Erik Petterson

5/13/1977 Taurus
[email protected]

[Austin.com @Austin]

Austin check-in! Who's looking forward to SXSW?

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

@discogs Oh thank gawd. Your app makes me want to throw my phone at a wall. If you need a polymath geeky Product Manager please slide into my DMs. 🙏I can fix it. #ux #ui

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

That's sooo Steve.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The thing about LLMs that make them unintuitive is that analogizing them to having a scifi AI is less useful than thinking of them as infinite copies of some guy named Steve, a grad student who is great at coding & art and is widely-read, but makes up stuff when he is pressed.

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

@KatherineJWu I wonder if (more?) plants would move the CO2 needle?

[drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 @drewcoffman]

i could watch Susan Kare draw in MacPaint for HOURS

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 23rd Birthday https://t.co/cywO8OmH17!

In November 1999, the https://t.co/cywO8OmH17 website was created as a parody of the creative, but, largely pointless flash intros, which were trending at the end of the 1990s. Welcome... to ZomboCom.

https://t.co/NhYqjtAbQs

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

@gretared and others planning to exodus Twitter... remember to take your data/content with you before you leave/delete. 👇👇

[kathy alice brown @kathyalice]

SEO Twitter: Any contradictions for using a browser language redirect? @robdwoods @JohnMu @John_Dietrich1 @glenngabe @schachin @aleyda ?

[Micro-Chop @micro_chop]

1) A reading list retracing the @Roland_US sound in rap, Miami bass, bounce, electro, and instrumental hip-hop.

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

I think it was Elvis who first coined the phrase, "A lil' less strategy, lil' more execution, please.

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

Glad you're thinking about this @sDesignLabs - i've been mulling over this too.

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

If you contribute to or are creating a #coronavirus #COVID19 -related digital resource, please read this first: https://t.co/c6l2axL3lL

It's easy to deprioritize #usability in favor of speed to ship, but there are serious ethical & safety implications if you get it wrong.

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

I want to form an anti-canvassing league, but don't know how to get enough signatures.

[Ian Chan @chanian]

🤯 The origin/making of the Seinfeld theme.

So much to unpack here...
First: This dude.
Second: He re-recorded it for every single episode
Third: the bpm set to Jerry’s timing?
Fourth: it wasn’t a real bass?!

source: https://t.co/yMj4bo4FVA

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

For every retweet this gets, I will add an Uncomfortable @awscloud Truth to the thread.

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

@MirrorKissesVA If only there was a link?

[kottke.org @kottke]

"Writing is when you sit – fingertips hovering over your keyboard, cursor blinking on a fresh blank document – and open Twitter for the twenty-eighth time." https://t.co/ZT8IzF44je

[Erik Petterson @erik_p]

I guess you could call the new music hall (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) a Civic Center: https://t.co/AsLKTchIlk