Andrew Watterson

Designer. Also: CSS, vintage computers, planes, and crosswords. 🏳️‍🌈

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@Jeroen_Ransijn Oh amazing! We’re very lucky to have you as an American. ❤️

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@davidhoang @philletourneau VCF West is coming up, and their swap meet is great. https://t.co/1YCspkwCwx

Also the Silicon Valley Swap Meet, although I’m less experienced with that one https://t.co/A5bqyfqw8w

Urban Ore or your favorite thrift store will sometimes have stuff, but eBay is the most reliable.

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@keithkurson Not nearly as good, but best I've done so far is multiple earnest revisions of ads for Barbie cars. https://t.co/reb4AQTJxA

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The stuff you find on vintage computers. #vintageapple #vintagemac #vintagecomputer

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@Conasabi Okay I just lost it in our Lyft, which I am suddenly very disappointed is not a Honda Element. One thousand points, my new friend.

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@Conasabi @keithkurson crabs in waiting

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@ViolenceWorks @DosFox1 Good thing I didn’t notice the incredibly rare signatures inside or I might have ;)

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I am obsessed with this window sticker they put on Saabs in the 60s.

I vectorized the artwork and now I kinda wanna make t-shirts. :) @SaabPlanet https://t.co/XWOXG2wwLg

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“Saab – Made in Trollhättan by Trolls” Stickers https://t.co/yrLUop6Gx8 #Saab #Trollhatten #Sweden #Trolls #Stickers

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@ThePiloseOne @WysWyg_Protogen Fair enough! Assuming they were recreations, I was pretty impressed with the aged-looking colors. I'll take my typographic issues up with @ibmdesign ;)

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Wrote a deep dive into one of my favorite vintage Macs, the Macintosh Classic! A first shot at showing off my collection! https://t.co/Gu9UZfngQE #marchintosh

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@ikeadrift Yeah I use groups for things I don’t care about (like stitched together screenshots) and to get the frame name to go away, but both of those are pretty niche. Frame Nation!

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@Jeroen_Ransijn @chanpory Begs the question — @chanpory which layer in our component library do you most want named after you? I’d be the list of options in an open drop-down menu myself.

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@Mac84tv @RetroHoosk I miss the completely impractical but great looking centered Apple logo from the OS X Public Beta

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@chanpory @davidhoang Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind is also up there - it wasn’t until I tried to sing it at karaoke years later that I realized it’s about doing a lot of hard drugs and then having sex. 1997 was a dirty year!

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@tareqismail @ikeadrift Slack actually used to do this (without the visual feedback) if you did “s/oldword/newword” (which I assume is an IRC thing). It was a nice feature!

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@maccyandme Are the printers different? What are you printing that you need all that capacity?

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@WysWyg_Protogen “Hipster construction site” — paint the floor black and get a fluffy white carpet for contrast (and fluffiness)

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Guys, GPT-3 has no imagination. I told it about our stuffed animals and asked who we might add to the team — they suggested Ella the Elephant.

Then I asked what Ella's job or favorite clothing accessory might be, and GPT-3 told me stuffed animals aren't real.