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I’m deaf and just got a pair of Even G2 glasses, which have a live captioning mode and no camera. They’re already lifechanging, even if they come with the risk of being taken away …

A cold application just means that the candidate applied directly with no referral or introduction. It’s always been the case that both warm and cold applications went though the s…

All the time in Germany.

>Designing a user inteface involves thousands of small decisions. When trading off pros/cons for each of these decisions… Which needs to be done intentionally in context, not homog…

>Figma is targeted towards designers who create thoughtful design systems and cohesive UIs and who don't code, while this is targeted towards vibe coders who can't design. Two diff…

The problem is right now management is not only insisting on their team vibe-coding bespoke replacements, they’re avoiding paying for other SaaS because they can vibe-code their ow…

Arguably that’s the “operations” and “relationship” parts described here. But right now, many companies are choosing to not pay for software because they can build a solution thems…

As far as cookie popups go (and recognizing you probably know this so it’s more a general comment), GDPR doesn’t encode cookie popups into law, but the entire industry follows the …

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Personally, been making a low fidelity exalidraw-like calendar app: https://letswalnut.com . There’s a real-time collaborative workspace-oriented version, too. Professionally, work…

There’s a similar post that I can’t find that relates to ornamentation and detail in infrastructure as simple as a pole on a sidewalk – an ornate and designed pole replaced with a …

I want to give a go at learning to make chocolate.

Some highlights from this year include: - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera - Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - The Devils by J…

Also, here's an example of a collaborative public calendar from the "workspace" version! Anyone can pop in and make changes and see what others are doing. https://app.letswalnut.co…

My partner and I do a lot of planning around things like holidays and trips, which involves a mix of firm, tentative, and overlapping plans, and normal calendars are the wrong fide…

Ditto | Product Designer | Remote (US/Canada) | $140-200K + early team member equity Ditto helps teams manage their copy from design to production with a single source of truth. Ov…

What’re you seeing? Seems to be working from my end.

- One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford - Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera I keep a reading list at quinnkeast.com/reading. Would love to s…

Ditto | Product Designer | Remote (US/Canada) | $140-200K + early team member equity Ditto helps teams manage their copy from design to production with a single source of truth. Ov…

> In 2022, I sent out some then-new Midjourney generations with the caption: If this doesn’t revolutionize design, I don’t know what will. That’s not design, that’s an image.

Some more technically-oriented learnings here! https://reedtaylorbarnes.com/blog/building-with-llms/