The Hades 2 soundtrack introduced me to new music. 🥰 Defeating boss. Those drums remind me of Thundercat... He has a song called "I Love Louis Cole." Oh... This sounds like KNOWER. Oh. That IS half of KNOWER. Back to Hades 2: Louis has a credit. 😧 Dopamine ++ youtu.be/m94IhgcfXOA?...

The number of times I've unfollowed people on here for putting disgusting shit on my timeline... I rebuke it.

Today I was listening to a city pop playlist and one song was just so grating and long. I don't speak Japanese, but something about it just sounded and felt... off. Of course it was AI. With the most generic artist name ever. Sickening. 🤢 May my ear never fail me. Human curation is the way.

ytf am I still awake

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I used to listen to chill hop and lo fi mixes while working, but now so much of it is inundated by AI bots. The antidote? Dudes mixing vinyls in their living rooms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E9v...

Love seeing full concerts from my favorite bands from high school just popping up. It's wild to think that I just didn't have the internet bandwidth to enjoy this in 2002. youtu.be/nbVet-Z5sng

After My Hero Academia and Gachiakuta (very grim shows), One Piece is exactly the palette cleanser I needed. I put it off forever because of the whole 1K+ episodes, but I just got to the Alabasta arc and I just keep staring at the camera like... Oda-San's on some real shit.

$330 to go!!! 2 days late and you know how landlords get with Indigenous folks especially so PLEASE help if you can and boost if you can't!!!!!! #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpSky

Responsive design is getting better in Figma. Wonder if it's too little too late though, considering virtually none of my peers at startups will even use autolayout lol. youtu.be/fUzmGinA-iA

Was just watching this video where the guy roleplayed living as a normal citizen in Cyberpunk 2077... I remember thinking, it sure would suck to live in a residential building with ads in the elevator. How silly of me to presume this dystopia isn't already here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5Y...

One of my favorite follows for a reason. Just constantly dropping wisdom, new rabbit holes for me to drop into.

My blog (bell.bz/blog) is headless WordPress. Anyone had success moving that content to atproto stuff like @leaflet.pub?

Bring a natural hair girly ain't for the weak. You have to be devoted to your self care in a world that rewards urgency and self abandon. Now I'm paying for it with the wash day from hell. 😭 May this nudge you to love on yourself today, and make it a part of your practice in the days to come. 💞

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

My feed keeps refreshing when I open links, and then I lose the original context. 😭 This didn't happen to me on this app until very recently. Gotta be more judicious with my saves.

We need media training. We've been embedded in these outrage machines for decades, and still people fall for it every time. Think critically. Am I actually going to change this person's mind (no lol), or give them the attention and therefore power to exert additional influence? Snuff the flame war.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Damn. No lies detected.

What a bad take. It's gotta be bait. 😂 Every nation depicted was clearly of Asian or Indigenous descent, a deliberate choice by the showrunners. Stories don't need to revolve around us to be meaningful. Some of the best stories are about inanimate objects and animals, but they're still relatable.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Baboon Lion Zebra Gazelle Wildebeest

Insecure was the first show I saw do this, and then I swear after that, I started seeing it everywhere. No more Kelly Rowland texting in Excel please. Just show us the texts. 😂 Some producers even try and make cool UIs now, but it was rough for a while. Designing prop UIs sounds like a dream job.

I would not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I Am. 🤢 Remember the green / purple ketchup promos? So gross. 😂

good night, bsky & @gdocexpo.com 😘 📺 - "NYC Game Dev Yearbook - 2025" by @timrattray.bsky.social via YouTube

A reboot of Reboot would send me to the moon.

I wonder if we'll see KDH for the ball drop too. We need to seal the honmoon again for Mamdani before he takes office!

I've been following Andy Bell and Set Studio for a while, and was stoked when Piccalilli added courses. I took Complete CSS last year! It's been a joy applying what I learned. I would get JS for Everyone and Mindful Design right now, but alas, times are hard here too. Check em out and pass it on!

My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...

This wounds me so very badly 🫠

When does mercury remove herself from micro braids

Really loved this article on close reading. The art of noticing, and of crafting an argument, is how we begin to inoculate ourselves from so many societal and intellectual ills, especially in a world where disinformation, toxic algorithms, and slop vie for our limited time and attention.

We are all born with the potential for this kind of joy. It isn’t lost. It’s taken from us. They hate how happy we can be, so they convince us it’s not important, then create soulless machines that replicate the outcome. (Badly.) But the joy is always in the making. Joy is an act of resistance.

Been working on a MX Master Keys from Logitech, but the keys have slowly been crunching up, and at 3 years, a key finally snapped off. Headed over to Micro Center and saw the Keychron K10 Max on sale. Not used to Linear switches (have tactical on my gaming PC), but they might be growing on me...

MySpace, Neopets, and Geocities showed me the awesome power and fun of making a website. But I think often about what might have been different had I chosen code instead. Computer Science didn't agree with me though. Discrete math? Boring. I wanted to make things.

Look at how cute it is. Like a succulent with a face. 🥹

One thing I want to borrow from programming in my design practice? Commit often. It's so easy to get lost in the details and forget. But being able to look at what you did, and why? Priceless. Figuring out the cadence of commits for a chunk of work is definitely a skill.

Love the cafe car. About half of my rides, I end up talking to a really interesting passenger. Ironically, it took flying to warm me to it. Sure, I will endure food smells and conversations if I have room to lean on something. My one is that the northeast corridor is super rickety.

We quietly launched a new thing over on @unbreaking.org: letting folks filter our *in-depth* timelines down into the pieces they care about, to help them pull out the threads that are most relevant to them. This was a real team effort; can’t wait to see more of our pages roll out their own filters.

Genuinely don't understand why progressive web apps aren't more popular. I get why you'd want to be in the app stores, but it seems there are increasingly diminishing returns as the web gains more "mobile native" features.

I love the mention of spellcasting in this piece. People often talk about the future as if we are at its mercy. The future is not immutable. We are making it in every moment, all of us. Make good choices! Choices are the mana that structure reality.

Last night I beat Hades II. 🥹 The credits roll was so beautiful. It's the kind of image that I would stand in front of the TV for as a child. Mouth agape. Like, wow, people made this with so much heart I can feel. I hope Supergiant wins all the things. They earned it. Post-credits missions await!

Agreed. Only thing worse than "Reminds me of x" is, "Can you draw me?" Like... It just never occurs to folks how self-centered (and common) that ask is. A woman once asked me this even though she was 2 stops away on the train. 😑 They're never content with the results either. No, absolutely not.

is 'down for everyone or just me' down for everyone, or just me? downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Have you ever paid for an in-game Pokémon with real-world money? Have you sold one for cash? Whether that be on places like eBay, or just within fan communities, or as a kid on the playground? Wanna talk about it for a Kotaku story? Hit me up here or at [email protected]! RTs appreciated.

If you see a trailer, know that it's absolutely AI.

Doing my morning blog routine and a bunch of sites were down, including mine.

Jokes aside, it's truly remarkable how well the pixel art in this game holds up. It's absolutely GORGEOUS to this day.

I submitted an entire application while listening to the very specific tech lab white noise in the Dispatch startup screen. I think I need more of this.

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Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring! Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas: