For Atlas to succeed, the *browser* part needs to be better than Chrome. Right now, it's not. The AI assistant can't compensate for missing fundamentals.

Full thoughts on the Atlas browser: rogerwong.me/2025/10/chat...

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Here's what I keep coming back to: computers are supposed to work for us, not the other way around. OpenAI and others are trying to break down the silos between our apps and data—which is the right direction.

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But OpenAI made a critical mistake: they stripped away too many basic browser features in pursuit of minimalism.

My 1Password extension doesn't work properly. There are no tab groups or profiles.

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👉 Read here: rogerwong.me/2025/09/bloo...

5/5

…the forced displacement of over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims.

In this essay I explore:
• How algorithms amplify rage and fuel political violence
• The responsibility product designers carry for what we’ve built
• What it would mean to design systems that foster connection instead of carnage

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I’m not celebrating Kirk but condemning violence. Growing political violence in recent years that include the attack of Nancy Pelosi’s husband in her home, the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband, the attempt on Trump’s life, and worst of all… 3/

As product designers, we like to celebrate “delight.” But we also designed infinite scroll, engagement metrics, and feeds that reward borderline content. We built systems that turn division into a business model. And people are dying because of it. 2/

I still can't understand why anyone sane is still on that platform. I mean, I get that we want to keep carrying on like it's 2021, like business as usual. But Elon Musk saying “The Left is the party of murder” is so incredibly irresponsible. He's pouring gasoline on the fire. Fuck that guy.

I wrote an essay on this: rogerwong.me/2025/09/why-...

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What’s missing is a modern HyperCard. Not UIs generated on the fly, but platforms that let anyone tinker, remix, and make software their own. 5/

Now AI is bending the cycle back. People are spinning up little apps with prompts, even if it’s still rough. It feels closer to that original “programming for the rest of us.” 4/

Then the ethos shifted. Software became something you bought shrink-wrapped in the ’90s, and rented as SaaS in the 2000s. Powerful, yes, but less personal. 3/

That spirit lived on in HyperCard. A “software erector set” that shipped with every Mac in 1987. Anyone could build tools, games, or interactive stories. Myst started as a stack of HyperCard cards. 2/

I wrote a longer piece unpacking Syed’s arguments one by one (from “agents will replace UI” to “nobody’s paying designers $100M”), and why I’m keeping my design title anyway.
👉 Read the full essay here: rogerwong.me/2025/08/why-...

I argue for the latter. Titles matter—not because they look good on LinkedIn, but because they represent a way of working, a philosophy, and at least for me—a way of life. 5/