Jason

I like cheese.

[Jason @tranqdotcom]

Back in the spring, I got to travel around Italy for a bit. This is what it looked like.

https://t.co/4AqnDydyPy

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Every generation tells the previous one, “You idiots, that was never going to work.”

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AI-driven conversational spam bots on Reddit posts to farm karma. AI-driven reposting bots to farm karma. AI-driven marketing bots to spend karma on spam. Are there any people left out there?

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Rumor has it that Meta/Facebook is working to create a Twitter competitor. So if working with These Assholes disturbs you, you can work with Those Assholes instead.

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Aricebo, where ya goin’?

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How angry could I make people by calling the island of Ireland “Lesser Britain?”

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The internet is dying, and with it, old websites and cool projects. And now Adobe Illustrator has no way of doing flat oblique projections. Does anyone geeky enough have a copy of opo-ai19.dmg?

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Having construction work done on your house is like having roommates again. There’s always someone in your space. They make a lot of noise, and randomly move your furniture around. There are rooms in your house you can’t go into. And every now and then they ask you for a check.

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How did I get here? I just wanted to make WinAMP skins.

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Would I be wrong to assume that Apple does not currently have a software design philosophy? They went full "whatever works at the moment" and no one important seems to care.

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This is web design 101. I appreciate the reinforcement that my job is, in fact, important.

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I'm tickled that billions of dollars of value are being lost in days at @twitter in what is, essentially, UX problems. The tech works. And while you could call them product decisions, what's happening is a business guy isn't understanding the user impacts of icon understanding.

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@dastillman No means no, Daniel.

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Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Against you.

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People used to call TV “the idiot box.” They had no idea what kind of boxes the future held.

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Do kids today understand that mini-maps in the corner of the screen of video games pre-date mini-maps in the corner of your vision in cars/walking/real life?

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Kids today won’t believe this, but the internet used to be where we’d go to get away from the idiots.

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There’s an old saying about leaving money on the table. “Don’t.”

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The internet is made of mistakes.

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@WhereandBack Saag paneer is a salad, and I will die on that hill.