I love a good nerdy usability blog post (thx Baymard)

tl;dr: Dropdowns kinda suck except in very limited and specific circumstances.

Reuters made a little game about Cozy Games (via NiemanLab)

Related, I don’t think I would have survived 2020 nearly as well without the Untitled Goose Game

Learning about DeepSeek today …

• This great FAQ from Ben Thompson digs into why this is big deal, why it might be good in the long run, and also provides a nice background on different reinforcement learning approaches.
• You’d be right to think DeepSeek, an AI model from a Chinese company, doesn’t want to talk about some things.
• DeepSeek was surprisingly cheap to train and is very cheap to use (compared to similar models from OpenAI and Anthropic).