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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

good leaf season

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · 13d

congrats!!!

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 20d

I'm at risk for redundancy so if anyone is hiring a Senior or Lead UX Researcher remote or in London hybrid let me know! Open to perm or contracts

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · Oct 3

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Oct 1

It's been a long year 🥲

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Sep 3

i constantly think about this post

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · Aug 14

telling that people who are professionally Very Computer so often want Less Computer in their lives

Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · Aug 14

I just don’t want a more ambient, pervasive computer, actually. If anything I would like less computer

Windows Central @windowscentral.com · Aug 13

Microsoft's Windows lead has teased the future of Windows will be more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal in the wake of AI, promoting voice as a primary input method for using your PC. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

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Samuel @samuel.fm · Aug 7

they should be taken to The Hague for this graph crime

Bar chart where 52>69 and 69=30
about gpt5 comparison

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · Aug 3

one of my favorite ideas, said 4 ways

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”

Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“That is part of the beauty of all literature.
You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Aug 2

Yay, well deserved! Casually dropping that Hardcover may go open source 😯

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tierney cyren @bnb.im · Jul 25

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Jul 2

Happy birthday for last month!! 🙂 Working for hardcover sounds really cool

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Jun 17

I've been playing around with making small animations from GPT-4o image gen. This was a surprisingly fun small project! I've tapped away and written some words here: mikeesto.com/posts/animat...

Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Jun 15

Well done Suz!!

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Jun 12

Perfect weather this weekend! Safe flight

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noopkat @noopkat.fragile.systems · Jun 12

this weekend I’m traveling up to Queensland with my bike to cycle for charity in the Brissie to the Bay ride 🚴‍♀️

I’d love to reach my goal of raising $500 and I’m pretty close! If you can spare a few dollars I’d be really appreciative ❤️

www.brissietothebay.com.au/fundraisers/...

I'm riding 50km to support the 1 million Queenslanders living with neuro conditions - Please support me!

Support Susan in the MS Brissie to the Bay! Susan's riding to help connect more than one million Queenslanders living with neurological conditions to a better life! Please support their ride and hel...

www.brissietothebay.com.au

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Jun 8

Emma always makes me want to shut my laptop and hike in Japan. Came for the writing, got entirely distracted by the photos..

Emma Goto @emgoto.com · Jun 8

New post up and gosh, this one was harder to write than I thought! But I've been meaning to write this one for a long time now (and procrastinating on it) so I'm happy I finally got it done.

www.emgoto.com/japan-best-h...

The best hikes in Japan: mountains for every month and season

Japan has so many beautiful mountains on offer, but if you asked me what was the best hike in Japan, my answer would vary depending on when

www.emgoto.com

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Jun 5

Welcome back! 🙂

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Michael Esteban @mikeesto.com · Jun 3

Mount Olympus is real! But sadly Narnia is not. I like the breadcrumbs!

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Australian Internet Observatory (AIO) @internetobservatory.org.au · May 28

Explore the latest from AIO in our May 2025 newsletter: platform transparency, TikTok research (@admscentre.org.au), election ad tracking, and more. Stay informed on tools, events, and insights shaping digital accountability. Subscribe for more updates:

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