It’s the only way to cope working through these dogshit days.

January is for listening to A Perfect Circle.

The real one's know what's up. #electronicmusic

It’s 2025 and Apple Music still doesn’t have playback handoff.

Why do so many startups feel the need to create videos when they raise vc or do a new product launch? It's ridiculous. I don't believe it's helping your brand awareness in the ways you think. More often than not, the videos are ai slop cringe worthy.

Meanwhile, designers on the former bird site are spewing nonsense like this.

How the mariners pulled Woo is baffling. I don’t even blame Bazardo for his moronic down and in pitch to Springer (are you fucking serious?!). It was Wilson’s call to pull Woo. Why not put in Munoz? So dumb. #mariners

Are college radio stations still a thing?

deep cut.

When you're working on an experience for dags.

It's time to burn it all down.

🤮. They killed the USDS for this?!

Today was almost an epipen day. After coming home from routine allergy shots, I had a severe reaction (hives, rash, throat was getting questionable). Took the incorrect amount (too small a dosage) of anti-histamine. Fortunately I live within a 8 min walk to the allergist, but what a scary morning.

The design community on x is insufferable. Lot of hot takes, ai slop, circle jerking...pretty miserable. Where have all the thoughtful threads gone?!

GPT-5 is so dumb. 😂💀

This GPT-5 launch is one of the cringiest I've watched in a while. There are too many presenters (apple, google, etc struggle with this) and none of them are great at public speaking. They look uncomfortable and it's hard to pay attention when it's this bad.

Pretty sure I got used by a company to figure out their hiring strategy. It sucks because it’s wasted hours and my time == money. Sigh.

stomach flu: 1 me: 0

And so it begins…😅🥁

it's one of those headphones on, fuck everyone, fuck everything days and it's only 1pm.

Enduring the pain that is Webflow. Such a convoluted and contrived piece of software for no-code/low-code. Save me.

Three years ago today. Holden still hates Helvetica. Me too kid, me too.

I watch this music video at least once a month. Old favorite from Indian wells.

This is the most...

The prices for a copy of Burial vs Massive Attack is now worth more than $1,000. Going to go cry in a corner now.

This is 4. Stop growing up so fast kiddo! 🥹😭🎂🎉

In the last year alone I'd say the composition of my role as a design freelancer has shifted significantly due to the usage of AI tools. It's now a blend of 20-30%+ front-end, 60-70% design, and 10-20%+ product management. Pretty significant shift and consolidation of responsibilities. #designsky

Playing with iOS 26 on my primary device. Liquid Glass is refreshing and annoying at the same time. The best example is more often than not the need to touch, hold and swipe to reveal menus or navigate. Contrast concerns are a bit overblown. There is of course refinement to come. #designsky #ios26

Oof accessing tab management in Safari got worse. Two to three taps away now. Not sure if this is configurable.

So we're now designing glass looking interfaces rendered on glass....got it.... That being said, I I like the approach and design principles overall. Like iOS 7, it will quickly be refined. developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

It's been a while but my hyperphantasia induced anxiety (I don't wish this on anyone) is at its max right now. Literally going to go touch some grass.

Using AI design generation tools is like playing with a slot machine, completely random, usually a letdown with the occasional exciting result. By the time you're done with them, you're either creatively hungry or creatively depleted. At the end you ask yourself the same question, "wtf am I doing?"

The only vibes worth listening to: Cocteau Twins - Lorelei performed Live at OGWT 1985

I should have a different client rate for fixing vibe coded front-end implementations because that shit suuuuucks. It's a new kind of hell. This is not the future... #designsky

I was inspecting Airbnb's site to see how they did some of their new animations and was greeted by this delightful recruiting message in the console. I love this! #designsky

My allergy shot doses got upped today. Has me feeling like:

Figma Make looks cool and useful for prototyping and rapid validation. I just hope folks actually learn or understand how to build these things for themselves...critical thinking and all. Also the amount of shitty code that's about to go into production is going to skyrocket 😅 #designsky

While I'm bummed to miss #Config2025, I gotta take care of the kiddo who's been a total champ with his celiac and other healthcare appointments this week. So far his levels are trending back to healthy! #celiacawarenessmonth

just vibing

Tried @penpot.app again locally via a docker container and while the UI has made strides, the support for local fonts is terrible (you have to install them like it's 1995) and performance is generally still sluggish (at least for me on a M2 Ultra Mac Studio).

Art brut.

M9R is now The Listening Room and it'sfinally taking more shape. Some more insight on the design process 👇🏻

Vibe coding is great and all, but you know what's even better? Understanding what's being written and then writing even better code yourself 😱

Oh Tesla, life comes at you pretty fa...

Just vibes, no coding. 🎧 Golden Stamen by Susumu Yokota from 1998.

I have little motivation to type prompts for generating design and controlling tools. I have every desire to dictate my designs and control my tools like I'm a fucking blade runner.

Good thing EpiPens are covered by insurance because holy shit the price. How are they not covered 100%?! I just started allergy shots and need to carry one around with me after appointments.

I finally understand needing a vacation from your vacation. After you have a kid, getting back and setting in is so much harder. 😂😩