Halloween decorations in front of a house

Halloween ready

Thanks to @twocrowcollective.bsky.social for this epic sticker and shirt to support @pbs.org 🤘

The new @figma.com apps are cool, but can I just get percentage based widths and heights for auto-layout?

Also, why doesn’t the Grid layout support min and max widths?

Every time I see “Ack” as a slack message reaction, I translated it to “Ack! This is fucked!”.

I just deciphered that it’s suppose to be “acknowledged”.

I like my original translation better 😂

Sean standing in front of a giant Config logo displayed across the Mascone Center building in San Francisco.

Attended Config this year. It was well run, and the Figma announcements were interesting. The rest of the talks felt a little chaotic, but the Severance Production Designer talk was interesting and fun— tapping into my film school days. #config2025

Last nights view; thanks to Henry Coe State Park

I built Montessori bookshelves to foster and support my son’s love of books.

(A side benefit is that we can better track all the library books!)

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Los Angeles Is Burning Bad Religion · The Empire Strikes First · Song · 2004

Stay safe Los Angeles

Mt.Shasta peaks in the distance covered in snow

A brief sighting of the second tallest mountain peak in California in between rain and snow storms #MtShasta

Some simple ways to make content look good - Set Studio Something non-designers understandably struggle with is how to make things look good. One of those things is long form content that’s well set and readable. Luckily, CSS makes this easy, you just have...

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Dear website and software people, stop disabling form buttons.

Showing a validation error message is 99% better than trying to figure out how to enable the button.

Thanks!

Foam bath toy letters in multiple colors stuck on a wall

Why aren't all the vowels the same color? Seriously missed opportunity

“Computer literacy is really a euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people’s usual ways of thinking.” - Alan Cooper

Reminds me of days biking through NYC's Chinatown on my way to work. An adrenaline rush is a great way to start the day 😵🤘

A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.

A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.

A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.

Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
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The cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures." It features a white "stack plot" on a black background. The lines, which record data from a radio telescope, form what looks like a mountain range.

✨Special late night bonus thread✨

The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. (13/12)

Thanks to @octonation.bsky.social

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🤤🐙 Get the coolest octopus stickers ever for dirt cheap! I have too many of these already, but one can never have too much of a good thing right?

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@kirabug.bsky.social should be on your list

1 dataset. 100 visualizations. Wow.

(via @chrisglass.bsky.social)

100.datavizproject.com

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.

Rainbow over a school yard

Found a rainbow this morning

👋 thank you!

I loath the term "account". It applies to many things…

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I'm hoping this place can channel those early 2008 twitter vibes.

Well hell yes, but you just raised my imposter syndrome to high alert with the caliber of folks already on that list 😅 😳