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freddiewrit.es
Writer and accidental marketer for @sketch.com, recovering tech journalist, dad, husband, fussy coffee enthusiast, etc.
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This is hustle culture I can get behind.

Very excited to watch valley bros explain how stealing models is bad but stealing books to train models is absolutely fine.

Replaced the massive white desktop on my desk with a warmer wood(ish) one. To balance out the tidy photo, there’s also this extremely mid cable management.

Okay okay, who‘s the elder emo at @dub.co?

Midsommar but the put her in a Mr Blobby costume

The only reason I’m not mad about not being asked to star in this is knowing I’d have been faded out like @paulo.is was. (But for real, it’s a very nice end-of-year recap and we’ve done some lovely stuff!)

Hulkenberg qualifying Verstappen is a fitting conclusion to this season. Just full of surprises! #F1

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

My Apple Music replay is heavily influenced by the fact that I exclusively listened to The Kills on a 6-hour round trip to Cardiff because I thought they were a support act at a gig but they weren’t. Also, I really got into live albums again?

Spent a lot of time faffing about with my personal website and keep coming back to Jekyll (I want to fully own my stuff, I use it for work etc) but I’m a shoddy developer at best. Realised I can just ‘direct’ ChatGPT to do all the development for me and it’s a game-changer.

It’s Black Friday!

Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon? Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist? Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property? Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?

this company is worth 20 trillion dollars and this is how you delete an item in your cart

When you ask us to do a Windows app

sweetheart I can barely match my unique writing style your robots don't stand a chance

First time doing this, but for the rest of the week Hand Mirror+ is only $2.99 (50% off) — it's a one time purchase, so if you get it now you'll still get all future big features, including the upcoming Snaps 📸 apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-...

My day today

OK

Back in 2016, I wrote an article on Medium about writing great App Store release notes. I had no idea how popular it would end up being! If you search “App Store release notes” in your favourite search engine, chances are it’s in the top 10 results still. medium.com/@freddiewrit...

design scene buzzing with good vibes and tycho dropping a dope new album, is it 2011 tycho.lnk.to/infinite-hea...

Thanks to a tip-off from @viticci.macstories.net I am having the loveliest Friday.