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barrylachapelle.bsky.social
Dad, designer, hacker. I run a gravel/bikepacking website and am currently working on AI for farmers in India (ex-IDEO, Nike, Hatch) Vancouver island, 🇨🇦 Bikes: https://www.bikegeardatabase.com Design: https://www.barrylachapelledesign.com
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It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest

RIP Tom Robbins 🥺

Probably the clearest explanation of how capitalism broke the world. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

A masterclass in diplomacy by Trudeau. “We didn’t ask for this and we will not back down”. 🇨🇦🫡

Watching CBC live is making me proud as hell. Everyone seems so united and well, just really nice eh?

Sounds like it be a new North America tomorrow.

Also if you’re into gravel biking check out our new Gravel Guide to Portland. #gravelbike www.bikegeardatabase.com/stories/grav...

What if we flood the internet with fun, calm ideas instead of fuel to hate and divide? Im considering building a ton of twitter/X bots that say nothing but “I love you”, “you are a nice person”, “love wins” etc.

Amazing to see the cycling peeps joining here ✊

I've been slowly chipping away at building a new to-do list app called Blistful. My idea is that all your tasks are in one long list and through using tags and stars you create your own workflow - no projects, deadlines or wasted UX. www.blistful.app

All tech products seem to be designed with the intention of DO MORE. Shouldn’t we be creating software to help people DO LESS?!

Perfect. youtu.be/Rby6hVPftLE?...

My 3 year old M1 died yesterday. Long story but I ended up getting the black M4 which is very, very cute. I really enjoy starting from a fresh OS. Each time I do it, I consider which apps I race to install as a sign of the times >> Obsidian, GPT, Figma, VS/Cursor.

Uh oh. I think I got a job.

Spent the morning playing with generative vectors in Illustrator. It didn't give me quite what I was after - but I was able to salvage bits and design what I needed. Here are some light and dark illustrations from the new app I'm working on.

Today I was looking at nice fonts for a new app I’m building - I may never have 600k users and probably wouldn’t need ALL the faces but $38,000 seems a bit pricey for this indie dev. I do appreciate the 57k discount though. Holy. Macaroni.

47 - the age that you start screaming at people to turn off the lights before leaving a room.

❤️❤️❤️ youtu.be/fpEPR1XPMCc?...