Archives: Chirps

Likes, boosts, and monetisation optimise for reach and dopamine, not credibility or signal. I use social media to leave well-labelled artefacts for the people who already care – recruiters, collaborators, hiring managers. Smaller audience. Higher signal-to-noise.

Insightful find about Designing for Children: Your minimalist, 10-pixel-font-size, “Apple”-esque design style won't be very helpful. Use massive touch targets and fonts with a proper single-story 'a' so children can actually read it. https://bit.ly/4jOK29H

It propagated, finally. If you host your own microblog, you can actually get it to show above the official 'Twitter' (now called "X") on search results (twitter + {your name}) 🙌🏽😆 Thanks to a specialised SEO technique

I would practice traditional art from time to time. May come in handy in case we get EMP'ed, lose access to Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter—pick up a brush, canvas, and use zombie blood for paint

Duolingo feels effective, sometimes. At home, I would speak in Japanese, and I know what I said. But sometimes, I have a word in my head, e.g., “okimasu” (おきます), and I just couldn't remember what it meant 😵‍💫 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17i8v42Zn3/

If you wanted a 2 paragraph product comparison, like a half-arsed Amazon review, don't use the word “Research” when asking someone to write it. https://bit.ly/4aJG2Ve

GMAIL for Android — Is this bad UX, bad accessibility, or purely user error? It happened twice now. (1) write subject; (2) switch apps; (3) back to Gmail, paste message; (4) I've written the entire message on the subject.