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Firm belief that one of the highest ROI hills to die on is insisting it be as easy as possible to run your product locally. If you succeed in keeping it to a build command followed by a run command and nothing else, you’ll be delivering 4-5 figures of value per engineer per year.

UX fact #18: All enterprise software competes with Excel. All productivity software competes with emailing things to yourself.

For every like I will post 1 UX fact (I'm not doing a meme image for this, UX fact #0 is that content is more important than visuals)

Hahahaha, as a designer who codes, you lost me with this one. I’m not in a place to say how all designers should work, but for me and my design team, being close to the code is vital. Code is the raw material of the things product designers are designing. An architect should know about concrete.

Wow, I guess tech twitter has migrated in my absence. Hi everyone!

https://www.sitepoint.com/sir-tim-berners-lee-http-slashes/

I'm determined to write 1600 words every day in November. Most years I try and fall off after a week or so, but I REALLY want to prove to myself that I can do it. I've had a story burning in my brain for about 4 years now and just want to get it down on paper and organized into something real!

I’m still waiting for the Blue Sky iOS app to remember the last post I read so I can scroll up for new content. Always showing the most recent post means I have to scroll down and I have no idea how many new posts there are. I actually submitted this feedback formally a while ago. Alas.

Convinced my fellow front-end colleague in the new project we're setting up, that we can have a headless UI library, and an accessible one at that. Whoopeeeeee, FINALLY I am spending work hours writing CSS!!! ✨🤩🎉 Have chosen to use Adobe React Aria Components for the gnarlier UI challenges. Happy!

Well Well Well If it isn’t ski season 🫶

hi, here is a picture of my dog:

The real social divide between Gen z and millennials is that Gen z is always wearing a cute fit to the concert and millennials are wearing the rattiest black t-shirt and jeans they can find

GENIE: So, and I really never do this, but I just want to clarify: you want to use your three wishes to make sure you never have to wash a colander, cheese grater, or a whisk for the rest of your life. ME: That’s correct.

I guess I'm saying, make the thing because you want to make the thing, and be prepared for a total non-response. Then pick yourself up and move onto the next project. Maybe that will be the one that sets the world alight.

October 31st VS November 1st

my life with @marisamorby.bsky.social

Switching my main platform here from Twitter. Let’s take the steps to make changes to this situation. Cheers 🦋

is anyone else getting multiple notifications from me following them?

Feeling good about this copy of my site design.

Old Twitter thread of past years: https://x.com/cheshire137/status/793104972510527488

just put this thing on the react site footer. feel free to copy paste https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/7273/files#diff-2a2cd1638bf48008bde199a07d7c50ef698bd6f741a1fb786879ef8c6f0b4ca7

The new Google Assistant voice model struggles with place names. I found one that makes it hallucinate. Welsh speakers: I apologise for my pronunciation of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

This has left me wanting a Welsh Pokémon though. Pokemwn, perhaps

As someone who also tried to migrate to Mastodon as well, @patak.dev addresses many of the reasons I think Bluesky has a much better chance of sticking this time around. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

setting twitter to light mode so I wouldnt want to use it https://media.tenor.com/7HUogy7rXs4AAAAC/feel-me-think-about-it.gif?hh=216&ww=330

JavaScript is all you need? Microsoft has released a scripting language that allows you to make LLM-based scripts with simplified JavaScript. microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/ https://microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/

It's exciting to see so many folks from the tech community join this week. If we haven't met, I'm Geri 👋 I'm a designer working in design system and accessibility. I occasionally write nerdy stuff and speak at events. This is Arthur, my Frenchie, who looks even goofier on 3 legs.

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