Posts in "Microposts"

The little ones. The thoughts and comments which are low friction and created in a heartbeat as they occur.

Dave Rupert in a post about taste:

when the website adds a fifth, seventh, twelfth ad… I know a person who lacks taste is at the wheel. I can feel it in my bones when an app or website has prioritized revenue over user experience. A person without taste or high emotional intelligence broke the unspoken contract we had built on mutual respect.

In my role as a UX/UI designer I increasingly see my job as being a champion of taste. For the majority of users on the web the user experience is good, most businesses have gotten the hang of providing easy paths for users to do things. I now spend a reasonable amount of time championing good taste as a defence of the experience.

I used the AI tool in Miro for the first time today and it actually behaved as I expected it to. It’s the first time I’ve ever had reason to use an AI to perform actions for me in a service instead of as a Google replacement.

What Manton said. I’m sick of it.

Politics is bleeding into everything. Tech headlines, podcasts that aren’t usually political. For 2025, I like to box my politics into narrow parts of the day, not everywhere all the time. Soon we’ll need mute filters in all apps, from RSS readers to Overcast.

I have ended up down a rabbit hole of Herman Miller chairs over my morning coffee. Now I’m working out how long it would take for me to save for a Cosm…

Really like this quote from Josh Ginter:

Immediate attribution of an idea to someone else is wrapped up at its core in one word: humility. A person willing to attribute an idea or concept to someone else always exudes humility, and this leads to a more meaningful conversation about that topic, even if in-depth facts about the topic aren’t known at the time.

Ugh, just had to add a politics tag to my GoodLinks because it seems at the moment I can’t read anything remotely interesting without it ultimately being a moan post about politics.