luke_bennett_ @luke_bennett_@mastodon.socialmastodon.social

Hey folks.
My position as the eng lead of the Polaris #DesignSystem was made redundant the other day. I’m now looking for what’s next. Let me know if there are any positions out there for a remote eng director working remotely from APAC. I managed team across all time zones, love getting up early.

I released Unread for Mac! Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography, color themes, and more. Unread has a long history on iPhone and iPad, and is now also available for Mac. https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2024/07/unread-for-mac-available-now/

Most of the time, I get hired to fix things as a consultant developer that would not be broken if they had been designed more thoughtfully in the first place. Sound familiar? But here's the thing: I'm not a developer. I studied art and design at university, including how to design websites. But they didn't teach me how to code, even though that's most of the work. So, in early employment, I had to ""steal company time"" to learn how to do that and be better at my job, as a designer.

If you have a Synology NAS and use Safari's "Add to Dock" feature for your DSM, I threw together a quick icon for it.

https://d.pr/f/EjNwMC

There's probably better ones out there, but I did a quick search and didn't see anything so I just created this one. Figured I'd share it.

We're hiring at Thinkmill.
If you're a designer in Australia or New Zealand, come work with me!
https://www.thinkmill.com.au/careers/senior-ui-designer/

IMPORTANT! I have just learned that Mark Humphries @markhumphries is crowdfunding for a documentary, “The Renters: A funny and factual look at the disrupted lives – and communities – of the millions of renters who make our towns tick.” https://documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/the-renters/ You know what to do.

Also, spread the word!

I recently received some Starkcoin (crypto) as part of an "airdrop" for open source contributions.
I have no interest in owning crypto so I tried to go through the ridiculous process of trying to turn the pretend money into real money.
The first step, was to convert the Starkcoin into Etherium so I can transfer it into a *different* wallet. The failed for seemingly no reason, and changed me $0.37 USD in "gas fees" for shits and giggles?
This has to be some kind of sick joke right?

Neal.fun's Internet Artifacts is an online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation. https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

by Alison Zai

I have been working on Puzzmo, in secret, for almost two years now with @orta.

Puzzmo is *the* place to play daily newspaper puzzle games online.

TODAY we are launching a brand new daily crossword (designed to be approachable like all of my games) alongside with 2 other new games from me (and 3 older ones reimagined)

During prelaunch we only let in 500 people a day, so get at em!

I hope you enjoy Puzzmo!

https://www.puzzmo.com

What I love about Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that that they love being loud and wrong. If I had spent the last few years shilling crypto as the next big thing in tech only for a bunch of my portfolio companies to turn out to be Ponzi schemes & grifts, I’d never write publicly again.

I definitely wouldn’t write Bond villain style speeches about how AI ethics and trust & safety teams at tech companies are the enemy preventing you from colonizing the stars.
https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

Scary has taken on a new meaning over the past few years

Who needs Unity? I present: Flappy Bird in MacOS Finder.

Complete with tap to flap gameplay, high score tracking, and marqueed banner ads.

Blog w/ details: https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-11-flappy-bird-finder/

Code: https://github.com/nolenroyalty/flappy-dird

Entering 2024 with ".eth" attached to your name is a sign that you simply haven't been paying attention to recent events.

Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves

I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872

Guy who invented the clock: there will be 12 numbers on it

Friend: so the day will be divided into 12 segments?

Inventor: no, 24

Friend: so will the day start at 1 Inventor: the day will start at the 12, which is at night

Friend:

Inventor: the 6 means 30

EDIT: Note that 360° is divisible by 12 and 60, and the first clocks were sun dials. Of course the format makes perfect sense, and we're only pretending it sounds ridiculous because funny.

i made this for some dumb joke in a work chat and now you have to see it too.

The Jar Jar Jar.

This is much deeper than your typical bumper sticker.

How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility by @vitalyf is fantastic: https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/articles/accessibility-strong-case/