AMKD

aspiring to design efficient communication • 28yo software developer and designer • she/her

[AMKD @graphitetype]

Bad design: someone worked really hard on it, and then a lot of people said, "yeahh."

[AMKD @graphitetype]

do you ever think about the fact that podcasts are so called because they were first on iPods? and now iPods are way less common but podcasts are more common??

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

For those who don’t know it and might need it (I think we all do), ‘apricity’ is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

one day i’ll make the “power parfait” that’s been on the back of grape nuts boxes for….. ??? 20 years??

[AMKD @graphitetype]

i’m burning a CD right now

[AMKD @graphitetype]

After a long time of mostly coding, I’m working on a condensed-timeline design project at work and finding it very easy to get caught up in making mock-ups and not want to end my day. Something something job satisfaction.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

Doing probably the most in-depth personal coding project I’ve ever done: fetching items from all 4 wedding registries to display in one list on a wix site.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

I think it’s good to eliminate “just” from your technical explanation vocabulary (“Just type in…”) because it minimizes what could be a new or strange concept to the person you’re talking to.
Especially true when you don’t know everything about their background (so, always).

[AMKD @graphitetype]

i spend too much time re-reading my own obsessive bug recaps (“here’s what was wrong and here’s why i fixed it the way i did” or “here’s how we tracked down the issue”) and being like “wow this is good i’m proud of the person who wrote this”

[AMKD @graphitetype]

oh what fun it is to absolutely blast the charlie brown christmas album in the car

[AMKD @graphitetype]

Work gave Amazon gift cards as holiday gifts and I’m like :throws away card: “look at this SICK TIN it came in! Thanks, company!”

[AMKD @graphitetype]

it drives me up a wall that advertisers are already talking about “last-minute gifts”

[AMKD @graphitetype]

it was foreshadowing. cucumber has gone into the “flavor vault” 😭

[AMKD @graphitetype]

I got the @drinkspindrift sticker pack and it’s great because stickers but it doesn’t have cucumber!?!??? ☹️ I’m just going to pretend this is it.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

just kidding, we bought the european expansion which means more box space and little containers.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

combining crafting skills and geometry skills (largely from @euclidea_app) to design little boxes to support new Wingspan board game habit. hobbies collide.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

next will be vector graphics skills so i can cut the boxes out on my Silhouette Cameo.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

i could say, “i use the automatic soap dispenser at work,” but i prefer

“every day i make a tiny robot spit bubbles onto my hand.”

[AMKD @graphitetype]

I love my new “Return to sender / Not at this address” self-inking stamp

[AMKD @graphitetype]

there are a lot of different business models for profiting off of job dissatisfaction—or just the feeling that one must always be striving for a next career step.

no, coding course website, i don’t need to be thinking constantly about what skills will impress my future employer.

[AMKD @graphitetype]

currently using millimeters to measure distance between stars to draw an american flag. is this treason

[AMKD @graphitetype]

several of the bugs i’ve encountered recently have been issues with storing derived state (#redux). really hammering home the “bad. derived state bad. use createSelector.”

[Laurie Voss @seldo]

iPhone be like "Trust this computer? Yes/No" and I'm like "No. Never trust a computer. Any computer."