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Bobbie Chen

@bobbiechen.com

Product, platforms, UX, and more - writing about connections at digitalseams.com

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Adam Conover@adamconover.net · 3mo ago

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

wint@dril.bsky.social · 3mo ago

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 3mo ago

On newer Macbooks, the trackpad has no physical bouncy parts at all. The haptic feedback is entirely controlled by software. I remembered this today because Docker ate all my RAM and I couldn't even feel my clicks while trying to kill it

Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 4mo ago

Didn't have time to do one this year but I'm enjoying this year's April Cools posts! www.aprilcools.club

April Cools' Club

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Hillel is on Social Media Break@hillelwayne.com · 4mo ago

Tomorrow is the fifth annual April Cools! Let's celebrate with my favorite posts from the last few years: 2022: To Ace Exams, Get Better At The Easy Questions (predr.ag/blog/to-ace-...) by Predrag Gruevsky, with apparently an invalid handle. I've shared this post with others; it's real helpful!

Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 4mo ago

Preach @berkun.bsky.social - "Our culture rewards us with status for never having time for things. We admire busy... When we see a silly video on social media, we often judge the creator by saying, “Well, that’s someone with too much time on their hands.” This is just Puritanical bullshit;

Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 5mo ago

In case you missed it, I converted my talk into a blog post! digitalseams.com/blog/phantom...

The Phantoms of the Fraudpera: an overview of anti-detection tooling — Digital Seams

This weekend, I gave a talk at BSides SF 2026 to a full theater at the Metreon AMC. This is that talk, as a blog post. It’s about the hidden ecosystem of attackers’ tools and how they factor into a...

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Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 5mo ago

A preview of my talk at #BSidesSF tomorrow! Looking forward to it :)

BSides The Musical (San Francisco 2026) The Phantoms of the Fraudpera: An Overview of Anti-Detection Tooling Bobbie Chen / bobbie@digitalseams.com / @bobbiechen.com (Bluesky)
Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 9mo ago

And... they've disabled tag notifications, presumably because they can't handle the abuse: github.blog/changelog/20... what a shame

Removing notifications for @mentions in commit messages - GitHub Changelog

To reduce unwanted noise and help you focus on what matters most, we’re removing notifications generated from mentions in commit messages. Previously, mentioning a user or team in a commit…

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Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 11mo ago

A clever phishing attack today against developers on GitHub, using GitHub issue notifications to send a legit-looking message from an official GitHub email. Another supply chain attack attempt?

📌 GitHub x Gitcoin Developer Fund 2025 Dear community, GitHub and Gitcoin are launching the next stage of the GitHub Developer Fund, a program on Gitcoin created to recognize and support contributors who advance open-source technologies and public goods. Your GitHub account has been identified as eligible for this extended phase. We believe that every type of contribution — from one-time efforts to long-term involvement — shapes the future of open source. About the program: Funding model: Quadratic Funding, amplifying community impact through a matching pool Total pool: $15,000,000 USDC Selection criteria: Engagement in the ecosystem and potential for future contributions - eligibility includes both regular contributors and maintainers, not only project founders Next step: To complete your preliminary registration and confirm eligibility, please verify your wallet via Gitcoin Passport. This step ensures fairness, prevents Sybil attacks, and requires no sensitive personal data. The process takes less than a minute: simply connect your wallet and sign a message. 📝 Please advance to authentication and submission here: https://grants.github.com/apply Final participation and allocation of funds require a valid Gitcoin Passport score. Full program terms are available on our portal. Best regards, GitHub Developer Fund Team In partnership with Gitcoin This correspondence was dispatched to you as a subscribed GitHub member. ©2025 GitHub, Inc. All rights reserved. Corporate location: 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. [Adjust notification settings] | [Privacy Policy] --- At the end of the message, several people are tagged, which triggers a notification email from an official GitHub email
Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 10mo ago

generally speaking, people should be eating way more candy than they do. next time you find yourself reaching for fresh produce at the grocery store, consider a bag of candy instead

Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 10mo ago

Me as a birdwatcher messing with the guy interviewing me: "After a great deal of practice, many bird-watchers can identify a bird by the ‘way it looks’... They even have a name for this brute property, which they call the bird’s ‘jizz’."

Experienced bird-watchers develop similar skills. After a great deal of practice, many bird-watchers can identify a bird by the ‘way it looks’, even when the bird is glimpsed too briefly, or is too far away, to allow individual features to be identified. They even have a name for this brute property, which they call the bird’s ‘jizz’. This skill takes some time and effort to develop, and is similar to chicken sexing in that birdwatchers perceive the jizz as a gestalt, but cannot say what the features are that make up the whole. Although identifications made on the basis of jizz are reliable, they are generally regarded by bird-watchers as requiring some objective verification.
Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 10mo ago

The Student's t-test is "named" after a brewer at Guinness. It's not Henry Gosset's t-test though; he published under the Student pseudonym so that rival breweries wouldn't realize the value. I wonder what other discoveries are bottled up in some corp right now?

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is also how you can tell we’re doing technofeudalism. If there were actual competition for customers of products and services, anything that was a true accelerator or super-efficient quality maximizer would be a trade secret.

Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 10mo ago

Visited the Eames chair exhibit at the Transamerica Pyramid recently and it was delightful to realize that so many iconic chairs were designed by the same couple. And the staff there were really knowledgeable too!