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Designer. Started that responsive design thing. Writes a bit, or tries to. Spends a normal amount of time thinking about The Locked Tomb series.

A perfectly normal amount of time.

My new book is YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION! (You can purchase it from my bio, or just about anywhere books are sold!)

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might be time for a new battery. all i did was a pretty typical (for me) bike workout. oh, and i went for a grocery run, which i didn’t log as a workout, because it’s not

battery usage

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@exchgr mine’s been fading a bit too, here. whenever I go for a run, the watch is more or less dead by the end of the day.

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@exchgr yeah, 2021 here too! series 7, I think.

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@exchgr ooh, good tip, ty — had no idea that was an option! (seems fine here, weirdly)

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@exchgr 83% here, looks like! good thing i’m post-applecare coverage 😅🫣

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moon’s* haunted**

  • capitalism’s
    ** haunted
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my favorite seasons, in reverse order

fall
spring
winter
BEES BEES BEEStober
deathuary
the months where daggers fall from the sky
summer

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@inquiline oh god if i had to deal with smokesmiting i would simply Never Outside, i’m right there with you 💜

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@inquiline the sky is furious and lying in wait; yes

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Current status: https://bukk.it/frogpit.jpg

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please calm down, Website I Ordered Some Socks From

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@bkardell Our Incredible Journey 🧦🎉

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@exchgr @rmondello Elle how long have you been in the pocket of Big Sock

ksylor, to random
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This is a bukk.it appreciation post. I needed ha ha business for reasons, and thankfully it was right where I needed it https://bukk.it/business.jpg

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@ksylor katie this makes me so happy, i’m glad you found what you needed! 🪣🥹🪣

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@ksylor honestly if I could pick a legacy, that would literally be my top choice

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who among us hasn’t splatted a pre-alpha feature at the top of a trillion dollar company’s most valuable web page

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sometimes Fortune 10 websites tell you it’s fine to eat just one rock, and that’s okay

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@cory @scottjehl hm let’s sit down over a nice plate of gasoline spaghetti and sort this out

chriscoyier, to random
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Kingdom Rush

I think it was during the ShopTalk with Blake Watson where "tower defense" games briefly came up and someone recommended Kingdom Rush. It's not exactly new, coming out in 2011, but it was new to me. I played on iOS. It feels like the total classic of tower defense games. Monsters come at you, you build towers to stop them. There are different types of towers, and your success comes from the right combinations, upgrades, and placement.

https://chriscoyier.net/2024/05/21/kingdom-rush/

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@chriscoyier oh man i used to LOVE kingdom rush!! i feel like i played one follow-up, i should revisit the series. thanks for the reminder!

kissane, to random
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Delighted and totally honored to be at XOXO this year, look at these absolute badasses who will be speaking, lordy, no pressure or anything 😬

https://2024.xoxofest.com/

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@kissane ERIN

THIS FUCKING RULES

YOU RULE

nazhamid, to random
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It’s funny? remarkable? strange? at how much design and strategy work I’ve done in the past 8 or so years that I can’t show publicly because of the confidential or early-stage nature of my work now.

Granted there was a lot of work when Weightshift was a practicing studio that we couldn’t show either, but it’s something I’ve observed.

There seems to be more gained knowledge to share somehow but I’m weighing how I might do that.

Wait, is this a LinkedIn post?

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@nazhamid I struggle with this too. Grateful to have been busy with good problems when the work’s been there, but/and it feels deeply weird that there’s so little I can point to publicly.

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the most depraved of all UI gestures is the long press that only responds when you let go.

  • can’t tell when it’s been long enough
  • wastes time if it hasn’t
  • what if you simply missed the target
  • what if the ui element next to or behind the target also responds to long press, and takes forever to complete its action

specific example: the “do not disturb” button on the lock screen, which is too easy to miss and bring up lock screen customization instead

do not disturb: two successful long presses, and one miss, which brings up lock screen customization

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@exchgr wow i…had no idea i could even interact with that ui element 🙈

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i use the !g operator in duckduckgo to flip over to google in cases where i’m frustrated at duckduckgo’s slightly worse search accuracy. it used to yield better results, but now? almost always the same or worse

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@exchgr yeah, same here

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Really enjoyed this interview with Sara Nelson, on the eve of proposing a more democratic “one member, one vote” structure for the union she leads, the Association of Flight Attendants. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-interview-with-sara-nelson-about

#unions #1u

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