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sabon

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About sabon

https://velvetshark.com

Email: mail [at] velvetshark [dot] com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47505237

    It was written by a human. Source: I'm a human. I wrote it.

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    Comment #43652976

    Thank you, sir.

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    Comment #43651353

    I appreciate the serious analysis and reply! I agree with most of it, but I also don't see why all blog posts have to be serious. I had fun researching and writing it, and I don't …

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    Comment #43651337

    I can't see how it wouldn't be intentional. A weird choice though.

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    Comment #43651334

    This one boggles my mind. But it's a real logo, so there were at least a few people with decision power who didn't know and let it happen.

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    Comment #43649744

    Even the Claude one? :)

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    Comment #43649738

    And when you put the funding, that's where the valuation is coming from.

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    Comment #41670771

    My personal website definitely helped me get hired. Here's how. Whenever I create something, either for work or personal, I add it to a "Featured" section on my website's homepage.…

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    Comment #38516473

    I wrote an extensive article about this: https://www.velvetshark.com/why-do-brands-change-their-logos... Since its publication it even got featured in a Spanish textbook, and I get…

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    Comment #36598651

    https://velvetshark.com Personal, work, non-work, TILs, anything. It's a personal blog, anything goes. My most popular article, featured on HN (and even got into a Spanish textbook…

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    Comment #32043403

    Author of the article here. There are many, MANY versions of images from my article on Twitter, with attribution cropped. I wanted to have a subtle and small contribution and to no…

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    Comment #26051698

    Designers decide that they need to change the logo and come up with 50 variations, from bland to wild. Then a committee decides on "the best" one. With each, someone on the committ…

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    Comment #25466707

    Allegedly, the game was rejected 6 times before it was finally approved. Even then, it was approved on the condition that the big bugs will be fixed by December 10. Apparently, the…

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    Comment #25373587

    1298. The article doesn't answer how many, so I've counted. It takes 1298 GNU/Linux users to change a light bulb. Including the father of the first user, excluding the 6 that compl…

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    Comment #21732237

    Freelancember has listed most of the mistakes indeed, along with the solutions on how to solve or avoid them. Example: https://freelancember.com/excuses-for-not-raising-your-rates.…

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