I'm sure the Venn diagram overlap of Untappd & Pixelfed users is small, but I wrote a tiny Python script with Claude that checks my Untappd RSS feed and cross-posts new check-in photos to Pixelfed. Here's the repo: github.com/jasongraphix... and here's what it posts: pixelfed.social/jasongraphix

GitHub - jasongraphix/untappd-to-pixelfed: Cross-post new Untappd RSS check-ins to Pixelfed

Cross-post new Untappd RSS check-ins to Pixelfed. Contribute to jasongraphix/untappd-to-pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I launched SkilletSched.com three months ago, and our family still uses it every week to plan meals. It's been fun iteratively improving the UX. I just added a feature a friend asked for: household ⭐️ ratings for recipes. If you cook at home, give it a try!

Of the 71 feeds I'm tracking at teamdesign.team, only 32 have posted within the last 12 months. I just did some cleanup and moved Atlassian, Babbel, ExxonMobil, GitHub, Gusto, Kingfisher, Oscar, Prudential, Wix, and Yelp to the dormant list.

Team Design Team

Discover insights, trends, and stories from 40+ design team blogs. Follow along via RSS, LinkedIn, or Mastodon for a steady stream of design inspiration. 🙌 Welcome to the team!

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It's been a tough week at work. Layoffs suck.

Just published a blog post about our Italian road trip through Bologna, Florence, Cinque Terre, Verona, and Venice. It was an adventure we'll never forget, and a good reminder to be intentional about experiences like this before our kids are grown. jasongraphix.com/journal/our-...

Our Italian Summer Road Trip - Jasongraphix

We just got back from a 12 day vacation that was months in the making. Over the last decade, my sister Jenna and her family have lived in Puerto Rico,

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Fun fact…

I laughed at the link, but now this is playing on repeat while I work. kottke.org/26/06/daft-p...

Daft Punk, Medieval-Style

Watch and listen to bardcore trio Courseval play a cover version of Daft Punk’s Veridis Quo, a track from Discovery. This is lovely. And a banger. Course

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Huzzah! No more “back to safety” step when enabling SkilletSched’s Google Calendar sync option. Our OAuth flow is now fully verified. Here’s the demo walkthrough I submitted to kick off the verification process. Drop a reply if you want to try it out! youtu.be/Vt0uRJmLf4I...

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End-to-end demonstration of how SkilletSched uses requested Google Calendar scopes to sync meal plans.

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One thing I noticed while building SkilletSched is that Claude tends to reinvent components. I spent a few sessions standardizing UI, killing off unnecessary variants, and converting skilletsched.com/design from a page of approximations used to troubleshoot theme colors to a legit pattern library.

Made a delicious batch of chicken & dumplings for dinner and then spent my dev time tonight baking prep/cook/total time, yield, and tag metadata into stored recipes. #BuildInPublic skilletsched.com/@jasongraphi...

Recipe for Instant Pot Chicken & Dumplings

Shared by Jason Beaird on SkilletSched.

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Our daughter asked to invite a friend over for dinner on a night we'd planned to try a new recipe. It turned out great, so I added it to my shared recipes: skilletsched.com/@jasongraphi... In tonight's app progress, I'm now surfacing public shares on the Recipes page in SkilletSched for easy import.

Recipe for Honey-Mustard Chicken & Broccoli Casserole

Shared by Jason Beaird on SkilletSched.

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Our family has been planning and cooking meals for the last few weeks with a web app I've been working on called SkilletSched. Now, I'm opening it up for others to use, too. Here's the story: jasongraphix.com/journal/intr...

Introducing SkilletSched - Jasongraphix

Three years ago, I wrote a post about how our family plans meals each week on Google Calendar and used a data export to surface and share some of our favorite weeknight dinners. Until this month, that...

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"The interdisciplinary mind isn’t a nice-to-have anymore. It’s the capability that matters most, precisely because it’s the one machines can’t replicate." matthiasott.com/articles/des...

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott

We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m...

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I spent some Claude Code tokens improving teamdesign.team a bit over the weekend. I now have a script that auto-fills missing recent post thumbnails with the article's OpenGraph image. While I still wish they'd just add an RSS feed, I also found a way to fetch new posts from design.google.

Team Design Team

Discover insights, trends, and stories from 40+ design team blogs. Follow along via RSS, LinkedIn, or Mastodon for a steady stream of design inspiration. 🙌 Welcome to the team!

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I finally released the Nest photo gallery project with a working installer. Now, anyone (with an ARM-based Mac) can convert a discarded Gen2 Nest thermostat into an interactive photo frame. jasongraphix.com/journal/crea...

Create your own Nest Photo Gallery - Jasongraphix

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to convert a deprecated Nest thermostat into a photo gallery. That post finished with a happily-ever-after ending and a video demo of the working ...

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Do you happen to have a Gen2 Nest Thermostat lying around that you want to convert to a photo gallery like this? jasongraphix.com/journal/nest... I have an installer built (for Intel Macs) that I’d love to get a few folks to test.

Converting a Deprecated Nest Thermostat into a Photo Gallery - Jasongraphix

Before we dive in, I should let you know that I'm a designer. I have no business hacking firmware to make devices perform jobs they were never intended for, but I do love tinkering with physical hardware. A few years ago, I wrote about building an Arduino LED strip game and followed that post up with another about a Simon clone built with arcade buttons and a 3D printed case. I've also taken on some Raspberry Pi projects, a few simpler Arduino builds, and some home automation. All of those were based on existing code and project plans—no compiled binaries or firmware modifications. So, yes, I was way outside my skill set and comfort zone on this project, but that's how we learn new things, right?

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I've always said that design is about learning rules to know when to break them and that applies to design process too. I love this whole talk from @jennywen.ca. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u94...

Jenny Wen: The design process is dead. Why Designers can no longer trust it.

YouTube video by Hatch Conference

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I can quit anytime I want…

Claude Code changes the question from “should designers code?” to “should designers modify firmware?” Here’s the story about how I upcycled a deprecated Nest thermostat into a photo gallery. jasongraphix.com/journal/nest...

This is a fascinating window into how AI SaaS pricing models are evolving. "We could tell we were creating a not-lovable experience." www.elenaverna.com/p/we-stopped...

We stopped forcing the subscription model on our users. Here is what happened.

How and why Lovable introduced ‘top-up’-style monetization.

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I’m converting my deprecated Gen2 Nest into a mini digital photo frame and just got a test image loading. I would have abandoned this project already if it weren’t for Claude Code, which is making the trial and error of it fun.

Having shared the viral video with my teens, it was fun to read about how a 77-year-old curator at the National Gallery of Art started making videos in Gen Z slang. www.milkkarten.net/i/186801044/...

The museum with an unexpected star - by Rachel Karten

I talked to the team at the National Gallery of Art, including 77-year-old curator Alison Luchs, about “rizzing up the internet with art history.”

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Completed the first step of my side quest to do something fun with this little hunk of e-waste.

I love our local UX community. Cesar led us through a great, practical workshop on Journey Mapping at last night’s Downtown Orlando UX Meetup. youtu.be/MhztaBCwt6U

Using User Journey Mapping to Turn Raw Inputs into Insight

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We did it! Our DIY Library Ladder Wall project is complete. It was quite a holiday break marathon to get this built, but we're so happy with how it came together. Check it out: jasongraphix.com/journal/libr...

Library Ladder Wall - Jasongraphix

In August, Ames and I did something we never thought we'd do - we finally bought a move-in-ready home. Since our first house renovation project in 2005,

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The bulk of our winter break DIY project just arrived. Not pictured: vintage 10ft library ladder and butcher block countertops. 📚

Symmetrical internet is much better than fast download speeds alone. At our old house, a 300mb fiber plan worked great. We moved in September and the upload on our “gig” cable internet capped out at about 50mb. Just got fiber run with only a 500mb plan, and this chart makes me smile.

One of my product design colleagues shared this from their granola.ai 2025 "crunched" report, and I've never felt more seen.

Time to let the kids shave off my November beard again. Unsurprisingly, they attempted a 6️⃣7️⃣ this year.

We've been chatting with ProductTank Orlando about doing a collab event for a long time. So excited that it's happening, and that we're meeting in Full Sail's Treehouse, which is such a rad venue!

Downtown Orlando UX Meetup@douxmeetup.com · 9mo ago

Join us on Monday (11/17) online or live in The Treehouse at Full Sail University for a special collab event with ProductTank Orlando, as we explore "How AI is Redefining Product & Design Roles" www.meetup.com/downtown-orl...