I have three black cats and only wear black so guess who tried to blearily pat a pile of dirty clothes AGAIN

Making cat scratchers out of cardboard boxes is great way to 'reuse'! We go through these so fast at the shelter 😅

My mom just said I need this many games on my phone to stave off dementia, she's just like me fr

I can't be mad, it gave me what I asked for

Gone ahead and done myself a side quest. fershad.com/writing/euro...

Trying out an EU-based stack for this website - Fershad Irani

As a bit of a side quest for work, I've been digging into the idea of a tech stack that's divorced from US big tech companies, with content and data being hosted on European-based infrastructure.

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Just found a tender proposal for the Hospital Authority that wants you to make a submission by putting a CD-ROM in a physical box 🫠

I just encountered the worst credit card form. They 'helpfully' split up the card number field into 4 inputs, which breaks all autofill, and then if you made a typo in one of the inputs, you had to basically race the browser to click into the field to delete its contents before the debounce timer

My current contract is ending in September and a part of me is oddly zen about it, but I'm not sure if I should listen to that calm part or the 5% of me that's screaming crying throwing up about the prospect of looking for something else

Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.

The horrible thing about any kind of craft as a hobby is that you eventually run out of people to craft things for

No one told me that once you turned 30 you were cursed to be always aware of the existence of your knees!!

Incredible report at a devastating time.

Grant Stoner@supercrip1994.bsky.social · 2w ago

With layoffs at Xbox, sources indicate accessibility efforts have also been affected. What was once a champion of accessibility is now a shell of its former self, unsure if accessibility even has a place at the new Xbox. Read my first report for @aftermath.site here: aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs...

Fallen back into cross stitching, or as I like to call it, analog pixel art. However, the ratio of time spent is approximately 10:1 for time spent dreaming about new projects : time executing projects. whoops!

I've been having a wonderful time catching up with fellow devs in this past month. something about getting to have an actual conversation is nice! I've been mulling on if I should do open office hours for chatting about web stuff, or anything else! Would anyone actually sign up?

I should stop making fun of my Stardew Valley character for being a weakling, i scythed stuff for like 30 minutes yesterday and now I'm sore

A generation of managers made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this a hundred times faster than any of them. The only problem is that doing this was always pointless.

Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product

Your first idea for how to solve a problem is most likely to be a low-impact hack. Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking.

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I have potted my new pothos for all of 5 minutes and Miette already tried to eat it!!!

Designers talk a big game about "empathy" for users. But empathy without respect is nothing more than pity. As Big Tech goes all-in on AI to accelerate its feature pipelines, the disrespect for users that's baked into these systems naturally scales up with it. Now it has reached the breaking point.

Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful

Software is now something we do TO users, instead of something that we make FOR them.

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Through last year, and early this year, I was involved in creating something that might be useful to a few folks. fershad.com/writing/wsg-...

An impact framework for the Web Sustainability Guidelines - Fershad Irani

Telling the story of how I helped develop an impact ratings framework to make the Web Sustainability Guidelines more approachable.

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AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books

The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere

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"We have detected that you are attempting to submit a request from a jurisdiction that does not currently support privacy rights." oh okay. cool

@ryelle.codes wrote this incredibly useful piece on text balancing for CJK languages. I don't think many folks know that the ideal text-wrap strategy is language specific and should be applied with intention and thought! ryelle.codes/2025/04/typo...

Typography troubles: Balancing lines in Japanese & Korean | ryelle codes

Text wrapping works differently across languages. Here’s a look at how text-wrap: balance affects Japanese and Korean text—and what to do about it.

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The HEIC image format is actually a Recursive Acronym. Help mE I Can’t figure out why HEIC is even a thing

I need another vacation, I just tried to spell 'youth' as 'uth'

Because Cantonese is a second language to me, I can generally tune it out on public transport. When I'm visiting melbourne, I'm subjected to the full range of human opinions all the time, like: - hubspot is the best software ever - why doesnt everyone just buy an iphone instead of a cheap phone

I'm working on a project where I get to be the designer (gasp) and there are all these little paper cutout elements as part of the brand. I'm having such a fun time making collages!

Made a sticker feel free to steal

My mentee found a job!!! In this economy!! I am so happy for them 💛

tried to write a snappy 'by humans for humans' page for mindful design but it turned into Yet Another Manifesto™ mindfuldesign.xyz/by-humans/

By Humans, For Humans – Mindful Design

Now, more than ever, we need to consider the real, human impact of the work we do. This is a fundamental principle of Mindful Design.

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I would pay money for someone to just massage my tired hands and forearms but I feel like that is not a service that exists and I don't want to be a weirdo