Nicholas Macias
@nich.bsky.social
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Waving my hands around in front of a computer until it does what I want. https://rockinghelvetica.com
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All this Keeper footage makes me immediately think you want to catch the ball being thrown with the backboard being the character
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I was configuring DNS & the fourthwall page from my phone while at the #nokings march, so this is all very halfassed as a launch goes, but… I turned my sign into a tee #noeffinking:

noeffinking.com/products/noe...
NOËFFINKING
No effin kings!
noeffinking.com
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I am a designer but I always wind up spending a bit of my time on catching gaps or misconfigured technical, business, or workflow things. I should really figure out how to just get people for me to QA a biz with an ADHD eye.

The offering is vague; feels like what the fuck is wrong with you dotcom
all boxes, tbh. I can remove a storage cube from an existing shelf that's been in the house for years and it will take less than 3 minutes for the new cubby to be occupied by the cat

fun cat science: take gaffer tape or similar and mark off a 14" box or so on the ground. Wait.
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Wait… this might be the thing I needed to pull off my thought of a blog that is fully rewindable (presentation and content progressively logged)
Old heads, the year is 2000, it’s maybe February, and your favorite designer’s blog just reset to basic HTML and they incrementally update CSS to design a fresh look. Hundreds of people join in doing the same. What’s that trend/event called?
…but if you didn't know, it would keep noodling until it went off chops and hit context breakdown.
Or, like, 4 versions deep struggling to sort out a sequence of controls that work across screen readers and stock Chrome alike and the only way to put it on track is a comment like

"Is there any sense in using a disclosure element instead for all that?"
My impression of working with Claude to code some web stuff for the past couple of days is that the juniors are getting a raw deal here. One has to bring so much knowledge of what's missing or wrong to get things to work right.

I do like being able to type "Um…" to misses & it works like a whack
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There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.
remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
Its word processor UX is/was pretty refined, with plenty of nuance that Obsidian does not have. Been awhile since I’ve used it, though.
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After Skedzielewski complains about the logistics of body cameras, Ellis tells him "there's, you know, a simple way to not have to do that though, right?"

After a long silence, Skedzielewski tells her "I think we're going to enforce federal law."
Honestly, my quiet pride in this obscure post from 2019 is one of the last things keeping me from deleting Twitter outright, so I'm taking the step of re-planting here.
Living in San Francisco is living with one foot planted in the future. Just the one, painfully, awkwardly.
Smooch. Perfect timing, like, absurdly so, I literally have investigating this on my calendar for tomorrow.
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Matt Levine points out the OpenAI's current business model is basically what you'd expect if you asked ChatGPT for a business model, because ChatGPT learns everything it knows from the web:
Stuebentiger is such a great word
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Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
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Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
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My solution to fixing line art when something isn’t working or I get stuck!
I just want a private cloud version of such. The scraper, the tag ML, thumbnails. Archives.