a phone home screen is a window into the soul

boy everything feeling extra heavy today in other news, an AI photo editor gave me 3 hands how’s your day going

Live-editing a website in Obsidian is a true joy, this is my setup with Hugo bsky.app/profile/step...

Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio

It’s weird to live with a giant who used to fit on my forearm

Had to look up the sex emoji to make sure I wasn’t accidentally texting something untoward

FOR THE FANS! before every snack and meal, one of my favorite K-pop Demon Hunters takeaways

Boonswoggle (v) a portmanteau of boondoggle and hornswoggle ie, We’re running late because our preteen boonswoggled me into stopping at Claire’s and buying her face glitter

I tend to discount AI chatbots as a fawning junior intern trying desperately to impress me but Harsh Claude and I might be able to get somewhere - wonderful piece

These egg tealight candles by @jennschiffer.com brought me the highest ratio of delight per dollar of any purchase I've made this year 🍳🕯️ bonus: explaining to my kid that no the candles do not smell like eggs and yes the store is called bugs rock and why bugsrock.online

look for the helpers johayartist.com

“July 4th was a bold, dangerous, defiant moral action by a people who were so heartbroken and enraged by abuses of power that they became ungovernable."

YOU try explaining to a 12yo how a disposable film camera works when camp doesn't allow devices

Refusing to gawk is a form of resistance

Just nearly grabbed a middle-schooler to pull him away from the edge of the platform to say didn’t your parents teach you anything about subway safety

I can watch Jesse Armstrong absolutely skewer the ultra-rich any day, no matter how much it makes my skin crawl I'd give anything to be a fly on the wall at a broligarch Mountainhead watch party

What are people using for non-obnoxious, easy-to-use website analytics these days? Been trying out Plausible, Tinylytics next. What else should I look at?

Setting up Feedly, missing Bloglines

You know those 4-box quadrant models consultants overcharge for? Fell down a hole this weekend and made a little app to collect them. Which good ones have I missed? foursight.ginatrapani.org

Recipe for an afternoon nap: - soft blanket, good pillow - white noise - blackout curtains or shades - DND or take off watch/leave phone in other room - soft pants - closed door Lay down, close eyes, and let yourself drift off into the ultimate luxury while the world spins on 🥱😴💤

not sure what I want more: this sandwich or to be able to write like the magical @hels.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

just me, or is this linear gradient involving some shade of lavender just everywhere right now

Do it for the plot

I know there are a ton of long thinkpieces, but: Is there a brief one-pager for sharing with writers considering Substack that explains why they should RUN the other way??

fascinating how several product people I'm close to are "addicted to vibe coding" (exact phrase) but senior engs I've chatted with are much cooler and inexperienced with it

I made a new little app for funsies. It's an easy way to visualize & share how money comes and where it goes cashkey.ginatrapani.org

SMART goals kill magic and possibilities

keep choosing you & watch how life unfolds beautifully in your favor

Feeling kind of blue today, specifically cobalt ginatrapani.org/studio/kind-...

"No action is required on your part" - the sweetest phrase ever said in an email

You are a force of light and good. When the world feels dark, your only job is to glow. - @melrobbins.bsky.social

If you haven’t already, do this so when data breaches happen credit cards don’t open in your name without your knowledge

can't stand voicemail but a voice note delivered via message or Slack is a gift

I still think about this ad copy and how Nike blanketed every screen in Barclays the moment the Liberty won and bought out all the subway screens during the ticker tape parade

So jazzed about this mention. Thank you @kottke.org!

♥️♥️ Let's not forget that Valentine was martyred for standing firm in his values/beliefs and doing what was right when faced with a tyrant's decree. ♥️♥️ Forget the commercial holiday, but send a love letter to people who are fighting for others to have the freedom to love. ♥️♥️

some real Hulk energy rn

"I know the world's on fire but -" the preface to pretty much everything I want to say unrelated to the world being on fire

I love talking about a great book with a great friend - thanks @jed.co! (You should read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.)

Trans people in my life and in the world: I stand with you, I stand for you, I stand up for you. You are my people and we are in this together. Feel like I'm stating the obvious but at times like these, make what you stand for explicit.

community, connection, creativity: that's where to funnel the rage

yes, and experienced huge success starting in early adulthood which skewed their entire experience of life in the world so far away from most people who use the products they built/fund/extract profit from

turns out that drinking a frosty smoothie in a hot shower is delightful

the wonderful thing about attending a yoga class closer to 50 than 20 is caring more about how my body feels than how I look or whether I'm doing it right, taking this energy to all parts of life

kid's homework

Did everyone else also have to google "hoi polloi" after listening to the Wicked soundtrack? Oh.

paying a company to digitize that bin full of photos stuffed in the closet is like an old people tax

Sipping sparkling apple cider in champagne flutes with a 12yo desperately trying to stay awake - HNY! 🥂