oh no my extremely specific jam

love to see the orbants

I’ve seen this a lot in my own career, particularly working with finance t&c patterns, and it resulted in some really counterintuitive patterns that worked.

(And, of course, millennials are increasingly ancient, our eyesight is failing, so Big Screen Big Words is now a compounding factor.)

3/3

Gen Z will navigate layers for the same info if they need to - they don’t just accept the first option - but the pattern recognition for info is a different mental model than millennials.

Essentially, they’re much more adept at it so they’re much more confident making purchases on mobile. (2/3)

I have a hypothesis about this related to expectations of levels of information to feel assured in purchases.
Millennials look for comparative tables, options, t&cs (which is easier on a bigger screen). Gen Z are more comfortable being presented with mobile sized information patterns (1/3)

It has been terrible for well over a decade. And the support feedback from submission reviews is regularly impenetrable.

In a previous job we once had the long established app blocked from updating because it ‘had no license for gambling’

It was a credit improvement app.

put it back on facebook marketplace, porch pick up only

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

Fun fact: I have cited your tweet internally at Google when I’ve discussed signal-vs-intent in products, so I’m delighted this crossed my feed today!

I still quote ‘i haff twelve matchsteek’ every time I come across a bullshit puzzle now, years later. It’s even spread to my kids and I’m not sure they’ve even seen the original comic strip.

Mine would be dozing in an armchair, with a book barely open, and there would be a cat scratching at my leg for dinner, with several water glasses tellingly tipped off the side table.

Christ, The Body Shop is bringing back Dewberry.

I work just round the corner and every day I’m there its hard to see so many people there, stabs me in the heart each time, but I realise most of them are tourists from abroad and probably have no idea of the whole deal.

I am saving TR-49 for the weekend but the temptation is huuuuge

Struggling to write an email to colleagues to say my attendance at a work event is somewhat dependent on real time geopolitics.

In a fit of madness, I created a personal blog/newsletter again last night. It’s been a while.

I shall attempt to finish setup at the weekend and then maybe I’ll have just enough left in the tank to write something.

“you say dee-it-tee, I say day-it-tee, let’s call the whole thing off!”

I have a secret for this. I record it and make people watch it at the same time. Like, I’ll get three friends on Zoom and set up the laptop in eye line (even though I’m filming on a different camera) and use their reactions to bounce off of. After a couple of those I can do extra takes on my own.

I wish I’d had this when I was an undergrad. I handed my first essay in and got roundly bollocked for using the (simplified) citations I’d used at school, because apparently it should have been obvious to use _thing i had never heard of_ . I nearly quit getting a degree week one.

halfway through my first book of the year, Dan Jones’ Plantagenets

honestly, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy a good narrative history

Me, sowing in December: Let’s circle back in the new year!
Me, reaping in January: Well, fuck.

Came on here to wish everyone a happy new year but I’m already too late

A handmade stitched Dalek fob in red vinyl with black and silver stitching.

The horrors persist but so does the embroidery

Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.

I did!

We got 2026 before we got GTA6

I have done my first baking of the season (thank the little baby jesus that my kids no longer have school fairs or the like) - cranberry mince pies with cinnamon sugar crust.

Now I must gird myself to make a bundt cake.

A black and white block print showing a hare covered in stars

The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home

Shirt stitched with ‘Blood and Mayonnaise’ party member names and then the list of locations and dates in the campaign, stitched in red and white on a blue-grey shirt.

I’m still right at the beginning of learning embroidery and digitising but to test out what I’ve learned I made a band tour shirt for my DnD bard Juniper and her party based on our last campaign.

Very unoptimized but I’m framing it anyway

I continue my adventures in machine embroidery. I’ve followed instructions and tried out some adorable patterns, and graduated from felt to teatowels, and I’m now dabbling in tshirts and sweatshirts.

It is time to learn digitising (which is the bit I’ve been really looking forward to).