bobbiechen.com
Product, platforms, UX, and more - writing about connections at digitalseams.com
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He gave a guest lecture at my college, and he thought it was important for all of us students to know the psychedelic inspiration for Hypercard: www.mondo2000.com/the-inspirat...
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On a related note, you might enjoy this puzzle from this year's Brown Puzzle Hunt! www.brownpuzzlehunt.com/puzzle/one-g...
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Echoes @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social on kin work:
"There are always going to be people who believe they don’t really need to depend on others, or want others to depend on them. And capitalism has produced more and more ways we can use money, rather than relationships, to solve our problems."
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We have some relevant open roles at Stytch! stytch.com/careers#open...
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The real alchemy was the friends we made along the way
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@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social has great highlights!
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Congrats Cameron!!
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I've only ever heard of data escrow (and code escrow) as a backup copy.
I don't think what you describe is really possible because the tech company needs to access the plaintext data to provide the service, so they can always keep a copy.
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Maybe similar to this story? x.com/nicksdjohnso...
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{"include_semantics": true}
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Maybe it was on the borderline of some "risk score" and your report added enough to trigger a ban.
Unfortunately because fraud is a cat-and-mouse game, it's very hard to know why decisions get made - any truthful explanation from defenders helps future attackers avoid detection.
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It's an expression of pain
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A grain of truth in every skeet
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The tool is here if you want to try it! bobbiec.github.io/blackout-poe...
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And of course, here's some blackout poetry based on our favorite IBM training manual excerpt. I'm not sure of the attribution here, the earliest image I could find was via Tumblr user virtualgirladvance:
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My own, based on my recent blog post "Every app is a messaging app":
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I am still tempted to pronounce the name like the musical "doit" (IPA: /dɔɪt/, rhymes with exploit), a quick slide upwards after hitting the initial note.
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I realized it would help to include the doit.com branding...
In the logo, "do" and "it" are distinctly separated through color.
In text, the company is branded as DoiT - I hope the dotted "i" helps avoid the dolt confusion.
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'What's this dolt? I'm no dolt.' So he hit cancel.
We [on the team] knew that it said 'do it', but it just looked like 'dolt' to several users...
The bottom line is that we changed it to 'okay' and then everybody sailed right through it."
archive.computerhistory.org/resources/ac... (pp 20-21)
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From the Computer History Museum X2786.2004 (edited for clarity):
"This person was supposed to choose between 'do it' and 'cancel', and he looked a little miffed and hit 'cancel.'
So we turned up the volume on the recording and listened carefully. He was muttering under his breath, saying,
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UPPERCASE IS ALL YOU NEED (ANDERSON ET AL., SIGBOVIK 2025)
www.monperrus.net/martin/SIGBO...
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(found via April Cools!)
Very interesting, have you considered steaming the egg instead? I now "boil" my eggs in a tiny amount of water in a covered pot, because it's much faster than waiting for a full pot of water to boil - a trick from J Kenji Lopez-Alt of Serious Eats
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I've been floating around this story idea unironically - Flowers for Algernon, but Charlie is pursued by debt collectors for his student loans (or in this case, by admin for his politics)
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Robot waiters (which today are like tall Roombas, with wheels instead of legs) already have similar fashion opportunities.
Pudu's Bellabot is more anthropomorphic - it has a face (that emotes!) and a vertical canvas for fashion. Compare it to Bear Robotics' Servi, which is very much utilitarian.
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Wow, thanks for sharing, and her other work is incredible too.
@wattenberger.com , I loved seeing part of your process here - can I ask, how much of the prompt and "art direction" was intended from the start, versus an iterative process as you were inspired by the intermediate outputs?
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I love this cozy witch game with deep narrative and amazing writing, but I really wish it was about a troubled addict detective who needs to solve a murder during a union strike