I built a calendar again! Sort of. This one is super tiny: take all the bunch of calendars you might have, and then spit out a single URL that you can share with others. Here's a post: zachholman.com/posts/calend... And here's Calendearing, the product: calendearing.com

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

UX design

I love it when things are in my wheelhouse. I spend a lot of time in there, with my wheel etc.

I beg to differ

✏️ The advanced authoring view is available! Upgraded users can create longform posts with inline styling, links, and images.

They finally added the most-requested moderation option

[extremely David Byrne visiting Dairy Queen voice] Peanut Buster Qu'est-ce que c'est

New essay! Bad news: the “check engine” light is on for the practice of product design as a whole. matthewstrom.com/writing/prod...

Doctor: Well, your googly levels are a bit low – I’ll write you a prescription

Dia, from the Browser Company of New York, from the Inescapable Issue Management Hellscape Company of Australia

BORDER OFFICER: I just wanna be clear *I'm* not racist but the Impartial, All-Knowing Computer Algorithm I report to, programmed by insanely racist Silicon Valley guys, is saying you need to pull into secondary screening Amir

When you seek revenge, dig two graves. That way you can take revenge on two guys at once and maximize your productivity.

This will come as no surprise to anyone but ‘design hiring’ is deeply fucked, despite everyone (apparently!) trying to hire designers.

Very much one of those “we do this not because it is easy but because we thought it would be easy” features. I’m quite proud of this.

Me, trying to make a ‘JR’ logo without just recreating the Japan Railway logo, moments after recreating the Japan Railway logo again: Fuck!

Junior designer: Design work is hard to estimate Staff designer: Design either takes 10 minutes or 3 months

🆕 New templating system is coming together. Expect this to drop soon.

Everyone at the coffee shop groaning in disbelief as I unfold two additional monitors from my obnoxious monitor tower

the guy from Cake, sharing an anecdote about someone who started growing crops to meet the needs of himself and his family: He’s hoeing; subsistence

DARK SARAH MACLACHLAN: (icily) I won’t remember you

Don’t have a designer on your team? Just answer every question with “well, it depends” for the real designer experience™

Worldbuilding concept: most of the galactic community sees in the radio spectrum; finds Earth horribly incoherent because humans live in a sea of indiscriminate radio noise

I’d rather have a nattō larb in me than a larval anatomy

🫧 Surfacing from silent running to talk about some upcoming changes: Peep is becoming a more fully-fledged blogging platform! We’ll soon be launching fully customizable themes and a more robust authoring UI for upgraded users.

Thinking about non-chat interfaces to LLMs, to avoid the Anthropomorphism Problem.

Kpop Demon Hunters is like if you percolated ‘Turning Red’ through K/DA's ‘Pop/Stars’ (complimentary)

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: if you look on my works and despair, smash that like button and hit the bell to subscribe

Sucks that “Heat Dome” is a meteorological phenomenon exacerbated by climate change instead of what it obviously should be, a Megaman boss weapon

PRODUCTIVITY HACK: be mentally ill but in the productive way

Namesake has a new web app to help people in Massachusetts to update their legal name and gender marker. (And soon: New York and beyond.) After a year of work, we're excited to share it with you today.

What idiot called them liquid crystal displays instead of dewy decimals

when both wolves inside me died, the deer began to flourish. left unchecked, all flora consumed, starvation took the herd. cascading failure has driven my spiritual ecosystem to total collapse. i cough up their bones and add them to my Bone Man; a skeletal golem built to generate shareholder value,

A cool(?) part of living in a slightly scuzzy post-industrial city is that there’s cool little typographical nuggets preserved everywhere

Half-formed thesis: software feels unadventurous because a culture of familiarity/usability has permeated the practice of design

Addendum: ‘starting a new side project instead of doing any kind of marketing whatsoever for the previous (completed) side project’

Due to inflation sweet dreams are no longer made of these

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

3 year old: And [classmate]’s dad is called Crobbit and [classmate]’s mom is called Cremquin Me: I don’t know if that’s right 3 year old, looking at me witheringly: yes it is

To get a #designsky discourse going: after making AI mandatory for work last month, Shopify is At It Again. The CDO says since "AI enables anyone to make things usable" (lol), Shopify will just have the titles Designer and Writer instead of user experience, content design, etc. Aesthetics-ass idea

Workshopping a new hand gesture to signify “This isn’t an all-way stop and you in fact have the right of way, you thoughtful moron”

We’ve all that one homie, who due to a programming error, spawns out of bounds and can only be hung out with via the use of a game genie or action replay

Missed my calling (graphic designer circa 1969); all of these are using my typeface Nougat which is free at joyride.studio

Absolutely ripping through this, one of those books that feels like a fairy tale and a travelogue and a secret third thing all at once (also has a ‘Famous Swords’ appendix, which is Extremely My Shit™)

The mark of a high-functioning team is shitposting and I’m not joking

Optometrist: So to test your eyes, we’re going make you look at a bunch of stuff that’s terrible to look at

Dogfooding my own app to jot down some longer-form thoughts about building said app. log.tomcreighton.com/post/6KgQ6HYL #buildinpublic