it’s almost as if the DHS existing at all is a problem

China has used facial recognition for ubiquitous surveillance for years. But we always had this idea that it would never make it to America. Then one day TSA started using it for flight checking, but they pinky-swore they was it. And overnight it’s just everywhere here.

oh hey I remember when the people of hong kong reached this point too

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered. This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao! What more could you want? #langsky 🀄️📚 1/

RAW protip for iPhone 16: you have access to JPEG-XL Lossy as the on-disk file format. don't be grossed out by the word "lossy". this is a MAGICAL format. it will give you indistinguishable results at 30-50% the file size. Settings > Camera > Formats > Pro Default > ProRAW Max + JPEG-XL Lossy

I just received a Silver Alert. Blasting on many devices in my house, as they do — I thought it was an earthquake alert. But it’s from my city and clearly not as urgent as duck-and-cover. It contains a bit.ly link to an x.com tweet that I’m not allowed to see. This is fine.

For promoting my apps, I try to use actual pictures of real devices, in the real-world, as much as possible. 3D renders are nice, but there's something nice about authentic shots - especially for camera apps! (featured here: 65x24.app) The trickiest part is avoiding reflections 😅

made it to Suzuka #Formula1

@kevinmullin.house.gov @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov please consider. Much of this dismantling of the federal government has been illegal, and simply having judges say as much is not enough.

well I made a Pixelfed account pixelfed.social/julianmi I’m also on Retro.app, which I’ve been using more.

Here's an interview I did for the Apptisan newsletter, talking about my panoramic camera app 65×24 and what it's like to go from designer at a big company to being an independent developer It's a really nice newsletter, check out the past issues too! apptisan.substack.com/p/apptisan-0...

I want to like you, Apple Music Chill Covers playlist, but you just can’t have 4 different covers of “Iris” and 3 different covers of “Time after Time” within 45 minutes’ worth of music

with apologies to folks who follow me on Mastodon, figured I’d populate this feed with a few meditations

“I’m a happy designer when…” is a series of reflections on my work. I’d like to share the small wins, good feelings, accidental victories, and micro accomplishments that epitomize my job at its best.