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Tools As Ways of Being
I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI and its inclusion into existing tools, but reading between the lines the insight I found was how our tools can trigger empathy for people and disciplines:
One of the greatest...
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
Computers are precise machines. You can give a computer a precise command using an inhumane language, and it should perfome the command. It's not a human, and there is no point of treating it as one. The goal of humanizing user experience isn't to create an illusion of human...
Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects
You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it?
Even though you did npm i from your project root, if you run <tool> <command> it won’t work because that tool is not in your global path.
You could install <tool> globally, but then if you h...
Bear Blog question challenge
Blogging questions answered
Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a cross-fade animation on the whole page generally, and a little position animation on the page title specifically.
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Don't die
On the most important rule in SaaS: don't die.
Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia?
Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts.
Here’s Ryan Rendle in a recent piece on design artifat...
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Links for January
carter, voltmeter, xanadu, psychopathy, pregnancy, yamasuki, Aeg!, AI, life, alcohol, bliss
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
Social Inflation
Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers.
You love it! Your follower count is going up!
Instead of a nobody with a couple hundred followers, you’ve bypassed the 1k+ mark and it keeps going!
You’re ecstatic! This is the “next step” you were a...
Simone Salis
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The Attention Wars: Why Creative Time Is Now Contraband
In a world of endless pings, every creative act becomes rebellion. This isn't about time management—it's about protecting your spark in a system designed to extinguish it.
Push Notifications Are Organizational Marshmallows
It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it.
Companies can’t help but try and get your attention via email, text, or push notifications and drive you to their app.
Push notifications in particular are a powerful tool — and where there’s power, there’s abuse.
I’m sur...
How to generate OpenGraph images with Astro and Satori
Generating OpenGraph images for your Astro site is an easy way to increase click-through rates and make link previews more appealing. Here's how to set them up!
You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to your email, you can do that now.
However, disclaimer: I don’t know if I’ll keep this feature.
It costs me money.
And I don’t monetize my blog.
So sending you an email costs me ...
Design Patterns
An honest primer
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture
For the last few months, there's been a lot of conversation around the "Department" of Government Efficiency, which is ostensibly an effort at improving government efficency, with a primary narrative being around government spending. This is not the actual purpose of DOGE, a...
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture
For the last few months, there's been a lot of conversation around the "Department" of Government Efficiency, which is ostensibly an effort at improving government efficency, with a primary narrative being around government spending. This is not the actual purpose of DOGE, a...
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture
For the last few months, there's been a lot of conversation around the "Department" of Government Efficiency, which is ostensibly an effort at improving government efficency, with a primary narrative being around government spending. This is not the actual purpose of DOGE, a...
NLNOG Presentation trilogy on technical jobs and careers
Over the past eight years I’ve held a trilogy (in four parts) of presentations over at NLNOG covering the working life and career of technical people. This is around two hours of video and slides (with notes), but I’ve heard from people who binge-watched all of it in one go. The presentations have been online for ages, but you had to know where to look for them. On this page I bring them all together, with some context.