wiredferret.bsky.social
Explaininator, Sticker Thoughtleader, Marketing nerd. Not straight, she/her. Parent of adults, catbox scooper, wife of @silmaria.bsky.social, Kermit-coded.
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we shouldn't have to spurn the miracle of Haber-Bosch for an organic certification. I'm not even a vegan and I know the only reason there's so much manure is there's so many industrial farms
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CURSES.
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Ah, but I’m pretty sure it will deliver correctly, either way. Our last zip code sometimes came up as the big city, but we would get it delivered just fine.
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Omg yes, I’ve been upset about this since I ever first entered my address online.
Bonus points if they do an address lookup anyway to ensure it’s a valid postal address.
The worst is that Vermont changes in order depending on if it’s spelled out or abbreviated against Virginia
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When i worked on the grant *specifically aimed* at students in rural areas, i would test our website on trips to see Gpa Kelly, 'cause 45 minutes outside of Portland it starts to get rural (enough for internet testing) pretty fast. More than once i came back from a vacation saying, "PDF's too big."
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Why not both?
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Made the mistake of posting this to Mastodon and currently getting yelled at by 7th level Scrum Masters that ACTUALLY this is Waterfall and not Agile
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Instead, I get MICHIGANNEWJERSEY.
NO.
I meant MN, the postal abbreviation for my state.
We settled this! Like 50 years ago!
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I’M NOT WRONG.
My bitches, why are you asking about my city and making me PICK MY STATE FROM A LIST?
Both these datapoints are encoded in 5 beautiful digits. Which I learned about in second grade! Autopopulate that shit.
AND ALSO, the state picker should accept the 2-letter abbreviation.
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Other parts of my guerrilla UX platform:
- no mouse for you! No pointing devices of any kind for a week
- all UI designers issued a 10-year-old monitor and dial-up internet
- internet also shuts off randomly 4-10 times an hour for 30 seconds
- remedial zip code education
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Poland, bringing the obligatory BDSM entry.
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Netherlands, yes. This song is a banger. And it’s a fun thing to have all these lyrics from French songs that crossed over to us.
Australia, thank you for bringing the freaaaak. Comment: This is more fucked up than anything else we’ve seen, and I’m here for it.
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Sweden, I respect your understanding of the specific genre “Eurovision”. That is some very suggestive accordion work you’ve got there.
Czechia, excellent storytelling.
UK entry by people who grew up watching the Spice Girls. (good)
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San Marino bizarrely un-horny.
Iceland representing with excellent lopapeysa, and a not bad pop song.
Ireland, weird but danceable.
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Last time that happened to me, the seams were behaving differently/stiffer than the body fabric and making it act weird.
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yeah i just don't want a lot of transparency and low contrast! it's hard to read!
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The specific claim around “700 Indian engineers” acting in secret appears to be fake news, unfortunately. Builder was upfront about using developers, so this wasn’t hidden from investors.
Long history of allegations about how much work the AI did tho. Dealt with some of this here on.ft.com/3SHlkuY
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Do you want an idea?
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The approach I’m describing vs. the one Pavel is rightfully criticizing is the difference between performing research to support your own motivated reasoning and learning with users how to make an impact for users.
The latter, beeteedubs, is how you actually make money through software.
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it isn't because UX is primarily out of the people who hated psych and decided to walk well away from it and throw out all the elements of rigor in psych that they found irritating. Hence the idea that UX has that we can generalize to a population from like, a stereotype-laden "persona"
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I hope having any part of your company moving in tandem with any other part wasn't key to your strategy.
If you thought function based silos were bad, wait until you're hit with delusion based silos.
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Breaking news: Beepulon came over to cuddle and was designated Grubby and forced to submit to ear cleaning.
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