Those maple-loving bruisers have bested us in YET ANOTHER WAY

clocking in to the “I constantly feel like I’m failing” factory

Finally watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and it’s all I’m going to want to talk about for a while.

I like how these guys get to have it both ways they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it

Updated my portfolio for (hopefully) the last time in my 2025 job search. Still tinkering and tweaking assets/copy, but very happy with how it acts and feels: danharlow.com

For the sake of my brain, I’m not on here much. I’m more active writing snarky movie reviews on Letterboxd and posting my dumb hobby photography on Instagram. You can find me @danielkharlow on both of those.

Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this. Congrats @tyler-m.bsky.social !!

Hi! I will never subscribe to your Substack.

Oh this? This is an automation tool we created 5 years ago, which we're now rebranding as "AI" to give the impression that we're still growing as a business.

I didn’t learn until today that the blending of idioms is called a malaphor: “you’ve opened this can of worms- now lie in it.”

I am simply begging companies to stop replacing search bars that work perfectly well with AI chat bars that don't

My apartment started flooding at 9:30pm and I’m finally finishing up cleaning the debris at 2am. Living in a “charming” old building is so dumb sometimes.

This feels very targeted at @philmcandrew.bsky.social and @regrethorse.bsky.social

“Do not publish your designs on the web with Figma sites unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users.” adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n... #a11y

Oh god I have to spend the rest of my life with myself and the font choices I’ve made

A lotta guys post about being on the SomethingAwful forums like they were in 'Nam

Currently at the “maybe Ted Kaczynski had some good points” stage of dealing with AI in my job search.

Couldn’t get a good photo of this absolute dingus I saw on his bike, but he was an early 20s white guy in a Sun Ra shirt who looked soooooo pleased with himself

There’s a phaser on this song’s guitar solo (around the 1:41 mark) that is so deliberately obnoxious that I can’t help but respect it. music.apple.com/us/album/in-...

Love how I have to dedicate so much time to job hunting and very little time to things that matter i.e. spitting in the open windows of cars parked in bike lanes.

(Dave Grohl voice) therrrre gooooes myyyyy herooooo

Summer is the worst season for anything. This will be my stance until months from now when the temperatures finally fall back into those sweet sweet 50s.

ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what...

facts 🗣️🗣️🗣️ say it louder for the mfers in the back

Love how I have to dedicate so much time to job hunting and very little time to things that matter i.e. spitting in the open windows of cars parked in bike lanes.

It’s shameful for a company like Apple to come out with a visual language that relies on behind the scenes settings to create a more accessible experience. Accessibility should be the default, not an afterthought.

Apple’s new iOS facelift of “frosted glass but everywhere” looks like it’ll be an accessibility nightmare.

Salt and vinegar chips are for perverts.

Look, yes, I work in tech, but I promise we're not all grifters. Some of us also hate the grifters

I miss when you bought digital media, you paid once and owned it forever.

I took a real “sinister establishing shot from an anime” photo the other night.

i love music that sounds like shit

Do dogs in Boston bark with a Boston accent? So instead of “arf arf” it’d be “ahrf ahrf”

I don’t think you’re listening to enough Aaliyah.

Config is like Glastonbury for designers- with the price tags and FOMO that that comparison implies.

I’ve had this “nihilistic Moomin” tote bag for a while, but for some reason I got a lot of compliments on it today.

Andrew Cuomo makes me ashamed to be Italian- vote for Zohran Mamdani.

My friend Chris worked at a grill when we were in college and he made me a four patty burger, with each patty getting a different type of cheese (cheddar, American, Swiss, and provolone) with some maple bacon for good measure. It haunts me that my body could handle that.

At this point I’m convinced that the entirety of ICE should be dismantled, and every agent blacklisted from law enforcement work for life. This is just one story of casual evil, and new ones come out every day.

You know some asshole at Microsoft makes 500K/year to pick the next default font

Just printed the dumbest thing in the world.

http stands for hot dog transfer protocol

Hard-hitting design journalism: velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

Another high/low brow evening of 1970s French cinema paired with homemade chili dogs.

Finally got around to watching Hundreds of Beavers and I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.

"Manga manga!" - an old Italian/Japanese grandmother

A wonderful thread on the design of my favorite map.

I can’t believe how stupid everything is