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maggieappleton.com

Design engineer exploring applied AI and hacky prototypes. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology. 📍 London 🌱 maggieappleton.com

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Wrote a little update on post-baby life. Warning: uncomfortably femme, emotional, and squishy. Skip if you're not trying to feel the feels today. maggieappleton.com/now-2025-05

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Worth a read. Not about AI. Many thoughts come to mind about literacy (and political literacy), grading standards, perceptions of studying literature as "easy" compared to science (it's not easy), how to translate expertise so people can understand. kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-en...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Grateful I get to be a new parent in the age of LLMs Instant, always on, functionally unlimited access to humanity's synthesised advice and research on newborns. They've coached me through sleep schedules, lactation issues, health concerns, and generally been a great emotional support system.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Much FOMO that I'm missing out on Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com this year. One of my fave conferences. A smaller crowd (~200?) where everyone cares a lot about the problem. Lots of friendly collaboration and collective problem-solving. In Berlin, May 26-28th – www.localfirstconf.com

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The next time I'm invited to a baby shower, rather than bringing baby clothes, I'm gifting earplugs, a nice thermos, super comfy button-down pyjamas, and a bum bag. IYKYK.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Get in loser, we're Vannevar Bush-posting www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Product idea for new parents: temporary tattoos that say fun catchphrases like… “Comparison is the thief of joy” “This too shall pass” “Babies aren’t problems to be solved” “Don’t listen to anyone on Instagram trying to sell you a baby sleep guide for £60”

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Appreciate the people crunching numbers on this. The outrage over personal LLM energy usage seems overblown. Especially for the number of queries most of us run (<1000 / month?) Picking any other climate soap box is a better use of outrage: driving cars, eating meat, green energy providers, etc.

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

My new toxic trait is believing it’s a better deal for me to spend 12 hours vibe code my own version of an app from scratch, rather than pay £12 for it.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Finished growing a human and met them a few weeks ago. Wild to have your life rearranged in an instant. Walked into hospital one person and left as someone else. Learning I’m more resilient and capable than I thought. Never properly tested it before. Utterly in love and extremely sleep deprived ❤️

submitted 41 days ago • 38 comments

Earned my first impersonation account: @maggieappleton.bsky.social Cool 🙃 Already reported, but just a heads up if they follow you, it’s not me. Seem to be systemically going through my contacts and following folks hoping for a follow back.

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

Instabuy. @nayafia.bsky.social’s new book “Antimemetics” on ideas that don’t spread. Love all her ideas and research. darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics...

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments