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Essays and photographs, in one feed.
Own the place you post from
If you have a profile somewhere, you should also have an address of your own. Not out of nostalgia. Because the room you are posting in keeps getting rearranged by people whose interests are not yours.
I bought a Leica so I would have a reason to see people
I told myself it was for the photographs. It took me a while to notice that the photographs were the excuse.
What actually changed when I started designing with AI
Not the speed. The strange part is working with a tool you cannot fully specify, cannot file a bug against, and cannot ask for support on, while still shipping work with your name on it.
The worst software is the software you cannot leave
The same industry builds the most carefully designed products in history and the forms you use to talk to your own government. Only one of those has a captive audience, and you can tell which.
A little hope, please
The criticism is mostly correct. The conclusion is still wrong. Being right about the problem is not the same as being useful about it.
Muscle memory is a feature you do not own
An app I had used for years got redesigned. I did not mind paying. I minded that my hands had to start over.
A metalhead in a walled garden
I believe in open source and I live entirely inside Apple's ecosystem. These are supposed to be incompatible. They are not, because the argument was never really about openness.
The eight hour day is a solution, not the solution
Nine to five, five days, in an office. These are old answers to old problems that hardened into defaults. They are not wrong. They are one option being presented as the only one.