Freddie Harrison

Marketing, words and other adventures at @sketch, former tech journalist, etc. Also: dad, husband, fussy coffee enthusiast, fair-weather runner, etc.

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

Just call me an LLM because I’ll write you a convincing landing page but have a mental breakdown if you ask me to do basic multiplication.

[Sketch @sketch]

Talk stacks with us! We’re planning improvements and want your feedback. What do you love about them? What bothers you about them? What would make them better?

[Rapha @raphaellopesph]

a bit more about beautiful gradients in the new @sketch beta

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

Jazzed to be back at @allflowslive this year. Say hello if you’d like a @sketch pin badge!

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

The nicest part of where I live is an anonymous individual who knits things like this and leaves them lying as a random act of kindness for strangers to find. Today I was that stranger. My son was naturally thrilled.

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

@prekesh @glennui @oyaaaaaaaasumi It’s a good word!

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

Just seen my first entirely serious “Here’s what the viral fame of Angine De Poitrine taught me about B2B sales” LinkedIn post and maybe the internet is actually a bad idea???

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

I think we went to school together?

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

No-one:
Absolutely no-one:
Discord:

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

@MarceloMarfil never 4get the elation when I one-shotted the script only for the internet to hate it 😂

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

@jamiecooperatl Couldn’t have done it without you 🤝

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

Genuinely happy I work somewhere that means I can make this joke without tanking my company’s stock price.

[Sketch @sketch]

@jamiecooperatl Drop the prompt if you manage it, we’ve been trying for MONTHS now.

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

@paulozoom On this occasion, yes.

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

Genuinely happy Anthropic launched Claude Design on a Friday so I can spend two days touching grass before I have to deal with the discourse.

[Chris Downer @cjdowner]

POV: your product team doesn't have any Brits

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

Remember, the role is only remote if it’s from the >3 days at home region. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling hybrid.

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

@paulozoom It’s just one more app bro. I promise bro one more app will fix it. I promise bro just one more.

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

A biiiiiiiiig update. The release notes were well over 6000 words. Print them out and they’d be the same height as two (average height) humans.

[Sketch @sketch]

🆕 Things you’ve been asking us for 🆕

Selection colors, independent borders, corner smoothing controls, a new eyedropper with Color Variable support, and 150+ improvements and fixes.

Here’s what’s in our latest update — Dublin 🧵 ↓

[kepano @kepano]

free growth strategy:

1. keep improving little by little
2. stay 100% user-supported
3. watch VC-backed companies gradually destroy their product and alienate their users

[Freddie Harrison @freddiewrites]

Me: “I’m never running --dangerously-skip-permissions it’s irresponsible”

Me approving every Bash command before I’ve even started to read it:

[soul nate @MNateShyamalan]

TIRED: using “—“ and everyone thinks you’re a bot

WIRED: never learning the difference between colons and semicolons: dont let it stop you

INSPIRED: assert dominance with the mega-hyphen. it’s not just punctuation ————— it’s a statement.