Honey is an underrated ice cream topping 🍯

Really enjoyed this piece by @jjlee.bsky.social on the @kickstarterunited.org strike: what the union is fighting for, and why it matters to all of us. medium.com/labor-new-yo...

The sunlight of your life has just found you. What a joy to live your way into the warmth of your next decade.

What 15 years of design debt looks like

Regret to inform the haters that I will be continuing to serve 📸 @kp11studios.bsky.social

For the past 15 years, Meredith Li-Vollmer has helped bring King County health messages to life, as comic books.

‘Vibe coding’ as a phrase is embarrassing to me. In an industry where the bar was already very low, it suggests we can care even less. It’s another step towards enshittification. The only way to make great software is to truly reason about the code and systems. There are no shortcuts.

#caturday featuring Mochi’s heart-shaped spot 🫶

On island time with my folks this weekend!

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

The main use case for AI is doing something poorly, very quickly. Once you realize this, it becomes clear the majority of AI's biggest proponents are people: a) who don't know what a good job looks like; b) who don't care; and/or c) who have themselves only ever been doing a bad job all along.

Woke up thinking about Zelensky being asked, “Why don’t you wear a suit?” and how America is obsessed with making sure you are polite even if you’re dying. And when you grovel for a dollar for food or protection from war — it’s how you ask or what you are wearing that determines if you get it.

This is awesome. The perfect example of doing what you can and not staying silent when you have the power of your voice, by whatever platform is available to you, in whichever circles you operate.

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

Wrote something for @objectivejournos.bsky.social today: objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/lega...

Anytime I am helping someone with CSS and they seem to have the wrong mindset in how they approach writing it, I tell them to watch this video by @miriam.codes As far as I'm concerned it should be required viewing for anyone who is learning CSS. youtu.be/aHUtMbJw8iA?...

Remember to keep your eyes on the prize: the future world you want to build Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for

It’s so funny, there’s a long social media tradition going back 25 years of making a big deal about how you were going to quit, and then only being gone for like half a day.

“This is the power of a good mix, and music in general: you can create the world you want to inhabit.” — @austinkleon.bsky.social 👏

Wait this headline is me 😳

You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.

Watching TV with my husband, one cat on my lap, the other on his feet. This is the gay agenda.

Now is a very good time to be good to each other. In part because you never know what anyone is going through, but also because you know that all of us have already been through so much.

If AI generated content is not worth a human writing, is it worth a human reading?

oh shit new logo just dropped

Thanks, LinkedIn 😑

✍️ It’s been a wild but very lovely year. Check out my blog recap of 2024! ted-boyer.com/blog/2024-re...

This poem shared on the Vibe Check podcast a few weeks ago is so good, I had to screenshot it. It’s absolute joy 💛

This healthcare ceo is hard to talk about because how much death can you cause indirectly before you’re a murderer who got murdered? How do you convince yourself it doesn’t count if you kill people with policy instead of a gun? What do you have to believe about life and systems and human worthiness?

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People. Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way. And it’s free for all. 🚀 htmlforpeople.com

A stellar piece by @timnitgebru.bsky.social, looking at the tech industry’s push to militarize, and the tech workers organizing against it. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/s...

Designed some fun new playlist covers for myself, featuring photos I’ve taken over the years 🤳

👋 Hi, I’m Ted, designer & front-end dev w/ 6+ yrs of experience. I’ve worked in advertising, higher ed, & software. 💚 I believe design is a joyful pursuit—quality craft and creative collaboration motivate me daily. 🏡 I live in greater Seattle with my husband & our two cats 🎵 Into music, nature, 🍨

💯 Principles we should all be living by. @ericwbailey.website at #perfnow

“…trans posters were the earliest adopters of Bluesky and were able to forge the platform into what it is today: funny, frequently horny, and with very strong moderation tools. If you like Bluesky’s vibe right now, thank a trans person.” [vox.com]