I love looking at tlds and finding phrases that resonate to turn into websites (or the other way around) but buying domains also adds up over time - does anyone have tips on archival when they inevitably fade away? I'm thinking of connecting it to my main site too..

updated this post about how AI is firstly an anti-labor technology with the recent news that Pinterest is announcing layoffs under the hand-wavey justification that they'll be "focusing on AI". henry.codes/writing/ai-a...

new 2026 resolution: no more multithreading!!

Thinking about creating a tiny stream of thoughts blog that has no rss or following just for people to bear passive witness… something about expression is powerful here…

Holy moly feelin da unrelenting march of time af

building everything yourself is all fun and games until you run into backend errors and have to debug :,) I just want to work on interaction design...

something I started to do the last two years is believing in the value of putting my perspective into the world no matter what

the only agency I feel nowadays is to make my own software

recently read essays.fnnch.com/make-a-living (have no idea where it came from) and while his points make sense I don't like the honeybears and don't like the market forces (popular opinion) have gotten them monetizable

It has come to my attention I somehow misspelled the url in my own post It’s www.inprogress.works !

working on your own apps is extremely fun and liberating but also lonely and all consuming :,) anyways check out inprogress.work !

hello friends! I made a lightweight yearly accountability app for your side projects, please give it a go here and let me know what you think! :^) it's at www.inprogress.works !

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

i have gotten better at being stoic in the last year which i see as a positive

i am having so much fun designing and coding!!!

added a critical feature to linkdump after six months of standstill. feels like the wind has started blowing again :,)

@are.na is there a way I could get rid of the long string of text and numbers in my handle

not going to lie something that really stuck w me is this senior designer giving me the following advice: "eventually most of the things you do in ux will be systemized and not super creative so its important to have a creative side project so you can still grow in that area"

when i lived in sf everyone said they had adhd or autism quite colloquially but I really think the former is because everyone's attention span has been cracked by addictive software and the latter because people aren't interesting anymore bc of aformentioned software...

How do I get out of feeling burnt out and defeated

I have an urge to make shit so badly if I was unemployed I think I would be unstoppable instead of running on a constant cycle of sleep deprivation.

I hope one day bluesky's algorithm will get good enough or enough critical mass enters here at the same time that it becomes twitter 2.0 bc I entered that sphere way too late as all the normal tech people left...

my steadfast belief in becoming a person is you must have an everchanging conviction

these quotes are so crazy from www.wsj.com/lifestyle/se...

i have been to 181 partifuls too many

page from Jiffy that I really liked... I must go forward!!

have been dreaming of yearning for too long my aptitude for doing has gotten rusty under the guise of burnout

I am making a book with several different kinds of sans serif font.... that all look the same 💗

the last thing I want to shout into the void that I've been thinking about is how I somehow wanted really really badly to be a product designer when I was 17, entered school where I was taught how to play the game, sunk so many hours into the "product design" game to only play incorrectly

I do think the "cozy web" is now going down the geeks mops sociopaths road... but as always there is nuances, such as video creation being the way to reach people these days but exists in a way that removes context (and agency in browsing)... meaningness.com/geeks-mops-s...

bsky feels like where I can tweet honestly since barely anyone checks it

a thread to pull on - the role of monetary means in art.. i still think about in third grade a children's book illustrator came to our class and said he made only ten cents per sale

I am writing and trying to be specific substack.com/home/post/p-...

i love printing images and words onto paper

sign up for the linkdump waitlist and drop your favorite link! I promise to send only (1) email when it is done. linkdump.connie.surf/waitlist.html

send me your favorite links! :^)

sign up for the linkdump waitlist and drop your favorite link! I promise to send only (1) email when it is done. linkdump.connie.surf/waitlist.html

who here on da blue sky

realizing i have to be known to do the things i want to do

the end is never the end - comic I made August 2024 when I was going through some life changes in which I wanted to stop looking at the world and future in fear!

The 8 billion tons of plastic waste on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report. Ahead of international negotiations on a plastics treaty, authors warn that countries urgently need to cut production.

happy html day!!! connie.surf/htmlday25.html

happy eve of the almost half year (which would be july 1, I am a month late)! I wanted to invite folks to drop their renewed intentions here linkdump.connie.surf/untilnewyear they will fade and linger here until the true new year 🎐

trying again!

Wrote a bit about physicality and ephemerality on the internet corny.substack.com/p/organic-web

hi all! I've been building a link decaying app (linkdump.connie.surf) over the last few months where ephemerality is an impetus to finish projects and also as a way to practice data minimalism. I would love to get some feedback- feel free to DM or reply your thoughts!

I got bsky when it was first coming out should've nabbed @connie instead of corny :,DDD

I've been thinking about alternatives to genAI coding paradigms - especially in the realm of allowing the user to move up and down the ladder of abstraction: www.connieliu.work/vibe-coding If anyone has thoughts or feedback please comment!

slowly working on a decaying canvas!!!

analyzing social media and the selves that arise from it social.connie.surf