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Phendan
@phen.dev
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Avowed dork, obsessed with animation, fascinated by science. Web creative working in design & code. Sometimes trying my hand at the video essayist thing.

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Give me Konsistenz, I said give me Konsistenz
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Same energy
Dude I was so exhausted Friday, I was at a stop sign waiting for it to go green
October 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Come to think of it
A screenshot from the recent Kirby direct of Masahiro Sakurai saying "Why is making games so hard" but "games" has been replaced with "things".
August 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A few that always make me laugh
A picture of a church sign that says "JESUS, 6:00, PARKING LOT". The caption reads: "I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think this church just challenged Jesus to a fight." A tumblr thread, with a picture of a bird at the top. The branches look like giant spindly legs A reddit post titled "What should you absolutely not do at a wedding?". The highlighted response reads: "When they are exchanging the rings, don't stand up, dressed as Sauron and say, "But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made." whilst putting on a ring too"
August 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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When Duolingo went all-in on AI, I switched to Renshuu for my sporadic Japanese learning, and for the most part it's been great.

Some of the community-supplied mnemonics, on the other hand...
A picture of the hiragana character わ (wa) A mnemonic from someone in the community that reads: "Wario's bit fat dumpy". It has over 4000 likes.
August 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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It's lovely! This is my only handmade one so far, picked up as a souvenir in Japan in 2023
A handmade mug featuring a triangular pattern of white and gray zig-zags
July 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Updating my personal site and it’s starting to come together, so I thought I’d share a little preview of the landing page for #PortfolioDay

Made in @figma.com #UI #designsky #BuildInPublic
The landing page of the portfolio. The central text reads "Hi! I'm Philip, a creative developer based in Germany - I tailor elegant designs and write sound code for websites that have a voice." The word "creative" is stylized with a squiggly underline, and "developer" is written as though it were an HTML tag. Underneath there is a link reading "Continue to Portfolio" that also doubles as a progress bar, as the above will be animated. On the edges of the page are a hamburger menu, an English-German language switcher, a music widget, and a social nav. The mobile version of the landing page. The elements that were previously on the design have been consolidated into a menu bar at the bottom of the page.
July 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Chuckling that I just wrote this without thinking. tfw you’re up late coding and your bison gets kidnapped
A code snippet of a function called "handleAvatarState"
July 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Anti-fascist typography = best typography

From the #NoKings protest in Ocean Beach, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This one's easier to tell apart, but they both remind me just a bit of the Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo
The Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo, Japan. A tall, free-standing and almost pill-shaped building coming to a point towards the top. The pattern of criss-crossing white beams visible from the outside looks like webbing.
June 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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You might even say
Picture of an asian restaurant's logo that reads "freshly woked"
June 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Some pretty post-storm clouds this evening. Looked almost painted
Some light gray clouds in front of a pinkish sky Small dark gray clouds in front of a cloud glowing from the setting sun, with a bit of sky poking out in the top right A smaller bright cloud emerging behind a bigger, darker one
May 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I think they draw straws for the adjectives
A sarcastic fringehead at the California ScienCenter. Picture shows a peculiar looking fish with big eyes and a giant maw. Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) in Madagascar. Picture shows a gecko hunched on a branch with striking red eyes.
May 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Yeah I can live with this
Ariadne from Inception Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1 Viktor from Arcane Mike Ross from Suits
May 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Germany nein! Shtop zis!
Introducing Hans AI
May 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Feel reminded of this
Aliens: Greetings Me: Oh Hey Aliens: Are you not shocked? Me: Man I got a lot going on
April 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I love them
A figpal that's a little smiling blue frog on a lily pad
April 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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lol, for context and posterity, the deleted post was this
👋 Hey, we're Adobe! We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life. What's fueling your creativity right now? 🎨 Drop a reply, tag a creator, or share your latest work—we'd love to see what inspires you!
April 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about
The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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So far, still sticking with good old VS Code
A screenshot of the VS Code text editor showing a React project using Tailwind CSS and a dark blue theme.
March 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Neat little UI design trick I picked up from the Apple Developer docs:

When you have a non-rounded element in a rounded container, getting the spacing between them right can be finicky. Blurring it gives you an idea of the visual weight and simplifies natural-looking alignment 👌

#UI #designsky
A screenshot from the Apple Developer Documentation. The text reads "To help place nonrounded content correctly, you can blur elements and aim to make the border of the resulting rounded, blurrred shapes as concentric as possible with even margins to make them fit best with the outer perimeter." Underneath there are two visual examples, one where some text is sitting to close to the edge of a pill-shaped container, and another where the same text has been made to look rounder by blurring and then nudged away from the edge to give it more even spacing all the way around.
March 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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A frame from a Spongebob episode of someone stuck in a big metal machine called "the iron butt"
February 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Not sure what this bird's on
A close-up of one of the birds from the genmoji ad campaign, shades pushed far enough down its beak to reveal a rather disturbed-looking expression with tiny pupils
February 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Some designs for a game review platform I was prototyping at one point. Still thinking about turning this into a real thing 🤔 Made in @figma.com #UI #WebDesign #designsky
Desktop and mobile view of a gaming review website interface. The page's heading and subheading read: "Games curated to your tastes! Rate games on the criteria that matter to you". Underneath the headings is a call-to-action button that reads "discover games free". The hero section shows a curated game, along with it's title, developer, and tags. Additionally, the number of reviews, overall sentiment, and standout features of the game are highlighted, such as engaging mechanics, or auditory accessibility. The mobile view shows the navigation which consists of links to home, search, discover, blog, and contact, as well as a button to manage the user's profile. Desktop and mobile view of the details page of the site, with the reviews panel and comment section visible. The reviews can be filtered for auditory, visual, motor, cognitive, and content accessibility and each game can be ranked in one of these categories as exceptional, great, decent, flawed, or avoid.
January 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM