Omg thank you this is exactly what I needed

I got some but then dropped it on myself 😭

don't forget to cancel your wall street journal subscription

UGH this is bullshit. I feel like GPS apps are a ripe space for somebody to build something really really cool (I say that knowing nothing about GPS). Like why can't Apple or Google be smater and always take me to intersections with lights in Portland because there's no way I can cut across traffic

The Jerry’s long for the Bluesky mines (posting)

Folks I think we fucked up going all in on Slack, let’s do anything else. I can’t handle the 80+ channels that ALL need my attention. There’s no way this is productive.

In the next year I look forward to thought leaders posting “I write all my code by hand” like they’re a hipster buying vinyl

Aerial view of a midwestern city on a clear winter day, showing a wide open park with dormant grass and bare trees in the foreground, a two-lane road cutting through the center, and a mid-century modern office building in the middle distance surrounded by low-rise urban development.

View from an elevated rooftop or upper-floor restaurant looking out through floor-to-ceiling glass panels toward a wide river, a highway bridge, and an industrial skyline at golden hour. Dark wood patio tables and chairs are silhouetted in the foreground.

Museum exhibition panel titled “Exploring the Universe” covering Bob Dylan’s early career from 1961 to 1964, featuring black-and-white photographs of Dylan performing and recording in Greenwich Village and at Columbia Records Studio A in New York City, alongside newspaper clippings, a concert program, and interpretive text about his rise to fame.

Tulsa is pretty cool

Returning to Headspace after years, wow it’s pretty awful now. Incredibly difficult to just find a quick guided meditation. What’s a good meditation app these days?

Software orgs embracing AI tools have demonstrated something I've been saying for a very long time: you can't iterate from bad software to good software.

It's *physically* possible, but the context of the work prevents it. Instead of refining the product, managers demand more new feature releases.

Chaz Moore Designer and coder in Portland. Previously Universe, Shopify, Squarespace. Now at Owner.

Moved my website to Cloudflare from Squarespace and bought a cheaper domain, saving myself $249 a year. Excited to code out my own site in Astro and create some really fun interactions!

yessssss! I just bought some skates and man its been brutal breaking them in

I just started skating again! I’m going to a rink every week, it’s been a lot of fun 🥰

My nervous system be like “what if that slack notification means DOOM”

This is exactly how loans work in Portland

Honestly I'm often not. But giving in to despair is also making an assumption about the future and I'd rather be wrong about hope than right about giving up.

Also love. Love for my cats. Love for my partner. Love for my community. I think that can be really powerful.

So excited to continue not using Discord

God damn the Patriots mascot is creep

Yeah! It's amazing they have that, really helps speed things up

As a product designer this year is already wild, I can’t imagine what my role will look like by the end of the year. I’m mostly in code now. My Figma files are pretty empty, just sketching concepts or using Make to prototype for stakeholder alignment.

WOW this is so cool!

it finally got cold here and I had to promise myself not to work from bed otherwise I'd be too cozy and cuddly with the kitties and not design

It's wild to me how many folks are still actively using it when its a complete garbage experience on top of all the heinous shit

Congrats Erika! 🫶👏

Being curious and having good boundaries to respect your own values is the best approach all around I think <3

Radical Candor has never sat right with me, some of the problems I have with it are:
- It overestimates psychological safety
- Used as an excuse for being harsh
- Ignores cultural and personality differences
- Privileges the speaker over the receiver (my biggest issue)

I feel so seen by Alison Rand's Radical Humanity approach, emphasizing empathy and respect rather than blunt honesty

I’ve never been more hopeful and optimistic than the moment I subscribe to a newsletter that I’m never going to read

It would have a gluten and gluten free bread bedrooms

This feels like a business that would exist in Portland