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coby.bsky.social
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Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Oy Story

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

The gal of some folks

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 132 days ago • 146 comments

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 135 days ago • 56 comments

Oh no they've invented a much cheaper Bluetooth radio before any of us figured out how to make a product as useful as AirPods with our expensive Bluetooth radios

submitted 150 days ago • 15 comments

Oh to be in the SNL writers’ room this year

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is easy if you don't care about the quality. Unfortunately there's a guy like that on every team. Designers can either compromise their own effectiveness in a race to keep up, or reject the bullshit framing that the Fastest Gun in the West tries to peddle. First article of the new year:

submitted 164 days ago • 1 comment

Inflammatory statement.

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

My testimony was uncomfortable because it directly, albeit unintentionally, exposed evangelism’s foundation of fear.

submitted 166 days ago • 3 comments

If you know, you know.

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

This seems to track

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Post your favorite Star Trek character, but wrong answers only.

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

One of my most controversial opinions in tech circles is that the US copyright system is awesome, actually, and every creator should be glad it exists, even if it's annoying sometimes.

submitted 190 days ago • 1 comment

It's really difficult to reconcile the state of the web today and the idealism of this document, and man I work in a specialty that's a fractal of contradictions. www.w3.org/blog/2024/w3...

submitted 196 days ago • 4 comments

Hey pals, I'm squeezing in a public design research workshop right before the end of the year. To atone for polluting our shared sky with blatant self-promotion, people paying out of pocket can use the code SKEET for 20% off. It's a good time! www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

In a wild turn of events, I’m officially a tech bro!! @shiflett.org and I along with two incredible developers co-founded and are building @studioworks.app: a business management platform made specifically for independent creatives and creative studios! Sign up for free over at Studioworks.app!

submitted 198 days ago • 10 comments

Last month I was shopping for a fire blanket to hang over the pellet stove for safety, and the 5-star blanket had thousands of reviews about how easy it was to install, how good it looked, and how safe it made them feel. The 1-star reviews all said "the fire blanket caught on fire"

submitted 202 days ago • 20 comments

Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of Datasets Now After a machine learning librarian released and then deleted a dataset of one million Bluesky posts, several other bigger datasets have appeared in its place—including one of almost 300 million posts. 🔗 www.404media.co/bluesky-post...

submitted 205 days ago • 15 comments

Going under "pro dev" expense

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments

This is Big True and I think it has a ruinous psychological effect because we know more about things we have absolutely no control over (like the federal goings on) and less about local politics that are often quite influenceable.

submitted 205 days ago • 1 comment

I am devastated that, after multiple meetings with the product team and coming up with increasingly outlandish scenarios, I've been unable to find anything about this feature with which I can take issue. Even the name is good. Ugh. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cl...

submitted 216 days ago • 4 comments