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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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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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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Anyone know of a code editing environment that live updates the preview based off of the you're currently typing? No 'save' action needed?

CSSEdit / Espresso is too old.
• Mac, please
• PHP pages

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@Luke Hmm, I don’t know of any Mac apps that do this! A browser’s devtools would probably be what I’d reach for, if I wanted as-I-type updating.

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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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I’m so old I remember donating $20 to Nosepilot to help pay their $17,000 hosting bill for their Flash animation that went viral in the early 2000s.

I have no idea what happened to them but I hope the artist behind Nosepilot eventually became a giant in the animation world.

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@mathowie God, I remember that. And I’ll always remember the first time I saw nosepilot 💜

(Last I heard, Săcui was doing more fine art, mainly painting. But I’m not sure if that’s still the case.)

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you first, asshole

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i love personal website redesign projects, they concentrate the highest number of crippling insecurities over the longest period of time possible

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tfw you’re not a climber but you suddenly land on the highest shelf you’ve ever reached, and you’re not sure what the fuck happens next

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@fox if she or her sister ever learns how to operate the instant pot, we’re truly fucked

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@exchgr we totally call it her “what I’m uhhhhh innocent” face 😅

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Industry vibes are so weird aaaahhh

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@lynnandtonic [nods grimly] tech’s haunted

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i...

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@molly0xfff wow makes u think

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