People who truly think a large language model Ai interface is the best tool for basic search queries actually never learned how to use a search engine properly 🫣

Space cadet pinball screenshot

We are so fucking back Space Cadet Pinball was destructured as an open source project and then it got ported for android 🤩 play.google.com/store/apps/d...

No I was watching online 😅

LAST thing this industry needs right now is yet another "no code" tool that creates an absolute garbage experience for large segments of users

Rumors swirling that Figma is going to release a website builder/publishing feature. Manifesting they show its ROBUST accessibility features and semantic code generation 🫣 guess we will find out in 90 min or so....

Me ice skating

Me doing a ballet jump

Entering a spin

My side quests go absolutely crazy ⛸️

thinking about all my trans friends and their community today, every day. you all deserve peace on this bitch of a planet

I also have no idea how I did 🫣 I hope you hear soon and that you pass!!

You'll get an email. But also fwiw it looks like the system is new it's like Salesforce or something and I have noticed so far things are a bit slower than the last test I took a couple of years ago. Sounds like you were the session before this one. I get why you're annoyed!

What I definitely am not paying for is for my state programs that actively benefit me and my community to be defunded so we can make billionaires more comfortable. ts pmo

NY is a high taxation state, but it's not really bothered me because it comes back in human services, infrastructure, etc. You get what you pay for.

The really fucked up part about federal funding to NY State agencies is um.. That's our money??? We give more money to the federal gov than we take back in funding for programs...

I was in this test session too, I think there is 0 chance if us hearing until the testing for this round is done (I want to say that's april 9?). The last time I took an IAAP exam it was over a month before I heard anything after taking it.

I hate it when I check the blame on some questionable code and git is like “You, 4 days ago.”

https://social.lol/@bw/114240786740183367

A roller coaster of people marked "Figma users" is being terrorized by a roller coaster going the opposite ways full of skeletons marked Sketch users, Invision users, Photoshop users, and Quark Xpress users

Memento mori

Actually, there is a point. Don’t forget that there was a time you were a beginner. When people earnestly ask for your help, remember the people who helped you and pay it forward.

https://social.lol/@bw/114112011526068134

Paparazzi! A full-webpage screenshot utility for macOS.

I'm just glad the creator still has the page up about it so I can verify with myself i did not hallucinate its existence!! It was not marketed at being used to convert web pages into sketch files but for some reason it did that?? and it was so handy

derailer.org/paparazzi/

The highest point was this free app called Paparazzi that let me put a web page in its browser window thing, and it would let me drag and drop the browser page output into a sketch file and it would convert it into shapes and textboxes and it would be like 90% correct and just need a few tweaks.

listen Figma is great and all but their plugin/developer community will never match what Sketch had at its peak. It was anarchy low key but there was a plugin for anything you could imagine, really.

Hudson Valley Designers Portfolio Review 2025 A community event for emerging designers to get feedback on their portfolios, resumes, etc. as they prepare to apply to their first ever full time role in the design industry.

I'm hosting a portfolio review for emerging design & creative talent in the Hudson Valley in a couple of weeks! Looking for volunteers to be reviewers. More info and signup on the link: npz-web.github.io/portfolio-re...

Every week they make it more and more embarrassing to be the American Cousin 🙄

probably a very good time to say if any displaced federal workers are looking to catch a referral where I work hmu, esp if you are open to hybrid work in Hartford CT, St Paul MN, or Hunt Valley MD 👍👍👍

If you REALLY care about government efficency and spending, you don't want them gone. Their work was SAVING us money 🤦

It's called federal SERVICE for a reason. These folks were taking less than they were worth to do work in support of our country. Because they CARE.

The narrative that federal workers are untalented is delusional. As someone who recently shifted from civic tech to the private sector, I would liken it to finishing 9th grade and going back to 4th grade. It's just a different level of competence and efficiency.

Can we talk about how unleashing the people good enough to be hired at USDS and 18F on this job market is DIABOLICAL?? guys... That's our top talent in the country. Those positions are PRESTIGIOUS. You don't want to have to compete with them for jobs.

Focus state illustration from GOV.UK

Yesterday I listened Katie Langerman’s breakdown of focus states on the Complimentary podcast.

I agree with every single thing she said:

1. Don’t turn off focus states (that’s bad for UX)
2. Browser default focus states suck (not obvious)
3. Custom focus states are an opportunity to do better...

VERY glad we have it. Addresses so many things that would be such massive issues. Far from perfect but we can't even fully quantify how much $$$ it saves the company

am noticing with prep for the EAA where we have to get anything in 🇮🇪 to 2.1 AA for June, that the recommendation I'm making the most is "rebuild your frontend using the design system" which has lots of company specific support and guidance rather than having to rebuild a whole frontend with nothing

umbrella company design system is in use across 200+ systems in production. huge company. Over 100 years old. probably have another 200+ legacy applications not using it (I actually have no idea). It is still worth it to our customers to ensure consistency. That 200+ is mostly customer facing.