my child asked if i could read them はらぺこあおむし - not because they want to read it, but “so you can practice your japanese” and that is the sweetest shit talk i have ever received in my life

put it on my headstone

Qobuz.com (awful name) is $13 a month, less if you pay annually

The world has never been hungrier for new voices and perspectives. If not you, who else? Just do it big dog!

This is the same cognitive trap as tradwives. You do so much already, you shouldn’t have to pay taxes! Give up working and be a revered domestic queen! Same bullshit that preys on people too tired and alienated from their own labor to realize it’s a devil’s bargain designed to disenfranchise them.

my head turned a full 180 degrees, combining WHAT and WHAT

This is what’s finally going to push me off Gmail forever

absolutely in the tank for the spurs. show me the long frightening man

god gives his toughest monkeys to his strongest circuses

To add, the standard so many dev teams build to starts and ends with Google Lighthouse. As long as those tools say it’s loading in a reasonable amount of time upon request, they move on. Someone with a shitty phone/connection and time to test would need to push back, usually that doesn’t happen

next time maybe don’t facilitate a design sprint at work on the company’s biggest challenges while trying to close on a house and get your car fixed. and now the child is throwing up????????? ain’t enough coffee in the world

For decades Seattle has bent over backward for shitheels like this one, to its own detriment. Housing affordability cratered there during my 20s and ultimately caused us to leave. I blame Bezos and Seattle city council first, but Schultz isn’t far behind.

They had a Director of Design role open there and I applied for it twice back in 2024, rejected both times immediately. At first I was mad but then the role has stayed open for two years and I realized it’s probably there to teach one specific person a lesson

Hmm not sure the person occupying the position of power should be praising how well this system works. Sounds like it’s designed to protect people in power from the consequences of wielding it. I wonder why that would be a bad message to send to your community as the Head of Trust and Safety!

Both of these arguments are reasons why I don’t really use them outside of work. At work, both arguments unfortunately aren’t compelling to American business decision makers, not just because capitalism + our education system has failed us, but because of the overriding obligation to stockholders.

Really wonderful analogy, and resonates with the modern design process: when we rush it like an assembly line, design becomes a task, and in the process we produce solutions that aren’t made for anyone at all.

i’m way too young to be physically incapable of sleeping in past 8

this shit slaps

yes x100 - i got incredibly lucky and was pregnant at the same time as three friends, and since then have been a source of advice for other new parents on vaccines. literally had someone ask me “dang there are a lot of vaccines, the internet says it’s not good, is that true?”

ahh shit (this is also me with TFT)

yes 10000%, i wish i were getting asked more questions about feelings!!! i had to buy a book to explain to a 4yo the role proteins play in how our immune system reacts to germs, christ on the cross

this has been a delightful brain break for me and fun to share with my preschooler

stumbling across this post as i am purchasing a drive to boot mint from 😩

if you put a streak in an app I will go out of my way to break it even if it makes my life worse, get that badge-ass nonsense away from me

Mercer Island, Lake Stevens, U Village

ヤバい！

self-hosting is back baybeeeeeeeee

LLMs are haunted. For a while we had to tell Khanmigo not to talk like a cowboy, because we used the term “partner” (with the student) a lot in the prompting. There’s a screenshot floating around of it starting every sentence with something like “well butter my biscuit!”

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

how can you not be existential about baseball?

this is exactly what i love about baseball in one clip

a third place for my local community: laundromat with comfy places to sit/work, japanese style vending machines, coffee bar that serves wine beer and sake in the evening and is open till 2am. dry cleaning + wash and fold services subsidize the amenities. i’ve thought about this SO MUCH

I’ve been wondering my exactly I’m so grouchy about AI in my field and I think I figured it out, thanks to a comment on Metafilter from Silvery Fish: constantly changing the toolset disrupts mastery. I can’t coach my team effectively because new stuff is released all the time and all of it sucks.

describing what a lot of people are experiencing. the moral injury of having to live through this era of tech casts a shadow over every other bump in the road of my career.

Apps used to be exciting and now I hate every one of them

you do one credit check for a mortgage and all these thirsty predatory lending bitches come flooding in. i regret owning a phone

who the fuck remodels an entire house top to bottom and doesn’t install a dishwasher? no dishwasher shaped hole either????????????

“Over on Twitter, they’re” shhhhh. Shhh. Shh.

..between this comment and the “dad who enjoys being a dad” posts, for the first time in decades i am interested in an action-adventure game

trying to type my address in so i can buy something. love this shit. fixing usability issues would generate record profit for those with eyes to see

love this fucking dog, jesus christ

One more step toward startups founded solely to generate new human-created data to shovel like training data coal into LLMs. (What was the NFT version of this, all those bullshit games that paid you in crypto to play? Same bullshit)

my preschooler has a small skeleton named “baby skeleton” that brushed teeth and went to bed with them every night for months

the pitt is easily one of the best shows of the 2020s and feels like we’re all finally processing together some of the defining themes of this decade

incorrect, we want hoochie daddy. hamstring definition on display. thighs that have seen the sun. if there’s not enough inseam to put your foot up and tie your shoe, we’re on the right track.

Amazing hand painted tile inside the Santa Barbara courthouse - @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social would be into this

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.