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Product, platforms, UX, and more - writing about connections at digitalseams.com
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I see they're updating the street signs like I update my document names

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Here's a baffling use of Google Classroom invites as a messaging app:

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The D̶a̶l̶a̶i̶ ̵L̶a̶m̶a̶ tech CEO walks into a p̶i̶z̶z̶a̶ ̵s̶h̶o̶p̶ strategy meeting and asks, "Can you make me one with everything?"

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Kids these days won't understand the krrzzzz beep boop beep nostalgia, but they might hear its successor in the office: digitalseams.com/blog/the-dia...

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Working in fraud and security is just learning about new and exciting ways for people to avoid getting a normal job

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"Freedom is a skill you can build... Agency is not the same as success, and it’s not innate. It’s something you can learn." - loved this post from @cate.bsky.social

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Apparently Google maps doesn’t know how street addresses work. It will happily map addresses on the wrong block of the wrong street or in the wrong city. These errors have real-world consequences for the businesses affected randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/g...

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Made it to this week's Digital Seams link post: digitalseams.com/blog/assorte...

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A great read on how manual work gets more difficult as automation increases: queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

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Working in an office has reminded me that Zoom Rooms use ultrasonic pairing... and my hearing is still good enough to hear the chirping at times.

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Whipped up a quick blackout poetry tool today - here's one by Austin Kleon, on artists:

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Incredible to see this company doit.com re-learning the hard lessons from the days of the Apple Lisa (1980s) - "DO IT" looks a lot like "DOLT" - and having to design their branding to avoid it. Check out this story from Bill Atkinson, creator of Hypercard, MacPaint, + designer on Lisa/Macintosh:

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I had a great time at the Community Music Hangout in Golden Gate Park the other day! Thanks @dandectis.bsky.social for hosting! goldengatejams.com

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Really interesting to watch my semaphore decoder tool creep up in the Google rankings over time. It's actually one of the bigger drivers of traffic to my blog, and I can see traffic spikes related to various puzzle hunt events: bobbiec.github.io/semaphore-de...

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@dynomight.net congrats on being the highest ranked "existential angst" blog by far in this Hacker News popularity list refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-pop...

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This week in Digital Seams - did you accidentally write a messaging app? digitalseams.com/blog/every-a...

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We do these things not because they are easy, but because they look like they might be easy. Let’s be real, they usually are easy but you can’t know until you’ve done it to know for sure, right?

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On this day in 2009, Gmail introduced the "Undo Send" feature - giving us all the chance to claw back our mistakes before they go out

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