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Solves product problems by any means necessary, including design, code, speaking with people and/or doing nothing. Rides bikes and drinks coffee (not necessarily in that order). Always Happy to Help™ https://ale.today
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Great session with one of Ableton’s user researchers, on UX design for hardware devices (musical instruments in this case) streamyard.com/watch/ywavJ4...

I was reviewing old presentations and came across this quote by @aitor.is, ten years ago: “Good developers eventually understand that making software is all about people, not languages or frameworks” That’s why I’m not too worried, or care a lot, about AI (at least on its current incarnation).

I think @ascarida.bsky.social would approve this chapter’s title on “Universal Principles of Typography”

#picotron 0.1.1e binaries are up! www.picotron.net Changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico... 0.1.1e now sandboxes bbs carts by default. See: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...

Kind of a “why? because we can!” idea, but apparently you can run a whole Ruby on Rails application on your browser, using WebAssembly

I’m having bad luck with AI for coding, beyond basic autocomplete. Today I’ll try to change that by asking Claude 3.5 to migrate one of my blogs from Jekyll to Astro (something I know how to do, but keep procrastinating on because it’s not fun). Wish me luck!

“The best thing for every bike rider is lots more bike riders. There is transformative power on the table if bike culture can unite—the power to make riding more inclusive, safer, and even more fun.” – From “Live to ride”, by Peter Flax

If you’re into this sort of thing, Duolingo just published their employee handbook and it’s pretty nice handbook.duolingo.com

McSweeney’s never disappoints, exhibit 73541748: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

Did you know you can run Linux *inside a PDF file*? Details on github.com/ading2210/li... 🤯

I am googling for information on controlling a bike trainer via BLE using an ESP32 board, and I can already see that this is not going to end well 😅

My favourite type of commit: