Tom Creighton

French person announcing their farts to their cat: “ChatGPT”

👀 this is a hot reco, thx!

Worldbuilding concept: most of the galactic community sees in the radio spectrum; finds Earth horribly incoherent because humans live in a sea of indiscriminate radio noise

I’d rather have a nattō larb in me than a larval anatomy

🫧 Surfacing from silent running to talk about some upcoming changes: Peep is becoming a more fully-fledged blogging platform! We’ll soon be launching fully customizable themes and a more robust authoring UI for upgraded users.

Thinking about non-chat interfaces to LLMs, to avoid the Anthropomorphism Problem.

Kpop Demon Hunters is like if you percolated ‘Turning Red’ through K/DA's ‘Pop/Stars’ (complimentary)

Frame of preference A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: if you look on my works and despair, smash that like button and hit the bell to subscribe

Sucks that “Heat Dome” is a meteorological phenomenon exacerbated by climate change instead of what it obviously should be, a Megaman boss weapon

PRODUCTIVITY HACK: be mentally ill but in the productive way

Easier legal name changes for all We’ve rebuilt the Namesake app from the ground up to simplify updating your legal name in Massachusetts and beyond.

Namesake has a new web app to help people in Massachusetts to update their legal name and gender marker. (And soon: New York and beyond.) After a year of work, we're excited to share it with you today.

What idiot called them liquid crystal displays instead of dewy decimals

when both wolves inside me died, the deer began to flourish. left unchecked, all flora consumed, starvation took the herd. cascading failure has driven my spiritual ecosystem to total collapse. i cough up their bones and add them to my Bone Man; a skeletal golem built to generate shareholder value,

A hand-lettered sign that says “Baltic Bread Bakery” and then underneath, ‘Crusty Rolls’ • Donuts

A hand-painted sign, clearly painted on top of a previous sign, on the left it says “FILM PROCESSING” atop the old Kodak logo, then on the right, in script lettering ‘Lottery Tickets’ with a smaller ‘sold here’ underneath.

A cool(?) part of living in a slightly scuzzy post-industrial city is that there’s cool little typographical nuggets preserved everywhere

Half-formed thesis: software feels unadventurous because a culture of familiarity/usability has permeated the practice of design

Addendum: ‘starting a new side project instead of doing any kind of marketing whatsoever for the previous (completed) side project’

Due to inflation sweet dreams are no longer made of these

A modification of the “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” image, which instead reads “A computer can never have taste, therefore a computer must never make a creative decision”

Please feel free to cite the Deep Magic to me! I was there when it was written so I love talking about it :)

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

3 year old: And [classmate]’s dad is called Crobbit and [classmate]’s mom is called Cremquin
Me: I don’t know if that’s right
3 year old, looking at me witheringly: yes it is

To get a #designsky discourse going: after making AI mandatory for work last month, Shopify is At It Again.

The CDO says since "AI enables anyone to make things usable" (lol), Shopify will just have the titles Designer and Writer instead of user experience, content design, etc.

Aesthetics-ass idea

Workshopping a new hand gesture to signify “This isn’t an all-way stop and you in fact have the right of way, you thoughtful moron”

We’ve all that one homie, who due to a programming error, spawns out of bounds and can only be hung out with via the use of a game genie or action replay

Johnny Paloma’s debut LP, “Surf’s Up”

The cover art for “The Johnny Paloma Christmas Album”

The album art for Johnny Paloma’s third, less-well-received album, Farm Noises

Missed my calling (graphic designer circa 1969); all of these are using my typeface Nougat which is free at joyride.studio

The (trade paperback) cover of Moonbound by Robin Sloan

Absolutely ripping through this, one of those books that feels like a fairy tale and a travelogue and a secret third thing all at once (also has a ‘Famous Swords’ appendix, which is Extremely My Shit™)

The mark of a high-functioning team is shitposting and I’m not joking

Optometrist: So to test your eyes, we’re going make you look at a bunch of stuff that’s terrible to look at

Dogfooding my own app to jot down some longer-form thoughts about building said app. log.tomcreighton.com/post/6KgQ6HYL #buildinpublic