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

the sudden urgency I felt to act has led me to be also kind of burnt out (forever doomed to b inefficient af) but here's a preview of social media essay I will publish later so I stop thinking about the future of social media

I would like to teach one day !!!

bit belated but I did it! 2024.connie.surf !! if you've already seen this I'm sharing it again~

thinking about how ux design conditioned me to think in purely utilitarian terms in decision making when in reality the things I wanted to make are not monetizable or scalable or measured by any okr besides expressing myself as I am

end of year recap :^) let's see if I make a website for this later... corny.substack.com/p/on-change-...

my desire to be anti materialistic is at odds w trying to get style and fit

in the deep recesses of winter to finally read all the links i've saved

it's interesting how you can tell which website maker was used based on the specific aesthetic for ex. squarespace always has the fade in, cargosite always has very small border margins etc

the sunlight is brighter in the winter

Haven’t been thinking in short form text …

I always end the day with 12 more sheets of paper than I started with

selling home grown datasets tmr :^)

game I made about digital identity! connie.surf/game/game.html

I love the crisp East coast air and the blinding winter light :)

Slightly confused about the network effects of bsky whether there isn’t a critical mass of people here yet or the algo is similar to Instagram (my post will never be on the fyp)

WIP

does anyone else here have phrases that particularly ring for them - I've been thinking about "dreaming in the margins of the hour" a lot

we’re all looking for answers in each other

Every time I think if a perception I had that was wrong I’m actually shook

Listened to a writer once who said in every fictional character he writes there is still a part of himself

Can’t believe there’s WiFi on most airplanes now

wrote an essay about creator tools and media environments! connie.surf/declaration....

Back on Bluesky…

I cannot place what this smell is on the bus

I didn’t expect my anonymous bluesky post to go viral

Bro anonymous follows me on bsky