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Design and Product Director working on health, well-being, and fitness. Food and outdoors enthusiast. NY guy doing SF things. bradlau.net

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South San Francisco! They probably felt less intense over here

20.12.2025 04:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Once again, I am begging @caltrain.com to establish quiet cars

16.10.2025 15:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the vibecoding community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the vibecoding community

β€œvibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part”
www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding...

19.08.2025 12:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a watcher of many Korean shows, it's common for the English-speaking characters to be poorly written. I suspect it's because many Koreans know basic English, so they write the dialog for those characters using the most common English that a majority of the audience will understand.

21.07.2025 11:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The insidious way things get worse is deliberate, rewarded optimization. These steps made Hotweels measurably cheaper (or improved margins), with no measurable loss of quality. Because the quality was hard to quantify, or noisy, or deemed low value by a secondary metric (no sales impact).

20.07.2025 04:52 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

If a system can enable victimisation, sooner or later it will be used to efficiently victimise.

21.06.2025 13:42 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm comfortable ignoring opinions about job titles from anyone arguing that design is aesthetics.

11.06.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gimme πŸ˜…

09.06.2025 22:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Every company says it wants holistic, coherent experiences, but almost all of them align designers with specific products. I’ve spent so much of my career fixing this problem.

06.06.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I, too, have never ridden it. When I lived on Chuch Street 20+ years ago, I regularly saw it heading from the end of the J line to the Embarcadero on sunny days.

31.05.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whoa

24.05.2025 02:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is holding his hands to his face . ALT: a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is holding his hands to his face .

I’ve heard the song β€œNorwegian Wood” easily over 100 times in the last 50 years and never once did I think the narrator was setting fire to her house at the end

23.05.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ŽThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions β€ŽScience & Nature Β· 2012

Thank you. Also $2 on Apple Books books.apple.com/us/book/the-...

24.05.2025 01:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, you're not alone! I've seen several posts from people who dislike the visual design. I was not a fan initially either, but in practice, knowing the source of a post based on its color is pretty handy. Best of luck finding one you like. I'll be following to see what you choose.

14.04.2025 17:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tapestry Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.

If you have an Apple device or computer, might I suggest Tapestry? It's Muffles & Mutes feature works across all of your feeds and has greatly reduced my doomscrolling.
https://usetapestry.com

14.04.2025 11:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And #TIL the story behind rebeccapurple. #663399
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/

12.04.2025 09:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is my dream to see Diana Ross perform Upside Down

08.04.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dreaming of a world where I am not constantly being sold to.

08.04.2025 12:08 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Canon Cat Emulation : Jef Raskin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive A manual for the Canon Cat is here. Workshop/Repair documentation for the Canon Cat is here. The Canon Cat was a task-dedicated, desktop computer released by...

My hope is to get it working with the Canon Cat emulator. I have no idea if this is feasible. https://archive.org/details/canoncat

31.03.2025 06:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The keyboard layout of the Canon Cat computer. Note the two LEAP keys below the Space Bar.

The keyboard layout of the Canon Cat computer. Note the two LEAP keys below the Space Bar.

Anyone recognize this keyboard? Some helpful keyboard enthusiasts on Reddit have convinced me that I can build one for myself.

31.03.2025 05:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I, too, thought it was iOS only, but a friend on Mastodon said it also works on iPad and Mac. I’ll check it out…

30.03.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How are you all cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon? I see some iOS apps, but I’d rather use something web or MacOS-based. Any tips?

30.03.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sally is correct. It's degrading the primary user experience (signing in) to make things a little bit less annoying for people who are authenticating via SSO. It's a stupid design decision, IMO, and I think most designers are doing it "because other sites are doing it."

27.03.2025 16:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A huge problem with organizations is that there is often an obsession with the information architecture (the org chart) and no one deals with the interaction design (how people communicate and collaborate in order to achieve coherent goals).

25.03.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3

I'm sorry to hear this. I met Tomer while I was living in NYC and had several conversations with him. I even interviewed to join his team at WeWork (before it went full cult). I still refer to his work on measuring user happiness. Thanks for updating us, Steve.

25.03.2025 01:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Earthquake?

18.03.2025 02:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Subtle Difference Between A Grilled Cheese And English Toastie - Tasting Table Melted cheese, tick. Bread, tick. Tasty snack, tick. So what is the difference between these two quite similar snacks on either side of the pond? Let's dive in.

Thank you. Also, TIL that Brits call the closed face version a "toastie." www.tastingtable.com/1662247/dist...

23.02.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Worcestershire sauce for grilled cheese? Sir, someone has pranked you.

23.02.2025 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not sure how I’d survive in SF without this magic triangle.

21.02.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, Four Thousand Weeks was great. I have no problem with positive thinking, but based on how FTW was written, I'm hoping this book also reveals a more profound theme as I read it.

06.02.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0