i have a meeting at 4pm, so time to get nothing done until then bc my brain doesn’t want to start something it knows it’ll have to stop soon 🙃

@watermeloncafe.bsky.social & i are doing a riso photobooth at our art show this weekend! alice designed this cute border with all the animal crossing flowers! 78 gough st sf sat & sun 9/20-21 1-6pm

If you have a Ruby Central membership, please consider cancelling it and investing in Ruby conferences and gem maintainers instead.

the community owes a huge debt of gratitude to the rubygems team and it is absolutely rotten to have them all kicked out like this

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

quick survey of personal finance software: ynab: i like most things about it but my brain doesn't do zero based budgeting monarch: has my favorite graphs of all the ones i've tried, but has no undo button. i accidentally re-categorized all my expenses and can't revert my mistake.

btw this will be available at my art show with @watermeloncafe.bsky.social this weekend too!!

i’ll have an interactive version of my sequel to home sweet homepage, called algorithm and blues, readable at my art show with @watermeloncafe.bsky.social this weekend! 78 gough st, sf 1-6pm sept 13 & 14, 20 & 21, 27 & 28

my art show with @watermeloncafe.bsky.social opens this weekend and will run for the remaining weekends of september! here’s the rsvp link for our opening weekend! poster by alice! partiful.com/e/hItnYiw0Cn...

a comic about fishing (1/7)

just got my tickets to see the new demon slayer movie!! so excited

so many harmful conveniences (AI, fast fashion, cars) don’t have an easy alternative, imo. they do have alternatives but they’re inconvenient. often when something seems magically convenient, it’s because you’re not the one paying the price (at least not yet).

i have so much that i need to get done but i am giving myself the gift of doing absolutely nothing on this sunday afternoon

the turnout for the bart event was overwhelmingly huge! it was heartwarming to see that many transit fans 🥹

omg i sold out of these! tysm everyone! if there’s interest i’ll print some more!

working on a new zine for bart’s lets glow festival saturday! (i’m tabling!) www.bart.gov/news/article...

Due to popular demand, we are setting up a heavily discounted fulfillment service for artists outside the US that are scrambling after the recent tariff / customs policy put in place for shipments to the USA.

i’ve applied to comics festivals for 3 years now and gotten rejected from every single one! i’m gonna keep applying, but if any comics veterans have any advice for my applications, i’d appreciate it!

when the conservatory of flowers changes their signage so you gotta change your puzzle 😅

doctor after i talk to them about a condition i have that no doctors believed me about for 10 years: i’m so sorry, that never should have happened to you same doctor: however i’m pretty sure that the new symptoms you’re talking about are not related to the new condition you think you have 🤦🏻‍♀️

Frogs are now live in my Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/shop/TamiArtHandmade

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

what’s the name for a version-and-dependency-and-more manager like `uv`? I don’t know, but I’m building one for Ruby anyway andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...

finally starting to use the ghost glaze test tiles i designed! (the idea was making ceramic test tiles that would double as cute decorations!) these glaze tests are for an upcoming project with @shirleywu.studio 💓

Getting ready to put leftover frogs up on Etsy. Coming soon, so stay tuned! #ceramicfrogs

you ever remember 5 things you need to do and then get stuck deciding which one to do first? lol

i love being bad at art. i love the yearning to get better that propels me to draw more, practice more, and eventually get closer to conveying what i want to convey. i hope i feel this way for the rest of my life

Not sure if people have realized yet on just how many levels the #zcavengerhunt is working. Not only is it activating a bunch of people, not only is it getting people out and about in NYC, not only is it highlighting public transits, not only is it highlighting NYC history... it's also:

tysm to everyone who came to day 1 of @tamiwicinas.bsky.social’s popup!! here’s what’s still available for day 2! here at 78 gough st, sf til 6pm!

all set up for week 3 of frogust! @tamiwicinas.bsky.social’s ceramics look even cuter in person 🥹🐸💚

read this last night and felt deeply moved. (h/t @indirect.io) it’s from 2013 but feels so relevant now. my main takeaway: our culture frames contributing to the economy as the ultimate moral good. but what’s really valuable is taking care of each other davidgraeber.org/articles/a-p...

TODAY 🌠

me & @surasshu.com wrote a track for this! 💕 and i also drew the poster! characters by @sailorhg.com & @maddie.vision, and special thanks to @paperaviator.bsky.social whose encouraging feedback was a huge help!

We invited folks to submit original music inspired by stars, friendship, or both! Everyone was asked to keep their songs within 30 sec and 1:30 min. The result is 30+ brilliant, creative pieces of music. Come musically stargaze for an hour in @maddie.vision & @sailorhg.com's audio-visual universe!

⭐ Starlight Festival ⭐ Sat, 8/23 @ 4pm PDT twitch.tv/infloresce To commemorate the re-release of “Perseids 🌠” by @maddie.vision, we’re hosting a cozy festival featuring music by the Infloresce & Friends community! All are welcome! Info: infloresce.com/starlight-festival-2025 🎨: @aiviwave.com

this weekend is the final event of frogust at my shop/studio! come by to play @toadstoolpicnic.bsky.social’s frog cycling game and to check out @tamiwicinas.bsky.social’s amazing frog ceramics!! 78 gough st, sf sat & sun, aug 23-24 1-6pm

i spent so many hours at the conservatory of flowers to research the puzzle hunt i was writing for it. i can’t wait to visit every single bart station to do research for a bart puzzle hunt

bart is allowing vendors at the market to make fan merch as long as we don’t use the bart logo. am thinking about designing a bart themed tshirt. “shine or rain, i ride the train” or “i do my part by riding bart” or maybe something else? i just love trains and want to draw a cute bart design! 🚃

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

underglaze is the wysiwyg of ceramics

the next puzzle hunt i wanna make, after i finish the sf conservatory of flowers one and run it a few times, is a bart station puzzle hunt that has you going to a bunch of different stations and interacting with station art and signs. public transit + puzzles 🩵😌

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i just got accepted to bart’s anime festival artist alley event so, time to make this zine real!!

i hate doing admin tasks, but i psych myself up to do them. but then, it turns out most admin tasks are secretly a hydra head of 10 other admin tasks (“you ran into an error with the online system, you’ll need to mail in this form” “oh this branch doesn’t do that, go to our other branch”, etc)

Write your way out! How can narrative folks address difficult challenges and ship not just a game, but a story we're proud of? This 2024 #GDoCExpo talk by @mrhassansan.bsky.social provides interesting insights for writers that you'll definitely want to revisit! Watch: youtu.be/a7bBbKpNjHo

i refuse to use turbotax & quickbooks because intuit aggressively lobbies to keep taxes complicated to keep themselves in business—but it’s truly a struggle to find good business bookkeeping software. please let me know if you have any recommendations!

I’m sooooo excited to host tami & her adorable frog ceramics this upcoming weekend for the last event of frogust!! 🐸 august 23-24 1-6pm 78 gough st, sf

Today’s kiln-bound haul 🐸 #ceramics #wip