So grateful for everyone who fought for the strides made tonight to create a more vibrant and robust inner southeast via dense, affordable housing.
May the displacements end and better futures begin.
Hey friends! I currently have availability for UI/UX design/development work, but I'm also looking to be part of a team again. I've been passionate about the web platform for over 20 years, and would love to find folks that care about process and craft as much as I do. 💜
www.mandynicole.com
Aw, thank you so much!
Aww, thank you Matt!
(Also, I'm still working through this redesign, so if you come across any bugs or oddities, please shoot me a DM with a screenshot and your browser/user agent info, thank you!)
Hey friends! I currently have availability for UI/UX design/development work, but I'm also looking to be part of a team again. I've been passionate about the web platform for over 20 years, and would love to find folks that care about process and craft as much as I do. 💜
www.mandynicole.com
I had wanted one for so long, and I think it must have been bought on discount after the second version came out because it was almost immediately replaced by Mario Paint, my ultimate art and music production app. 😍
A product photo of an indigo Wacom Graphire 3 tablet set, which included a wireless mouse, pen, and tablet with removable clear top so you could place drawings to digitize underneath.
Over a decade later, I'd get myself a purple Wacom Graphire 3. Terrible fidelity spared only by Flash's line smoothing. Had more use storing drawings and lettering under the removable plastic top.
Save cartridges were sold separately, but it was plugged into the VCR, so I would switch the source when someone wanted to watch TV and hope no one would turn it off.
I still remember a rose I spent hours on and was so proud of, and how it felt to press the power button and watch it go black. 😭
A GitHub setting labelled “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training", set to disabled
Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
github.com/settings/cop...
Per Wiki, the following year they released another version specifically for Meta's headsets, and then subsequently two more versions for Snap's AR glasses.
They also worked with Apple's Vision Pro and used "climate change" and "mental health" org collabs to get even more data. Insidious stuff.
In 2023, Niantic's failed pet sim Peridot was allowing minors to post entire videos to public, global chatrooms of them walking around their bedrooms, homes, and neighborhoods. When people would respond under the videos asking why they could see them, previously chatty staff would magically vanish.
I hear you like archives.
So I made an archive of archives, so you can look at an archive while you’re looking for archives.
archiveofarchives.com
The "why can't I hold all these limes" meme but with multiple screenshots of the "Recall process for City elected officials" page from the Portland.gov website. It includes a tiny Governor Tina Kotek for good measure.
Made this during the election fiasco and didn't post it, but the sentiment remains.
Incredible article detailing humiliating behind-the-scenes behavior of nearly half our city council and those pulling the strings, esp during the clown show that was our council president elections.
Grateful to have Jeremiah, the Mercury, and the progressive caucus calling these embarrassments out.
my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down
There are a lot of causes that need help today. I'll be donating to trans orgs in red states as well. But any #pottery sales today and tomorrow will go to support families at a south Minneapolis Public School:
art.miriamsuzanne.com
www.gofundme.com/f/support-mi...
The web is immeasurably worse with so many of our modern knowledge bases on a single, gated platform.
A generation of information lost and never indexable to anyone besides by a company that paywalls gradients, GIFs, and usernames over long-requested safety/QoL features or a usable interface.
Begging communities to use forums again.
stranger: what do you do for work?
me, shamefully: computer
(evening sesh)
Screenshot of a Twitch stream with a Procreate interface. The comic illustration shows a Mindflayer giving a TED talk as a photo for a LinkedIn blog post. Off to the side are comments both praising and condemning their "insights".
@mattkicks.bsky.social is currently live on Twitch drawing more of his comic if you're looking for chill Monday vibes or simply enjoy dunking on LinkedIn influencer culture.
www.twitch.tv/matt_kicks
Adobe is once again leaving some of their largest, most long-standing clients out to dry because it was more important to embed tools that don't work and ways to train on art that isn't theirs.
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
(In the meantime there's Waterfox and, for instances that require Chromium, Vivaldi.)
For anyone interested in spoilers, this is where it ends:
This multi-year campaign of not listening to your users has been such innovative, subversive marketing. To abandon Servo only to destroy faith in your own brand in order to elevate them as the rightful successor?
Kind of an anti-ARG, but great storytelling nonetheless.
Macromedia flash
