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Software designer — Pencils, pixels and prompts. ✨ prev. @github.com @automattic.com

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Nobody talks about how hard it is to eat carrots while wearing over-ear headphones.

26.01.2026 18:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A set of 5 Midjourney images laid out unevenly. Image one is a young man behind frosted glass. Image two is a surreal scene where yellow and orange entities dance. Image three is a cinematic image of triplets on a stage with a jellyfish background. Image four is a young man floating in the fog at sunrise. Image 5 is an abstract composition of see through fabrics that express light and movement.

A set of 5 Midjourney images laid out unevenly. Image one is a young man behind frosted glass. Image two is a surreal scene where yellow and orange entities dance. Image three is a cinematic image of triplets on a stage with a jellyfish background. Image four is a young man floating in the fog at sunrise. Image 5 is an abstract composition of see through fabrics that express light and movement.

Week 49 Midjourney discards.

09.12.2025 07:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI coding — a dance of monsters and miracles. | Tim Shelburne A brief essay on AI coding, filmmaking, and how Ari Aster is vibe coding the next Midsommar. Slightly unhinged, mostly true. https://lnkd.in/e7Q73ujf

A brief essay on AI coding, filmmaking, and how Ari Aster is vibe coding the next Midsommar.

Slightly unhinged, mostly true.

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04.12.2025 17:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An AI render of an orange plastic cabinet.

An AI render of an orange plastic cabinet.

Happy Midjourney accidents.

03.12.2025 07:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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21.11.2025 17:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Okay so I just had a video conference from the plane. What a time to be alive. ✈️

22.10.2025 12:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finding my home either here or on LinkedIn. When I do I’ll probably stop crossposting. But for now:

I miss the old banter, our little collective spark we had online for a while. If you miss it too, I’ve been feeling pretty chatty lately. Let’s reconnect, I want to know what you’re up to.😊💫

22.10.2025 11:21 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I panic, so I start writing. One sentence after the next. The ego hates sequence, because sequence demands logic, and logic exposes illusions. Writing is resistance. A graceful rebellion against my inner tyrant who feeds on the comfort of victimhood.

21.10.2025 18:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Taking Longer to Think: Notes on My Software Design Glow-Up This isn’t the first time in my career I’ve gone existential to figure out my next move. I joined the workforce in the 2012 recession.

What do my mother, AI, and Step Brothers have in common? They all make an appearance in this piece. My first article about the ideas in design that keep me up at night and on fire.

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21.10.2025 06:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Today’s issue is 🔥

20.10.2025 11:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of the book Co-intelligence by Ethan Mollick

Cover of the book Co-intelligence by Ethan Mollick

If you’d told me a year ago I’d be spending October 2025 learning how to be a standout cyborg not for Halloween I would’ve laughed in your face.

20.10.2025 08:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finished my first article this morning. 🥲

20.10.2025 07:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A doodle of two stick figures on a seesaw. One is named input and the other is named output.

A doodle of two stick figures on a seesaw. One is named input and the other is named output.

I've always wanted to make my own art to illustrate my writing. I'm really good at it. Sorry I've kept this talent hidden from you.

20.10.2025 07:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of a night stand with a lamp, a few books and a painting.

Photo of a night stand with a lamp, a few books and a painting.

Experiencing the opposite of Sunday blues. So Sunday oranges. 🍊✨

19.10.2025 07:54 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What do you think Labubu fever says about society in this moment in time? Wrong answers welcome but I’d love plausible ones too 🤩

17.10.2025 12:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Cover of the book Team Human

Cover of the book Team Human

Listening to today: Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff

16.10.2025 10:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here’s what chattie says:

What you’re describing—following curiosity toward that frequency—is exactly how people stumble into their real work. You don’t have to know where it leads. You just have to notice when that subtle internal signal hums, and have the decency not to talk yourself out of it.

16.10.2025 07:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My year of saying yes to everything | Shonda Rhimes
My year of saying yes to everything | Shonda Rhimes YouTube video by TED

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16.10.2025 07:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Juno Interlude (Live At Radio City Music Hall)

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16.10.2025 07:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shonda Rhimes and Jack Antonoff have at least one thing in common:
An awareness for the chemistry of creativity that’s infectious.
I found unexpected connection between Shonda’s talk about the Humm and the Bleachers interlude Juno that the did in their live album. Consider me inspired. 💫

16.10.2025 07:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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What I do - Robb Owen From interaction design to scaleable design systems, single-page apps to something more experimental with WebGL. I help awesome people to build ambitious yet accessible web projects

Looks like I'll be coming to the end of a contract shortly so will have availability for new projects from later this month

Give me a shout if you're on the lookout for frontend dev or design systems work and particularly if you're looking for animations, interactions or anything a bit experimental

15.10.2025 16:25 👍 51 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 1
Colorful mural with the word Unstoppable written on it.

Colorful mural with the word Unstoppable written on it.

Came to this meeting down at Google Campus in Madrid. Happy I got to see it before it shuts down in December. I choose to take this as a sign. This place is quite inspiring.

14.10.2025 08:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On my way to my first in person meeting as a contractor. I feel business-y.

14.10.2025 08:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello world.

Ok, fine, that was ChatGPT.

06.10.2025 22:40 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Here for all of it. 🧡

03.10.2025 08:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s in the music itself, and in the way we connect over it. It’s intentional like when we used to buy physical albums, and ubiquitous so we can have something wholesome in common to talk about.

03.10.2025 08:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just some thoughts while I’m listening to Life of a Showgirl Another instance of delight, loud self-expression and bidding for connection.

03.10.2025 08:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The current energy feels different. More like being dragged by the wave. There’s a mix of uncanny valley, looking for escapism, and nostalgia for what we once were. Pop music mirrors that too.

03.10.2025 08:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift.

Cover of Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift.

Pop culture at times has been about celebrating the new. That’s when we feel like we’re riding the wave of technology and innovation. There was optimism in music we loved in the 2010s.

03.10.2025 08:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pencils, pixels and prompts. 💫

02.10.2025 22:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0