Hans Engebretsen

Fly Fishing. Design. Front-end web. Travel. Hockey. UX at Google.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

Recently added case studies to my site as a way to talk about & show off projects

✔ it out: https://t.co/uMNbxUUQQn

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

It is April 1, but even on the other days, AI is a joke at svg : "use an icon of a bike"

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

8 years and my Redfin notification finally fired off.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

Reverse VFX, nano banana style!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The iconic Windows 95 startup sound was created by composer Brian Eno, who worked with U2 and David Bowie.

Microsoft’s brief to Eno was kind of absurd:

“A piece of music that is inspiring, universal, futuristic, sentimental, emotional…and only 3.25 seconds long.”

Eno made 84 versions of the sound.

He told SF Gate that it was “like making a tiny little jewel.”

Microsoft paid him $35k for the sound, which has probably been heard by hundreds of millions of people.

But the real benefit to Eno was that the Windows 95 sound unlocked a creative block he had with his main music projects.

“I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music,” Eno said. “I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.”

[Jon Bruner @JonBruner]

What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scanned one to find out, and compared it to some cheaper cables… 🧵

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

This story is somewhere between a domestic dispute and a bad version of Godfather and I can’t get enough.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

42 reindeer wander across the 90 mile long rural Norwegian border into Russia. Russia slaughters the 40 they can find, ships them back and says “you owe us $100k/Rudolph for the grass they ate”. Norway like “woops. We will fix our fence”. https://t.co/WkYuyFAqB9

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

Free startup idea: print menus and sell them at the front of restaurants. No one wants your QR code menu.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

@mitchmurry The spirit of “let’s make this more fun” is maybe good but execution seems sorely misplaced. I’d love to never have to think of banking or browser choice ever again.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

This Ally badge for using the preferred browser is very disrespectful and I'm unsure if I love it or if I'm gonna write a thought piece on the gamification of browser support.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

When we hire from the outside, we pay more to get less.

Despite costing more, external hires perform worse and quit more. Promoting from within fuels individual growth and collective success.

If there are never strong internal candidates, we've failed at leadership development.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

@a_saliga This isn't a winner-takes-all situation. Middle gets preference - forward part, or backward part. Aisle and window follow middle's lead, careful not to interact with the tender backside of the middle's arm.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

Just stumbled on this hover state in the App Store. Smile.

[JN*checkmark* @JNaifyNaif]

Has anyone every ice skated on a West Seattle street? Well they have now… Don’t drive if you don’t have to!! #icestorm #freezingrain #seattleweather #Seattle @KSeattleWeather @wsdot @WaWxChasers @fox13seattle @komonews @KING5Seattle

[Chris Coyier @chriscoyier]

The stupid parking garage at work is making me use a QR code to get in and out.

What is a really quick way to bring up that QR code on my phone? One way is to put it at a URL properly sized and "Add to Homescreen" it. One-click access.

[MLB @MLB]

Today, we remember Roberto Clemente, a great baseball player and an even better person.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

This world where you can literally get ride share for your pet or your eco preferences but not a single ride share in Seattle will allow you to bring your child under 8 without dragging a carseat with you. Big smh.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

Why even static sites should https

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Okay here's why every site should ideally be HTTPS:
If you can intercept network traffic, you can't edit
httpS ://weather.gov.
However, if it's http you can redirect
http ://weather.gov
to a page that says "to access you need to login" to a fake page for Google or Facebook.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

@Avis Right. Small suggestion for improvement: don’t let people reserve cars you can’t provide. Telling them the day before “oops never mind” without providing another option strands them in a location, and makes any trust in you go poof.

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

Reserved a car a few weeks ago and avis just called to say it won’t be available, and there’s no car in the city of Seattle they can provide (after 2 hours on the phone). What gives @Avis ? Is stranding people with no car a thing we should expect when making a reservation?

[Hans Engebretsen @haahns]

No comment. Just wonder.