fantastic ms.

co-founder of @calibre • building a sustainable, calm company • product designer, writer, photographer • sends perf.email • 🇵🇱 🇦🇺

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2024-10-14 20:23:32

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@npub1xed…yg9w reasonable people can agree that “our competition is worse, so it’s ok” isn’t a valid argument for not measuring web performance especially if you never measured competition either.
…right???

2024-10-10 02:58:08

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@npub1xed…yg9w whoops engine

2024-09-24 02:06:15

a really good piece by @npub18xe…6pcl that nails the importance of investing in core web technologies at individual and business level.
i’ve seen epic spends of creating whole rewrite the front end teams. it didn’t solve meaningful issues.
“Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a lot less complex abstractions.”
https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

2024-07-17 00:23:10

🥳 on a positive note, I accepted an offer to join a Cool Australian Company as a Lead Product Designer on a Design Systems team. can’t wait to use my skills to further empower a group of fellow product designers!
I’ve been really impressed with how swift and respectful their hiring process was too, which was a welcome refreshment from the clusterfu*k of everything else. excited to be working with good people! ☀️

2024-06-26 22:24:21

when will the find out phase happen for ai? asking for a friend

2024-06-19 01:49:24

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@npub1zdc…xa4j how cold was it in your house timbo

2024-06-12 02:15:29

usa tech companies keep using the word "remote" as a synonym for "us based remote", which is scammy and makes filtering out real, global remote opportunities quite an arduous process.
it’s always been this way and it’s deeply annoying.

2024-06-10 23:35:31

noting down “what’s the company stance in regards to AI” as an interview question

2024-06-06 22:13:17

really curious how finding a new role will pan out because all I’ve heard from everyone I know is that it’s pretty horrific out there

2024-06-05 08:27:30

I’ve shipped so many features to customers yet the most nerve wracking thing is building and releasing a personal website

2024-05-24 08:06:38

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@npub1xed…yg9w stay safe! 🙏🏻

2024-05-22 10:19:30

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@npub15dm…e38g i've seen people use "coach" and i think it fits nicely ☺️

2024-05-17 07:36:33

2000s: can’t believe i have no space left on my hard drive to store my things
2010s: can’t believe i don’t need hard drive space because all my things are in the cloud
2020s: can’t believe all my things are used to train an ai without my consent, better store it on my hard drive
full circle strikes again

2024-05-06 20:18:01

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@npub1xed…yg9w funny you say that, i am not on the board EITHER

2024-05-02 22:50:06

A short story of today’s web.
„A billionaire got mad, bought your favourite social media site and ran it into the ground. A different billionaire got mad, bought the magazine site you liked to read on your lunchbreak and shut it down completely.”
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

2024-05-02 05:22:29

please step into my office
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/112/369/817/030/612/945/original/7bc1357fdef29b78.jpeg
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2024-04-03 22:51:02

I’d love to hear how people with long (especially non-anglo) names manage domains.
I’ve owned my name+surname dot com for a long time, but it’s long and nobody can spell it.
that’s when I transitioned to thefox.is, but it’s expensive and hard to manage because of localised TLD.
do you roll with long and complicated URLs? or figure out aliases not connected to your name?
tbh I’m kinda over inventing nicknames just because I’m not from English-speaking country 🤷🏻‍♀️

2024-03-12 21:32:17

a reminder that two things can be true at the same time:
the core web vitals initiative brought more interest and dedication to addressing web performance
but also we shouldn’t be waiting to care about speed and accessibility until google tells us to

2024-03-07 20:50:50

„It’s like CSS exists in some bizarre quantum state; somehow both too complex to use, yet too simple to take seriously, all at once.”
this post by @npub1d34…0e3v is very worth your time. so many observations I felt as a designer and FE dev over quite some years.
https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/devaluing-frontend

2024-03-07 01:04:19

one of the many things that insatiable vc appetite for growth has done by funnelling absurd amounts of money into companies with no plan for sustainability is forced smaller businesses into defending decisions to not go freemium or offer endless discounts.
it constructed a reality in which free is normal, therefore lack of it is suspect and needs defending.

2024-03-06 21:32:15

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@npub1xed…yg9w „we realised we need money to operate so goodbye I guess”, the peak vc startup vibe 🥴

2024-02-27 21:23:22

really seems like the web took a full circle:
• building and exploring everything on my own! it’s cool!
• it would be good to have some services so not everything is manual
• services are cool! so helpful!
• oh no, they sell and mine all of my data
• building and exploring everything on my own, then!

2024-02-23 04:23:28

what’s really cool is that nearly everything i used CSS pre and post-processors for now can be done in pure CSS.
i don’t think people appreciate how much harder it was not that long ago. no variables. image-based border-radius. the times!

2024-02-16 02:10:31

i’ve been writing front-end for the last 17+ years, and man, it’s so under-appreciated, under-resourced and plain disrespected it makes my web soul hurt.
systems aren’t maintainable, semantic, accessible or performant and it’s a direct result of javascriptification of FE and pure disregard for it as a discipline.

2024-02-12 09:10:57

i cannot believe they made a twister sequel. nothing is sacred, man!!

2024-01-31 01:27:18

want to feel miserable? just try writing some css in js

2023-11-16 02:55:33

every time i want to post a controversial (an uncomfortable truth) take, i think of the iliza shlesinger goblin skit
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/111/417/965/183/459/187/original/a2ea243ff8a852f8.mp4

2023-10-25 00:48:18

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also, fuck capitalism

2023-10-25 00:47:24

corporate brain worms truly run deep. think what you could be achieving in all of those meetings!!
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/111/292/896/798/684/834/original/c0ef0fb5539d0432.jpeg

2023-10-14 09:08:00

australia, you cowards

2023-10-05 22:49:56

got a survey from slack, and a part of it was about sentiments towards ai.
just you wait till they make openai read your entire workspace

2023-09-27 08:37:24

i’m real tired of using goog products and paying them to effectively mine my data.
anyone here switched to protonmail, fastmail or others and has thoughts to share about pluses and minuses?

2023-09-20 02:02:37

need a little bell for my desk i can slap when a visit a website with sufficiently sized text and appropriate contrast

2023-09-20 01:55:55

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@npub1xsy…cevg it doesn’t inspire any confidence or optimism really

2023-09-20 01:53:28

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@npub1xsy…cevg yeah, it's hard to feel like they didn't lose their way a while ago

2023-09-20 01:42:38

managing design systems in Figma is such an afterthought:
- no way to template or meaningfully structure messages about what has changed. nowhere to view a log of changes later on
- missed opportunity to provide a visual diff of what has changed, only component names. if you've forgotten what you've done amidst all the changes, good luck figuring it out!
- not mentioning the tiny, completely lacking contrast text, my personal favourite i’ve been grilling them about to no avail
😔 #design
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2023-08-16 00:19:31

📝 what a great resource: The Micropedia collects everyday microaggressions and highlights their harmful impact.
must read for everyone, especially those dealing with communications, content & UX writing ❤️
https://www.themicropedia.org

2023-08-10 00:02:03

if you ever feel inadequate about your work, just remember that Apple, the top tech company based on revenue with more money than one can grasp, can ship such unusable apps like Mail on iOS

2023-08-07 04:38:49

any product i’m using that announces AI features makes me instantly suspicious about privacy & security of my data. perfect example? grammarly.
in march, they announced GrammarlyGO generative AI (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/grammarlygo-augmented-intelligence/). i immediately contacted support asking:
- how it was trained
- can i opt out
it took me a while to get an honest answer but the **ONLY** way you can opt out is to pay for a business subscription for 500+ people.
welcome to the era of selling back your data back to you.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/110/846/481/784/358/681/original/02badf707f171105.png

2023-04-27 03:24:12

i have a fresh portrait photo taken by an awesome, local photographer. 🥰

2023-04-20 01:35:13

people think being a founder is all glamour, meanwhile i’m spending the last few days doing bizops in pandadoc* 😆
(* — to be completely clear: i love organising and streamlining processes, it’s my gallup clifton strength).