did a while back. I reviewed both Dia from The Browser Company and Comet from Perplexity.
rogerwong.me/2025/07/the-...
rogerwong.me/2025/07/the-...
I rewatched "TRON" recently, and it reminded me of how programs were once seen as extensions of their users. If you needed something, you wrote it yourself. 1/
September 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I rewatched "TRON" recently, and it reminded me of how programs were once seen as extensions of their users. If you needed something, you wrote it yourself. 1/
An essay by Suff Syed floated around a few weeks ago. He was giving up his design title for a technical title—a nondescript "Member of the Technical Team." Beyond the possible PR stunt, it can be summed up as design is commoditized, AI is the new frontier, and the smart money is in code. 1/
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
An essay by Suff Syed floated around a few weeks ago. He was giving up his design title for a technical title—a nondescript "Member of the Technical Team." Beyond the possible PR stunt, it can be summed up as design is commoditized, AI is the new frontier, and the smart money is in code. 1/
Breaking into design in 2025 is harder than it’s been in decades.
AI is changing the work, junior jobs are scarce, and the old career ladder is gone.
Here are 5 practical ways new designers can adapt and find their path forward:
AI is changing the work, junior jobs are scarce, and the old career ladder is gone.
Here are 5 practical ways new designers can adapt and find their path forward:
August 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Breaking into design in 2025 is harder than it’s been in decades.
AI is changing the work, junior jobs are scarce, and the old career ladder is gone.
Here are 5 practical ways new designers can adapt and find their path forward:
AI is changing the work, junior jobs are scarce, and the old career ladder is gone.
Here are 5 practical ways new designers can adapt and find their path forward:
AI is changing design, but young designers bring the passion, adaptability, and creativity that tech can't replace. Companies need to build real pathways for them—or risk losing the next generation of creative leaders. Read my latest post. 👉 rogerwong.me/2025/07/desi...
Why Young Designers Are the Antidote to AI Automation
Companies must restructure entry-level design roles and invest in junior talent's AI fluency to build tomorrow's creative leaders, not automate them away.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
AI is changing design, but young designers bring the passion, adaptability, and creativity that tech can't replace. Companies need to build real pathways for them—or risk losing the next generation of creative leaders. Read my latest post. 👉 rogerwong.me/2025/07/desi...
The design job market is saturated. On Reddit forums designers lament they’re not finding jobs, not getting callbacks, and getting ghosted by recruiters. On LinkedIn, the story is similar. Lots of folks who are #OpenToWork and doing their best to network and stand out from the crowd. 1/
The Design Industry Created Its Own Talent Crisis. AI Just Made It Worse.
Entry-level design hiring has collapsed 50% since 2019 as companies anticipate AI automating junior tasks, creating a brutal talent crisis for new grads.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The design job market is saturated. On Reddit forums designers lament they’re not finding jobs, not getting callbacks, and getting ghosted by recruiters. On LinkedIn, the story is similar. Lots of folks who are #OpenToWork and doing their best to network and stand out from the crowd. 1/
I fed a 20-item grocery list to Comet and it filled my Whole Foods shopping cart while I watched Top Chef. 🤯
AI-enabled browsers are the wave of the future. Read my reviews of both Dia and Comet: rogerwong.me/2025/07/the-...
AI-enabled browsers are the wave of the future. Read my reviews of both Dia and Comet: rogerwong.me/2025/07/the-...
The Era of the AI Browser Is Here
I tested the new AI browsers from The Browser Company (Dia) and Perplexity (Comet) that let you chat with your tabs and automate web tasks. After years with Arc, here's why AI-assisted browsing feels ...
rogerwong.me
July 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I fed a 20-item grocery list to Comet and it filled my Whole Foods shopping cart while I watched Top Chef. 🤯
AI-enabled browsers are the wave of the future. Read my reviews of both Dia and Comet: rogerwong.me/2025/07/the-...
AI-enabled browsers are the wave of the future. Read my reviews of both Dia and Comet: rogerwong.me/2025/07/the-...
I've been using Comet since day one and Dia maybe a week before that. I've been flipping back and forth. Is it wrong that I want them to have a baby?
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July 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I've been using Comet since day one and Dia maybe a week before that. I've been flipping back and forth. Is it wrong that I want them to have a baby?
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Terrible news about the loss of life in Texas. I wonder how much the National Weather Service’s failure is because of DOGE cuts to NOAA. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/w...
In Texas Flooding, the Most Urgent Alerts Came in the Middle of the Night
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July 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Terrible news about the loss of life in Texas. I wonder how much the National Weather Service’s failure is because of DOGE cuts to NOAA. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/w...
Happy 249th America! This is still my favorite logo.
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July 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happy 249th America! This is still my favorite logo.
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I was riding the London Underground last week with my family and spotted this ad: "Humans Were the Beta Test" from Artisan. I've done plenty of B2B campaigns. Shock isn't a tactic I'd recommend when you're essentially promoting the death of the human race.
July 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I was riding the London Underground last week with my family and spotted this ad: "Humans Were the Beta Test" from Artisan. I've done plenty of B2B campaigns. Shock isn't a tactic I'd recommend when you're essentially promoting the death of the human race.
I just used Cursor's background agent to fix a small bug on my website. I gave it a prompt and screenshot. It did the task in a few minutes, making 3 commits to the repo. I was able to create a PR from it, test it on Vercel, and then merge it and deploy it to production.
a man in a suit is making a funny face and says `` mind blown '' while standing in a bar .
ALT: a man in a suit is making a funny face and says `` mind blown '' while standing in a bar .
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July 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I just used Cursor's background agent to fix a small bug on my website. I gave it a prompt and screenshot. It did the task in a few minutes, making 3 commits to the repo. I was able to create a PR from it, test it on Vercel, and then merge it and deploy it to production.
Whoever designed this map for Trump Mobile obviously doesn't know our flag. 🇺🇸 I understand it's a mask and the numbers won't be perfect, but personally, I wouldn't have gone over 50 stars and 13 stripes. I counted 148 (mostly) visible stars and 15 stripes. 🤦🏻♂️
June 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Whoever designed this map for Trump Mobile obviously doesn't know our flag. 🇺🇸 I understand it's a mask and the numbers won't be perfect, but personally, I wouldn't have gone over 50 stars and 13 stripes. I counted 148 (mostly) visible stars and 15 stripes. 🤦🏻♂️
Apple's Liquid Glass has everyone arguing about accessibility, but they mentioned "legibility" 13 times in their technical presentation.
I watched the full WWDC sessions so you don't have to — here's how it actually works and why Apple built it:
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I watched the full WWDC sessions so you don't have to — here's how it actually works and why Apple built it:
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Breaking Down Apple’s Liquid Glass: The Tech, The Hype, and The Reality
I kind of expected it: a lot more ink was spilled on Liquid Glass—particularly on social media. In case you don’t remember, Liquid Glass is the new UI for all o...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Apple's Liquid Glass has everyone arguing about accessibility, but they mentioned "legibility" 13 times in their technical presentation.
I watched the full WWDC sessions so you don't have to — here's how it actually works and why Apple built it:
rogerwong.me/2025/06/brea...
I watched the full WWDC sessions so you don't have to — here's how it actually works and why Apple built it:
rogerwong.me/2025/06/brea...
I haven't played with Liquid Glass myself, but legibility and accessibility were in the design team's considerations.
After watching the video, it's clear that _using_ it is different than just looking at stills.
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After watching the video, it's clear that _using_ it is different than just looking at stills.
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Meet Liquid Glass - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
Liquid Glass unifies Apple platform design language while providing a more dynamic and expressive user experience. Get to know the design...
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June 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I haven't played with Liquid Glass myself, but legibility and accessibility were in the design team's considerations.
After watching the video, it's clear that _using_ it is different than just looking at stills.
developer.apple.com/videos/play/...
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After watching the video, it's clear that _using_ it is different than just looking at stills.
developer.apple.com/videos/play/...
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