I'm seriously tempted to build an ATProto app view where we all get 3 ❤️'s to give everyday to 3 of our lucky friends. https://media.tenor.com/w6Ow10J0atMAAAAC/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-steve-buscemi.gif?hh=498&ww=498
I still remember walking to the corner mart in the small village I grew up in (it sold groceries, books, and rented VHS/Video Games) and seeing the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past golden box and being absolutely in awe of it - it was always on the top shelf lol
I've been leaning more heavily into sharing my science communication work with actual scientists. It's scary since I'm not in the sciences but I LOVE them. So far it's paid off. And by paid off I mean no one has yelled at me or told me I'm a bad person for trying to make science more accessible.
It’s so weird too. I remember when I got backlash for expressing interest in security when I was a frontend dev and ppl said I didn’t know what I wanted to do lol. But I knew when I before I learned how to code that my ultimate goal was infosec. Hence why I followed so many ppl in that space too [contains quote post or other embedded content]
That’s why I fw ppl like @medus4.com & @lookitup.baby. So many ppl like them always made the community seem so inviting for everyone just by being themselves. That’s why I’ll always be around to help others too
He taught me how to make a good tomato sauce in 1992, before I went to university, explaining a spoonful of sugar (if you couldn't afford balsamic) would offset the acidity, and I think of him whenever I make a tomato sauce, which is often, and what a lovely thing that is
Frameable line @ashokgelal.bsky.social 💙 > since this is a new beginning, I'm also trying to be less of a lurker and more of a contributor I think this is why we're all feeling the experience is so much different. We're back to conversations instead of passively doom scrolling.
But since this is a new beginning, I'm also trying to be less of a lurker and more of a contributor, for better or worse. Not good at it at all but I'm trying my best. Oh, now I'm following new strangers & half of them so far been cool/interesting. Over there my list was devs only and feeling rot
All the good people that I care to follow are here. X feels chaotic, full of ads, buggy, NSFW spams, etc. It feels a bit calmer here, less rage. Look, I'm mostly a lurker (sorry), I follow y'll because I care and like what you posts. And if y'll feel better here and my part is to just join? I'm in!
Depends on the font you are using, I suppose. Mine shows the triple equals as markedly distinct by using three parallel lines. But I take your general point...
No matter how much dev experience you have, you'll occasionally mess up your branch and panic-try random Git commands from the internet. The other day I just deleted all the files from the PR and my machine too.
Took me 1.5 years, but finally decided to calm myself by blocking some people on this platform who’ve been acting really weird after I came out as trans. Because I’m kinda starting to enjoy the ride here now and not gonna let those folks ruin it for me.
If I were to build a curriculum for Design for the problems we solve today, I’d include the following - Interface Craft - Motion Design - Prototyping - Systems Mapping & Information Architecture - Research & Experiment Methods - Data Literacy - Deconstructing Product Frameworks - AI infrastructure
Not a “technical skill”, but one I would say is invaluable as a designer that doesn’t get taught today is storytelling and presenting work and ideas. Almost 50% of the job is communicating ideas to others via decks, diagrams, etc., and most people usually learn on the job.
Advising all my old tech friends finding me here —I don’t post about CSS/JS, design systems, or accessibility much. I’m mostly Costa Rican plants, bugs, animals, & sunsets, with some politics mixed in now that I’m giving Twitter the bird. And we own a little market & deli now —so maybe food/recipes.
TIL that adults who played Pokémon video games extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of each Pokémon. Stanford researchers identified the brain region activated by Pokémon characters.